>> ^grinter:
could be good to bring on a date.

Do you mean, like, just you and it?

>> ^Hastur:

That thing lives way up on the uncanny mountain.

So it's cuter than any human baby could be?

*talks>> ^dag:

Wow. Totally forgot about Furbies. Someone should hack a furby and place an iPhone 4s inside of it - so we can have an animatronic Siri.


You need to make a talking Siftbot.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Wow. Totally forgot about Furbies. Someone should hack a furby and place an iPhone 4s inside of it - so we can have an animatronic Siri.

I laughed at the 'wretched hive of scum and villainy'.

Yeah you can just use CGI these days, but the good films still use creature effect.

Wink in Hellboy 2 is an absolutely stunning piece of animatronics. I just assumed he was cgi when I first saw the film, but he's a sensational animatronic suit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZgfBidB04

Well this explains everything. Also, his wife looks like animatronics gone bad.

Sorry, but these do nothing for me. They haven't really advanced a thing over animatronics already seen in movies.

Do they show them talking? (The hardest thing to make look natural) No, because I bet they look horrible doing it.

Do they show them doing any fine motor skill stuff that'd actually be impressive? No.

Do they show them doing any natural emotional response to anything? Nope.

All we have is some pretty ok ish animatronics, that's it.

Hells yes. Bet you don't even remember that Jabba the Hutt was briefly seen in The Phantom Menace.

Watching the animatronic Jabba in ROTJ you can "feel" his weight just by watching him.

But, the march of progress...Avatar sucked, but that CG was a triumph.

>> ^Sagemind:

I'm so completely tired of CG characters. I believe that's partialy what killed the Star Wars Experience in the new films.
When I was a kid, the magic came from the behind the scenes making of sets, ships and creatures. The CGI aliens just don't have that tangent real feeling. Sure they make a great stand in and I understand certain things just can't be done in reality but use the real Creature Creation wherever possible.
Use the green screen for sets and for group or far shots but at close up, Use Real.
Imagine if all the Orcs in LOTR were CGI. Sure they used CGI but they had a hell of a lot of actual guys in makeup and costume to sell it as well. I know, Gollum was CGI, wouldn't have been my choice but they did put a lot of effort into him.
I believe with today's technology for Real effects, Creature Creation (and added CGI where needed), they could make far more convincing characters where we would identify with them emotionally as well as visually.

Hulk Smash! (someone had to say it...)

With such nimble fingers I bet animatronic Hulk could also strum a pretty good tune on the guitar too

Not a fail at all. That's some seriously awesome animatronic work right there.

Animatronics would indeed be better for some shots, but it's so limiting that you'd have to use CGI for many others. That being the case, it's probably better to just use all CGI for the sake of consistency.

Animatronics? Great Moments with Jennifer Lopez anyone?

She looks animatronic, that one!

for those that needs context for this video:

On 11 December 2008, Matt Harding sarcastically revealed at the Entertainment Gathering that the videos were a hoax and that he is an actor, not a game designer, and the videos were made using animatronic puppets and extensive video editing. A month later, during the MacWorld convention, Matt revealed the "hoax about the hoax" and joked about the fact many people took it seriously and the outrage it caused. He also made it very clear that the videos he made were indeed 100% real.

Saw this on Liveleak, some of the descriptions there cracked me up like:
Joe Piscopo from an old SNL sketch
Chucky's dad
Smiling Bob, the Enzyte guy
Pat Boone-ski
undead
Disney-animatronic
one of the Thunderbird puppets.
Mr. Bean
funky cymbal banging monkey hairdo
"I'm not only the Soviet Hair Club for Men commissar, I'm also a client."
After the single LaLaloW failed in the charts he went back to designing ventriloquist dummies based on his own likeness
and my favorite, He obviously forgot the lyrics but I have to give him props for faking it all the way through........