Quote -  Oddly enough, the better-made toony figures have better "soul" than some of the more realistic ones.  This is rampant throughout 3D, though, not just in the Poser gallery.  The less it has to be realistic, the easier it is to make it look, well, full of life.  Humans are just picky.  :lol:

I once watched a lecture by Nigel Holmes, master of infographics, where he talked about using technology for the sake of technology and he used Polar Express as an example.  His point was that the filmmakers tried so hard to attain realism that they should just have used real people because the technology didn't give the characters any kind of emotion.  He then used the film The Incredibles as a good example of 3D and technology.   I think this quote from Nigel says it best: "If it's a cartoon, let's make the people cartoon like."

Technology has however advanced since then and I think they did pretty well with A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey but when I watched it there was always something about the characters that bothered me.

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