Are CG effects destroying filmmaking?

[Slimothy]

i think films like kong and narnia and LOTR are too ambitious and dont allow them selves the proper time/money to really execute the VFX well enough...labor is spread thin on these projects. its not a question of skill or artistic ability, its time/money.

given the same time/money with the same sort of ambitions, and minatures/model work will look crappy too.

anyway...blah blah blah...

That's some funny **** man.

 

[KevinPeeples]

I think that CG has become a way of cheating in filmmaking these days. I understand what everyone has said about how CG has let some stories be told that otherwise could not have been told, abd how CG is great when it is used to inhance and not distract, but I think many filmmakers use CG to take away the true art of "filmmaking". Yes, movies like LOTR and Narnia and Kong, and even more examples, are entertaining, I enjoy movies that are full of CG, but I think it gives filmmakers an easy way out, that otherwise they would have to spend more knowledge and thinking on. Filmmaking is retelling life and stories in an entertaining way, and I think it takes a great group of talented people to do that, and these days we seem to use CG as an excuse to tell stories. Directors and producers sit and say, I want it like this, and someone else does it for them, and they sit back and critque it until they get the product they want. Directors in the past that couldnt rely of CG to do the trick were forced to think outside the box in ways that most people couldnt to achieve the same effect. If we are looking at this thing as of if CG makes money and is entertaining, yes its true for those and many more things, many of the greatest movies are full of CG, but i feel, for the art of filmmaking itself, CG destroys it. I am not trying to slam anyone or say anyones opinions are wrong, I just feel that the way hollywood uses CG takes away the true art of filmmaking that was started so long ago. So its all in how you look at this discussion. I dont ever want to make films that are on the scale of LOTR, with that amount of CG, but that doesnt mean that movies full of it are bad. I feel that since its just entertainment, and if it entertains, then its okay, but as long as it stays equal and the true ways of filmmaking arent completely fased out, then its okay. If the definition of filmmaking becomes that of making films completely with CG, then I think we all need to step back and take a look at what we came from.

 

[surf]

just when there is too mush of it

 

[Michael Summers]

yes.