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RE: CGI and the movies

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Tom �.

In Reply to: RE: CGI and the movies posted by DavidLD on July 11, 2007 at 04:25:16

CGI has been a blessing and a curse. Some directors made better movies when constrained by tradional SFX methods (Lucas, Spielberg) while other movies were now able to be made because of CGI (Lord of the rings and um....yeah).

CGI has been used very well in some cases for instance most outdoor scenes of Deadwood, the opening town shot of Copland, and as you mentioned, the Pixar films.

Tom �.

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I'm going to say something obvious: - EBerlin 08:33:33 07/12/07 (0)
As all the *good* CGI films prove, the problem is not the technology but the people who employ it. I doubt CGI has particularly elevated the percentage of films that lack true story and texture. They've just migrated there. That's just the latest distraction from artfulness. Pixar has never made a bad film and that's because they always let the story and the characters drive the CGI. Of course it's different when CGI is employed to simulate something ostensibly real than when it creates a patently imaginary world like the Pixar films. But I think it nonetheless proves the point.

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