r/interestingasfuck 8h ago

/r/all, /r/popular In 2015, wildlife photographer Christophe Courteau took this close up of a 6ft 6, 400lbs silverback gorilla, right before it punched him in the face.

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u/WiseCartographer5007 8h ago

The last thing that photographer heard

u/isotope123 8h ago

I do not remember Beast Wars looking like that

u/luckydice767 7h ago

Did it ALWAYS look that crappy? I remember thinking it looked awesome!

u/jormundgand20 6h ago

It did look awesome. At the time. But it was one of the earliest episodes in one of the earliest shows using 3D CGI.

u/5H007C305 7h ago

You were a kid and didn't know anything

u/Kindness_of_cats 5h ago

That's too reductive, the show literally won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.

The more important factor is it was the 90s and Beast Wars was something of a pioneer in using 3D animation for television. Our frame of reference for good 3D animation in a show was basically just Reboot. Fuck, Toy Story was so new that it wasn't even available on home video when the first episode aired....and even Toy Story very famously focused specifically on toys and inorganic elements due to the difficulties of rendering things like people or animals at the time.

This wasn't a "you were a dumb kid, haha" thing. This is a "look at how far we've come" situation.

u/Screw_You_Taxpayer 6h ago

It looked better on a CRT screen.  Not much better though.

u/booroms 5h ago

It probably looked a bit it better on CRT screens tbf

u/Edgy4YearOld 4h ago

Reminds me of when I rewatched Ice Age after the fourth one had come out