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Old 09-07-2010, 12:03 AM   #792
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That video represents a very common problem in CG that I always notice, having played around with CG off and on for many years (but I'm no great talent.) There are many people with great skill at making CG characters, and CG stories-- but are hobbled by the lack of voice actors. You will find many, many nice CG clips out there with no or very little dialogue where the creators are having to work around that limitation.

Here's one I saw recently with the same issues:



When someone finally comes up with realistic, customizable speed simulation, it will bring about a Renaissance in CG films.

There is a site called www.xtranormal.com that isn't that tool-- it has primitive cg and horrible text-to-speech and allows you to make free short clips. I played around with it a few hours last year, then tired of it. A couple of weeks back, I looked on with growing abject shock to see a TV commercial made with that site. And it went on. And on. And on. A minute and a half of air time was dedicated to it. It was probably the least professional commercial I've ever seen.



And it continues to air.

Speaking of questionable commercials, I saw a 30-second cut of this aired in the US for the first time today:

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