i happen to like those 'flaws'. wouldn't that be great if a tree that didn't look quite right could be altered to our whim? even those bonzai trees never quite turn out 'right'....damn if my girlfriend would do everything i tell her to do...argue with me when i want her to and agree with me when i want her to...that would be 'perfect'. wait she would have to do that without me telling her to do it. might be easier just to get a robot girlfriend.
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It seems to come down to this:
'CGI is unnatural and I like what's natural or, at least, good film recordings of what's natural.'
Which, to me, is a strange argument when you consider that film making, with or without the aid of computing techniques, is one of the most heavily and carefully engineered of human endeavors.
Or, to put it another way, it's not natural or spontaneous in the way that actual life is.
We've now reached an interesting point in the evolution of industrial society: some love minimal tech and dream of rusty old pick up trucks and cabins in the woods, others love tech only up to the development point of a past era of 'simplicity' (say, 1920) while still others are totally comfortable with the techno-sphere as it is and will be.
The yes/no CGI argument, stripped of fun loving verbiage, is really a debate between those who lament the rise of sophisticated artifice and those who delight in it.
As I'm listening to a wholly synthetic Autechre CD while typing this on my home built Linux box while a vectorgraphic representation of a hypercube spins in the corner of the screen, you can safely guess on which side of the fence I'm standing.
DRM
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