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Originally Posted by LifeDistortion
Not sure if this is true.
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Me either. And I'm probably wrong.
Not sure how many times they had to do the chest-bursting scene in ALIEN, but if they messed up once, they had to wash everything down and reset. Costly.
But there's also the issue of saving a few bucks now and having shitty effects in a film forever. That doesn't get factored in?
And the magic is gone with CG. I love those "How did they do that?" moments. Now, I just shrug and say "Computers." Yawn.
Those puppets in Gremlins were great! If they did a re-boot, they'd CG the monsters and it would suck and everyone knows it, but they'd do it anyway. Idiots.
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Originally Posted by LifeDistortion
The reason why someone would make a CGI xenomorph over a man in a suit or puppet is so the xenomorph can do movements that would be impossible it were just a man in costume or a puppet.
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You're right, and I can think of a few things that would probably be impossible without CG. (Maybe. Although didn't Moses part the red sea back in the 50s?) I think limitations force creativity. Limits aren't always bad.