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Si Wooldridge says...
"I think he's right there..."
Ah but is he? 


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My only grump with CGI, is creating CGI people, as at present the technology is still not good enough to be able to render a face perfectly. You can tell its not a person (actor).

For instance in 'the Hobbit' trilogy, they used the main bad Orc as a CGI character (the one minus an arm). It would have been far better done as they did it in the 'Lord of the rings' as a guy dressed up in artistic prosthetics and paint.

Other than that CGI is most useful, and can fool an audience into it being real.

Do people actually think CG is ruining films, or do they think substituting mindless, overdrawn CG action sequences for real content is ruining them? My vote is for the latter. Sometimes less is more, and just because you can do it doesn't mean you should.

Star Wars is a prime example of this. The original was shot on a budget and as a result it's pretty lean. Fast forward a number of years to a time when Lucas could afford to do it how he originally envisioned, and you get the Special Editions/Blu-ray editions, stuffed with extraneous stuff that kills the pacing dead. This is especially true of the first one and the prequels.

There's nothing wrong with good CG used appropriately.







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This item was edited on Saturday, 8th August 2015, 23:01

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Chris Gould says...
"Do people actually think CG is ruining films, or do they think substituting mindless, overdrawn CG action sequences for real content is ruining them? My vote is for the latter. "
I watched A Good Day To Die Hard the other week and that is a perfect example of bad CGI action sequences, the climax of the film is awful...


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Always happens when new equipment and technology arrives. The media takes precedence over the message for a while until the more informed and creative accept it into their overall story telling toolbox.

Classic case is early computer animation from the geeks who knew how to do it until Pixar grabbed it by the short and curlies and shook it about.

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