Robocop
Surprisingly, the RoboCop suit itself was not CGI—however, knowing it would have been more difficult to build hundreds of 208 robots, most of the foot soldiers were CGI for the sake of cost and effort. "CGI is advancing every year in terms of getting realism for an affordable price," said Martin Whist, Robocop's production designer. "That’s always been the goal, more realism. And money is always the limiter."
The Dark Knight
Once Gotham's "white knight," District Attorney Harvey Dent's gritty transformation into Two-Face 2008's The Dark Knight was some serious wizardry. "This character was one of our major VFX challenges," said Nick Davis, the film's Visual Effects Supervisor. "Chris [Nolan] was not interested in going the traditional make-up route. He felt that it would be an additive effect, rather than the subtractive effect that he felt the character required. So, instead of adding a layer of material to the actor's skin, we actually removed the skin digitally."