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Info: found - Revenge Of The Sith in 1080i
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Seriously ... I've been avoiding TV for the last few days, for work and recovery reasons. But this offering might get me back. It's a prequel, but still, it's shiny and candy-like.
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It looks awesome.
Edit: Nevermind, I obviously can't read.
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Given that they build these on large computer monitors and not wall-sized projection booths, do they not realize how the fakeness of CG looks amplified on a real screen.
I saw ROTS in DLP and it certainly looked clean, but it also looked fake. It looks much more real on a small TV and I think this is the reason why. Meanwhile, no matter how nuanced they can make the CG Yoda look, I'll take the puppet any day. Why oh why couldn't they have used the original ESB puppet in the prequels?
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
I'm always blown away by how good the CG looks in stills, but how awful it looks in motion, and how downright wretched it looks on the big screen.
Given that they build these on large computer monitors and not wall-sized projection booths, do they not realize how the fakeness of CG looks amplified on a real screen.
I saw ROTS in DLP and it certainly looked clean, but it also looked fake. It looks much more real on a small TV and I think this is the reason why. Meanwhile, no matter how nuanced they can make the CG Yoda look, I'll take the puppet any day. Why oh why couldn't they have used the original ESB puppet in the prequels?
I'm always blown away by how good the CG looks in stills, but how awful it looks in motion, and how downright wretched it looks on the big screen.
Given that they build these on large computer monitors and not wall-sized projection booths, do they not realize how the fakeness of CG looks amplified on a real screen.
I saw ROTS in DLP and it certainly looked clean, but it also looked fake. It looks much more real on a small TV and I think this is the reason why. Meanwhile, no matter how nuanced they can make the CG Yoda look, I'll take the puppet any day. Why oh why couldn't they have used the original ESB puppet in the prequels?
CG looks fake because they haven't nailed natural movement yet. People are jerky and twitchy, not liquid-smooth. That's why I find the ESB puppet more viable and realistic than the prequel CG Yoda. Once the CG animators stop using Disney and anime as a model, CG will become much more realistic.
The battlefield camera effects in AOTC were the first instance I know of where CG animators utilized motion and focus changes to simulate a real camera in a CG environment, and I thought it was fairly effective.
The fact of the matter is that CG has probably become cheaper than model work and animatronic puppetry, so even though it often provides an inferior result, the money-conscious and tech-obsessed (GL) choose it over the alternative.
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In the end, CG just has a sheen on the characters that looks totally unnatural, and that's where it loses me.
I caught Ep III last night and realize I can't watch the original cut. Vader's transformation is so weak. Not to toot my own horn, but I really love what I pulled off in that scene. Can't wait for the saga to be re-released in Blu-Ray so I can do this all over again in 1080p, learning whole new ripping and authoring schemes in the process. *rolls eyes* Maybe by then I'll know how to do soft wipes too and will add that missing touch, and perhaps tighten things a little more.
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Originally posted by: kmcherry
Apologies for not knowing much about tech--but knowing enough to know how much better the picture is at this ratio--would I be able to burn this to a dual-layer DVD? And would the improvement be noticeable on a regular television?
Apologies for not knowing much about tech--but knowing enough to know how much better the picture is at this ratio--would I be able to burn this to a dual-layer DVD? And would the improvement be noticeable on a regular television?
I doubt that it'd look better on DVD, because you'd still need to convert to a standard DVD resolution and bitrate (so the real DVD probably wins here). Also, TV's aren't really that great for displaying high resolution images. I'd say my Sony Wega is at the higher end of standard TV sets (I love its anamorphic line squeezing feature) but it really struggles on 800x600 from my computer's TV out, 1024x768 is just horrible. Perhaps that is just a limitation of my GeForce4 card tho.
My recommendation: Watch it on your computer monitor. If your computer can keep up, it'll look way better than any standard TV set.