History Main / SpecialEffectFailure

* And then there's the big unmasking of Wrestler/{{Kane}} at the hands of TripleH. Kane's backstory had him as a childhood burn victim, so naturally, this was a big deal. Unfortunately, the burn makeup under the mask completely failed to hold up through the match, so when Kane did unmask, he didn't look like a victim of a horrible house fire so much as a victim of an attack by a psychotic Mary Kay lady and a deranged barber with a thing for [[Film/TheThreeStooges Larry Fine]]. Thankfully, rather than press on with the storyline, the next week, Kane appeared without makeup, but still claiming to be terribly burned, thus making the false scarring yet another dimension of his uniquely psychotic delusions.

* The “destruction” of Munich terrorist facility in JamesBond fan film [[FanWorks/DiamondsCut Diamond's Cut]] seems to intentionally go for the Camp factor with what seems like a really bad photoshop. Absolutely nothing collapses and the only signs of destruction are little tongues of flame with thin tendrils of smoke at the forefront.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has a weapon for the Soldier called "The Original" which is a recreation of the Rocket Launcher from ''Videogame/{{Quake}}''[[note]]The original ''Team Fortress'' was a [[GameMod mod]] for ''Quake''[[/note]] complete with a the centered viewing angle from the game as opposed to the usual side angle. It's pretty obvious [[TheyJustDidntCare the model was made with older, 4:3 CRT monitors in mind]], as increasing the "viewmodel" value to increase its distance from the player shows it cut off in the center and floating in mid-air during reload if the player is using a modern display device.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI0GPmEgwWU Max from BlueTax]], who falls straight into the UncannyValley. The other people in the ad fare worse, coming off as models from the PlayStation One era.

*** This is done in an attempt to make the add modular, so if they change the label or add a new product line, all they have to do is swap a few files in the digital archive and bam, new ad. This is quite common (look how many late-night infomercials use the same payment info screen, with just different text, art and video slotted into the same space), but just done really, really cheaply.

* This old Scanimate (A precursor to modern CG) demo reel shows us what happens when you [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ispW6-7b2sA film a circuit board with light blue Capacitors with dark blue highlights against a blue-screen that's a similar color to said highlights]] - it's at 4:30 in if anyone's curious.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db52uepxANg The General]] isn't much better than the [[hottip:above: he essentially looks like the offspring of Max and a character from ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'' at best]]. It's gone through some hefty ArtEvolution lately however it's debatable how much better that makes the effects.

* Done intentionally in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iuG1OpnHP8 this Dr. Pepper TEN commercial]] with an obviously robotic snake[[note]]made by the guys who worked on ''RealSteel'' to boot[[/note]].

* Referenced in Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen, where Sally has to badger the stage crew to start the ocean wave effects. To be fair, the current crew are just actors doubling up because the regular crew have been killed in the most recent Turkish attack.

* Referenced in [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen]], where Sally has to badger the stage crew to start the ocean wave effects.

* In VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland in the cutscene, where Elaine and Guybrush discuss their course of action right after arriving to Melee island, the camera frequently is placed ''inside'' a monkey. Fortunately, most of the monkey is transparent, only its muzzle and several torso polygons are visible.

* Opening Remake 101: When remaking the Manga/DragonBall Z opening in CG, there's three things you shouldn't do - make the characters look like arthritic Lego people that barely emote, have Chaozu look like he came from the UncannyValley, and make sure that when Gohan flies past; not to noclip through his head. Sadly [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FmKGZZNggI&feature=related the opening to Budokai does all three]].
* The 2010 MedalOfHonor game has something to this effect. Basically, every time a level starts, the whole map is generated, having different levels of detail depending on the distance. What happens is, after a cutscene, the game will load every texture in the farthest resolution and then add detail depending on the distance (sort of like a [[BuffySpeak detail implosion-shockwave-thingy]]). While plenty of games do this, most other games get around this by loading the nearest ones first and then generating the rest of the visible environment. Here it takes around 5 to 10 seconds for the ''gun'' to gain detail. ''Ten seconds''. Ten, immersion ruining, seconds.

* In the Finale of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' , the airships are ConspicuousCG rendered at a noticeably low and choppy framerate that gives the impression of a SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super FX game.

Compare UncannyValley, FightSceneFailure, StockFootageFailure, StyrofoamRocks, ConspicuousCG, and OffModel. See also {{Narm}}, a frequent consequence. Contrast SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome. When the effcts work, but produce an effect that seems dated later, that's {{Zeerust}}. Often caused by NoBudget. This can be an InvokedTrope when aiming for StylisticSuck.

* And then there's the big unmasking of Wrestler/{{Kane}} at the hands of TripleH. Kane's backstory had him as a childhood burn victim, so naturally, this was a big deal. Unfortunately, the burn makeup under the mask completely failed to hold up through the match, so when Kane did unmask, he didn't look like a victim of a horrible house fire so much as a victim of an attack by a psychotic Mary Kay lady and a deranged barber with a thing for [[TheThreeStooges Larry Fine]]. Thankfully, rather than press on with the storyline, the next week, Kane appeared without makeup, but still claiming to be terribly burned, thus making the false scarring yet another dimension of his uniquely psychotic delusions.

Compare UncannyValley, FightSceneFailure, StockFootageFailure, StyrofoamRocks, ConspicuousCG, and OffModel. See also {{Narm}}, a frequent consequence. Contrast SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome. Often caused by NoBudget. This can be an InvokedTrope when aiming for StylisticSuck.

* In one mission in ''GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', you have to follow Caesar to meet up with everyone else for some illegal street racing. CJ's sister, Kendl, is seen riding with Caesar in the cut scene. During the actual game play, Kendl's model is strangely replaced with a female NPC.

* In the [[ObviousBeta infamously unpolished]] ''UltimaIX'', a cutscene has [[BigBad the Guardian]] chucking a fireball at [[spoiler:Samhayne]]. The fireball ''misses the victim by a yard'', upon which he spins ''in the wrong direction'' (from how he would have spun if the spell had actually made contact) and collapses.