We’re off on holliday to the Greek islands for the next 2 weeks.
Note to self: Don’t try to take anything off the islands.
We’re off on holliday to the Greek islands for the next 2 weeks.
Note to self: Don’t try to take anything off the islands.
And then nick talbot said:
I watched the Empire Strikes Back the other night and it cemented my belief that stop motion effects have never been bettered. CGI looks vulgar and will soon look desperately quaint.
Ray Harryhausen is the man.
And then tom said:Hello, I’m back now.
I recon Steven Spielberg is the only person who does CGI right at the moment, (esp. Jurasic Park and War of The Worlds) he seems to understand that in human scale situations you need models and real things in order to 1. look convincing and 2. get convincing reactions from actors (not sure what I think about minority report though, haven’t seen it since the cinema). Hopefully as the technology improves or at least becomes more commonplace the emphasis will shift from photorealism to more aesthetically interesting choices eg Sin City even though I didn’t really like that film.
Mind you, I think that early CG stuff like Last Starfighter and Babylon 5 has a really interesting look. Kind of an impossible smoothness and otherworldliness which is what new CG stuff is generally trying to move away from (except maybe not the outdoor scenes in minority report which in my memory are impossibly smooth and shiny).
I guess it will probably follow a similar trajectory to electronic music (warning gross simplification coming up…), i.e. drive towards ever more accurate reproductions of ‘real’ instruments followed by concious rejection and reveling in the electronic sound (eg rave etc.), followed by a cyclical fashions in what sounds are used/popular (eg. analogue fetishism) but the ability to get those sounds in a variety of ways (eg analogue syths, digital “analogue” synths, vst plugins, samplers etc.) I mean it’s surely only a matter of time before someone starts doing CG which is deliberately designed to look like harryhausen’s skeletons in ‘…argonauts’ , hell if I was doing a film with skeletons that’s how I’d want them to look. People are already doing things like digitally adding film grain and scratches and sepia tone (sky captain blah blah blah).
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