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"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In article <ScadneNaO_pYhyzanZ2dnUVZWhednZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >> "David Johnston" <david@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> news:5jr1r3hk9e1mmpqaqnj02d7bk80fl0gfh5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> > Holy crap having a CGI dinosaur every episode must be expensive
> >>
> >> CGI has gotten cheaper in a decade since XENA and HERC.
> >>
> >> -- Ken from Chicago
> >
> > Only if you don't care about the results.
> >
> > --
> > Star Trek 08:
> >
> > No Shat, No Show.
>
> The technology only gets better, faster, cheaper.
The technicians don't.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA has
> far better, cheaper, faster fx than STAR WARS, SW: EMPIRE STRIKES BACK,
> SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, ST: THE WRATH OF
KHAN,
> etc.
Oh, god, not even close. BSG has never risen above 'adequate for
television' -- it's not even top end television. It's better than the
original BSG. Or B-movies. But it's not remotely better than 30 year
old A movies. Or Serenity. Or even Enterpise.
>
> The REAL problem, Anim, as you well know, is that expectation rises also
as
> people see cutting-edge movie fx. Cutting edge, expensive, glacially
slow
> TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY morphing technology back in the early 1990s
is
> common place today, cheaper, faster, better even for tv or home computer
> animation software. The problem is that audience expectations have
risen.
In general I'd accept that as true, but if you think BSG is better than
the stuff you named, I'd say yours have fallen.
>
> So yeah, cutting edge movie fx today is better, but more expensive than
tv
> fx today which can be better than home computer fx, but that's almost
always
> going to be the case because you have a budget for one 2-3 hour movie
versus
> the budget of weekly 10-20something episode season.
>
> -- Ken from Chicago
--
Star Trek 08:
No Shat, No Show.
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