I love practical effects, but sometimes I see a making-of feature about a film from the 80s that's like "this rig had to be operated by a puppeteer with congenital dwarfism standing on their head, and if they wore it for more than 25 minutes they would die", and I think hey, maybe CGI has its place.
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They TRIED to recreate Tonya Harding's iconic triple axel in I, Tonya. Brought in professional figure skaters to double for Margot Robbie. NONE of them could do it. They had to use CGI.
These seemingly separate things can work in concert to be something greater than the sum of their parts
Practical and computer as one
Deeper immersion, but grounded in reality