NOTE FROM ERIC:

With the life-like animation of “Final Fantasy”
and the amazing box-office returns of “Shrek,”
some fear that computer-generated actors will
put their human counterparts out of work…
We don’t think so.

The Top 9 Reasons Real Actors
Are Better Than Computer Animation

9> When you lose a human actor in a crash, you at least get some publicity out of it.

8> Real actors can ad-lib scenes and modify the script on-the-fly. Well, unless they’re Keanu Reeves.

7> Human actress catches a virus? Production delayed by a week or two. CGI actor gets a virus? She’s missing a leg and talking like the Incredible Hulk.

6> Humans: Casting couch Computers: Beta testing You decide.

5> CGI actors don’t have souls. Human actors, on the other hand… oh, wait.

4> Having Marlon Brando in your movie? $15 million for 30 days work. Rendering Marlon Brando’s butt into a computer? Six years, $70 million in staff and equipment, and frankly, the technology isn’t even available yet.

3> Hit control-C a couple times, and all of a sudden LA would be lousy with virtual Olsen twins.

2> Fans just seem to enjoy seeing their species achieve.

and the Number 1 Reason Real Actors are Better Than Computer
Animation…

1> With human actors, the “I LOVE YOU” virus doesn’t cause crashes, merely divorces.

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Credits:

Selected from 53 submissions from 13 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

Zachary Brewster-Geisz, Greenbelt, MD — 1
Martin Bredeck, Hybla Valley, VA — 2, 6
Aimee Spanier, Oakland, CA — 3
Jude Benlab, Swarthmore, PA — 3, 4
Ken Woo, Encinitas, CA — 4
Dawson Rambo, Santa Rosa, CA — 5
Douglas Jones, Santa Cruz, CA — 6
Jeff Scherer, Brooklyn, NY — 6, 9
Eric M. Wakeford, Niagara Falls, ON — 7, Topic
Clifton J. Gray, Tucson, AZ — 8
Ian Ravdin, Chicago IL — RU list name
Eric F. Lipton, Washington, DC — Banner Tag, Script Doctor