Someday I'll post in full my semi-trolling take that animation should have made all live-action film obsolete decades ago, in much the same way that cinema should have made live theatre obsolete https://twitter.com/loudmouthjulia/status/1264781496688226306 …
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Or I could give my other, reverse take, which is that it's perverse that we still think live-action cinema is worth anything in an age of increasingly sophisticated animation and yet fumetti (photocomics) are still such an obscure medium compared to drawn comics
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It's kind of funny watching people on Twitter accidentally discover the fumetti genre by looking into the other stock photos associated with the Distracted Boyfriend meme and assembling a story around the models' random messing around
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(And those photos came from Spain, one of the former centers of the photocomic scene along with France and Italy, hence the name "fumetti")
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(My serious take about photocomics is that they're like silent movies and, to an extent, like live theatre, especially old-style big-auditorium live theatre We have distaste for them in the age of "realism" spawned by talkies where exaggerated acting feels like "bad acting")
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(In order to tell a story effectively and efficiently using still photographs of real actors, the poses and situations need to be somewhat contrived and the facial expressions somewhat exaggerated and on-the-nose It's a style that both photography and film no longer like)
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(This may be why, like other otherwise neglected media -- including possibly silent film -- this medium has found a second life online in porn Lots of people getting off to captioned images or silent GIFs where no one cares about the "realism" as long as it gets the job done)
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The general population, along with the "brains" at the Academy, still believes animation to be its own genre(Brad Bird has an aneurysm as I type this). So sadly, the dream isn't yet there
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if only animation wasnt so labor intensive (and abused by capitalism). also hand drawn STILL gets mocked by ludites with no taste
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I guess I would say there's nothing wrong with an 'awkward hybrid' medium. Endgame has both scenes of people talking in rooms that you could call 'theater-like' and scenes that are essentially animated with heads spliced in, and I don't think that's a bad way to tell a story
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I think the very real non-trolly version of this take is just that people need to realize that heavy CGI movies even with motion capture are essentially animated, and the animators/artists get way too little credit
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