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To: MississippiMan
Bullhockey. I heard this same claim made circa 1995, that in the year 2000, CGI technology would have advanced to the point that actors could be replaced. It wasn't true then. It's not true now. We've made huge strides but the technology is nowhere near that threshold.

Have you seen the latest video games? Yeah, they're THAT close.

54 posted on 11/06/2008 12:13:53 PM PST by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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To: Centurion2000
Have you seen the latest video games? Yeah, they're THAT close.

Yup, have a nice X-Box 360 at the house right now. And huge strides have been made. Huge. But we're still nowhere near technology that will allow the wholesale replacement of human actors. That kind of technology is still at least fifteen to twenty years out.

BTW, I have video production in my background, including early usage of 3D CGI technology. I also have a high-level animator friend at Pixar whom I talk to about such issues.

MM (in TX)

57 posted on 11/06/2008 4:18:53 PM PST by MississippiMan
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