r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/padfoony • 3h ago

Christopher Nolan avoided CGI and used 7ft stuntmen to portray Laestrygonians in The Odyssey. The giant leader, King Antiphates, is portrayed by actor Josh Stewart, while Matt Damon’s stunt double is Devyn Dalton, who is just under 5ft.

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u/Darth_Alduin13 3h ago

That wasn’t cgi. I haven’t seen any behind the scenes on the baby giant, I’m assuming it was clever force perspective like some of the other giant scenes, but for the cyclops they had a giant puppet for the actors to work off of and then they spliced it with footage of a man dressed as the cyclops in a small recreation of the cave. 

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u/IIIIllllIIIlIIIIlllI 2h ago edited 2h ago

Ugh, not his narrative again. No, having a physical puppet or prop on set does not mean no CGI was used. Nolan, throughout his entire career, has always used a mix of miniatures, physical props, CGI and visual effects on a scene-by-scene basis. That goes for the cyclops as well.

Here’s an hour long video on Nolan’s movies specifically and how much CGI was used:
https://youtu.be/AFLcP-t0-kI?is=dGEdjP4lViQjTe4s

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u/thissexypoptart 2h ago

Thank you. Holy shit.

I get it’s a clickbait tactic, but god damn, how hard is it to just not lie about there being “no cgi” in posts extolling the amazing practical effects in a particular movie? It’s a blatant lie on its face.

It’s like someone telling you “no makeup was used in this movie” but really they just went super light with the makeup compared to most movies.

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u/bootyfischer 2h ago

Not a single comment is saying no cgi was used. They’re all saying how practical or visual effects were used and cgi to enhance it in post, which is cool to see when most movies would have just used cgi for the whole thing instead.

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u/Sweet-Accountant-966 2h ago

Plenty of retards are saying he didn't use CGI.

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u/Doomsayer189 2h ago

Two comments up the chain they said the cyclops wasn't cgi.

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u/Ecsta-C3PO 2h ago

Do we need to do this again? 

TLDW; Basically all movies have CGI, you just notice the bad stuff, and the definition of "what is CGI" is a blurry line at best. 

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u/Flexhead 1h ago

what is CGI

Only matters to viewers. To the people working on it VFX and "CGI" are the same thing.

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u/Imakereallyshittyart 2h ago

It was a composite, but I think a lot of people replying to you are downplaying the difference between combining and enhancing a puppet and a human performance with cgi vs filming a tennis ball and leaving it for post

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u/Raid-RGB 1h ago

It is literally the equivalent of replacing a tennis ball because the entire puppet was erased and replaced with a cgi version. The practical puppet is only used for reference, you clearly know nothing about what youre talking about.

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u/Imakereallyshittyart 57m ago edited 53m ago

yeah good point. They should just replace the whole set with a tennis ball.

My point was that getting the reference motion is extremely valuable in keeping the end product looking like rubbery bullshit, which has become synonymous with CGI to most audiences now