Cynthia Chris
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No, I, no.
Generally, I would say not.
I think if you're gonna have a dog, it needs to be, and it's gonna be digital, it's gonna be done.
It needs to be done very, very well.
And this is something that I really liked about the new Superman.
I liked the dog in Superman.
I'm not sure everybody did, but I liked the dog in Superman.
It was, again, a dog that was scanned from the director's real-life dog.
And then, you know, made to do all these crazy things just like the actor.
Thank you, David.
Thank you, David.
Happy to be here.
Yeah, you know, animals have been part of cinema since cinema's history, since cinema's prehistory.
If you think about something like the photographer Edward Muybridge's images of horses, dogs, any animal that you can think of in motion to try to figure out, you know, what is their gait?
You know, there's a whole story about Muybridge and why he started that series.
But animals in motion, live animals on screen has been there since the beginning.
Well, compared to a decade that you're talking about, like the early 1990s or let's say the 1950s, whatever, there's so much more media being produced right now that I would hesitate to quantify.
But there is a big displacement of live animal actors with computer-generated ones, with ones that are created by super talented, amazing visual effects artists.
And
This has been true.