One odd shot from the new trailer

Which scene are you taling about? Is it this one?

The Castle bravo test was unexpectedly large and left a huge crater 250 ft deep and 6500 ft wide. So assuming Godzilla is 350 ft tall and maybe 100 ft wide that should be more than enough space for him to swim. and plus, to me the water he is in looks deep blue. 

i dont know why but this shot just looked fake to me 

@Kaijufall3, well of course it's fake, giant kaiju don't exist, that we know of, just kidding haha , but seriously those island chains have huge drop offs into deep reefs right off their shore lines, so it is plausible for him to be swimming near it.

I just think the CGI work wasn't as good for that shot as it was for other parts of the trailer. 

Or maybe they sped up the footage a little bit, maybe he naturally rises slower and looks more fake because it's on a slight 'fast forward' to fit the trailer. 

I dunno, while I do appreciate the AWESOME look we get at his spikes, I do agree this was some of the weaker CGI work the trailer had to offer.

Maybe it will be cleaned up a bit by the time it's released...still, it's a very cool shot. Reminds me of Son of G, with the tropical theme going on. :)  

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yeah i agree, i think the fakeness is due to probably the color in the compisiting and because of how fast it's rising, i think a slowness would proably make it look more realistic

Maybe it will be cleaned up a bit by the time it's released...still, it's a very cool shot. Reminds me of Son of G, with the tropical theme going on. :)  

@Judge Baggins Yes

and thank you AL for posting the photo on my topic.

I mean I won't lie, I wasn't really all that impressed with MOST of the CGI in the trailer, but then again-- I'm not usually impressed with CGI at all.

To be completely honest, even IF the CGI isn't that great, its still cool to see this different take on godzilla. Godzilla and special effects have never gone hand and hand with the concept of 'realism'. 

Well one Godzilla is huge as shown here by the original godzilla and the nwe one size compared to eachother in that scene

Also Namu Island (where the nukes where launched) have steep hills.

CGI typically gets a pass these days just because it's CGI-- most CG doesn't impress me, but I thought the shots in this movie looked perfectly fine. It's entirely possible that some of the shots aren't completely done yet. Most trailers feature unpolished special effects: X-Men: Days of Future Past, Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Transformers: Age of Extinction (which looked particularly shoddy) all had trailers with incomplete special effects.

C'mon guys cgi this, cgi that, you do realize that when a trailer is first done it's usually months in advance when they select shots then edit them to be spliced together to form a trailer right? These are not complete and accurate representations of what the final shots will look like when the movie is released. I'm sure they will be working on this up until the Hollywood premiere sometime in early May. It will look much better when we see it on the big screen. Actually I'm betting it will look much better when you see the trailer in the theater on a giant screen. These shots were composed with big screens in mind not laptop monitors. Cgi always looks better on big screens on smaller screens it tends to look video game-ish. Relax and enjoy what we have so far we've been waiting an awful long time for this and I for one am elated to finally get something that lets me know that Gareth and company have this film headed in the right direction.

I'm pretty sure it looks like that because it is sped up slightly, if you look at the shoreline, the water it is also moving fast. I might be wrong, and it could just be the wind.

Anyways it looks to me like it is a flashback scene where Serizawa is showing a black and white film of the event then it transitions to a first person perspective shot. You know kinda like he was playing the film then imagining in his head what it must've felt like to be there to witness it. Those shots are done all the time.

Yeah, that shot is a bit odd. The CGI is good, but it's the perspective and the size. :O