Are you sick of Tom Cruise stomping on your couch, rambling on your television and stealing away your South Park episodes?

So am I, so let us do away with him! Wait, no, that’s murder. Better yet, let us replace him! Hmm, but who could replace Tom Cruise? I’ll show you who!

The CG man!

As I logged into Gamespot today, hoping to check my updates, my computer froze, as it normally likes to do at school (due to McAfee virus protection…psh, protection my ass, anyways…) and I’m stuck staring at this picture. I thought to myself that that looks really life like!” I remembered back when I saw the CG movie Final Fantasy and I thought actors and actresses could be replaced by CG people.

Think it’s crazy? Yeah, so did everyone else. Just look at the picture above. Yeah, it’s obviously not a human being, but think about how far graphics have came in the last fifteen years. Tack on another fifteen years, what do you get? On top of that, this isn’t even the best screenshot. I assume that this image is a screenshot from the game running within the limitations of the XBOX 360. Obviously there is technology out there that would allow people to create extremely life like people.

So, how would a world without actors and actresses work? Well, I had a thought. People like seeing a big name up there, such as Tom Cruise. They want to follow their lives, their career, their fashion, and, I’m not sure why, but their dating life. While CG people can’t give society the satisfaction of seeing their favorite Hollywood celebrity in the national Inquirer, it can however, give them a character to follow. How? Well consider this, what if, instead of hiring actors, people hired CG artists? These artists would have a few characters for sale, characters with names and a list of movies they have starred in. It would be similar to how people follow a character such as Mario, Halo’s Master Chief, or Final Fantasy’s Cloud. The CG artist would work with a single person who did voiceovers for this character, making this CG actor as real as they could be.

I am aware that CG movies take more time and money, but I’m just theorizing about an imaginative future where all this is done easily. I mean, stuff always gets faster and easier in the future, right?

But when you consider what they pay these actors, it makes me wonder if maybe one day, when CG is up to par with, if directors will start switching to them because the single character would be a lot less annoying and costly then hiring Tom Cruise.

And of course, you won’t have a dirty couch.