Since I want to go into film as an artist for a career. In my own opinion I love the old fashioned method but on the other hand CGI does help convey certain effects in film that puppeteering can't do. CGI is good if done correctly like LOTR and creating digital matt paintings for the blue screen element. Puppets are awesome when building minitures and certain creature designs. Inwhich after words the artist would add a little bit of CGI to polish the the puppets and the minitures up to make it look convinceing. And what I mean convinceing is a film that uses both methods. Only through useing puppets and CGI you could pull stuff off better than useing just 1 method.
So my answer is that I am going to go with both methods just because thats what seems to work in great films. And that is useing both methods.
But when it comes to doing specific type of movies like Sci Fi horror. sticking to methods of only puppets and minitures is the best road. Alien was successful because of its relation to how the Texas Chainsaw Massicur was filmed. Alien was based off of that styal of film makeing. Which is peer film makeing Where the scare factor was real and convinceing. A real horror movie is effective when you don't see the monster and you see only hints and small pieces of it. That makes the audience don't know whats after the characters in the dark. I think its more artistic to not show the monster as oppose to showing a full scale monster after someone. But what it comes down to is that it all depends on the kind of movie your makeing. Sometimes showing the monster is apropiete for the movie because of the nature of the film. But in some cases its better not to show it and only show hints and pieces of it. In reality the two methods are balanced out.
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