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40 foot animatronic anaconda from the movie "anaconda" on display

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Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Mikezilla on August 26, 2011, 05:08:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on August 26, 2011, 05:01:49 pm ---Most CG work is crap.  The only reason it's so popular is because crappy cg is generally a lot cheaper than good practical effects, at least for large, inhuman creatures.   

To this day I think the only films that ever really did cg right were the jurassic park films and that's because they had the good sense to NEVER use full on cg in a close shot.

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Im with you on that. Terminator 2 is also up there. Its funny, considering they were among the first movies to employ CG.

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T2 had soem impressive cg, it's one of my favorites as well.  Then again how exactly do you make an unrealistic "liquid metal man" or a realistic one for that matter.  ;)


Actually it's not suprising at all.  At the time cg could only do very basic things, and it was quite expensive, so they were forced to only use it when practical effects absolutely, positively couldn't achieve the effect they needed.  Now cg can do a competant job of emulating most practical effects at a fraction of the cost.  It's just laziness and cheapness, pure and simple. 

MaineEvent:
Also a big f'ing serpent
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/520381964/titanoboa-50ft-electromechanical-serpent?ref=live
They are making this here in Vancity and looks like still looking for some $$

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