Originally Posted by matuloo

You are leaving one very important thing here - the fans.

Actors become popular when they have enough fans following them. With a huge fanbase, they sort of guarantee certain level of ROI. Fans need to have someone to look up to, they identify themselves with the actors. Fans need to see their stars from time to time. They need to read about their lifes, their ups and downs ... they simply need their celebrities with their real lifes.

How are you gonna recreate this with an animated character?

And with porn its the same, big stars need to show up on shows, in TV, in magazines ... whatever. Thats why the big pornstars get paid more, right? Cause they are stars and have the fans that will buy their product... again, this is not possible to do with animated characters.

And the $$$ are important too, you can get a half decent chick to shoot a porn scene for a few bucks ... creating the animated character and get it to move in a 30 minute scene - that would cost a ton more.

I dont see this happening, unless the society changes a lot. For now and the next 20, 30 or more years, this is not going to happen.