Ewoks vs. Gungans

[Dark Jaguar]

While those ARE very ugly costumes in the original series (yeesh, puppets? frickin' PUPPETS and they think they have awesome efffects in the original?), it doesn't hide the fact that those guys look like CG. They are just too "smooth" and the wrinkles and such just seem so, something, like they are made of more exact "math" than the rest of reality. They just seem fake, for the same reason that Spirits Within still was quite apparently CG, even though as you can see that old man seems to get down all the details you would think are needed. One thing I know right off the bat that seperates all CG models from reality is transparency. Yoda, most "human" models, and even those Spirits Within models don't quite simulate how stuff "under the skin" is somewhat visible enough to give a sort of life glow to real creatures. Blood and stuff show through, kinda hard to explain, but it's like when you hold a light source under your finger and can see an extremely vividly bright finger with the light going through. It's these sorts of things that give it all away. Metals are different, it's much easier to make those look real, but something about them... Well, fabric is the first thing I notice when I'm looking at stuff that's artificial even in the real world. They tend to bend at such exact and precise lines in CG, and that's just unnatural. Maybe the main thing is just how angular that suit is and how utterly perfectly flat the various flat parts are. It's just not natural, as opposed to those far worse looking suits, which managed to look "real" (even though they were far too clean to have ever been in a fight :D) because they weren't so perfectly geometric and smooth. Just look at that one guy's shoulder pad, I mean sheesh, you can't get something that perfectly oval in reality.

I would prefer it if you didn't assume I meant whatever you would most hate to hear. You have a knack for that. I only said I think Spirits Within is the best CG I've seen, not that it's photorealistic. Oh, and please get over this obsession with convincing everyone that no one in the whole universe can make stuff look as good as Steven Speilburg okay?

Maybe I lashed out or something, but can't you just leave this to opinion? Truce? *holds out hand*