Film and movies has progressed, visually, a lot in the past years. Although I kind of stopped watching movies the past decade, I can imaging these changes watching parts of intros from different movies. The making of these movies, has progressed and is progressing a lot as you read these lines.

I am categorizing roughly the types of films as follow:

1. 2d Animation – At first there was total 2d animation movies (pictures were drawn by hand — frame by frame).
   Examples like the Early Disney classics comes to mind.
2. Stop motion 3d movies – Made with live characters or animated puppets.
3. Live actors – Then the there live motion pictures were presented (live human or animal actors created a scene). Won’t exclude there the films made with added layers of drawn or moved puppets.
   Examples of such movies, are wide spread, and not hard to find (yet).
4. 3d animated movies – Then there was a period of 3d animated picture (3d movies, which were totally created in a virtual world, and animated frame by frame, or using an automatic procedure the software that they were made with enabled).
   Examples such as this can be found from the early Pixar movies.
5. Now a days – there are commonly pictures that are motion captured facial or full body movement by dressing actors with sensors enabling the 3d objects/characters on the scene to move. This process of course, made much of the work of 3d movies  (mentioned on point 3) redundant. Yet, this combination is hard to define, cause it isn’t exactly live actors nor 3d animated movies — it is the combination between these two that matters. So the question raised on this matter, is whether to consider the actors as actors (if they really had all sensors and dubbed the character).
   Examples of such movies can be taken from Peter Jackson‘s “Lord of the Rings” saga, or from “Avatar“, and many more who uses this technique.

I say no matter what technique you use to create a movie (or how do you define the actors or making), if the result is acceptable… Then so be it.

As I write these lines I raise the following questions:

1. Thing I thought, is if the back bone of the 3d movie is made good, it is very simple changing one image with another like changing an HTML page image.
2. What will be the future of these movies technique, is yet to be invented (or in stages toward a new invention).
3. Would there be an reinvention of the movies, or would it all be interactive computer advance game. In which both motion and plot is flexible for changes.