10 CGI Moments In Recent Movies You DEFINITELY Missed

10. The Baseball - The Black Phone

Despite being produced for less than $20 million, this past summer's horror hit The Black Phone has a ton of near-invisible CGI, and it's perhaps never tougher to spot than during the opening scene where protagonist Finn (Mason Thames) is playing baseball.

As Finn throws a ball, if you look closely you might notice that something seems ever-so-slightly "off" about the motion of the ball - it looks a little too blurry to be real, and that's because it is indeed a digital baseball.

When a Twitter user recently pointed this out, the film's co-writer C. Robert Cargill chimed in and revealed that production constraints on the day forced them to use VFX:

"It was a tight shooting day: limited hours working with kids, the weather wasn't cooperating, we couldn't get the shot with a real ball and we needed to move on. So we had to VFX it."

Ultimately this is a great example of using VFX in a smart way on a low(ish) budget production: in a small part of a scene after they tried to capture the shot practically first. It's tough to argue with that reasoning, especially as 99% of people wouldn't ever notice it.