Detective Pikachu, live on broadway

[DeadMech]

Concerning Detective Pikachu, I'm excited to see how they resolve

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"the Dad died and is possessing the pikachu somehow"

as a plot point. Cause the way the game does is...well it sure does.

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Shouldn't he come back as a ghost type?
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I'll let myself out.

[Nourjan]

I always hated the idea of a Detective Pikachu movie with Ryan Reynolds. That was until I saw this trailer. Not only am I now hyped for this movie but I'm beginning to think that this might be the first good video game movie.

[Xianthe]

On the other hand, if I stop thinking about it as a live action Pokemon movie and look it more as a Pokemon-themed modern iteration of Who Framed Roger Rabbit then it becomes much more palatable.

I also got a Who Framed Roger Rabbit vibe from this, which I am absolutely on board for - though I would have much preferred the cell-animation+live action that WFRR used...the Pokemon are smack dab in the middle of the uncanny valley (though Pikachu is still cute).

[Mith]

When watching these sort of CGI/reality mix, is there a way to "blanket" the live set so that everything is sort of CGI-lite and thus the full CGI creatures blend in more? Or am I completely out for lunch?

[LaserNuts]

No sir, I don't like it.

[Otomodachi]

When watching these sort of CGI/reality mix, is there a way to "blanket" the live set so that everything is sort of CGI-lite and thus the full CGI creatures blend in more? Or am I completely out for lunch?

I'm pretty confident it's POSSIBLE but it also sounds like a LOT of work which means it's probably prohibitively expensive?

[Ramza00]

OMG did the music for Pokemon did all the heavy lifting?

[Rockphed]

When watching these sort of CGI/reality mix, is there a way to "blanket" the live set so that everything is sort of CGI-lite and thus the full CGI creatures blend in more? Or am I completely out for lunch?

There are cameras that allow you to capture the location of everything in the shot and do some shot fixing in post production. They allow you to do a better job of having your CGI interact with the world. I don't know if anyone actually is using said cameras, they were bleeding edge 2 years ago when a guy who worked on them gave a seminar at my school.