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The Future of CGI Is Using Motion Capture to Recreate Inanimate Objects

Posted January 22, 2012 3:21 PM

From Gizmodo:

Some people complain that there's too much CGI in movies. Nothing is quote unquote real anymore. I say screw them. Let's CGI anything possible. Actors posing as furniture! Motion capturing non motion! Backgrounds! Guns! Lamps! All CGI everything, baby.

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01/22/2012 5:53 PM

I expect sometime in the next 10 years we'll be seeing 'new' movies with cgi versions of John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and so on.

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01/26/2012 12:34 PM

Yes, I was telling friends the same thing 20 years ago -- although I wasn't saying in the next 10 years back then. It's just a matter of time and legal permission/obstacles.
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