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2. <<must-see feature films>> – I just watched "Fantasia" for the millionth time – I haven't yet seen a computer graphic animation that tops that old pre-CG favorite for sheer beauty, imaginativeness, and design. (There are portions of "Bambi" e.g. rain sequences which haven't been topped yet either IMHO). -I second the recommendation of "Nightmare Before Christmas", mostly stop-action animation, for cleverness, a terrific score, and the creation of believable pathos in animated characters. -CG animation in feature films is still too technique driven – it LOOKS like CG. (If I see that 3D ballroom from "Beauty and the Beast", re-texture mapped and re-used one more time I'm going to puke. I think I've identified it at least 3 times in other films or cartoons since B&B was released. Also sick of the all-purpose Klingon-and-others city-of-the-future backdrop used in STNG and DS9). -"Jurassic Park", of course, but that's a different kind of use of CG – I think it's the best current example of what can be technically achieved – and while the animators were surely very creative in their modelling and mapping and animating – I don't think it's the same kind of creativity as went into, for example, the goldfish sequence in Fantasia. (Looks like I'm starting the New Year volunteering for target practice ;-]). – <<TV>> OK, on B5, the lacey black Enemy ships that give this great whole-body pulse just before they fire, are terrific. Sorry if this minor flame offended anyone – just realizing that Fantasia is older than most of the people on this forum, and we still haven't topped it … is kind of discouraging.