CGI Bilbo?

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Sauron the White

CGI Bilbo with Holm as the voice? I do not like that idea either. Actors and actresses give films a reality that CGI can never touch. Its great for fantasy characters like a Gollum or Fell Beast or Cave Trolls. Those characters were wonderful especially Gollum with Serkis behind him. However, I would go for the actual flesh and blood every time possible since they can convery emotion and a sense of actual human reality that CGI still falls short with.

True. I am myself an animator, and it's well known in the trade that it's very hard to do a realistic human for any length of time. There are just too many subtle things that will cue the audience that what they're watching isn't real – they do after all, see other people every day.

And we're talking about the main character here!