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Tonberry2k · 03-05-2006, 02:02 PM

It's true. It takes a potentially good idea and makes it cartoony and ridiculous. CGI is good in small doses (the bats in Batman Begins) but awful in large ones (The scene with Obi-Wan on the lizard thing in SW3, Scooby-Doo). Compare Star Wars 5 to Star Wars 3. What was a main reason it was so much better? Believability. Yoda was a tangible thing. He LOOKED real. Dagobah swamp was really built. The whole movie had a sense of authenticity about it. If that film had been made now, Yoda would look like he does in the new flicks (A cartoon) and his environment would be the same. Realism helps you believe the movie. CGI makes everything look cartoony and out of place.
Puppets make the characters look real. Take the Vogons in HHGTG. Sure, the movie wasn't spectacular, but the puppets made you feel that these aliens were real. How about ET? Seemed real to me. Computers seem to be taking away any of those fantastical blurs of realism and fiction. Those puppets were sculpted to look realistic, and so far, CGI just isn't cutting it. Rebuttals?

(The only thing CGI is better than is stop animation in live action films. See Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice to know what I mean.)

03-05-2006, 02:02 PM	#1
Tonberry2k Senior Member Join Date: May 2001 Location: Pensacola, FL alternatively, The Spriters' Resource Gender: Posts: 5,238 Thanks: 4 Thanked 10 Times in 9 Posts Points: 20,086.90 Bank: 743.05 Total Points: 20,829.95 Donate	CGI is destroying movies It's true. It takes a potentially good idea and makes it cartoony and ridiculous. CGI is good in small doses (the bats in Batman Begins) but awful in large ones (The scene with Obi-Wan on the lizard thing in SW3, Scooby-Doo). Compare Star Wars 5 to Star Wars 3. What was a main reason it was so much better? Believability. Yoda was a tangible thing. He LOOKED real. Dagobah swamp was really built. The whole movie had a sense of authenticity about it. If that film had been made now, Yoda would look like he does in the new flicks (A cartoon) and his environment would be the same. Realism helps you believe the movie. CGI makes everything look cartoony and out of place. Puppets make the characters look real. Take the Vogons in HHGTG. Sure, the movie wasn't spectacular, but the puppets made you feel that these aliens were real. How about ET? Seemed real to me. Computers seem to be taking away any of those fantastical blurs of realism and fiction. Those puppets were sculpted to look realistic, and so far, CGI just isn't cutting it. Rebuttals? (The only thing CGI is better than is stop animation in live action films. See Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice to know what I mean.)