Y'all see this?
I'm weary of CGI animation but I'm a sucker for more Blade Runner.
We'll see if they can actually capture the humanity of the original in a totally digital format.
--Jaeger
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BLADE RUNNER "BLACK LOTUS"
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Jaeger
- Baron von Scrapple
- Location: NoVA
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BLADE RUNNER "BLACK LOTUS"
<<NEUTIQUAM ERRO>>Bigshankhank wrote:The world is a fucking wreck, but there is still sunshine in some places. Go outside and look for it.
2018 Indian Scout -- "Lilah"
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DerGolgo
- Zaphod's Zeitgeist
- Location: Potato
Re: BLADE RUNNER "BLACK LOTUS"
Considering the subject matter, that's a rather interesting conundrum, isn't it.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
I said I have a big stick.
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motorpsycho67
- Double-dip Diogenes
- Location: City of Angels
Re: BLADE RUNNER "BLACK LOTUS"
Love me some Blade Runner, but CGI animation doesn't work for me.
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Jaeger
- Baron von Scrapple
- Location: NoVA
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Re: BLADE RUNNER "BLACK LOTUS"
From what I've seen the animation is... meh?
But I agree, I'm weary of CGI. It's especially jarring with something like Blade Runner, which is (IMHO) at least partly an analysis of how technology makes us less human. Watching digitally generated people run around a digitally generated world with dead CGI eyes... eeech, i dunno.
I'll give it a go but I have reservations. If they story is good enough I'll cut them slack, otherwise they're just playing off old farts like me (us) who're primed to glom on to anything from our youth. :L
--Jaeger
But I agree, I'm weary of CGI. It's especially jarring with something like Blade Runner, which is (IMHO) at least partly an analysis of how technology makes us less human. Watching digitally generated people run around a digitally generated world with dead CGI eyes... eeech, i dunno.
I'll give it a go but I have reservations. If they story is good enough I'll cut them slack, otherwise they're just playing off old farts like me (us) who're primed to glom on to anything from our youth. :L
--Jaeger
<<NEUTIQUAM ERRO>>Bigshankhank wrote:The world is a fucking wreck, but there is still sunshine in some places. Go outside and look for it.
2018 Indian Scout -- "Lilah"
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DerGolgo
- Zaphod's Zeitgeist
- Location: Potato
Re: BLADE RUNNER "BLACK LOTUS"
That's an interesting point, actually.Jaeger wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 11:26 amBut I agree, I'm weary of CGI. It's especially jarring with something like Blade Runner, which is (IMHO) at least partly an analysis of how technology makes us less human. Watching digitally generated people run around a digitally generated world with dead CGI eyes... eeech, i dunno.
We've seen those themes explored with nothing but real, living eyes, in OG Blade Runner. Then with a mix of real, living eyes and one pair of not-quite living eyes, in Blade Runner 2049. What'shisname had a relationship with a bit of software that he could only ever see or hear, but never touch, and that "looked" at him through the eyes of a hologram.
So doing it >all< with dead eyes. Cutting the living out of it, going whole-hog for the synthetic. Might be interesting.
It can only ever be a canvas to paint the story and things on. But if that canvas wasn't damn important, you for example, @Jaeger, wouldn't be so wary of this new one, would you.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
I said I have a big stick.