I think that's a different category, though. Those backgrounds are actual video recordings of real places, not 3D environments modeled from scratch. It looks 'real' because the background actually exists.
It's still 100% CGI compositing and definitely not all of them are real places or real objects.
In that specific 15 year old example they're mostly composited, you're right about that.
Computer Generated Imagery.
It's still 100% CGI compositing and definitely not all of them are real places or real objects.
In that specific 15 year old example they're mostly composited, you're right about that.