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 …
-
This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread
-
Replying to @arthur_affect
I know you said it's trolling but as a character animator, there truly are movies that work better in animation than in live action (and vice versa). Animation brings a different set of artistic motivations, and it's not obvious to lay audiences that they are
2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @whatsEJstandfor @arthur_affect
An if you figure in things like SFX, rendering, correction/retouching, it gets increasingly difficult to find a non-animation film that is truly live-action, and not some strange hyper-real hybrid of the two.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Gr8SageEqlofHvn @arthur_affect
Right but the goal of VFX in live action is (usually) to be seamless. It ends up enhancing the live-action medium. That's very different than using animation as its own medium. Like doing a matte painting for a movie is different than making a painting, and they have diff goals
2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @whatsEJstandfor @arthur_affect
Right, but then you get things like superhero/action/scifi movies, where not just sets, but entire major characters don't exist outside of the CGI.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Gr8SageEqlofHvn @whatsEJstandfor
Yeah I mean Disney is still calling their remake of The Lion King "live-action" but what exactly is live-action about it ALL of the characters and ALL of the action are CGI animation, it's just on a "live-action" BACKGROUND
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
If I made a traditional hand-drawn cartoon against a background that was an actual photo no one would say that that made it not a cartoon Or that this is sufficient to make a comic a photocomic (in fact this is a cliche for how cheesy webcomics get their backgrounds)
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.