timdiggerm said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

imperialscum said:

when it comes to reproducing creatures, puppet based SFX just suck compared to CGI. CGI can reproduce more natural behaviour and motion of a creature. In the end they both look fake.

I'll take the less-than-fluid movements of puppets over the plastic surfaces and weightlessness of CGI any day.

What if sometimes one is better, and sometimes the other is better?

Then exceptions can be made.

I just don't see the reason in investing great amount of time, effort and money in making a stop-motion SFX with a puppet. Especially when it usually look very unnatural. The way to solve this is either putting a guy into a costume or using CGI.

You do realize that in this day and age, the herky-jerkiness of stop-motion can be corrected, don't you?

How? With...computers?!

Yes, with computers. Not that I mind, since it's not computer effects I'm against, but the unnecessary overuse of computer effects.