Hmmm...I don't like watching detailed CGI movies or playing "realistic" games because of the uncanny valley issue. Also I can't help but think about the legion of artists spending 1000s of hours in front of a monitor on a tight schedule to make it happen. (I know that second is peculiar to me probably.)

In games, the worst offender of this that I've seen is the Oblivion series. I love the game play, but the characters are so disturbing I had to stop playing. (I'm not alone in this opinion.) I started playing Phantasy Star Online (old cartoon style-- yes, you can still play it) to get my RPG/fantasy fix. The value
of an artistic expression is interpretation; when you go for realism, you most often reduce the intrinsic value of the art.


I know that this is digressing a bit, but I think Hollywood is far too dependent on CGI. Sometimes when I'm watching a show, I'll think why is that
actor talking to a computer animation, or why am I watching 3D a computer spaceship, why is that actor pretending to be in a 3D scene? I feel like I'm watching a video game...or a live action show crammed in a cartoon.

Come on Hollywood. Build the set, make the costume or puppet, build the model and you know what? The scene will often be more believable. Okay so it's not always possible; but, Hollywood shouldn't be so confident that their special effects using CGI are all that "special."