To be able to walk inside a complex molecule to visualize the shapes inside will help you target specific receptors. That's possible now to some extent, but it's getting better. To Michael Gleicher, who works on motion capture, the sooner the hubbub over computer animation passes, the better. You don't go to an art museum and say 'Look what a paint brush can do. Computer animation, he argues, is a misleading moniker in the first place.
Computers are cheap.
What is critical is the talent of the animators.