On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:21:58 +0200, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Chambers wrote:
>
>> > We're in the dark age of CGI right now.
>
>> Oh, I don't know about that. Guys like Pixar still manage to turn out
>> films which are not only gorgeous to look at, but actually enjoyable to
>> watch.
>
>   Could it be that, somewhat ironically, when a movie is CGI-only, the
> creators can and do concentrate more on the story itself because they
> don't have to be showing off photorealistic CGI (which in a CGI-only
> movie is actually more counter-productive than useful)? Maybe the  
> mentality
> is more like "CG all in itself does not make a 90-minute movie, so we  
> also
> need a story to support it".
>

I remember in the Making Of Shrek they mentioned that their muscle-system  
provided an extremely realistic method of making figures, so they had to  
change things on the faces to 'cartoonify' it a bit.

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-
"The spoon is not real"

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