In Reply to: Does it *really* matter if the special effects are photographic process or CG? posted by Tom §. on May 5, 2002 at 05:33:54:
Poor SFX will be noticed and distract the viewer whether it's CG, miniatures, or photographic effect. I have no argument against that point.However, I seem to be noticing a trend in published movie reviewers and barstool movie reviewers that CG is inherently bad no matter what the quality (the cheesy comment below). It's not that spiderman has "too much" CG, it should be noted that it has relatively *poor* quality CG. CG can be very good at times (the opening sequence of Contact immediately comes to mind) and it can enable visual expression in film that was previously too resource-intensive or practically impossible to achieve via previous methods. A wholesale dismissal of any process is ignorance in action.
Tom §.
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Follow Ups
- Missed my point completely fellas. - Tom §. 06:52:12 05/06/02 (3)
- Re: Missed my point completely fellas. - Analog Scott 08:27:38 05/06/02 (2)
- Right - yata 17:41:41 05/06/02 (0)
- Couldn't have said it better.... - David S. 15:32:57 05/06/02 (0)