Brains are pretty good at filling in the gaps without all of the fancy computer stuff. I know I'm perilously going into old grumpy man territory.
But I was watching a Buster Keaton film last night. The lightning was just a frame or two of a jagged line drawn on the film. But it worked.
Or in Citizen Kane, if you look at the snow, and leaves falling, in some scenes, you can tell they're just drawn on the frames.
I think my gripe is partly due to what the cgi stuff is telling me, even if it's subliminal. That my brain isn't good enough.
(But I was watching a Buster Keaton film last night. The lightning was just a frame or two of a jagged line drawn on the film. But it worked.
Or in Citizen Kane, if you look at the snow, and leaves falling, in some scenes, you can tell they're just drawn on the frames.
I think my gripe is partly due to what the cgi stuff is telling me, even if it's subliminal. That my brain isn't good enough.
cowcat Bituminous squeegee,
Mon 3 Oct 2011, 21:54,
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Get off my lawn you rotten kids *shakes fist*Been grumpy for many years me!
The one I always remember is the final scene at the end of the first episode of "The Ark in Space", the bit where Harry opens a cupboard and the big insecty thing comes out... cut to end credits. That had me absolutely cacking myself as a kid, so much so that I didn't watch the rest of it at the time, even though I knew it wasn't real and it was just a rubber suit. Looking at the CGI stuff now, there isn't anything I think would have had the same effect on me.
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Mon 3 Oct 2011, 22:09,
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The one I always remember is the final scene at the end of the first episode of "The Ark in Space", the bit where Harry opens a cupboard and the big insecty thing comes out... cut to end credits. That had me absolutely cacking myself as a kid, so much so that I didn't watch the rest of it at the time, even though I knew it wasn't real and it was just a rubber suit. Looking at the CGI stuff now, there isn't anything I think would have had the same effect on me.