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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Well this was expected but sort of dissapointing. I haven't been following the whole schpiel so I didn't know how things were going with it until now. 
What bugs me is this (and watch me [i]not[/i] bash CGI) 
I am just sort of tired of seeing so many CGI films, that it just eventually becomes unexpressive because of the sheer volume CGI films are produced in. It's for that reason that I liked Fantastic Mr. Fox so much, because it chose to take a risk. These folks pretended to be taking that risk and then kind of threw it down the drain to appeal to the masses. Urg.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[topit]]></name>
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			<updated>2012-03-15T21:53:32Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Well, actually I don't see anything wrong the CGI. It doesn't matter how it's done, what I really care about it's that it is a good movie. I mean, does it really bother you? What's really important it's the final product.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[MPfist0]]></name>
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			<updated>2012-03-14T15:08:16Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Well, I guess the stop-motion animators feel that both options are ok. It's just, an original brickfilm is made out of pictures of actual LEGO and not CG. However, if they can convey the fact that the subject is LEGO with CG, then good for them. 

NOTE: I am not against CG. Just cowboys.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Eddie]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[edw.boomer@gmail.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/1835/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-03-14T10:54:50Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/266368/#p266368"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Stop-motion animators bashing CGI animators in a stop-motion forum while CGI animators bashing stop-motion animators in a CGI forum.

We're in the wrong forum :P.

But note, I have the utmost respect for the skilled stop-motion animators.  You have more patience than I do.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Lechnology]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/80/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-03-14T08:11:09Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=filmyguy]I don't understand. CGI costs WAAY MORE than stop-motion! It may take a little longer, but it's not like you'd be doing animation on their expressions! THEY HAVE ONLY ONE. 
I can see how they would go with this choice since eeverything is CGI now, but this is still such a bullcrap route. 
CGI doesn't get better with repetition. Nothing does.[/quote]

In this case, I definitely think going CGI is justified. LEGO Mini-figures are not the most expressive characters, as you pointed out yourself. CGI or stop-motion, they'd need something a lot more flexible, and plasticine doesn't look very LEGO-y. And as much as I believe they'd love to make their film 100% stop-motion LEGO, I doubt there are many people besides us brickfilmers (and maybe even including some of us) who would shell out $10 for it.

And I'm sick of people bashing on CGI. Sick, sick, [i]sick[/i] of it. Sure, I love hand-drawn and stop-motion as much as anyone else, perhaps even moreso, but I also — [i]equally[/i] — love CGI. No form is superior to the other; each has pros and cons, places where it does work and where it doesn't work. What you should be hating on is all the terrible stories that are told using CGI; [i]The Smurfs, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Hop, Mars Needs Moms[/i], etc.

And why is it the only argument people have against CGI (at least that I've seen) is that "everything is now CGI?" If that were a reasonable argument, I could argue that live-action is dumb because so many films are live-action, or that hand-drawn animation is dumb because most animated films up until 1995 were hand-drawn.

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				<name><![CDATA[Littlebrick]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[graemecallen@yahoo.com]]></email>
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			<updated>2012-03-14T07:11:07Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I don't understand. CGI costs WAAY MORE than stop-motion! It may take a little longer, but it's not like you'd be doing animation on their expressions! THEY HAVE ONLY ONE. 
I can see how they would go with this choice since eeverything is CGI now, but this is still such a bullcrap route. 
CGI doesn't get better with repetition. Nothing does.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[filmyguy]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/11/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-03-14T06:17:21Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[It would be really cool to see it if it was real LEGO. That would be something worth seeing in the theatres]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Chiro]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[chirostudios@gmail.com]]></email>
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			<updated>2012-03-14T05:17:26Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I wasn't sure until now that it was cg because of their phrasing - using the words brickfilms and stuff.

But I think it'll be SUPER easy to do with cg because there aren't any complicated surfaces or textures or curves really. It's all uniform squares and stuff so that might make the cg really easy.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[mobiledeli]]></name>
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			<updated>2012-03-14T05:08:41Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/266352/#p266352"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[url=http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/topic/12401/warner-bros-greenlights-cgi-liveaction-lego-movie/]This is kinda old news[/url]. While CGI might not be easier than stop-motion, it seems like it would probably be easier to create with the large production teams that work on such movies.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Jargon]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/601/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-03-14T04:51:29Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[That's too bad. I would have loved to see an actual brickfilm make it into the theaters, but perhaps not. Also, how do you think they will show that it's LEGO, when it's CG? I mean, the whole purpose of LEGO is how it's a plastic, versatile toy. Without the realism, it's not LEGO. I don't know how they're going to pull it off.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Eddie]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[edw.boomer@gmail.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/1835/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-03-14T01:06:53Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Yes they are both very hard to do if you want to produce something really good. IMO CGI is harder, I'm very aware of many stop-motion techniques but CGI stuff to me seems very confusing :lol:  that's why I think CGI is harder.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Leo's World]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[larrysimmonsfilms@gmail.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/328/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-03-14T00:50:10Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Littlebrick]P.S. CGI is NOT easier than stop-motion.[/quote]Especially if one is trying to replicate a real world environment (lighting, texture, etc.)]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Lechnology]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/80/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-03-14T00:41:14Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I would have LOVED to see a brickfilm in the theaters, but as Littlebrick said, CG with a stop-motion feel is not to bad of a compromise.. I will probably be able to see this in theaters. :)]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[PlainBrickProductions]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/4560/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-03-14T00:29:03Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Frankly, I think having it CG but with a stop-motion feel is a great compromise. I doubt they would have been able to sell a stop-motion with actual LEGO, especially with how limited LEGO mini-figures are.

Also, if it's coming out in Summer 2014, I might be able to see it in theaters. W00t.

P.S. CGI is NOT easier than stop-motion.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Littlebrick]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[graemecallen@yahoo.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/8/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-03-14T00:08:09Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: LEGO Movie is CG]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I think we already had this kind of discussion in another thread some months ago.
With CGI you can do things otherwise impossible or really difficult to make with actual stop motion. Say, you want your leg to bend. Can you do that with a normal minifigure? Not that I know.
Untill it's just a short, you might not need it, but in a long feature movie you might want to have a bit more of freedom with the animation and expressions.
After all, a stop motion project would be nice, maybe look better than CGI. But you have to consider these things.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[MPfist0]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/452/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-03-13T20:03:16Z</updated>
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