Though technically stretching the definition of “live action,” Disney’s new “Jungle Book” film stars a real human boy as Mowgli and a whole bunch of computer generated talking animals that you probably wouldn’t realize were not real if nobody told you.
“Ex Machina” won the Oscar for visual effects on a $15 million budget. I mean, come on.
We all know about “Avatar,” the recently dethroned box office king which had CGI cat people and a CGI jungle that looked so real that some people got depressed because they would never actually be able to go there.
I found out that the tiger in “Life of Pi” was a computer creation after I watched the movie.