Star Wars, King Kong, Matrix....... Animated Films or Special FX Movies?
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UPDATED: Sunday, January 29, 2006 12:33
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There are two terms used in Cinema... there is Visual FX which is your CGI... and there are Special FX which is pretty much everything else from "Wire Fu" to whatever.
IMO if it has live people on screen acting it's Live Action and not Animated. I don't care if they're in a production studio or not. King Kong would've failed without using CGI. The Matrix would've failed without using CGI.
Sin City used an interesting visual style. What made it "Artificial" as you say. Because they wanted to make it look like a comic book?
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Originally posted by TheCollector:
Sin City used an interesting visual style. What made it "Artificial" as you say. Because they wanted to make it look like a comic book?
No, it's the way they actually did it: The movie is practically yelling every second: "Look, I am a formerly green wall replaced by pixels!". It's just so obvious that it really distracted me from the story.
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Quote:I'd also recommend Witch Hunter Robin as an example of expressing a great deal of character in animation, and of good use of CGI without being overbearing (they use it for backgrounds and such).
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I think actors will never be replaced with animation. They will always be 2 seperate mediums. You can't tell stories like Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas and of course Firefly without the characterisations created by real live actors.
Actually while I agree with what you're saying I must just point out there are some powerful Manga anime that does impact aswell as those you've mentioned.
http://www.shiroitsubasa.com/shiroitsubasa/witchhunterrobin_review.htm
http://www.geocities.com/mark_a_brown/robin.txt
http://www.geocities.com/mark_a_brown/robin2.txt
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
soz j6ngo1977. I'm afraid I'm not a big fan of Aliensbut you're right it aint a bad movie :) It was a fair old action flick, and Stan Winstons creature work was great!
(Just the ethos of the 'Alien' was kinda lost under a barrage of lame army speak and kick-ass characters, just firing off bullets.) It just wasn't for me.
The Thing! Wonderful. Jaw dropping special effects!!!
No apologies necessary. To be honest I think Alien is a far superior film but Aliens just shows what can be done without CGI and still be impressive.
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