Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-92.5.14.194-20131026082705/@comment-13446185-20131123205751

Sky Above,Voice Within wrote:

Dovahsebrom wrote:

Sky Above,Voice Within wrote: I still think it would be cheaper than a GoT like production. CGI is damn expensive, the movie Beowulf, was done in a style similar to the ESO trailer (though I think the ESO trailer had alot of live-action also). That movie cost $150,000,000; more than the first two seasons of GoT combined.

How much did Skyrim cost to Bethesda? If it wasn't CGI, they would have to spend more at location shooting, actor hiring, and it would still have a huge amount of animated elements; because Tamriel has a lot more fantasy stuff than Westeros. A motion actor for goblins, voice actors for dragons, heck, the whole idea frightens me. Creating a video game is entirely different from creating a movie out of CGI, but to answer your question TES V cost about $80,000,000.

I never said TES should be done in a GoT style in fact I said that it would probably be a bad idea, all I'm saying is that TES  show would also be expensive in CGI also.

In my opinion traditional animation is the best way to go in terms of a TES TV show.