The great thing about miniatures is they give you this chaotic reality that digital hasn’t quite gotten to yet. Using CG versions of complicated action like falling buildings, explosions or certain lighting effects are all predetermined by the nature of the software and the ideas that went into it.
Paul Franklin, visual effects supervisor for Christopher Nolan’s Inception, on why he used a miniature instead of CG for the “giant, James Bond-like base out in the snow” sequence
(via Wired)
