The use of CGI in Gilliam's films

[bruttenholm]

The common criticism in people who don't like Gilliam's late œuvre is that Gilliam has lost his touch since he moved from practical effects to CGI...
As we know, the criticism isn't founded too much because Gilliam don't use digital effects that much now (see the link posted by clark about the miniature effects in Parnassus : https://www.dreamsfanzine.com/chat/showt...21#pid1621 )... On the contrary, I wonder if this reputation of Gilliam has a master in practical effects and a bad user of CGI isn't wrong altogether...
And here is the thing : Gilliam used CGI animals in "12 monkeys" in 1995 (the 3 giraffes at the end), the same year as "Jumanji", but it went much less noticed. And -and here I'd be very glad if you gave me some proof I didn't dream it- I think i saw a making of somewhere proving that the constellations creatures in "Munchausen" are CGI (my google searches brought me nothing about that so if you have some lead...)... So is Gilliam really an ignored CGI pioneer ? What are your thoughts ?

[cclark]

I picked up an old copy of Cinefex #38 on Amazon a couple years back which covered Munchausen. I'll have to read through it again to see about the CGI effects that were used. You can still pick up the issue on Amazon for under $20.00 (though the iPad version is cheaper providing you already have a subscription).

http://www.cinefex.com/backissues/issue38.htm

[bruttenholm]

I'll try to get my hands on that.