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>The studios love CGI cause it's as cheap as hell to produce.
Actually, I've been told by a friend of mine that it's more expensive than any standard form of animation; but all the execs push it 'cos they're dreaming of a day when you don't need actors and can make a LITERAL pushbutton film. "Characters 1,2, and 6... plot 5.... plot twists A, B, CC and X.... setting G, voiola!"
You can already see it with the reused vectors everyone uses in their films. (The little sniglets I've seen of the mutants from "Last Man on Earth" has them moving a LOT like the robots from "I Robot." Which moved a lot like the Morlocks from the new version of "The Time Machine"....)
>They still can't get the proper FLOW OF MOVEMENT correct.
Well.... for inanimates it works pretty good. I've seen a few shows that use CGI for vehicles and standard animation for characters and it usually works decently. Part of the PROBLEM I have with CGI animation isn't inherent to CGI; but that STUPID bobblehead thing they ALWAYS have the characters do! Nobody sits still. There's always these weird little twitches and recoils that vereyone does. I'm thinking it's the old buildup/resolution/recoil trick from the ol' days of animation; gone horribly, horribly wrong...
Don C.
Actually, I've been told by a friend of mine that it's more expensive than any standard form of animation; but all the execs push it 'cos they're dreaming of a day when you don't need actors and can make a LITERAL pushbutton film. "Characters 1,2, and 6... plot 5.... plot twists A, B, CC and X.... setting G, voiola!"
You can already see it with the reused vectors everyone uses in their films. (The little sniglets I've seen of the mutants from "Last Man on Earth" has them moving a LOT like the robots from "I Robot." Which moved a lot like the Morlocks from the new version of "The Time Machine"....)
>They still can't get the proper FLOW OF MOVEMENT correct.
Well.... for inanimates it works pretty good. I've seen a few shows that use CGI for vehicles and standard animation for characters and it usually works decently. Part of the PROBLEM I have with CGI animation isn't inherent to CGI; but that STUPID bobblehead thing they ALWAYS have the characters do! Nobody sits still. There's always these weird little twitches and recoils that vereyone does. I'm thinking it's the old buildup/resolution/recoil trick from the ol' days of animation; gone horribly, horribly wrong...
Don C.
British by birth....English by the grace of God. 
Yes Jamie...it is big isn't it....
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