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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
There is absolutely no comparison between operating an electric guitar (or any other musical instrument operated with one's body) to achieve an emotional reaction from people from a performance, and jerking off into a computer. Because in comparison of the time, talent, intellect, and goddamn courage required to operate a musical instrument well enough to achieve an emotional reaction from people from a performance, anything in a computer is jerking off.
(We're talking about movies/art/artistic integrity here. Please don't bombard the thread with all the obvious exceptions. Medicine, NASA, engineering, blah blah blah...._
The most important thing is you have creative aspirations, and felt inspired. I like and respect anyone that defends the merits of what inspires them. Artistic integrity is important, and so is arguing about it. Lol.
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I don't disagree with this in terms of music and performance. In terms of a tool for filmmaking I do. Filmmaking is not a performance, it is a mosaic of 100's of art forms. There are performances involved with it and a big part is capturing a live, human performance that we can connect with. But whether it has to be edited, animated, scored, written, etc... it ALL goes through a computer since way before 2008, or 1999. Even if this are done in traditional methods. Is a script better if it's done on a typewriter or a computer? The writer may have written it on paper with a pen first regardless, and animator will almost certainly start with hand drawn on paper before, regardless of whether they plan to animate on paper or computer, and even if done on paper they will scan it into the computer to edit it. You don't think Hans Zimmer uses a computer to record and mix his arrangements? Movies shot on film are also edited in computers. And yes that can mean that some people are just doing things for the sake of doing, but the masters will use those tools to help themselves work faster and better too. Just because someone is sitting to do their art form doesn't mean they're just whacking it or whatever. I feel like you're pretty dismissive of the talent and dedication necessary to get great at those things. Did you just pick up a guitar, go on stage within a few minutes and were a wild man rockstar? Or did it take hours and hours of sitting in your room "whacking it" to endless E A and D progressions? Paul Kossof of Free literally slashed the front of his amp open to get the distortion sound he wanted for All Right Now. Now you can get that sound on a foot pedal. Do you use foot pedals with your electric guitar?
Filmmaking is still a VERY young art form and things are going to get even wilder with VR and new cameras that capture light points and AI. It will no doubt lead to new levels of suck, but it will also lead to new levels of entertainment and artistry in the hands of people who are actual artists.