What happened to the CGI budget in season 5?

[AtlantisRules!!!]

You are all picky I noticed nothing "bad" or "cringe-worthy" in any of those eps. It all looked fine to me.

[s09119]

The worst CGI by far was BAMSR... I mean, since when are hives bright purple?

[EvilSpaceAlien]

The worse CGI by far was BAMSR... I mean, since when are hives bright purple?

I haven't been impressed by the special effects in Atlantis since First Strike.

[Alx]

The worse CGI by far was BAMSR... I mean, since when are hives bright purple?

oh god bamsr was an epic fail thru and thru when it comes to the cgi.

[g.o.d]

SGU's CGI is amazing, while SGA's was awful

[Alx]

SGU's CGI is amazing, while SGA's was awful

actually it isnt that much better and "amazing" is a def overstatement, and SGA's wasnt shamefull it just had its bad momements

[Linda06]

Most of it goes to increased salaries for the cast and crew

Ah right. It's a pity they couldn't have used some of that money to invest in some new writing blood.

properly pay the actors, writers, crew (who include the director, lighting, sound, camera men, props, stunts, sets, catering, CGI people, etc, etc) and thats just man power!

(damn. Jelgate beat me too it)

Yes you have to be on the ball to beat Jel

heeeey...I liked McKeller.
*ducks for cover*

*throws some Tuna sandwiches at gotthammer*

[s09119]

actually it isnt that much better and "amazing" is a def overstatement, and SGA's wasnt shamefull it just had its bad momements

Look at the first 15 minutes of SGU and the last 15 minutes of SGA and I guarantee you I just disproved your argument.

[thekillman]

well SG1 suffered the same fate. just watch Unending. those explosions *cries*

however, CGI is terribly expensive. main reason :time consuming.

[Alx]

Look at the first 15 minutes of SGU and the last 15 minutes of SGA and I guarantee you I just disproved your argument.

you didnt disprove anything and comparing EATG's rushed poor cgi with Air part one is just so wrong on so many levels.
first of all EATG as a whole was rushed poorly edited and terribly slapped together CG, Air was planned they had months to perfect everything and edit it so you cant compare the two, instead compare the CGI in adrift first strike the siege etc as those eps were visually stunning,

and if you compare those they are very similar in quality and as i am a 3D artist with a passion for the stargate style myself i have watched so much CG footage from both SG1 SGA and SGU and this is closeup HD quality footage and frames while making my own SG models so i can with confidence say that i know what i am talking about.

examples of my own work

Spoiler:

for one destiny doesnt hold up in close up shots and you can see alot of cheats by the artists especially texture wise and in comparisen the daedalus holds up better in closeups and so does Atlantis.

what im trying to say is if you dont know what you are talking about you cant judge the quality from a 10sec glance in the show you have to study it frame by frame and also know what software the artist have used and what can ultimatly be acchieved with it.

and clearly you are not qualified to disprove any of my statements on the subject.

[Alx]

well SG1 suffered the same fate. just watch Unending. those explosions *cries*

however, CGI is terribly expensive. main reason :time consuming.

oh i hear ya there *Cries* indeed.

[thekillman]

i think the main flaw of atlantis is and remains money. they had practically the same budget as SG1 yet had a different and more money-consuming setting. in SG1? a lab is nothing more than a small room, add a metal table, some computers, a locker or so, and you're done. SGA had it's own style, an entire city, and an alien race's stuff.


400 000 dollars is spent on CGI in SG1/Atlantis. SGU has + 1 000 000 dollars. this means that they can DOUBLE the CGI expenses and then have 600 000 dollars left to spend on more cast, the sets, etc.

[Alx]

i think the main flaw of atlantis is and remains money. they had practically the same budget as SG1 yet had a different and more money-consuming setting. in SG1? a lab is nothing more than a small room, add a metal table, some computers, a locker or so, and you're done. SGA had it's own style, an entire city, and an alien race's stuff.


400 000 dollars is spent on CGI in SG1/Atlantis. SGU has + 1 000 000 dollars. this means that they can DOUBLE the CGI expenses and then have 600 000 dollars left to spend on more cast, the sets, etc.

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Still the quality is NOT that much better that is my entire point. you can pour alot more money into it but the quality will remain pretty much the same as TIME is more important then money when it comes to CGI.

[Falcon Horus]

Anyone remember that building collapsing in Last Man? I think that was enough foreboding of bad CGI yet to come...

[nx01a]

The worst CGI by far was BAMSR... I mean, since when are hives bright purple?

I haven't been impressed by the special effects in Atlantis since First Strike.

oh god bamsr was an epic fail thru and thru when it comes to the cgi.

It was horrid. I thought the story was horrid, so I suppose that works out well.

I don't even pretend to know how the CGI world works, but the puddle effect and city itself in "Enemy at the Gate" were cringe-worthy. Don't recall anything that awful.

The final shot of Atlantis entering Earth's atmosphere lacked all texture and looked like a LEGO block Atlantis. That and the model itself looked incorrect around the 'pier' areas. And now I'm hearing that they aired the temp VFX? *sigh*

It's odd... Back when special visual effects were actually 'expensive' and 'special', it was great to see a Goa'uld mothership or an Asgard mothership just floating there, much less actually doing something. And now that it's 'cheaper', it's popping up more and more in every almost every episode and seems somehow substandard and not 'special' anymore.