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> for months at a time. Granted, he was talking movies (as opposed to TV)
> but I was just wondering what your take on this is.
>

It is cheaper, definitely, and can be more utilitarian...you can do
things with CGI that are very difficult and time-consuming with models.
 There's also the surrounding tech that you have to use for models,
such as motion control equipment and stuff that doesn't come into play
so much when using CGI.  On a cost-per-shot basis you can get a lot
more bang for your buck with CGI than models.

Which is not to say, however, that CGI is always the way to go.  All
too often, because something *can* be done with CGI it *is* done, and
that isn't always the best solution.  For instance, on the remake of
"The Haunting of Hill House," they went nuts with the CGI, doing all
this spiffy looking stuff because they COULD.  But because they were
intent on showing off the tech, the point of the movie...to scare the
bejeezus out of you by making things mysterious and
other-worldly...went right out the window.

And there are times that the eye can't be fooled by CGI and requires
something solid.  The Lord of the Rings movies used the perfect
combination of large-miniatures (if that makes any sense) and CGI for
its cities, with the result that they just look and feel more real.

While I'm on the topic of cgi, by the by...a friend working in Maya
called the otehr day asking if I knew anyone who was a technomage level
expert in Maya (or close, anyway).  If there's anyone who really knows
that program inside and out, drop me an email so I can forward on the
information.

jms



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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:12:02 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [B5JMS] Attn JMS - scripts for visually impaired? (was Re: an
update from jms)
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated



Thunder, Agent '005 wrote:
> Citizen Vantu wrote:
>
> > If you have enough employees with good speaking voices you could produce
the scripts in audio
> > therefore spoken form.
>
> I think this qualifies as a performance and can't be done since Warner
> owns the rights to performances of the script, while Joe owns the actual
> script (at least, that was my understanding. Perhaps somebody like Amy
> would know for sure?)
>

Correct.  There is a qualitative, and *legal* distinction between
reading a prose novel, to which the author and/or publisher has the
performance rights, to essentially performing a script, even if that
performance is by one reader, to which neither the publisher nor the
author holds the performance rights.  I know without question that WB
would take the position that a reading of the scripts would constitute
a performance infringing on their own rights, and sue.  The scripts can
be published under established WGA rules, but that's all.

jms



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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:41:06 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: ATTNN: JMS Marvel Editorial Confrence
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated



iplatizky@yahoo.com wrote:
> Jms
>
> I heard you were at a marvel editorial confrence this past week how did
> it go? Anything exciting happen?

Yes, and many exciting things happened. But then the police were
called, four chalk body outlines appeared on the floor of a local pub,
restraining orders were filed, denials made, alibis concocted,
attorneys hired, cats soothed, and goats offered to Ba'al, a process
which began when Mark Millar told an extremely inebriated fan to walk
(well, stagger) up to me and ask, "So...um..what do you think of
bacon?" in order to determine whether or not I was Jewish.  (To which
the answer is in the negative.)

Thereupon much hilarity and fisticuffs ensued.

And that is all I plan to say of the situation.  The rest is best told
in confidence to a grand jury.

But while I'm here...and to change subjects...some folks have asked
when my new short story will be appearing in Dark Dimensions.  The
magazine's website now has info available at:

http://www.darkwisdom.com/darkwisdom.htm

Als, to those who have inquired about the B5 scripts website
(babylon5scripts.com), which will be going live in October, the reason
that folks can log in their email addresses is so that they can be
notified not just when the site goes on line, but when each new volume
is introduced.  Since the plan is to knock ten bucks off each book for
the first week or so it's made available, this will help make sure that
nobody misses that window.

End of commercial.

I have to go now and bail Mark Millar out of jail.

Well...eventually....

jms



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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:11:49 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Babylon5 LooneyVerse
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated



Citizen Vantu wrote:
>
> You could suggest them making LoonyTunes parody series of Babylon5; where all
the characters are
> replaced by LooneyTunes...
>
>

It would be redundant.

jms



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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 03:24:00 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: JMS/B5 cited by Javi in Lost/Fury dust up
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated



Mark wrote:
> http://www.livejournal.com/users/chaodai/32807.html
>
> "consider "babylon 5," probably the most arc-dependent sci-fi show ever
> made. i simply cant believe that j. michael straczynski always intended
> for the departure (be it voluntary or involuntary) of his series lead,
> michael ohare - at the end of the first season - to be part of his long-
> standing arc.
>
> "the loss of a lead actor is a cataclysmic event in any series. in the case
> of b5, it required a major reorganization of the story which resulted in a
> big new element of mythology. even the most regimented series in the genre
> - a self-proclaimed "novel for television" - had to adjust and change in
> the face of unforeseen contingency."
>
> Not to mention the whole Season 5/Claudia Christian/trashed notes incident
> - Mark

It's a straw man argument in that I've never said that was my plan from
the very git-go of the show.  I've always said it's something that came
up toward the end of the first season.

jms




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