10 Best CGI Movie Characters Ever

The majority of the characters featured in this article have some sort of human element behind them – be that a vocal performance or motion capture work – yet this entry is based around an entirely computer-delivered character. That character, of course, is The Shallows’ shark that was created by SFX guru Scott E. Anderson and his team.

What makes the shark from The Shallows so notable is that it was a CGI character that legit had people wondering how on earth the production had managed to get a real shark to perform in the picture. Logic dictated that the creature had to be a CGI creation, yet the toothy beast genuinely looked like a living, breathing shark as it stalked poor Blake Lively.

Jaume Collet-Serra’s 2016 offering was a small, intimate film that was headed up by two performances – Lively and her circling foe – and key to maintaining the tension and menace of the picture was making sure that the shark looked good and was utilised in the right way. Luckily for fans of the shark movie subgenre, The Shallows knocked it out of the park on this front.