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by theage 1086 days ago
Look at Hollywood, they spawned photo-realistic CGI and figured out their captive audience will settle for much lesser quality anyway so why bother.
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Hollywood is a city. If you mean movies, every production is different and has its own budget. They don't have a captive audience, people have to choose to watch a movie for entertainment and then choose a specific movie.

I don't know what you mean by 'much lesser' quality but hundreds of millions in CG were put into just the biggest movies of the summer. Avatar 2 alone was an enormous feat. No one at any point in the process is capable of making something spectacular, then deciding to just make something that looks mediocre instead. The only place that happens is cartoons for kids.