[id; a tweet by nathan bernhardt @jonberhardt: “why do marvel movies do so much stuff in CGI surely they could have just had wardrobe-” makeup and wardrobe is a union crew. the CGI animation sweatshop is not. it really is that simple. end id/]
This is probably why Cats was a CGI nightmare. Rather than higher a costume designer to re-imagine the leggings and fur hats for a modern audience. Which would have required hiring union work people to make the hundreds of costumes they’d have needed they just CGI ed some cat fur onto their actors.
Did the CGI team do their best and give it their all, probably. But they shouldn’t have been hired. They shouldn’t have been put in a position of making costumes and worlds and extras, and, and, and. They should have been hired for what CGI is best at, special effects when physical special effects aren’t possible and the rest should’ve been left to physical craftspeople.
There’s nothing wrong with CGI when used sparingly and married with physical effects and costumes to enhance the realness of the world but when you plop some actors in morph suits on a green screen set and just replace everything with CGI your movie sucks.
Compare the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and you’ll understand what I mean.
CGI people deserve a union, deserve respect, and deserve not to be treated as an isnta movie factory. They deserve to be allowed to hone their craft and dedicate time and energy to creating the kind of world-building effects we all know and love.
I think all of my friends have had to listen to me rant about Thessian academia, so here goes.
We know the asari have a tradition of philosophy. We know they have academic institutions and PhDs. So what does this mean? That somewhere in asari space are one thousand year old professors who have had tenure for like eight hundred of those years.
I can think of little else more horrifying.
Just imagine how many mentees a professor could have over the course of 500 years, and how many still feel their career opportunities are being held hostage by them. Nobody should have that power. These are the true matriarchs with their disciples– women who are afraid to say one word out of order lest their entire body of academic work be stricken from the record.
Thessian academic conferences are bloodbaths. Five hundred year old feuds are hashed out again and again. Posters get biotically tossed across rooms. The number of banned topics at each conference is… extensive. Commandos are always on call. Mentees are brought like lambs to the slaughter and most get the fuck out of there to do something safer like work for a merc band or try to overthrow Aria.
This brings us to Dr. T'soni. Didn’t bat an eye at going ALONE to work a dig site inside an active volcano. WAY safer then staying in asari space and going to a seminar on the ethics of uplifting species. Plus she’s dead inside. Her own mother suggested that Dr. V'laros’s theory regarding prothean politics had some validity and Liara hasn’t spoken to her in years. She has been publicly torn down in every way you can imagine, every hypothesis dismissed, every sentence torched, and she’s still standing.
Then a spaceship with an alien spectre shows up and offers her a job, and sure, it involves murdering her own mother, but fucking anything is better than this goddess-forsaken postdoc.
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