As I said in my opening sentence of the paragraph - blend actors and enhancements. Just like the original Star Wars movies - if you "do it for real" and it looks good then, it will still look good over time. We all look back at 'early digital' and shudder (or laugh), as they would often have been better with real models or blends of animation - the re-released Star Wars being an example of "digital dating badly". A computer needs a model to work from - either you have to go full-digital modelling (hard work), or get it to copy and modify a real version of something similar.
With respect to group moderated posts, there were spam issues and mild flame wars ages ago, so JMH selected moderated mode and we've stayed there ever since. It means we stop all spam and moderate or respond to posts that could otherwise be provocative. Slows down the post rate, but gives people more time to consider their responses, since it won't immediately just appear on-group, even if they are tempted to post in-haste.
Scrapper, Black Dragon, usually about when JMH is not (and vice versa).
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>NOT ALL DIGITAL!!! they used REAL actors dresed in FUR SUITS touched up with digital..
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>Count your life by smiles, not tears;
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>>You've got to love that digital animation is at the stage where we can now blend actors and enhancements quite easily. :-) Now for when the home PC (tablet? phone?? watch???) has enough crank to allow this sort of rendering and 'enhanced reality'. I guess you could extrapolate Moore's Law for amount of power required and then multiply out till you can predict the approximate time it will be main-stream available?
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>>For those wondering why their posts may not appear immediately, it is because this group is in full-moderated mode - unless JMH or I approve a post, it will sit in a message queue.
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>>Scrapper, Black Dragon, whose last art post was years ago. :-(
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