I found some manga pics of a japanese star wars comic series. the ships look pretty cool. and chewie looks real scary. and obi wan looks like a super samurai avenger. doesn't look like Alec G. though.
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I remember when those came out. My friend was telling me about them, and he did a piss-poor job cause I thought he was saying that the Japanese were releasing an animated remake of "Star Wars" ...
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So...you know more things than we do about CGI, huh Wes? This should be interesting... "Pop quiz, hot shot!" Seriously, I think people would go see Star Wars if they added one more TIE fighter in the battle scenes. Or one more stormtrooper. You see, it's very popular. If he released Phantom Menace into theaters again, then ANH, then ESB, then RotJ, think of the box-office business. Titanic, look out!
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ok. I was a bit angered, sorry, i know you people probably know more then the average Joe.
I’ve practically spent my life preparing for a life in the professional visual effects business... so its sort of my area. (and it saddens me to see people have no faith in CG)
Anyway, I don’t think all-CG movies should replace real movies, but there will be a point were cg can compare to photorealism. We are closer now (Final Fantasy was breathtaking) then we ever were. We already can composite perfectly, (i bet there are scenes in movies with CG elements that you didn’t even know were fake...) and i'm pretty damn sure most of the environments in FF were completely photorealistic. Its CG humans that we need to work on. Human figures are the hardest thing to get looking realistic. That’s what threw a lot of people off in FF, the characters at times didn’t seem all that realistic (I even noticed some clipping errors one of the many times I saw it).
CG movies will be a factor in our future, they wont replace real actors, but I'm betting we will see more and more of higher quality released. Personally, I think some of the best visual effects comes from Sony Imageworks.
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Yeah I think it's pretty much inevitable that there will be CG characters who look so much like people on screen that it will be very hard to tell. It's a ways off yet. As for a CG Ep7, I wouldn't rule it out. In like fifteen years, maybe the technology would be there, and maybe Lucas will have squandered his fortune on the construction of a 1/3 size recreation of an orbiting death star as a Star Wars themed amusment park. Maybe he'll need the cash and make three more pictures with some breathtaking new technology...
But I think PsyLiam is right he's gonna milk all the DVD money out of us he can first. (as it is, I've spent a little over $200 on the various releases of the Laser Discs)
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George Lucas said, after being asked if he thinks CG will replace human characters, he said he'd never think of doing that.
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From what I've read, at current rates we're 10 years away from computer graphics being photorealistic. And that means not pre-rendered photorealism. Granted, that may not apply to humans, but if everything else will look 100% life like when generated on the fly, surely pre-rendered human looking characters would be possible.
Which reminds me, I really need to replace my TNT 2...
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the 3dmark 2001 benchmark had a scene of a meadow that'd looked pretty photo-realistic.i don't think it'll take 10 years for computers to make photo-realistic images. at the rate that computer components are being developed, it could be half that.
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Maybe he'll need the cash and make three more pictures with some breathtaking new technology...
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