Realismmm

I got a bit confused in this lecture about realism in a modeling context. Usually the purpose of a model is to make it look like what you want it to look like and for fill it’s purpose... making it look realistic! But then everyone has a slightly different perspective on reality. The point of how children’s drawings can only be that way kinda got me thinking... 

For some reason I started thinking about the puppets out of Thunderbirds.

When I was younger watching it the idea of it all was FAB (little pun there), and I didn’t question it being ‘realistic’. But now, I find the puppets creepy. Like the puppets used in ‘Punch and Judy’.  And like my mother (bless her), when she was little she was petrified of the ‘Cybermen’, from ye olde Dr. Who, because even back then as a child she thought they were real and would come and get her.  And she is still afraid of them now.

I think what I’m trying to say is that is it easier as a child to become engrossed and enter a different reality? Even if it is just a cartoon? For example if you are working on a children’s film, (something Tim Burton-esque like Coraline etc), would you have more freedom in the way you present the model? Because kids will believe anything? But then as a model/special effects person do you have to work twice as hard in fact to make something more realistic for an adult? I’ve prattled on enough now...