2. Pip the Troll
In Marvel's defense, Pip the Troll isn't a protagonist or even a secondary character in Eternals. He appears as a cameo in the post-credits scene for only a couple of minutes, so we can't really blame them for not putting too much effort into his 3D model. That being said, I wonder how anybody saw this scene in post-production and didn't think to themselves "Yeah, we need more time to polish the CGI here".
Throughout this ranking, we've said how some animations/characters seemed like they had been pulled straight from a video game. Well, if that were to be the case again, Pip the Troll wouldn't have come from a PS5 or even a PS4 game, but we're talking about PS3 territory here.
Yeah, it's that bad.
Let's just hope that if we ever see him again in the future, he also comes with more polished effects.
1. Swapping powers in the Secret Invasion finale
If you never really enjoyed Secret Invasion through its six-episode run, then this was the final nail in the coffin. On paper, a confrontation between two Super Skrulls who can control every MCU superpower in existence sounds like a terrific way to end the series. But the VFX stands out so much throughout the entire fight that the result is... less than stellar, to put it lightly.
To be fair, as the sequence goes by, things start to look somewhat passable. But the scenes where "Nick Fury" grows a Hulk arm and punches Gravik at the very beginning and when G'iah grows a Drax arm, are some of the worst CGI moments in the MCU as a whole (if not, the worst). By this point it has become evident the series' budget of 211 million dollars wasn't enough to ensure it would have a good VFX quality. So perhaps it's time for Marvel to rethink its strategy and leave the big-comic crossovers to a 3-hour movie instead of a 6-episode series. A smaller run-time would result in fewer CGI shots needed to be done, and an overall higher quality for the ones that do make it into the final cut.
It's just a shame that it's already too late for the Secret Invasion comic-book event.