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<blockquote data-quote="shadow" data-source="post: 180461" data-attributes="member: 2182">I apologize in advance for this topic being unrelated to D&amp;D, but seeing the Star Wars and Spiderman theads really made me start thinking.&nbsp; I know the latest buzz in movies has been CGI.&nbsp; Everything now is CGI this and CGI that.&nbsp; I don't know about everyone else, but I'm really beginning to get a little ticked at CGI.&nbsp; At times, it can produce amazing results in movies, but to much of it just makes me sick.&nbsp; Do we really need a CGI yoda, when he has been doing fine as a puppet in the last 4 Star Wars movies?&nbsp; What about the CGI Scooby in the upcoming Scooby Doo movie? (yech!!!) Take for example the famous T-1000 is T2.&nbsp; The T-1000 couldn't have been done in any other medium.&nbsp; That was a great example of early CGI.&nbsp; Now think of the CGI abomination known as Jar-Jar Binks!&nbsp; Now that CGI allows cheap and versatile special effects, Lucas and other movie makers are only thinking about whether or not such a CGI character is possible, not whether it is necessary.&nbsp; Methinks that Lucas added Jar-Jar to show off the capabilities of CGI rather than to make a real character. &nbsp; Some of my favorite movies such as Aliens and the original Star Wars trilogy were filmed before the advent of CGI.&nbsp; They still have good special effects, without CGI.&nbsp; Moreover, often CGI and real actors just don't combine.&nbsp; There just is something that doesn't look right with slick CGI images superimposed upon scenes of real actors and real backgrounds.&nbsp; There are plenty of cheap CGI scenes to demonstrate this.&nbsp; Don't get me wrong.&nbsp; There are some places where CGI works really well, and I think that some all CGI movies such as Toy Story were great.&nbsp; However, too much CGI in the wrong places is just sickening.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shadow, post: 180461, member: 2182"] I apologize in advance for this topic being unrelated to D&D, but seeing the Star Wars and Spiderman theads really made me start thinking. I know the latest buzz in movies has been CGI. Everything now is CGI this and CGI that. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm really beginning to get a little ticked at CGI. At times, it can produce amazing results in movies, but to much of it just makes me sick. Do we really need a CGI yoda, when he has been doing fine as a puppet in the last 4 Star Wars movies? What about the CGI Scooby in the upcoming Scooby Doo movie? (yech!!!) Take for example the famous T-1000 is T2. The T-1000 couldn't have been done in any other medium. That was a great example of early CGI. Now think of the CGI abomination known as Jar-Jar Binks! Now that CGI allows cheap and versatile special effects, Lucas and other movie makers are only thinking about whether or not such a CGI character is possible, not whether it is necessary. Methinks that Lucas added Jar-Jar to show off the capabilities of CGI rather than to make a real character. Some of my favorite movies such as Aliens and the original Star Wars trilogy were filmed before the advent of CGI. They still have good special effects, without CGI. Moreover, often CGI and real actors just don't combine. There just is something that doesn't look right with slick CGI images superimposed upon scenes of real actors and real backgrounds. There are plenty of cheap CGI scenes to demonstrate this. Don't get me wrong. There are some places where CGI works really well, and I think that some all CGI movies such as Toy Story were great. However, too much CGI in the wrong places is just sickening. [/QUOTE]

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