Well the thing about CGI movies like Toy Story, Shrek, Finding Nemo and Shark Tales is that you can have characters and situations impossible with regular actors. That's an advantage that's going to improve with greater technology But the getting the emotional depth of the performance for the voices without an actor doing them is problematic, how far are they along with voice synthesizers and AI to direct them? That kind of technology isn't going to get that cheap and that easy in less than a decade. I agree that like with movies like Sin City, physical location shooting will be less critcal and the animating of the characters will improve so you can't tell the difference like some the ones in Revenge of the Sith, but you'll still need to talk to people to get the story told with the kind of performance that's believable. Orson Welles made people believe War of the Worlds with just voices on the radio, but if you didn't have actors to perform the voices like Eddie Murphy did with Donkey in Shrek, Robin Williams did with the Genie in Aladdin and Robert DeNiro did with Don Leno in Shark Tales, then those characters wouldn't have gone over like they did and been believable.

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