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== Advertising ==
* This [[Aardman Animations]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZSzY6auc8g Duracell ad]; Parkouring pink rabbits have never looked so good.
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* When the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' Contest battles and appeal rounds (special mention goes to the Grand Festival) in the Diamond and Pearl series are one thing, the upgraded effects and animation in Unova have skyrocketed to coolness levels [[Readings Are Off the Scale|off the freakin' charts]].
* ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. The Yuki v. Asakura battle.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie First]]''. [[
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn]]'' is the single greatest example of this trope in the [[Gundam]] franchise. It is expected that an OVA series has higher quality, but the amazing detail of every fight is awe-inspiring.
* The silver eyes and {{spoiler|Awakened Beings}} in ''[[Claymore]]''.
* ''[[Naruto
* I can't believe no one mentioned ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:]]'' and ''[[Fate/Zero]]''. These two blow all the above competition out of the water.
== Film ==
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** Not sure if it quite fits, but you know all the alien growths on Wikus? All makeup and animatronics. No CGI. Tell me that's not impressive.
* [[Star Wreck]]: Would you believe this movie's special effects shots were done in people's homes and their rendering farm was in a kitchen? I think not.
* The sequence in ''Bride of Frankenstein'' with miniature humans (created by Dr. Praetorius) in glass bottles is pretty astonishing for 1935! Watch it [https://web.archive.org/web/20180621051758/http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2656761/pretorius_little_people/ here.]
* The entire "battle in the sky" sequence in ''[[Gamera]] 3: Revenge Of Irys''. It's just beautifully stunning to look at and you really start to believe that a giant turtle as well as a giant tentacled....thing are duking it out above the clouds near Kyoto, Japan.
** Heck, the whole film qualifies. The effects used to bring the title kaiju to life (Via a mixture of CGI, puppetry, and good old-fashioned "suitimation") are nothing short of incredible.
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** As the people who worked on it would say, it helps that Jim Carrey's face is so rubbery to begin with.
* [[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]. It's hard to guess how much is CGI and how much is make-up.
** It's so good, it made it onto [https://web.archive.org/web/20131115120502/http://www.ted.com/talks/ed_ulbrich_shows_how_benjamin_button_got_his_face.html TED].
* ''[[Rent]]'''s special effects were done by Industrial Lights And Magic, so it goes without saying that it's got a lot of these, but the "Without You" sequence takes the cake. It's a montage of the character's lives, from roughly late January to right around Halloween. There's a little support group for people with AIDS called Life Support. The camera pans around the room at a few points, and people fade away... how they made that look so smooth is just amazing. The camera doesn't jump at all, and everyone who didn't fade is still right where they were and it's just amazing. Even with the [[Tear Jerker]] of that scene... wow.
* The title characters of ''[[Where the Wild Things Are]]'' react to the world very realistically; not surprising considering that most of the time when you see them, they're actually right on camera. Most of the time CGI was only used for the facial animation, and even that is incredibly lifelike.
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* The CG animals in ''[[Film/The Golden Compass|The Golden Compass]]''.
* The "London Walk" in ''[[28 Days Later]]'', where Jim roams the city looking for anyone else, passing by several landmarks and giving the completely convincing impression that one of the world's major capitals is devoid of human life. All achieved by filming early in the morning, stopping traffic for a few minutes, and blanking out anything else in post-production.
* Voldemort's face in the
** By the seventh movie, it's not as good - it's ''so'' real that it pretty much stops being scary and starts being 'meh, so he's a bit pale'.
** The really impressive part, of course, is the nose. Many viewers have wondered what they could have done to make Ralph Fiennes' nose look like that short of facial surgery. The answer is that they erased his nose with CGI. And it's worth noting they had to not
** Buckbeak in ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)|Prisoner of Azkaban]]''.
** The Dementors, especially in the third.
** The scene where [[Cloudcuckoolander|Luna]] and Harry watch the Thestrals.
** Pretty much ''anything'' Dumbledore does with his wand is
** DOBBY AND KREACHER IN [[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1|DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1]]. Compare Dobby in that to Dobby in [[Harry Potter and
** ''''' THE UKRAINIAN IRONBELLY'''''. ''Holy shit''. Best special effects in the whole series; ''period''.
** All of the Horcrux destructions.
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* Tony Stark putting on his "suitcase armor" in ''[[Iron Man]] 2''
** By far the better scene was the first movie, when his entire automated workshop dresses him in his Mark III armor, piece by piece, finishing with placing his helmet and mask.
