"Take The Incredibles, for example. The animation is good but the characters don't wow you at all"

I don't know about that... you didn't find the strand-based hair amazing when it got all wet in the water?

Like I said in the other thread, NO ONE is going to be fooled into thinking what they're seeing here is live action anyway, and I don't think that's the intention. They're going to know it's CG right from the start, and the only people who will be overly critical about the "looks" of the characters are the people like us who are involved in the industry on some level! The average audience, who have no knowledge of how these things are even done, will be amazed at how "real" they look, even if they don't look very realistic to US.

I say go for realism, just concentrate more on the animation than the rendering style. Try to "wow" the audience with how realistic the MOTIONS are, and you'll do alright. Message edited on: 12/09/2005 23:54

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