Animation and CGI in Cinema

• What are the Pros and Cons of Computer Generated Imagery?
pro-
CGI can enlarge the boundaries of the process in creation. Since it can makes impossible things in the past become possible at all. For example, the Avatar shows us a beautiful and mystic planet and the war scenes and creatures in The Lord of the Rings are so remarkable. So, CGI allows creator to be more creative. Besides, CGI helps producers to save money. This is because CGI can generate realistic setting and makeup.

A computer generated house image.

cons-
Although CGI  can generate a amazing virtual world, it is still virtual. Not every one, previous generation, like CGI movie since it is not real. Beside, actors' health may be harmed by CGI. This is because sometimes actors need to act like a animals or some special creatures, like apes in ''Rise of the Planet of the Apes'' and Gollum in ''the Lord of the Rings.  
   
 

• Will Computer Generated Imagery make actors obsolete? Yes or No? Why?
I don't think so. This is because CGI needs actors to make the movie more realistic. Although the actors in ''The avatar'' nearly all become another creatures and acting in a virtual world, I won't treat this film as cartoon and totally animation movie. Actors makes movie that using CGI become more real. And computer cannot brings us this feeling since actors are really real things and computer cannot generate real things . If there is only CGI in a movie, it is hard to make people enjoy in it.

A high-resolution active marker system with 3,600 × 3,600 resolution at 480 hertz providing real time submillimeter positions.

• Should digital characters be nominated for acting awards competing with humans?
I think they should not competing with human because it is not fair. Our decision may affected by the fantastic CGI since not every can be totally objective . Besides, it is hard for us to design who have a better performance between a actor and an apes which acting by a human.




• What are the advantages and disadvantages of motion capture?
Advantages-
ie is easy to create complex movement and realistic physical interactions. It also can deal with a large amount of animation data in a given time. So, it is effectiveness. It is easy to make everything digital, including the actors who just need to stand in front of the bluescreen in order to capture their movement.


Disadvantages-
There are specific hardwares and special programs are required to process the data. Besides,  the performance may not translate on to the computer model as expected.

• Should animation strive for photorealism?
I don't think  animation should strive for photorealism. Although many producer think that the ideal of animation is as real as real things, I believe that it is a irrational pursuing. There are different attractive elements in reality movie and animation film. Like animation always show us some amazing but virtual thing and make people have imagination. Animation should keep this attractive selling points instead of strive for realism irrationally.