* The three main ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'' movies all feature incredible visual effects, especially since the first was released in 2000. Particularly impressive is the scene where Magneto confronts the cops, takes control of their firearms and floats them in midair, aiming at each of them. Also, the various closeup shots of Wolverine's claws emerging, Senator Kelly's [[Nightmare Fuel]] mutation, Mystique's transformations (that got progressively better as the films went on) and so on. Also in the first film is an extreme [[Talking to Himself]] scene where Wolverine fights Mystique (the latter disguised as Wolverine) and one seriously cannot tell which is the real Logan. The second film had the X-Jet tornado sequence, Nightcrawler's teleportations and the ending scene where Jean Grey telekinetically holds back the water from the dam. The third film has Angel's wings, Quill's spikes and of course the Golden Gate bridge uprooted and plonked on Alcatraz Island. One moment that is slight more subtle is the "digital skin grafting" that made Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen look two decades younger.
** Not forgetting the practical makeup effects, such as the muscle suit Vinnie Jones wore as the Juggernaut, Angel's wings in their folded position and of course the full-body makeup applied to Beast, Mystique and Nightcrawler.
** The 2006 remake of ''Poseidon''. Beautifully shot capsizing scene or the wonderful opening sequence just goes to show you what computers and animators are capable of.[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roayx-79cAs The Capsizing scene] and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXrcTto7mzI&feature=related opening scene]
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** The Special Weapons Dalek's lasers from ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S25/E01 Remembrance of the Daleks|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''.
* This is one of the main selling points of ''[[Madan Senki Ryukendo]]'': the CG team just get better and better as the series progresses, and the final battle is a thing of jaw-dropping, [[Beyond the Impossible]] beauty.
* Watch the battle of {{spoiler|the Resurrection Ship}} from Season 2 of [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the re-imagined ''
** I see your {{spoiler|Resurrection Ship}} and raise you the {{spoiler|Battle for New Caprica}} from "Exodus, Pt. 2" in early Season 3. Breathtaking doesn't even begin to cover it.
* All of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' was notable for being trailblazing in CGI space effects, but the moment which stands out for me is the big fight sequence in Series
** Another moment, from the season two finale, {{spoiler|[[The Reveal]] of what everyone sees when they look at Kosh}}, was particularly notable as well. [[Word of God|JMS said]] about it, "when you go for something this substantial: either you're going to do something truly amazing, or you're going to massively fall on your face". Watching the episode with someone who was seeing it for the first time, she blurted out "My God, he's ''beautiful''." The effects were ten years old at this point. Yeah, they nailed it.
* The [[Cool Gate]] doing its "kawoosh" in all incarnations of ''[[Stargate]]''. (Okay, not the cartoon ''[[Stargate Infinity]]'', in which it was just sort of a blob. And it has ''no excuse,'' what with being animated and all.) IIRC, it's done by filming underwater as a jet engine is fired from just above the surface - and filmed from a gazillion angles so they wouldn't have to go to the expense of doing it again. ''That'' is also awesome, because you wouldn't ever know that all the many gate scenes were from the same use of the trick - even when every Gate in the known universe was activated at once, leading to a great many kawoosh scenes being shown back to back. It should really have shown then, but it didn't.
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* [http://ryanvsdorkman.com/ Ryan Vs. Dorkman]. Two visual effects animators stage a lightsaber duel in an abandoned warehouse. End result: millions of views, worldwide adulation, and its own page on [[The Other Wiki]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOUjfD9ND8U FedConIX (2009) opening video], features a CGI short film featuring the USS ''Kelvin'' from the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' exploring a ringed planet when they are attacked by what looks like a squadron of Klingons. In swoops the ''Enterprise'' to save the day. Honestly, of all the computer-generated models, this video was the most seamless ever. Every phaser and torgedo blast, every asteroid, they even showed the subtle difference in the metal plating of the older ''Kelvin'' and the newer ''Enterprise''. Awesome? Ya think??!
