This would possibly no longer come as an enormous wonder should you’ve noticed the movie in recent times, or may just declare a discerning eye for CGI again in 2007. Probably the most extra noticeable bits of visible rendering, particularly looking at “I Am Legend” these days, should be the animals. Even supposing humanity is all however burnt up, a number of animals proceed to are living in nature.
The movie’s deer, specifically, seem like CGI animals… as a result of they’re. In a single early collection that accentuates the issue, we watch them run in a big pack. Seeing most of the identical animal, and no longer only one, has a tendency to convey out the “uncanny valley” impact in “I Am Legend.”
The only exception to this rule: Neville’s dog Sam, performed by way of dog actors named Abbey and Kona. The remainder of the movie’s inflamed canine within the movie have been added in digitally, even though for scenes the place Smith interacted with them, a puppet helped elicit a bodily response from him. Extra on that later.
