10 Terrible CGI Moments In Modern Doctor Who

10. The Cybermen And The Burning Sky (Death In Heaven)

While the Capaldi era certainly had some of the better CGI we've seen in modern Doctor Who, it still wasn't perfect, and one bad example that sticks in the mind is this climactic scene from Series 8 finale Death in Heaven.

At the end of the episode, the doomed Danny Pink gives a rousing speech and leads the rest of the Cybermen high into the sky, killing themselves in order to burn up the dark clouds and save the day.

There are two offending shots here: the first is the wide shot of all the Cybermen taking off from the graveyard, and the second is the shot of the Doctor, Missy and Clara stood beneath the burning sky.

For the former, the Cybermen look a little too rigid and flat - like 2D images that have been hastily keyframed in - and the smoke beneath their feet looks ridiculously cheap, like a basic chroma key effect found on YouTube. And for the latter, the three actors are clearly reacting to nothing, while the sky itself is far too bright and lacks texture.

The scene looks much worse in motion than it does in still images, absolutely, but it stands out as a bad effect because this is the big "saving humanity" climax from the finale, and thus, it's one of the most important moments of the series.

And it's hard to really feel that importance when you can tell you're staring at a load of green screen and pixels.