I was disappointed to discover recently that Geococcyx californianus was brown, not blue.

Nevertheless, I think it would be an interesting film-making (and software) challenge to produce sequences with falling anvils, fake tunnels, etc., which blended as seamlessly as possible, through CGI, with actual footage of a real Californian ground-cuckoo and a real coyote.
-- pertinax, Jan 18 2024

I understand that the "Sonic the Hedgehog" movies took some steps in this direction - but they didn't start with footage of hedgehogs.

If they had, they might have got much closer to the boundary between comedy and nightmare-fuel.
-- pertinax, Jan 18 2024


Roger Rabbit was a cartoon, not CGI derived from images of actual rabbits.
-- pertinax, Jan 18 2024


//hard artistic choices on where you want the mine to be//

After long and careful consideration, we usually decide to put the mine where the minerals are.
-- pertinax, Jan 18 2024


The more photo-realistic version of The Lion King was not better than the original cartoon version
-- hippo, Jan 18 2024


It probably lacked falling anvils.
-- pertinax, Jan 20 2024



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