During the battle over Takodana, when Finn stops to watch the dogfight, the end of that sequence some storm troopers in front of a wall get blown up by a X-wing - Really bad and noticeable CG
Are you sure about that? The only CG bit in that shot was the x-wing. The wall exploding and the troopers were all practical. You only have to watch the behind the scenes footage to see that shot being filmed -completely practical
I was referencing from memory and pointed to the wrong part, it’s at 1:16:00. Before Finn stops to gawk, not after.
It could very well be a combination of practical and CG, judging from the extra’s disk they seemed to do that quite a bit.
Then show me a film released at the same time with was supposed to be state-of-the-art at the time.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was advertised as state of the art at the time, and was 100% completely CG. I personally wasn’t impressed with it when it came out. Jurassic Park is a good example of CG in a live action movie because they used restraint and only used it when absolutely necessary. The LotR trilogy was the opposite and said that the movie wasn’t possible without the use of CG for many of the parts. The over use of CG got worse as that trilogy went on, and into the Hobbit it got even worse.