#fantsy vs realism

[imthefailedartist]

You know in West World when the Man in Black was talking about how ugly the hosts have become because they're making them basically human?

That's how I feel about CGI, video games, and animation. People used to create art now everything is focused on making it look real that was cool but now it's taking the fun and creativity out of things.

There used to be a balance. A mixture of the practical with the digital. It was great. We took that time for granted.

Look at the "live action" Lion King. I have never seen the animation but I know everything about it, why? Because everyone else loves The Lion King they never shut up about it, do you know what I've heard about the new one? Bubcus, nothing, zip, zilch, nada. Because it was a soulless cash grab and everyone could tell. They spent so much money to make it look real just because they could and because it had to look real they took away all the color and artistry. I'm so scared for The Little Mermaid. Hopefully the fact that it's underwater and a fantasy it forces them to be creative and embrace the fantastical because I don't want to spend two hours looking at realist fish. If I wanted to do that I'd watch a nature documentary.

Look at Marvel movies. They are starting to look like plastic. They don't even make half sets anymore. In Dr. Strange Mystery of Madness they walk down a city block and it's all fake and it looks terrible. Marvel is over working and underpaying their graphics departments and its showing. We've become reliant on it and the film industry is suffering for it.

I've been watching older movies and the practical effects are amazing. Slither looks so gross because its real. No CGI creature has beaten the Graboid in disgusting. The Blob amazing. AvP. The Fly. The Exorcist. A Werewolf in London. All look incredible sure its not all realistic but who cares it's art. The miniatures they used to make amazing. Look at Coraline and how creative they got, popcorn flowers.

Parents used to complain that N64 James bond with its square hand and rectangle gun was too violent and realistic. Look at games today. When Red Dead Redemption first came out NPCs had so many different death falls that it would take 30 kills before one repeated now you can kill 100 NPCs and still never see a repeat. That's insane. I'm in no way saying violent video games correspond to real life violence etc. but making everything so real is definitely going to have an effect on the way people react to certain things.

This was a late night rant maybe I'll make a more clear point some other time. In the meantime damn realism and get weird.