Monday, February 24, 2003
Big Fat CGI Deal
Garfield has been on posters, mugs, socks, and stuck on car windows. Now the flabby tabby will make his 3D CGI debut. According to an article on AWN, Twentieth Century Fox plans to release the 3D kitty this coming December.
Is this a sure sign that all cartoons are going 3D? Probably not...
3D is a choice, not a must. People still paint in Acrylic even though digital paint has been available for years. I was a big fan of "Garfield and Friends" and wonder if the cat will make a good translation to 3D. Making Garfield 3D is not going to make him funnier... in fact there's a good chance this movie will flop if it leans to heavily on special effect.
Monsters Inc. is a great example of what 3D animation should be; plot and story driven with characters that are believable. This isn't done in renderman, it's done in the writers head and the animators hand. Story and movement makes you believe in characters, not how well they are rendered.
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