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[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You don't feel Pixar's films have been worthy. I picture an A level arch-criminal sitting at a console with Tony's wall of optical goodness, and one of those big old studio mics, dictating the plot to the computers, which are generating the movie on the fly.

Oh, absolutely. But look at the credits for rendered films, there are three times as many creative types working on them, maybe more. The secret to those films is that no one person comes up with all the stuff that makes them great. Even successful sitcoms and dramas require entire teams of writers. And more than that, the storyline, the jokes, the character design, everything is going to be dependent on current culture in order to strike a chord with audiences, which computers will never be able to keep up with. A computer might figure out that a puffy blue bear captures kids' eye contact more than a skinny red bear, but it will never understand why making it dance the Macarena is hilarious, but the Charleston falls flat. Or why that maybe reverses in another 50 years when no one remembers the ironic club dance, but ironic swing dancing is making another comeback.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Oh, absolutely. But look at the credits for rendered films, there are three times as many creative types working on them, maybe more. The secret to those films is that no one person comes up with all the stuff that makes them great.

Yes, they're labor intensive at the moment. Each person or group working on such a little portion of the film means they pour their creative juices into the details to amuse themselves, and the people they work with. The Disney animators did the same thing for the same reason when it was all rendered by hand.

How ever the key is "at the moment". When we try to look down the road at how things will be, we're making assumptions about how robots(technology) will advance. That's why I picture one dude/dudette, sitting at a mic dictating the story line to a completely automated production robot(s).

But once again...

Maybe my imagination is too far in the future... but