Quote from: Alienseseses on Dec 05, 2011, 04:21:51 AM
Things don't have to look real to serve a purpose. The mere fact of CGI isn't enough- if it's artless and pointless, it's worthless. In my example, Hugo, it was an artistic choice to give the film a certain dreamlike look.
Ok I got it. Let me say it diferently: Doesn´t need to look REAL, like from our world, but needs to look INTEGRATED in the world is descriving.
Gollum is not integrated in the world of the LOTR movie, because its not a world of 3D talking cartoons.
Avatar planet and chreatures are not integrated because its not Cartoon Planet.
Landscapes and hordes of people are integrated on 300.
The comic style is integrated on sin city because its a COMIC style movie.
Hugo I don´t know because I havn´t seen it. and Im really afraid to do so: Scorsese+3d CGI sounds bad, really bad.
CGI has ruined a lot of directors: Tim Burton, James Cameron (even he started mastering it), George Lucas, Spielberg has used it quite well but he is slipping to the dark side, or one of the saddest examples : Terry Gilliam.
By the way, maybe we should create a forum topic for discussing CGI as we are stealling the thread here...