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I Am Legend has both
post-humanity NYC looks amazing and it is done with digital mat painting. It's how I've always wanted to see D.C. in Logan's Run (but the old-school mat paintings in that one are rather pleasing)
The creatures looked plastic and unnatural
Mechanical objects are always easier to render than organic ones, which worked to stunning effect in Transformers; a film I hated, but couldn't help but marvel at the amazing effects.
What really sells CGI is the attention to "lighting" the rendered object. If the light source doesn't seem to match the lighting scheme in the live action plate, then it always looks like shit. And of course this all has to do with budget. No animator wants thier work to look crappy, but rendering time is money...the more time spent rendering he tiniest details of CGI (smoke, hair, thermal distortion, etc) the better, but it also becomes more and more expensive with each hour you are paying a highly specialized motion graphics expert to work on your film.
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Francis Bacon
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