would like to drop a line ..
i think there shouldn't be any "HK" type of CG at the first place since if we stick with only "kung fu", then we restricted ourselves also. maybe it is easier for western or foreigner to pay more attenion since HK's "kung fu" is aleady famous .. but this is not the CG subject.
and i believe there are a lot of rooms to develop CG and let's see the US or the Hollywood, they started something so realistic from 'Jussica Park' to something very cartoon "finding Nemo", and goes to the very human-motion expression "Polo Express" and the super comic style "Incredible" ...
last week, i want to see the making of "Ping Pong" and "Appleseed", also find the Japanese CG is going very different direction ... CG is closly related with film and movie making. Like "Ping Pong", sounds a very ordinary simple japanese style of hard-working spirit film, but the CG is just up to the right standard to fit the movie, not too much and not too little ..
but in HK, i do think the "Solin Soccer" is a bit too much showing off the CG instead of the movie itself, fortunately, the foriegner still love it so much ... let's see how the "kung-fu" do and if it still work, maybe this do inspire us what we could try out, but if the audience get tired with this style of "extracted" CG kung-fu, then we do need to ajust it ..
in conclusion, i would like to raise a point as CG in movie has to work very close with the movie itself, so then the film Director has to respect CG and let CG experts to decide the CG matters, but seems most boss in HK doesn't understand CG but keep saying they know it, ... my personally experience is most of the job were damaged by those boss in cutting the budget and time ... CG needs a lot of time to produce, and we need a lot of animators to work on very little things .. the situation is not that we could produce a good CG film in only 3 months time ....
well, thereby, i do think HK should firstly arise the status of CG and CG animators, or good animators would leave HK, like Andrew Lee .. and Raman Hui ... so as many others.
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need to work la, my boss would get upsad if he sees me ... heee heee ... Shhhhhhh ..