Just need bigger budgets to do the big crowd and battle scenesWell for Star Wars prequels they might be still made without the CGI, but of course it still wouldn't be the same and it might of not been as successful like in OTL
Just need bigger budgets to do the big crowd and battle scenesWell for Star Wars prequels they might be still made without the CGI, but of course it still wouldn't be the same and it might of not been as successful like in OTL
Have many Guys in Orc suits, and more a mob formationLord of the Rings series. Much of the film was and still could be shot on site in New Zealand, but the great battles with vast armies of Orcs, Trolls, flying Nazgul, etc would be almost impossible to replicate in scope.
Just need bigger budgets to do the big crowd and battle scenes
Rotoscope is a form of motion captureRalph Bakshi did both LORD OF THE RINGS and WIZARDS without CGI...
I'll expand why adapting Pokemon and Digimon to the live-action big screen is impossible without CGI.
The main draw of both franchises is fantastical-looking monster battling out with flashy superpowers and abilities along with kid characters interacting with them. That's extremely to replicate considering the amount of practical effects required to depict the titular creatures.
For example, Pikachu is a furry yellow mouse-like creature that can generate electricity and leap to trainer's body whereas Agumon is a small, upright yellow tyrannosaurus with three digits on each appendage and capable of breathing fire. It's impractical to replicate their appearances without looking awkward or creepy if an adaptation of either franchises adapted in a film without CGI.
Another thing is the settings. Pokemon's setting is based on a world where humans and creatures called Pokemon interact with each other whereas Digimon's setting is based on a world where digital creatures called Digimon live in another dimension inside digital and telecommunications systems of the 'real world'.
The difficulty comes from the fact, you're going to need a lot of puppets and models for either world. The amount of puppets and models is enough to bankrupt a film studio without the existence of CGI.
How about Pokemon & Digimon? They're quintessential examples of franchises imposssible to adapt to live action without modern advances in CGI.
The new version of The Lion King would be pretty much impossible without CGI.
Is that shot from Waterloo or one of the War and Peace versions?Have many Guys in Orc suits, and more a mob formation
True, but I saw both the Bashki LOTR and Wizards and IMO, that was a subtraction from the experience. I really wound disliking both films for it's use.Rotoscope is a form of motion capture
How would you solve the problem of depicting Transformers without CGI?
Henson Studies says 'Hi'As for Detective Pikachu, again it's possible to do it, if you are willing to accept a lower standard of special effects,
As I've mentioned before, it would probably look like something out of early Power Rangers etc.
I'm curious. I did not watch the earlier seasons of Power Rangers. Can you give me a video clip on what it would really look like?
I'm curious. I did not watch the earlier seasons of Power Rangers. Can you give me a video clip on what it would really look like?
That is the special photographic used in all models.Here you go.
The first one goes as far as Wild Force.
They didn't get heavy into CGI for several series, due to how expensive it was. I believe Wild Force was the first that had a lot of CGI. Other series used some CGI (particularly Time Force), but that the first that used CGI zords almost entirely*, except for the Megazord vs. monster of the week battles.
If they can manage that for a TV series budget, they could do better with a film budget and an extra decade of higher quality models.
*The Galactabeasts were animatronic even in their beast form, IIRC.
Meanwhile, Super Sentai started in 1975.
If CGI were never invented perhaps the late 20th century & early 21st century would see more historic/war epics, although given the cost of extras (always an issue, there was a reason Spain was a popular place to film epics in the 60s). Given the cheapness of human labor in China perhaps there would be a lot more filming there (perhaps a remake of "55 days At Peking" (please no)), of course Eastern Europe would be a better place due to Euro-Atlantic centerness of Hollywood...
Have many Guys in Orc suits, and more a mob formation
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Is that shot from Waterloo or one of the War and Peace versions?
In it's day, Waterloo was one of the most expensive movies made, and literally took 17,000 Soviet Army soldiers for the battle scenes. That level of governmental support requires diplomacy and big money. That's not always a possibility. For LOTR, you certainly could suit a bunch o'guys in Orc suits, and creatively film (Jackson did that pretty well), but you do lose something in the scope of the battles unless you have a literal army of extras. The Trolls and flying Nazgul would need to be done with some animatronics and blue screen, but still it would lack something in scope - my opinion. Kind of a similar story for the Ents, especially in the sack of Isengard.
The series could be done with old school techniques, but the high expectations from the hardcore fans scared off movie makers for a couple of generations until the combination of technology and money could be brought into play.
Conversely, again my opinion, the Hobbit series got seriously over-produced from both a CGI and storyline perspective, just because the could do it and make big money... Just because you can do something doesn't make it a good idea.