I suspect that back in 1999, Walking With Dinosaurs was a big-ticket production that required expensive, state-of-the-art CGI, and these days you can get something one tenth as good for one hundredth the price, so it suddenly becomes possible to have CGI in places that it wouldn’t have previously been affordable.
Undoubtedly, far more money and work was lavished on WWD (and one or two of its sequels weren't so bad). But the stuff we're seeing now is a pale ghost to those original effects, and to the science offered up in those shows, for that matter.
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Date: 2012-01-16 08:18 pm (UTC)I suspect that back in 1999, Walking With Dinosaurs was a big-ticket production that required expensive, state-of-the-art CGI, and these days you can get something one tenth as good for one hundredth the price, so it suddenly becomes possible to have CGI in places that it wouldn’t have previously been affordable.
Undoubtedly, far more money and work was lavished on WWD (and one or two of its sequels weren't so bad). But the stuff we're seeing now is a pale ghost to those original effects, and to the science offered up in those shows, for that matter.