After a seemingly innocuous tweet praising the practical effects of John Carpenter's TheThing, Universal is being slammed by horror genre fans for seemingly dissing the CGI industry.
As other studios come under fire for their treatment of the industry, Universal is being slammed for their CGI criticisms in a tweet for John Carpenter's The Thing. Based on John W. Campbell Jr.'s novella Who Goes There?, the 1982 sci-fi horror film centered on a group of American researchers stationed in an isolated Antarctica base who begin a descent into paranoia as they discover the titular alien species that can perfectly imitate any organism.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY One of the biggest elements initially met with division now praised in Carpenter's The Thing was its practical effects designed by Rob Bottin and Stan Winston. Universal recently took to Twitter to applaud the practical effects with the post saying that "CGI could never" depict its iconic moments.
Another major studio under fire has been Weta Workshop from those who worked under them and director James Cameron through his Avatar franchise. Artist Nick Sinnott previously recalled the harsh conditions on the original Avatar movie, in which he and his team were the "only major department not unionized," reportedly leading to Cameron pushing for "endless unpaid revisions" that led to his Oscar wins.
Universal themselves have been under fire before in how they handled a transition to CGI productions with the 2011 The Thing prequel, in which they replaced all of the practical effects done with VFX. As noted by many of the posts above, the studio's decision to criticize CGI is a shocking one considering much of their current output relies on this section of the industry, namely the Jurassic World and Despicable Me franchises, among others.
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