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Re: It's funny because it's true...

One of the problems is that now, everything MUST be 3D digital and that is the budget eater. Once they pay to animate a model, they are going to make it do showy stuff, whether it could or not. I remember with some fondness the days when they filled up the show with paleontologists telling it like it is and 2D artwork that actually illustrated and advanced the point of the show. 
Now it is all just 3D animation for animation's sake.

Tess
On Jun 30, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Luis Rey wrote:


YES....!
I have just spent TWO excruciating hours in the "Dino Gangs" special... and I was: next time that bloody monstrous T. rex looks and me, growls shaking its head trying to bite me I'm going to KICK the TV! Is it really necessary to repeat the same (bad) animation again and again until you just get absolutely fed-up? Is it really necessary to fill two hours with repetitive takes and specially repeat arguments so much you feel brainwashed instead of instructed? \Maybe perhaps it is just a commentary on the level of the audiences these days. Short attention span indeed. The animals in the animations were cartoony, badly proportioned, badly directed, badly animated and above all... as dark, colorless and monstrous as they could possibly be. The poor direction kept their stars including Phil Currie hanging on and repeating and repeating arguments, probably bored to death... at least I'm glad (and hope) they paid his trips around the world... the question is... is it really worth it to go all around the world just to measure an emu or watch an ostrich running? Or to be close to an alligator?
Another problem is that documentaries nowadays all look so alike that I'm not sure if I'm talking about this dino gangs special or "Dinosaur CSI"... I'm confused... 

On 28 Jun 2011, at 15:29, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:
http://optimisticpainter.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/a-brief- commentry-on-science-documentaries-about-prehistory/ 

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