Doctor Who enjoyed more than moderate success at the Royal Television Society's Craft and Design Awards for 2009 and 2010. The awards were presented last night at the Savoy Hotel in London, and just about everyone in attendance agreed that "The Pandorica Opens" displayed some impressive digital effects.
"The judges were impressed by some beautifully integrated effects and by green screen. 'This is about as good as it gets on TV,' they said."
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Over the years, visual effects company the Mill has provided the New Series with truly incredible sights that have stood far ahead of anything else on television, from Vesuvius' eruption and the continents of the Library to Dalek fleets approaching Satellite 5 and Gallifrey materializing in the heavens. And now, for its work in "The Pandorica Opens" the Royal Television Society has granted the Mill its top award in the "Effects -- Digital" category.
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Although the Mill have arguably produced some great effects, there's also been some really poor ones. The CyberKing, flying bus and Krafayis to name a few looked very fake IMHO.
s5 was the worst cgi so far
Donna and the Doctor waving at Wilf.
I rest my case.
I think the poor CGI is because they were saving up for "Pandorica".
Really, see I thought series 5 was a big step up special effects wise. I mean some stuff still didn't look right, but the aliens and spaceships on average were much better than in past series. For example, the spaceships in VOTD and Pandorica opens were much better than those in the end of time.
They did go from SD to HD, which is 4 times the pixels, which meant they couldn't cheat as much. That's why I think there were so many "partial FX" in S5 (like the monsters coming out of the mouths in Amy's Choice, or the Turkey in the Mirror. It was the production team's way of trying to limit the effort of rendering a whole HD scene of CGI.
It was a huge leap technically. That's also why I think they took a year off last year, to give the Mill a bit of time to train up for HD.
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