Film grain is often added to computor generated output that is to be composited onto live action footage. If it were not, it would look fake. We also add motion blur and depth refocus.
Agreed though, it does feel weird as a vfx artist to be bringing down the quality of cg to that of film stock.
Agreed though, it does feel weird as a vfx artist to be bringing down the quality of cg to that of film stock.