[TStoneMBD]

i have thought about this, and have wondered if the movie industry will ever come to a point in which it no longer uses actors to make movies but only graphics instead. a problem with this idea is that many people enjoy watching movies about actors they admire or have crushes on, and people wont feel the same way about things if they are watching a digitally created fake person. as a result, i think it is more likely that technology takes movie companies to a place where they take famous actors, copy every detail about them, and use their likeness in movies rather than the actors themselves. as a result, the movie industry will be able to generate even larger profits from their productions. however, there is nothing stopping other industries from producing movies with actual actors instead of their likeness, generating less profits, but potentially making higher box office hits than the industries using digital imagry only. if the likeness of actors can be duplicated easily and have it applicable to every movie situation, movies in general are likely to be of greater quality than movies with actual actors. having actual people in a scene makes shooting that scene more difficult, and there is less room for thinking outside of the box. it really all depends on what audiences find acceptable in movies and whether they prefer seeing actual actors, their likeness, and whether that even matters at all to them.