[Shadow_Dragon]

Certainly the age of practical effects is starting to wither as many other past time things for the future. The margin for digital effects is just advancing so much more and much quicker than the possibilities for practical effects. Especially with the likes of head cap with movies like Lord of the rings/Hobbit, and now crytek, the famous game developer for the game crysis separating their studio for game developing and now cinematics. The way things are going, even though the better the digital standards become and more expensive to achieve, it'll still be much cheaper and efficient that practical. As sad is it is on some degree.