Quote - Hi, the thing I’m waiting for is better non realistic characters – have you ever seen Pixar create an animation with photorealistic characters – no – and you don’t want to. Give us some characters that reflect the current world of animation. You watch the Incredibles, you say WOW, and then you go home and look a James for two minutes then close Poser. And no you can’t distort things in the face and figure, it just breaks when you animate. So why Isn’t Poser reflecting popular animation culture? If there’s a generic ‘character creation room’ that allows squash and stretch and will give me exaggerated oooo shapes on the mouth. Give me that and I’ll buy Poser in a second. I know people want realistic characters, probably for still images, but for animation there’s a reason Pixar do stylised characters – there more interesting to watch and you can bend the laws of physics. If there’s ever the day we have totally realistic 3D characters in movies (and it’s coming) that would bore the pants off me – I don’t want real when I go to an animation.

Pfft.  Why does "realistic" always have to mean "real".  What I mean is, why do some people think if something is rendered in a photorealistic style, that it's suddenly something you see "everyday"?  We could theoretically render fantastic things that no human has ever seen before (because it doesn't exist), and do it in such a way that makes it SEEM real.  In fact, there's more CG done this way than the Pixar way for movie FX.

I find it rewarding and challenging to animate realism.  Not still images, but realistic renders with realistic and complex movement.

I don't ever remember going into the woods and seeing Gollum running around in there.  And there's nothing boring about Gollum.  My preciousssssssssss.  Or going on vacation to an island and running into Kong.

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