================================================================== TOPFIVE.COM'S LITTLE FIVERS -- MOVIES Putting the "sin" back into "synthespian" ================================================================== July 26, 2001 NOTE FROM ERIC: With the life-like animation of Final Fantasy and the amazing box-office returns of Shrek, some fear that computer-generated actors will put their human counterparts out of work... We don't think so. The Top 9 Reasons Real Actors Are Better Than Computer Animation 9. When you lose a human actor in a crash, you at least get some publicity out of it. 8. Real actors can ad-lib scenes and modify the script on-the-fly. Well, unless they're Keanu Reeves. 7. Human actress catches a virus? Production delayed by a week or two. CGI actor gets a virus? She's missing a leg and talking like the Incredible Hulk. 6. Humans: Casting couch Computers: Beta testing You decide. 5. CGI actors don't have souls. Human actors, on the other hand... oh, wait. 4. Having Marlon Brando in your movie? $15 million for 30 days work. Rendering Marlon Brando's butt into a computer? Six years, $70 million in staff and equipment, and frankly, the technology isn't even available yet. 3. Hit control-C a couple times, and all of a sudden L.A. would be lousy with virtual Olsen twins. 2. Fans just seem to enjoy seeing their species achieve. and the Number 1 Reason Real Actors Are Better Than Computer Animation... 1. With human actors, the "I LOVE YOU" virus doesn't cause crashes, merely divorces. [ Copyright 2001 by Chris White ] [ www.topfive.com ] ==================================================================
================================================================== Selected from 53 submissions from 13 contributors. Today's Top 5 List authors are: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Zachary Brewster-Geisz, Greenbelt, MD -- 1 Martin Bredeck, Hybla Valley, VA -- 2, 6 Aimee Spanier, Oakland, CA -- 3 Jude Benlab, Swarthmore, PA -- 3, 4 Ken Woo, Encinitas, CA -- 4 Dawson Rambo, Santa Rosa, CA -- 5 Douglas Jones, Santa Cruz, CA -- 6 Jeff Scherer, Brooklyn, NY -- 6, 9 Eric M. Wakeford, Niagara Falls, ON -- 7, Topic Clifton J. Gray, Tucson, AZ -- 8 Eric F. Lipton, Washington, DC -- Script Doctor ================================================================== [ Copyright 2001 by Chris White All rights reserved. ] [ Do not forward, publish, broadcast, or use ] [ in any manner without crediting "TopFive.com" ] ==================================================================
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