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Originally posted by dragon wench
I know there is a lot of bad acting out there, but IMO a computer-rendered image cannot convey the scope and depth of a human actor. Somehow, something feels lost... It is hard to explain. |
I agree. As realistic as the graphics can be, in Final Fantasy, for example, it just doesn't quite feel right.
I think CGI is all very well, as long as it serves the movie and not the other way around. Why was Final Fantasy made with CGI? Not because they couldn't have made it with real actors (although probably using various CG effects as well), but just for the sake of making a whole movie using CGI. Whereas the effects in LotR, for example, and a lot of other movies, are a way of creating something that does not exist or cannot happen.
It's going to take a hell of a lot more development before CG characters can do a job as good as or better than real actors. They are certainly not at that stage yet. And they're still pretty damn expensive - so they're not really worth it for the studios. I don't think CGI is going to take over any time soon.
Oh, and animation IMO is not the same thing. The animation studios are pretty good at choosing subjects that suit, particularly Pixar - you can animate things that you couldn't do IRL, like toys, or animals, or whatever. That's fair enough, and it's not the same as trying to make a CGI movie that is trying to be like the real world.