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JediPeteSolo
07/10/09

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Lucas: "Thanks for all your hard work and getting me those Oscars and that dump truck full of money. I know you worked hard and I think you've earned a pretty big reward. Here's a slip 'n slide."
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Anekanta - Go Play!
07/10/09

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There's nothing like a job where you get to goof off and play while you work! Every job should be like that.
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alphanumeric1971
07/10/09

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I miss the days of model work.

Todays CGI just doesn't seem to have weight behind it.
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Wenchette
07/10/09

@alphanumeric1971:I agree. For example, in ESB, the AT AT walkers looked massively heavy in addition to just massively big! I remember the additional effects that they added in for the release and they were missing the grime and subtly of the model makers' creations. I suppose nostalgia could be swaying my objectivity.
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tetracycloide
07/10/09

@alphanumeric1971: weight really is the rigth word. the difference between CGI physics and the physics of an actual model is what makes the difference in most cases.
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riotnrrd
07/10/09

@alphanumeric1971: I think you're being unfair. You're comparing poor-quality (or "nothing special") CGI work with some of the best model work ever done. Computers have made it much cheaper to do VFX (and allows filmmakers to do stuff they could never do with physical models) and therefore it's a lot more common. The feeling of "weight" as you put it is just one of the things that animators have to put into their work, just as they did with the stop-motion models of yore. If it's missing from CG that's because, with more CG special effects being done, there'll be more medium- or poor-quality CG effects being done. Watch Peter Jackson's "King Kong" or some of the fights in the original "Transformers" movie and tell me those creatures don't have weight and heft.
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tetracycloide
07/10/09

@riotnrrd: king kong and transformers are not real things though. which isn't to say that that CGI work isn't good as much as it is that when it's not quite right how can we really tell when we have no idea what objects that big in motion would actually look like?
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Roklimber
07/10/09

@tetracycloide:

"king kong and transformers are not real "

Very true. And for an example of a real creature done poorly in CGI, consider Spider-Man in the first movie. It moved in a very cartoonish and artificial kind of way. But there's hope, as was evident in its sequel, where the CGI was way more physically realistic (though still not quite as realistic as the motion of an actual human being).
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