Comment CG is not the only answer... (Score 1) 165
"In your example of puppetry, I too was a little disappointed to see the CG Yoda; especially in the closeups it just wasn't exactly the same."
I agree with this completely. I mean, I'm sure I'm not the only one who was disappointed by the choice to render Yoda 24/7 in CG. It would have been fine in the fight scene (unless you have an invisible, acrobatic puppeteer), but in other scenes he didn't look believable. And I say that about a film in which almost every background and object was computer generated.
But something I don't see Mr. Beier mention is the general drop in CG quality in recent films IMO. Mummy 2, Scorpion King, and even Spiderman had some horrible shots. With budgets soaring into the scores of millions you have to ask, where the hell is the money going?
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I agree with this completely. I mean, I'm sure I'm not the only one who was disappointed by the choice to render Yoda 24/7 in CG. It would have been fine in the fight scene (unless you have an invisible, acrobatic puppeteer), but in other scenes he didn't look believable. And I say that about a film in which almost every background and object was computer generated.
But something I don't see Mr. Beier mention is the general drop in CG quality in recent films IMO. Mummy 2, Scorpion King, and even Spiderman had some horrible shots. With budgets soaring into the scores of millions you have to ask, where the hell is the money going?
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