Re: Re: Hacking actors

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Doyle wrote
> What it exploits is an appearance of a fear of job loss by
> actors to computer images, but is that what is going on?

Yes. It is already happening.

But "stars" are not those being affected right now.

Rather, those not being hired right now are certain types of "extras," in
particular those in groups in the deep background of a scene. It is true,
however, that some scenes with lots of extras wouldn't be made if not for the
ability to replace real extras with computer amimated people because of the
high cost of using real people. But, still, come real people have not been
hired in some movied because computer-generated people have been used instead.

As 3-D modelling of people gets better and better over the years I would bet
that more actors will be replaced by computer generated images.

Of course, for many decades film-makers have used various methods to use a few
real people to appear to be a large crowd. But the new powers of 3-D modelling
open up new avenues that have not existed before.

ERic