Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 12:46:25 +1000
From: jdalhsim-AT-netspace.net.au (Janet Dalgliesh)
Subject: Re: 101 Dalmations


>There was something on television about _101 Dalmations_ special effects,
>and while it mentioned computer-generated images (and an interview with a
>guy from Pixar) there was no mention of puppet animation.
>
>John Bell
>



This often happens - movies use an old technology (puppets) and a new (3D),
and the old technology gets ignored.  Remember all the hoopla about
Jurassic Park and those amazing 3D computer dinosaurs?  There's only about
7 minutes of 3D footage, the rest is puppets; but from the docos made at
the time, you'd think puppets had been dropped as being too old-fashioned

Similarly with Babe, in the early days of promotion of the movie here in
Australia, you wouldn't know puppets were involved, it was all
computer-this and 3D-that.

I'm not at all surprised to hear a similar snowjob being done on the
general public.  But just read those end credits, and watch the movie
carefully - you'll be able to pick the puppet moments.

Cheers, Janet

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