david_a
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Zaldron said:
Puppets and animatronics only look good when you conceal their flaws through intelligent editing, lighting, and camera use.
This kind of brings to mind Alien 3. A lot of people assume that the shots of the alien running around the corridors are CG since they look so bad. In reality, there is only one very brief CG shot of the alien in the entire movie (when it's head cracks after being doused with water). The alien is actually a puppet filmed on a minature set using motion-controlled cameras to duplicate the shot. However, there's just something terribly, terribly wrong with the lighting that gives it that flat, cheap CG look.
I don't agree with your other contention, however. Increasing the visual fidelity of the images isn't enough to make them look "real." The uncanny valley will still be a problem due to the issues involved with capturing motion (especially for something like animals - remember the flak that Beowful got for the horses?).
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08-20-09 16:58 
