Theater is life.
Cinema is art.
Television is furniture.
- Author unknown
Cinema was also considered a gimmick when it first came around in the very late 1800s as well. So was synced sound in cinema, etc.
It's a great quote, though.
Theater is life.
Cinema is art.
Television is furniture.
- Author unknown
Im waiting for computer rendering that my mind will not say 'thats rendered'. I think they are there with appearance, but not movement. Really helps with immersion if done right.
Spiderman flitting around as if gravity had no meaning for example. Your mind instantly shouts 'fake' you enjoy it only as a cool looking effect. Animators have to get past that to embed us deeper in the immersion.
Avatar (on the other hand) really worked at this. Very few rendered sequences achieve it, but its getting there. More cameron: The sinking of the titanic. Amazingly Jurassic Park (one of the elder breakthroughs in the industry) did a lot of work to convince the audience the dinosaurs were real. Bringing fantasy into our world in a convincing fashion.
Just IMHO but really well done CG is awesome.
Not to discredit Pixar's accomplishments (quite the opposite, I think they're the best filmmakers on the planet), but the Canadian TV series ReBoot, the first fully CGI television program, started airing a year before Toy Story premiered.
In the clip, Steve does give Terminator it's due, and references it as a landmark. However, I think there is some merit to saying that the unit that became Pixar wouldn't have accomplished what it did, when it did, under Lucas. The fact that he sold the unit to Jobs shows, on the surface, that he had a different idea for it. This not to say that we wouldn't have had a fully CGI feature film eventually, but I don't see Lucas as the one who would have done it.