Anyone tired of all these CG hybrids?

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ibrahim200429

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I thought I would bring this discussion up seeing how everyone on their own mind might be thinking about it or not. Anyone remember live-action/animated hybrids?, no that those horrid CG looking ones but the hybrids that were worth the words "live-action/animated"?. You know movies like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jam, and heck even Cool world deserves a mention. Now all I see are endless live-action/CG films that look so bad you have to poke your own eyes out :mad:. And pretty much to me its pointless(if you like them I got nothing agaisnt that). I'm just saying it has reached its point on becoming a nuisance and it needs to stop.

Personally its bad enough that they are doing the same for Bugs bunny. I would personally would to see a live-action/2D hybrid movie but however that wont happen anytime soon due to movie studios thinking it wont work. So is anyone tired of all these CG hybrids?
 
To me I wouldn't refer to Alvin and the Chimpunks, Yogi Bear, etc. movies as being "animated/live-action". This is because they are actual suppose to be real animals. I would say "did you hear about the live-action Yogi Bear movie?"

I am also not really sick of them. I thought that Alvin and the Chipunks was surprisingly good. Yogi Bear doesn't look to bad, but I am not chomping at the bit to see it. The Smurfs look terrible however.
 
So does that mean we should include the Michael Bay Transformers films in this discussion?

Those were CGI/Live action hybrids in their own right (Though they fare better then these other ones that have been coming out lately *coughbugsbunnyyogibearmarmadukecough*)
 
I think what Pepper means is that within the context of those movies, Alvin and Yogi (while created with CGI for the purposes of the film) are viewed as actual animals by the film's human characters, and not as cartoon characters who simply exist in the real world, like in Looney Tunes: Back In Action or Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
 
The Transformers movies really wouldn't work as 2D animated hybrids. With the whole you know, robots in disguise thing not working when it's quite clear you're not a normal vehicle.
 
Then obviously he must have made an error.


Well about the whole turning saturday morning cartoons into cgi/live movies....
I don't see the problem in that, in the cgi. It's the stories that are aggressive poop. We are still in the 80's.
 
Ah, okay. But I don't think that's what the original poster was talking about. I think he was just saying that CG/LIve action movies in general didn't work for him. The fact that Alvin and Yogi are supposed to be "real" within their worlds is irrelevant to the fact that these movies are CG/live action hybrids.
 
I already touched on this a little in the Bugs movie thread, but I'll explain it again a bit more here.

The last of this type of movie (Looney Tunes: Back in Action) completely bombed at the box office. In the end of it all, it lost well over 40 million dollars. I think what happened with that particular movie was probably enough to convince everyone that, at least in the near future, that a live-action/hand drawn animation "hybrid" project was a bad idea, because we haven't seen one since.

People are still talking about a Roger Rabbit sequel every now and again, but, in so many words, it hasn't been officially confirmed... and if that movie doesn't go through, I don't think you'll see anyone else stepping up to the plate with a similar project for a long time.
 
What I meant was what Michael24 explained. Yes they are technically CG/live action blends, but I don't really think of them as being animated.
 
I think I understand what Gagbonke is trying to say, here. The way I see it, I could never get into the whole trend of turning hand drawn characters into CGI to look like they actually exist in a live action movie. I think cartoony looking characters like that should stay hand drawn, but that just me. :sad:

Now something like 'Transformers' could work as a live/CGI hybrid since the Autobots, and Decepticons can transform into vehicles that exist in our world. The only problem with these movies is that they leave alot to be desired in terms of story, and execution. (Isn't that right, Michael Bay?) :shame:
 
True true.



Agreed with the bottom half. And to add to that, other CGI/Live action hybrids also fall into that situation too.

But at least Transformers is watchable. I can't stand any of the other ones. (Marmaduke especially *Shudders*, I mean looking at the trailer turned me off from watching it.)

Also, why does Rhythm & Hues have to be in every one of these? (Again Transformers being an exception thanks to ILM, the Smurfs film is being handled by Sony and their effects division Sony Pictures Imageworks and Underdog had its effects by two British firms *Cinesite and Framestore*) I mean seriously, in every one of these hybrid films, R&H and the character designers either get creepier or worse when it comes to the effects (Marmaduke and Yogi Bear are just two examples of this).
 
Probably because when they aren't doing creepy semi-realistic cgi versions of very cartoony animals, their realistic cgi animals are really, really good.
 
You know, I've seen Marmaduke mentioned three times in this thread already, so I just gotta say this about it... even if this movie had been purely hand-drawn animation, it still would have stunk on ice.

Being a CGI/live-action hybrid was not what made this movie stink; the fact that it was done so badly certainly contributed to it's garbage quality, but there were several other problems that can't be overlooked, ranging from it's source material being based off of an archaic comic strip that hasn't been funny in over 20 years, to the fact that they have friggin George Lopez doing one of the primary voice over roles.

I don't care how beautiful the art and character design could have been if this movie was hand-drawn, and not CG; the inane cast choices that they made, alongside the mere idea that they thought a Marmaduke movie could even work to begin with, means that this movie would have bombed no matter how nice it looks.
 
I will confess the earlier Yogi pics bugged me, but this is the more recent one from Comingsoon.net after they've touched up the CG. If you ignore the eyes, he basically does look like a real bear.

yogibear2.jpg
 
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