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Question: Mega-productions like avatar rely mostly on special effects than storytelling. Are people still impressed by special effects and stunts? Aren't video
by zerostar07 15y ago
Question: Mega-productions like avatar rely mostly on special effects than storytelling. Are people still impressed by special effects and stunts? Aren't video games becoming more impressive to look at than movies? As a result, are these technical skills becoming less important?
- Drbble 15y agoA movie has something like 3x3 times the resolution of a video game.
- cstross 15y agoWhich is why the state of the art in Machinima is only a couple of years behind the state of the art in cinematic CGI. (What you're pointing to is a problem that can be solved by adding cpu cores. Because movies aren't shown in real time during rendering. Yet.)
- whatusername 15y agoDon't forget: Video Games face the same problems that Hollywood does. And games like Skyrim are starting to have pretty massive development budgets.
- contextfree 15y ago"special effects" is kind of a misnomer when what you are really talking about is mostly the creation of a richly detailed virtual world - it's less about clever tricks and more about art, animation, etc. admittedly, this sort of thing (immersing you in a virtual world) is indeed something video games have already proven themselves rather good at (unlike storytelling imo)