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Lost Episodes Re-Created using CGI Animation
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I was thinking... if shooting scripts for the lost episodes still existed somewhere in the BBC Archives - what's to stop the Beeb recreating the episodes from scratch - combining Live Action sets & Actors - along with CGI and voice-actors for the main-character actors who have passed away?
With the advances in technology currently available & entire movie characters being fleshed out convincingly in CGI (Dobby in Harry Potter / Gollum in LOTR) - what's to stop the BBC creating what to 99% of people would be completely new episodes.
Even something along the lines of that (way less life-like CGI) David Tennat thing set in the desert would be good, I think.
With the advances in technology currently available & entire movie characters being fleshed out convincingly in CGI (Dobby in Harry Potter / Gollum in LOTR) - what's to stop the BBC creating what to 99% of people would be completely new episodes.
Even something along the lines of that (way less life-like CGI) David Tennat thing set in the desert would be good, I think.
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However since it seems that animating two episodes per story is all that can be done on the current budget I doubt we will be seeing full missing stories done with CGI or any form of animation anytime soon.
100% of the money, that's what.
imagine how missing episodes could be recreated using the same technology used for making cut scenes in GTA.
I mean, I've seen some spectacularly detailed CGI created by fans. There must be a thousand fan-made opening title sequences on YouTube - many of which are far more impressive than the official credits.
This could be a labour of love for someone. By the fans - for the fans. Certainly, if I knew the first thing about CGI - I'd give it a crack!
It's possible to listen to all of the missing episodes easily on the internet. Some people have made decent reconstructions with video stills, fragmented footage and captions to describe various scenes. Far from perfect, and nowhere near as good as what could easily be achieved if money were spent on animating episodes, but it's better than nothing.
But not true CGI concept..
However, they got asked by various different BBC people to abandon the work in favour of other projects, which never happened, sadly.
Could we see missing episodes done using this technology?
http://www.openwonga.com/blog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFpnBAU2-84
They could have done a 45-60 minute episode for each Doctor - even getting the living ones back to voice their incarnations.
Of course CGI = cartoon = kids TV so there was no chance of this getting done for mainstream TV
There was an animated series (featuring all the Doctors) pitched to the BBC but they passed on it.