When it was initially used, CGI was an amplification in movies. It was nothing more than the addition of something that was generally hard to add with real life props or special effects. Computer graphics generated images that could be used to represent anything from scenery to weapons to animals to pieces of nature. However, as the years have gone by CGI has become an integral part of the film industry. Not only is it used in virtually every blockbuster film imaginable, it’s also used in considerably more movies than you think and in ways you probably never even knew.
It turns out that many scenes in movies are without the use of a set or location. Often times CGI is used to create entire backgrounds of scenes and in reality the only thing that’s on camera is a character standing in front of a blank green screen.
Here’s a close look at some of the CGI you might not have known existed in a handful of recent films.
Doctor Strange
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Trek Beyond
Suicide Squad
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
The Jungle Book
The BFG
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Captain America: Civil War
Guardians of the Galaxy
