Re: skip commercials, was Re: Music - is fair use dead?

[Marvin Long, Jr.]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Ronn Blankenship wrote:

> >True, they can't produce them for free now. But some day, I hope...when
> >making a video clip becomes as easy as making a web page is today.  When
> >you don't need actors and instead use realistic people rendered entirely
> >by computer.
> 
> 
> Which brings up a question to bat around:  What will happen to those people 
> who find fulfillment in performing and would today become actors, if all 
> the characters are computer-generated?

It also raises the question of, how good an actor is your average web page
designer?  If your actors are cartoony caricatures of people, then you can
get away with a limited pallet of expressions and emotions and have your
"short" look good.  But if your e-actors are utterly humanlike, then
unless you also know how to make them *act* well, you will have extremely
lifelike images of extremely bad actors delivering dead lines.

Well...not that we don't have that already.


Marvin Long
Austin, Texas

Don't be frightened.  Adrenaline will just make your blood taste funny.