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CGI About to Boom In Hollywood

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the whats-your-vector-victor dept.

FortKnox writes "Because of the success of "Monsters Inc" and "Shrek", many major hollywood studios are scrambling getting on the CGI bandwagon. Looks like we're about to get smothered by CGI movies left and right. For those that like to tinker with CG, it might be a good time to go jobhunting..." Several upcoming movies mentioned. Some ven look like they might have potential ;)

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  1. Hey Hollywood... by Spackler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't forget that Shrek (and both Toy Story movies for that matter) was a great movie because it had a good script! If you just put out the same crap (*cough* FF *cough*), it will not be successful.

    1. Write a good script

    2. Make it with good actors (LOTR) or CGI.

    3. Make money.

    It is really pretty simple.

    1. Re:Hey Hollywood... by stew77 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Definately true. Shrek would even have been a great success if it wasn't high quality CGI but bad cartoons like the Tracy Ullman Simpsons. At least, I went to see Shreck because of the graphics, but I ended up laughing my ass off and couldn't pay any attention to the rendering at all.

    2. Re:Hey Hollywood... by DeadVulcan · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Unfortunately, there's a principle in movies called MOTSS ("more of the same stuff"... or for the cynical, "more of the same sh*t").

      And even more unfortunately, sometimes that principle actually works, really REALLY well.

      *sigh*

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  2. CGI killing traditional animation? by Bonker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "I think CGI is starting to phase out traditional animation," Swallow said. "But I think that is very much because of a generational divide. For a generation that is used to seeing these kind of digital images in video games, this is what they start to expect."

    Hmmm... Apparently these guys are talking about Dizney and Dizney alone. The animation houses in Japan have done a great deal to convert over to digital CG production without sacrificing the look of traditional animation.

    Take a good, close look at 'Love Hina', 'Excel Saga', or any newer anime and notice that the cels have all been 'painted' in Photoshop. On some of the closeup shots, you can make out typical Photoshop resizing residue and common filter effects.

    CG may be killing the fatiguing process of 'pencil-paint-photograph', but not traditional animation.

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