Top Ten Most Realistic CGI Characters In Movies
This list compiles the most impressive computer-generated characters ever to grace the big screen with their presence.
Gollum is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He was introduced in the 1937 children's fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became an important supporting character in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. In Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, he is portrayed via motion... read more To this day, over twelve years after the release of 'The Two Towers', WETA Digital's perfectly crafted Gollum remains one of the most realistic computer-generated characters ever to appear on screen.
Davy Jones is a fictional villain character in the Pirates of the Caribbean feature film series, who first appears in the second film, Dead Man's Chest and returns in the series' third installment, At World's End. Nighy, himself, has been forced to tell numerous interviewers that the special effects used to create his appearance in 'Dead Man's Chest' and 'At World's End' were not made up of latex appliances or makeup of any kind. In truth, not even his actual eyes were used. It was all computer, baby.
The motion capture in 2011's 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' was impressive but the effects were downright unbelievable once the 2014 sequel came around.
All of the apes in Planet of the Apes look like they could actually exist in this world.
Godzilla is a giant monster originating from a series of tokusatsu films of the same name from Japan. Yes, Godzilla looks like a real creature in Godzilla and King of the Monsters as well.
When 1993's 'Jurassic Park' came out, nothing of that scale had ever been attempted. Evenly mixed with giant puppets and animatronics, the dinos all look mind-blowingly real, even to this day. Let's hope the trend is continued with the upcoming fourth installment, 'Jurassic World'.
Alita (Rosa Salazar) looks so real it is hard to even tell she is CGI.
Optimus Prime is a fictional character from the Transformers franchise. Optimus Prime is consistently depicted as having strong moral character, excellent leadership, and sound decision-making skills, and possesses brilliant military tactics, powerful martial arts, and advanced alien weaponry. There has to be over a million separate parts within every one of those CGI models. Each part looks as convincing as the others.
This marks the third addition to this list that has featured a character played by the Mo-Cap master, Andy Serkis. After playing the mightiest of monkeys (technically apes, I know) in this film, he was selected as the obvious choice to portray the lead in the current 'Planet of the Apes' series (2011-).
Every member of the Na'vi is equally ultra-realistic, of course. But no one matches the energy and radiance (not to mention screen time) of Neytiri.
The Newcomers
Needs to be higher on the list! She's so perfect and gorgeous. Sorry, Goji.
The 2003 film was way too rubbery-looking, and the 2008 film's Hulk was a little boney-looking, to be honest. Well, after nine years and three movies of trying, we were finally given the Hulk we always wanted in 2012's 'The Avengers'. And soon we'll get to see more of the lovable green brute in 2015's 'Avengers: Age of Ultron'.
Yoda is a fictional character in the Star Wars space opera franchise created by George Lucas, first appearing in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back. He is portrayed by Frank Oz. When in motion, the CGI Yoda from Revenge of the Sith still rivals most CGI today.
Indominus rex was the latest attraction in Jurassic World. The hybrid was created by combining the genetic traits of multiple species.
Iorek Brunson is an "Armoured Bear" from Phillip Pullman’s book series His Dark Materials. He is the king of the Armoured Bears and guides Lyra on her journeys.
While the entire movie was made up of impressive CGI visuals and motion-capture performances, Angelina's memorable appearance as the evil temptress was, perhaps, the most stunningly realistic element of them all.
What's written above looks like a weird 70s-80s pop band, doesn't it? Anyway, 'I, Robot' features the perfect blend of action, science-fiction, suspense, and (of course) freaky, translucent, ET-chested, punchy, ninja robots!
