Ronster said:
This film will have more CGI than any other film you have seen previously. weather it looks real or not is another matter but don't get your hopes up on seeing an all practical effects romp it just won't happen.
I highly doubt more CGI than ROTS. I really hope they go somewhere between the OT and TPM in terms of how much, but I'm guessing it will be a little more than what TPM used, which was a bearable amount (though not bearable quality back then).
In terms of the realism, I feel that the less CGI you have, the more time and money you have to spend on that CGI to make it more real, without having to sacrifice the quality of the CGI in certain shots. The Hobbit movies are a good example of this. There are quite a number of scenes that are completely mindblowing when you discover what they did in terms of the CGI/Digital Compositing. But with the same time they spent on those scenes, it meant not enough time on other shots resulting in bad cgi, which is prevalent in Hobbit too, especially DOS more so.
Speaking of TH, I have no problem with Andy Serkis as a motion capture character as long as it looks just as good as Hobbit Gollumn. You can't tell he's CGI, except for the fact that you know he is CGI. I'll be glad to see that level of mastery in the new SW.