use of CGI in animated and live action films

As technology has advanced, the options for filmakers and animators have opened up. This is demonstated by James Baxter in the ballroom scene in beauty and the beast where the romantic mood is enchanced by the use of perspective and the way the camera is moved around belle and the beast. This scene was created by drawing the characters over a computer generated background, This technique has been used in many animated films such as Sinbad and Treasure Planet. It allows a greater use of perspective and makes the animated world feel alot more realistic and immersive. CGI is heavily implemented in movies in the modern day, even seemingly live action movies have at least some CGI blended in with the real world, this allows the films to have a heavily realistic but a much more dynamic and exciting world. A film famous for CGI almost overtaking the live action content of the film is the film Avatar(2009) which used costumes that mapped the actors movements into a 3d computer generated program which then converted the actors movements into the computer generated characters. This certainly wasnt the first use of this technique as Happy Feet(2006) made use of this technology for all the tap dancing penguins.