Strangely, now that I'm in Hawaii, I find myself blogging -more- and not less. It's what I do when Sean's asleep now that I've finished *ahem* Angels & Demons. The other day, NASCAR Racers, an old TV series from 2000 was on. It's a hodge podge of 2D animation (people) and 3D animation (cars). It made me think about The Birds and its now pastiche-like visual effects and got me wondering whether that's what today's visual effects films will look like years from now. We'll be watching Superman Returns in 2040 and seeing it as a weird mish-mosh of 2.5D, 3D and live action instead of as a seamless whole. The difference between earlier visual effects films (e.g. King Kong) and today's films, is that in the old films, the effects segments look like shots interspersed with regular footage. In today's effects films, the effects and footage mingle within the frame and across frames often creating a peculiar visual ambiguity.
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maybe that's why b-movies endure - they are not hit-and-miss, they are miss-and-miss...Integrity!
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