1. http://www.cgnetworks.com/story_custom.php?story_id=1647&page= 2)Don't understand. Effects or non-real actors? Stop modelling with physical models, for instance. Take a look at any films from the fifties and the sixties. 3) http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/, films 4) films again, TV, illustration, product marketing...

-- erlik