10 CGI Moments In Recent Movies NOBODY Noticed
4. Everything But The Boat - Death On The Nile
Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of VFX will likely be aware that Death on the Nile wasn't actually filmed on the River Nile.
It was in fact predominantly shot on soundstages in London, with the footage then composited into background plates which were shot in Egypt by the film's second unit crew.
And while many noted how phoney the film's Egyptian exteriors looked, you might be surprised to learn just how much CGI was actually employed to place the focal cruise ship, the S.S. Karnak, on the "Nile."
You probably assumed that the London soundstage contained a water tank and some Egyptian scenery, and yet the soundstages are shockingly bare for a $90 million movie.
Some sequences were quite literally filmed in what appears to be a large gravel backlot outside the studio, with every piece of the Egyptian locale either a background plate or a CGI element created from scratch.
The film's effects are certainly far from perfect, but it's nevertheless shocking just how artificial it all is, to the extent of even creating all the water digitally.