I'm thinking in particular the CG ones, made in Blender or whatever it was, back in the day. ("Milkshape"...?)
I would have thought that with 25yrs of software advances, the fake dioramas would be better than ever, but it's like that particular line of creation just evaporated. (poof!) The thing that's crazy to me is that a lot of the CG LEGO images I was seeing back then were absolutely gorgeous.
But I guess one possibility is that LEGO communities as a whole came to frown on stuff that wasn't built out of real bricks. So maybe they kind of got policed-out, so to speak?

