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3. Michael B. Jordan Is A Blend Of Live-Action & CGI - Love, Death & Robots
The Netflix animated series Love, Death & Robots prides itself on presenting some of the most ground-breakingly photorealistic animation of all time, enough that audiences couldn't figure out what the hell was going on in the second season's seventh episode, "Life Hutch".
The episode stars Michael B. Jordan as a stranded pilot struggling to survive on a hostile planet, and Jordan's visual presence was persuasive enough that many simply believed he must've been a live-action element.
The truth is way more interesting, though: Jordan appears in the episode through a state-of-the-art combination of live-action and VFX.
A shockingly lifelike CGI model of Jordan was created for the episode and appears in many shots as near-imperceptible from reality, but for more challenging close-ups, Jordan's live-action performance was integrated into a digital environment.
It's a mind-blowingly seamless effect all in all, with it being incredibly difficult to spot where the CGI and live-action elements coalesce. It just goes to show that the most impressive effects work is often an harmonious combination of the practical and the digital.