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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2076582" data-attributes="member: 151">Well, I'm a firm believer in options.  Krakauer's probably right: once photography came along, the need for painting to represent actual events as a tool for chronocling history was dramatically lessened.  I mean, portrait painting was once a prestigious and important profession.  The most famous pictures of the 18th century are best remembered by their portaits...portraits painted by professionals who travelled from Europe to do the job, since America had not developed it's own.  While there was clearly alternative artistic styles long before photography was invented, they became much more prevalent after, I think.Don't get me wrong, I'm not implying that movies should be made animated solely for the purpose of being animated.  What I am saying is that animation, by it's nature, can do some things that live action just can't...without lots of work.  Character designs, for example, can allow an artistic vision that is difficult or impossible to reproduce as live action.  Compare the live-action Hellboy to the comic-form: equally good, but in different ways, IMHO.  Mignola's artwork is an integral part of Hellboy...and while watching other artists emulate it is interesting, it's not always successful (as seen in the 'weird' anthologies).Another example would be Dilbert.  Yes, almost everything in the animated Dilbert could have been done as a live action show: but it was Adam's designs that make the strip and the animated series what they are.  In Adams' case, it's borne as much out of his artistic limitations as not, but the point still stands, I think.  Is Kiki's Delkivery Service's message of self-reliance and decency less effective because it's animated?  I don't think so.  Is Ghost in the Shell's questions about the nature of humanity less evocative because it's conveyed in the animated form?  Again, I don't think so.The more options an artist has for delivering a vision, the better.  I merely would like to see animation added to the palette of colors available.</blockquote>

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