January 11, 2002
I just saw a commercial for Final Fantasy X. As always, they show a lot of the cut-scenes from the game -- the mini-movies they show between stages. Over the years these have gone from a series of 256-color stills to full-color high-resolution movies. About a year and a half ago, a friend of mine commented that he was waiting for someone to make a movie just from the cut-scenes.
Then they made Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. It still had a very computer-animated look to it, but I think that by the end of 2005 the movies will be so photo-realistic it'll be difficult for the average movie-goer to tell.
