I really liked the video because that's the way I would like to work. If I ever find a job as compelling as what the video shows, I'm sold.
I find amazing how they used all the concepts of photography to create this virtual world and bring it to life. I find it amazing how they used all of the concepts to recreate a world inside the camera and inside the computer.
Do photographers should feel threatened by cgi?
I don't think so. There's something called "the uncanny valley", this theory represents why we as humans reject computer animated humanoid figures or robots that are too similar to human facial features and this is due the fact that our brain cannot comprehend them as "artificial", thus our brain only identifies as "humans", but humans who are not acting correctly, thus "sick humans" is the cognitive response to it. The first and most important cognitive stimuli is the survival instinct that ls imprinted on all of us humans, because of this instinct, we "avoid" (or sometimes fight) things that are going to harm us or make us sick. This is the main reason why we reject these images.
In photography there's something that even digitally enhanced pictures cannot cheat and it's a honesty beyond words. This need of honesty and capturing that nature is what originally drove photographers and keep them pushing the boundaries artiscally and technically and that's why I think photography will not be replaced by computer generated imagery. It may on the other hand, enhanced just like in the video shown.
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