** That is the (awesome) work of Tobias Richter, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121106045716/http://www.modelermagic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/enterprise_wall04_1280.jpg king] [https://web.archive.org/web/20121106045928/http://www.modelermagic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/kelvin_wall02_1280.jpg of] [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7SVSAcj5xz4/TQl3IO3QllI/AAAAAAAACxw/nk9GKjgcGFw/s1600/lightworks3.jpg stunningly] [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7SVSAcj5xz4/TQl_dPp0NiI/AAAAAAAACyI/DGmLwDLpqU8/s1600/lightworks6.jpg gorgeous] [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7SVSAcj5xz4/TQl1CQrXNtI/AAAAAAAACxY/4eu_somte2o/s1600/lightworksp1.jpg fan art].
* [[There She Is]]. As if the whole damn thing wasn't gorgeous enough from the beginning, {{spoiler|the scene where the screen expoldes at the airport}} in Step 5 is something else.
* [[Jon Lajoie]]'s video for "Pop Song", which parodies the music videos of young male pop singers such as Justin Bieber.
* The latest season of [[Red vs. Blue]] is this with Rooster Teeths addition of Monty Oum (the maker of Haloid) into their ranks. Not only is the CG very cool in it self but even better is that it is put into several Halo 3 levels perfectly. And then the fights (especially ep. 10 and 19) is just jawdropping, especially for a online-show. (ep 10 can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke9wtbzGjCI here])
** [[Haloid|EVERY]][[Dead Fantasy|THING]] by [[
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/freddiew Freddie Wong]. This one man can do what entire effects studios strive for.
** He also directs the new [[Video Game High School]] on [[YouTube]], which brings his fantastic visual effects [[Up to Eleven]].
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** Oh my god, the Sanctuary Fortress from ''Echoes''. Yeah, ''Echoes'' might be [[Nintendo Hard]] in all the wrong ways, but that last level was so worth slogging through [[That One Level|Torvus Bog]].
* One of the most amazingly impressive effects ever achieved on the Game Boy Advance was the Catastrophe summon from [[Golden Sun|Golden Sun: The Lost Age]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DatHLd1uO2g Watch it here.]
** '''[[
** Everything in both [[Golden Sun]] games was awesome. The psuedo 3D for battle scenes pushed the GBA. Nearly all of the higher level summons were multi-sprited.
** And now we have [[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]], which manages to exceed the originals in graphical quality. Say what you will about the [[It's Easy, So It Sucks|game]][[
* Captain Falcon's [[Megaton Punch|Falcon Punch]] was just straight awesome in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'': after [[Calling Your Attacks|shouting the name]], he unleashed a fiery punch complete with a 2D image of his emblem. Then along comes Melee and he keeps the punch, ''only now the flames morph into a falcon spreading its wings.''
* You can use an Action Replay MAX to ramp up the frame rate and visual quality in XGRA and it looks brilliant.
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* [[F-Zero X]] and [[F-Zero GX]]: X isn't very detailed, but it never drops the framerate. GX looks wonderful, and also never drops the framerate. Why is that awesome? Because the games move at a really damn fast pace.
* ''[[Conduit 2]]''. The first level takes place on an oil rig in the middle of the ocean. If you look down, you can see waves. Not still water with vague ripples on them, ''actual waves''. Most [[Play Station 3]] and 360 games don't even have that, and the developers pulled it off on a Wii.
* ''Witcher 2''. [[
* Many of the things in ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros Brawl]]''. Next time you play, go look at the trophies for the playable characters or the assist trophies and look at how detailed the skin, clothes, etc are-[[Super Mario Bros.|Peach's]] dress has several layers to it that make it seem like something from the real world, [[EarthBound|Ness']] backpack, hat and t-shirt have real visible seams in them, denim jeans and overalls has seams, buttons, etc. to look like real articles of clothing, the [[Ice Climbers|Ice Climbers']] hoods have very well-rendered fur, Dedede, who normally just has a weird sash underneath his coat, was given a kimono, and Link's, well, everything. Character designs aside, many of the final smashes-particularly Triforce Slash, [[Fire Emblem|Great Aether]], [[EarthBound|PK Starstorm,]] and Lucario's Aura Laser-look REALLY great. Some people will only turn Smash Balls on to see those final smashes.
** Also, the cutscenes from "The Subspace Emissary," especially [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"The Great Invasion."]] The Subspace Gunship is pretty darn detailed.
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