“When you have a good actor, in a good makeup, and he's been sitting in the makeup chair looking at himself in the mirror, seeing himself become something else, and then he walks onto a set and he knows where he is, he knows what he looks like, he gives a performance that he's never going to give on a motion-capture stage.”

— Rick Baker

Legendary Special-Effects Artist Rick Baker on How CGI Killed His Industry https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jma87d/legendary-rick-bakers-retirement-auction-marks-the-end-of-the-non-cgi-era-888 (June 8, 2015)

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