Five years ago everybody was totally paranoid that computer graphics would wipe us out. But it's dependent upon the visual effects supervisor as to what they feel is the best approach. Certain effects supervisors, like John Knoll , love to have models. Even if he's going to do the whole sequence in CG he loves to have models for lighting reference and shadows and all that stuff. Goodson believes there will always be a need for physical models in the concept phase.
Models are little version of reality.
People are always intrigued with looking at the detail. Pilots that have flown a B17 in World War II have models of B17s. It's a fascination. There's definitely that theme that's starting to come in. But we're now seeing things that are starting to kind of cross that line.