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You're not wrong. As an example, watch "Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" on netflix. More to the point, watch the "making of" documentary afterwards. A few years ago before the show had been greenlit, the Henson Co. put together test footage showing a Skeksis chasing a Gelfling. The Skeksis was animatronic/puppetry just like the original, but the Gelfling was done by the very best CGI. It... just didn't friggen' work. Had they gone ahead with a CGI Dark Crystal, it would have been horrible.When CGI is its own thingit can work just fine. But as a replacement for a distinctive style, it just doesn't work. On occasion CGI has been used to replace actual humans (Tarkin, etc.) and within limits it can work because they try Real Hard to make the CG version look *exactly* like the original. But replacing puppets or some other distinctive style with some completely other distinctive style rarely works.
You're not wrong. As an example, watch "Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" on netflix. More to the point, watch the "making of" documentary afterwards. A few years ago before the show had been greenlit, the Henson Co. put together test footage showing a Skeksis chasing a Gelfling. The Skeksis was animatronic/puppetry just like the original, but the Gelfling was done by the very best CGI. It... just didn't friggen' work. Had they gone ahead with a CGI Dark Crystal, it would have been horrible.
When CGI is its own thingit can work just fine. But as a replacement for a distinctive style, it just doesn't work. On occasion CGI has been used to replace actual humans (Tarkin, etc.) and within limits it can work because they try Real Hard to make the CG version look *exactly* like the original. But replacing puppets or some other distinctive style with some completely other distinctive style rarely works.
