![]() After spotting the fragile plant that houses the spirit, Phantoms arrive and she becomes trapped but is rescued at the last moment by Gray Edwards ( Alec Baldwin) and his squad, the “Deep Eyes” security force, consisting of Ryan Whittaker ( Ving Rhames), Neil Fleming ( Steve Buscemi) and Jane Proudfoot ( Peri Gilpin).Īfter returning safely home, Aki and Sid appear before the Leadership Council as they debate the proposed use of the Zeus Cannon, but manages to delay the vote by convincing the council that she is infected but alive because the spirits collected are protecting her. She has collected five and tracked the sixth to the abandoned desolate streets of New York City, outside the barrier. Times are desperate and the leadership has put Earth’s defense in the hands of General General Hein ( James Woods), who is convinced that the only way to defeat the intruders is with an orbiting space energy weapon called the Zeus Cannon, which he intends to fire directly at what appears to be the hub of alien activity, a massive crater where an asteroid crashed.Īki Ross ( Ming-Na) is a scientist who is infected, though that is a secret only she and her colleague, Doctor Sid ( Donald Sutherland) share. The two have discovered a theoretical means of stopping the invaders by gathering the Gaia of eight specific organic items that when combined will negate the deathly effects of the aliens. The Phantoms, as they are known, come in a vast number of species and seem to have no motivation other than to consume the Gaia or ‘soul’ of each person they encounter, though minor contact results only in infection. ![]() Survivors have constructed enormous, domed barrier cities that hold back the aliens but keep people in containment. In the 2065, humans are under siege by an alien life form that appear like apparitions, roaming the world in silent dreadful hordes. Square Pictures had planned more films, but the failure of Final Fantasy: Spirits Within sank the studio, which closed its doors and instead became absorbed into Visual Works.Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 computer animated drama about a scientist who makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms. From flat expressions and reactions that didn’t truly feel human, to something always feeling a little off about them, the photorealistic animation actually hindered this movie and turned people away from watching it. No audience member could truly get into the movie thanks to the uncanny valley effects. No matter how the story was, the characters were the real issue. While this might have been the height of computer animation back then, it certainly wasn’t the greatest, and putting it on a big screen didn’t help either. If you watch older movies and TV shows that use CGI however, you’d probably know that this was not the case back then, as everything looks off-putting and, in some cases, cheesy. Game companies continue to be praised for their realism as technology continues to develop and make everything even more realistic. Now you see realism in games everywhere, from realistic mud and snow footprints as you move your character around, to perfectly animated lighting and sunrays. The movie aimed to be, and was, the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film, but it came too early. This, combined with completely hand-drawn backgrounds, all contributed to the time it took and the technology they had to use, inflating the budget and making the studio lose too much money to stay afloat. Though they did use motion capture for a lot of the movies to make animation easier, there were some movements that simply didn’t work right, and all hand and face movements were done manually. ![]() Related: Planned Video Game Movies We Wish Had HappenedĬonsidering the original budget of the movie was around $70 million, SquareSoft would have made its budget back and might not have collapsed had their project not taken so long to keep up with the salaries of all of their employees. Around 200 people worked on the film to bring it to life, and combined, put in a total of about 120 years worth of work. From rendering the movie with some of the most advanced technology at the time, to its full four-year production, the budget just kept increasing over time. However, this production seemed intent on racking up a bill. From paying the actors and crew, to physically or digitally building the environments around said characters, making a movie is no small task. Most mainstream movies are going to have a big budget, no matter whether it’s live action or animated.
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