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2001 CGI? Who let this happen?

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Okay.

So, I was going through movies and found "The Mummy Returns", a 2001 film. I expected it to be a decent movie, CGI-wise, because CGI was pretty advanced at that time, but when I saw a single picture from the movie on Google, I passed out. *Not really*


Yeah... so any chance of watching that movie is out the window.

This is "The Rock," Dwayne Johnson, playing "Scorpion King", but with all the trash CGI added to him, he becomes unrecognizable. 

Now, one of the reasons why this looks so fake is because of the texturing. When textureing, there are two different types of textures. Procedural texture (usually the best), which is a computer-generated texture, and image textures. Which, as the name suggests, is a texture that utilizes the power of a picture.

Here is a comparison. Although the image texture in the mummy is a very pixelated image.

Image textures are the most common because they are faster and don't take as much space (storage-wise). But like I said, procedural textures are usually better because even though they are a bit more complicated, they look way more realistic. Procedural texturing has a lot more detail, and you have much more control over the texture than you would with an image texture.

The most common approach is to combine them. The most realistic part of a texture is when the texture has depth. Both textures have depth, but the image texture only appears to have depth. As you can tell, the image above is an image texture with no depth.

When you combine the two types of textures, you get an image texture with real depth.

So now we know what went wrong! Some what...

Thank you for reading my blog, and I hope you learned something new!

*Extra Notes*

So, as you can see in this blog, I changed my style a bit, and instead of talking about the bad scenes, I explained in depth what went wrong. If you like this new style, then please let me know in the comments below, although if you prefer me to keep it more simple, then also let me know in the comments below. Thank you!