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   Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 08:56:03 JST Christmas Sun
   was reading that the director of "The Incredibles" was "obsessed with pushing the limits of the animation medium" but the Incredibles really didn't do that in any way at all. The tech was pushed further but big deal.
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     Berk Berkman (berkberkman@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 09:15:06 JST Berk Berkman

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     @sun The limit pushed for The Incredibles was that the CGI human characters were appealing and not creepy. Before, the CGI humans had some slight uncanniness except the toys.
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 09:17:01 JST Christmas Sun

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     @berkberkman i may be looking at this wrong yeah, what trips me up is forgetting that the verisimilitude of 3d was so poor compared to hand drawn. i saw it in absolute terms not in terms of 3d animation as a distinct category
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     You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 09:51:04 JST You Will Never Know Why

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     @sun yeah they were pushing the limits of 3dcg technology, and did very little in the realm of animation as an art medium. but maybe to the director, they are the same: film was always defined by the technology used to create it. early film was full of magic tricks, in-camera effects and other silly hacks, which have turned into basic filmmaking techniques. essential to the artform, requires expertise, allows for artistic expression. i'd call it art.
     
     
     i wanted to put in a turn like "but yeah lol The Incredibles couldve been made with real actors" but no i cant justify that. everything in, for example, Spiderman 2002 required heavy efforts from effects crew that relied on loads of technology. a film is defined by its imagery, and you can't just separate that from the screenplay. pushing the limits of technology to contribute to a medium, is pushing the limits of the medium. its art. 100% approved artful. final factual opinion which is right no arguments.
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