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Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant
I am not arguing with you either. :P
Just another point about CGI, it is interesting that during the revolution in CGI film making, there was often times when the studio built complex electronic props of dinosaurs, sharks, etc, and yet ended up never using them because CGI caught up in tech and replaced them entirely during filming.
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They abandon Stop-motion but not animatronics.
Jurassic Park 1-3 still use animatronic dinos assisted by CG. Even in recent movies like
Transformers,
Terminator Salvation,
Real Steel, they still use some animatronics.
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Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant
In the end it is about doing what is the most affordable. Ironic that now stop motion animation all but died out, they are now more expensive to hire than cheap CGI.
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Stop-motion (as VFX, not as movies) officially dead when Spielberg abandoned it after Michael Lantiery showed him how CG was so much better-looking than the jerky stop-motion animation. So, even if (at that time) CG is more expensive than stop-motion, Spielberg will still use CG because it is simply better. Plus, he knew that audience in the 90s can’t be fooled by stop-motion anymore, not after they saw
Terminator 2’s T-1000 and the CG effects in
The Abyss years prior. They’ll recognize the fake creatures made of clay the minute they see their jerky movements. In short, they abandon stop-motion VFX coz it already looks bad and dated and audience will not buy tickets for action movies that use stop-motion VFX.