A strategem that I do not understand
Dec. 12th, 2007 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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despotliz a few weeks back, I saw a trailer for The Golden Compass, and thought that the CGI (particularly the running armoured-bear scenes) looked sketchy and unfinished and poorly-blended with the background, and that this would make me very annoyed watching the film.
I saw it with my brother Ben this evening, and the animation is now finished, blends nicely, and isn't distracting at all. I think I had the same problem with the trailer and satisfaction with the film with Fellowship of the Ring.
I know film-making is the art of pushing deadlines to the absolute limit, but I don't see that producing a trailer with low-quality animation is the right trade-off to make - it's designed to show off the film in sixty seconds, for visual-effects-driven films it must make sense to show off the visual effects! At least this film wasn't proceeded by one of those ninety-second spork-gougingly tedious 'don't steal movies' adverts.
despotliz a few weeks back, I saw a trailer for The Golden Compass, and thought that the CGI (particularly the running armoured-bear scenes) looked sketchy and unfinished and poorly-blended with the background, and that this would make me very annoyed watching the film.I saw it with my brother Ben this evening, and the animation is now finished, blends nicely, and isn't distracting at all. I think I had the same problem with the trailer and satisfaction with the film with Fellowship of the Ring.
I know film-making is the art of pushing deadlines to the absolute limit, but I don't see that producing a trailer with low-quality animation is the right trade-off to make - it's designed to show off the film in sixty seconds, for visual-effects-driven films it must make sense to show off the visual effects! At least this film wasn't proceeded by one of those ninety-second spork-gougingly tedious 'don't steal movies' adverts.
