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The attitude beginning sometime in the [[The Eighties|1980s]] and continuing well into the [[The Nineties|1990s]] that computer animation is somehow "cheating" by being ''too good''. The usual complaint, originally lodged against some music videos but also applied to early CGI films like ''[[Tron]]'', was that the [[Computer Generated Images|computer graphics]] leave "nothing to the imagination", implying not only that were the viewers expected and ''required'' to fill in any lapses in production values, but that it was in fact a ''virtue'' that they do so. There's an old saying that radio and books can thus beat television because "the pictures are better".

The obvious corollary, that low-quality work that ''doesn't'' look good is somehow better than high-quality work, never seems to have occurred to anyone who made the complaint.  Well, except for some fans of classic ''[[Doctor Who]]'', who insist that wobbly sets and rubber monsters are "part of the show's charm" (which also generally extends to fans of [[Toku]], because most, but not all, of the effects are physical and done using make-up and costumes à la ''Doctor Who'').

However, compare [[Conspicuous CG]]. Also, consider that black and white is still a [[Deliberately Monochrome|relevant artistic choice]] despite the technological superiority of color. Even better is the fact that nearly all visual media are still portrayed in 2-D even through several methods of 3-D projection and viewing exist (though admittedly of varying quality and convenience).

See also [[Three Chords and the Truth]], which is the same idea applied to Rock Music.

[[I Thought It Meant|Not related to]] [[Stripperiffic|outfits that leave little to the imagination]]. Can be related to [[Nothing Is Scarier]] or [[I Liked It Better When It Sucked]], or may be a protest against [[Gorn]]. 

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== Real Life ==
* In 1982, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences [[Award Snub|explicitly disqualified]] ''[[TRON]]'' from receiving a special effects [[Academy Award|Oscar]], declaring the use of computers to be "cheating".

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