They should bring back claymation. Although they'd probably just scan the clay model and animate it with computers. I hate people...lousy bastards.

wallace and gromit kick ass

mtv used to do that show, celebrity death match, out of clay, but they didnt do a very good job at all

dont know much about movie making but they are on a budget, if they cant find the money to build one and its cheaper to cg it why not? theyr allready paying the actors something like 30 mill a head, incase you didnt know thats alot of money to just pull out of your ass and hand to some jerkoff lucky enough to be in the movie.

well not only building it but everything that goes with props is a pain in the ass

storing, moving it around all the time, maintenance, disposal after ward sucks too. plenty of times they have a sequel, and storage is expensive.

i have no prob w/ CGI. i rather see that then puppets that look crappy. but they do over do it it atimes w/ the CGI like in the matrix reloaded.

with lotr, the two towers they buildt an entire village ontop of a mountain for a set, but they had a limmitless suply of cash (allmost at least)
and thats not avalible to everyone in the movie making bussines.

C=computer G=generated I=images

I wouldn't say limitless. They had 94 million for that particular movie.

thats what i call limmitless

Meh, call it what you like. I never was good with money.
Old news I'm sure, but FotR made back the money they spent on the entire trilogy. That's pretty awesome.