>Actors are cheap, you know. People with name recognition are expensive, but the actual acting is pretty cheap. In other words, actors that people actually wan

>Actors are cheap, you know. People with name recognition are expensive, but the actual acting is pretty cheap. In other words, actors that people actually want to see are expensive. >Sets and animators can be replaced by software. That may be true in the future, if filmmakers ever get the open source ethos and create a large library of models that covers most situations. Otherwise, anything short of strong AI is not going to replace the artist. >People prefer reality! Some people do, some don't. I don't. If everybody did, there would be nothing but reality programming.