Quote -  Trying to pass of 3D figures as real persons (or horror mix 3D figures with real actors!) is bound to failure and is only looking creepy.

Welcome to the Uncanny Valley! Please have your complimentary barf bag handy, and kindly keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times. Thank you. 

Sometimes, if it's done right, and you know going in that it's CG, awesome. If you can mix/match a CG still with a photographic background (or vice-versa), cool. Mixing the two in animation poorly may keep the trailer park denizens entertained, but honestly, I think it's too thin of a tightrope for most to walk worth a damn and still be called artistic.

Quote - If stills were enough for Rembrandt it is enough for me. I enjoy more a picture of a painting master than any new product from Pixar.

I'm kind of a 'stills' guy myself. I don't care if it moves or not, and it seems that keeping it in one spot forces you to concentrate more on the composition.

Funny enough, doing stills instead of animation also helps give you some slack in that aforementioned uncanny valley as well. :)

Quote - Tomorrows new artist will more probably come from places like Renderosity, where you are given ample place to experiment and play. And not from the rigid commercial animated trash.

I hope not... I mean, I like naked chicks and swords as much as the next guy, but seriously? Not in my art museum you won't!

(you know I'm only kidding here, right?)