Quote from: Ultramorph on May 23, 2017, 11:35:47 AM
Quote from: shawsbaby on May 23, 2017, 09:57:03 AM
I sincerely hope we get some legitimate explanation for why they ditched these amazing suits for the CGI. I was FINE with it, frankly, but now that I've seen the alternative, I'm disappointed.
Because even if long-time fans are okay with it, the press and mainstream moviegoers would relentlessly mock the film if it had a guy in a suit, even if the effect was good.
Im not sure if they'd mock it. Their brain would process it differently. They might actually find it frightening.
But the reason for the CGI might be James Cameron getting in Ridley's ear. Anybody remember that interview from last year where he said "if I made the Alien Queen today Id make a full scale working prop so that the fx team could see how it worked in the light and then I'd get them to recreate it using CGI" hahahaa WTF!!!! That's utterly ridiculous but he said it! What a waste!
Here's the quote from Collider:
I'll admit there are times where I don't even fully understand his obsession with CGI, like when he talks about how he thinks he could do the Alien Queen better with modern CGI:
"If I could do the Alien Queen today with the techniques we used on AVATAR, she'd be spectacular. She'd be much more dynamic. Now, where I would struggle is to make her as texturally real. But that's all doable now. ... On the new AVATAR films, I'm actually going to shoot more real-world stuff. It may only be there as an example from which we then generate CG, or we may actually integrate some of those photographic elements. But I want more photography. ... Like, if I was doing the Alien Queen, I would want photography to show the exact way that the slime drools off the curl of a lip and caught the light in a certain type of very low-key lighting. I would want to see that so that I can talk to the CG artist and say, 'All right. Do that.' ... It always usually boils down to the lighting and the conception of the shot."
