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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Maverick filmmaker virtually nixes actors
Show Business Weekly: "Last week, the entertainment world took one giant leap closer to the day when live human actors become obsolete. "
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Anonymous
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I've never understood the desire for naturalistic animation. One of the greatest things about traditional animation is the sense that less realistic characters can do so much more because they are immersed in a fictional world. Suspension of disbelief becomes much easier. On the other hand, live action films, even those that exist in fantastical worlds, still follow basic rules of our world. If you're going to go through all that work for movements and expressions that more closely resemble those of people, why don't you just use actors? They had to be hired in the first place to get reference points. Seems like a film would be losing so much more with CGI than they gained.
1 comment:
I've never understood the desire for naturalistic animation. One of the greatest things about traditional animation is the sense that less realistic characters can do so much more because they are immersed in a fictional world. Suspension of disbelief becomes much easier. On the other hand, live action films, even those that exist in fantastical worlds, still follow basic rules of our world. If you're going to go through all that work for movements and expressions that more closely resemble those of people, why don't you just use actors? They had to be hired in the first place to get reference points. Seems like a film would be losing so much more with CGI than they gained.
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