Don't forget that in this day of pixels a lot was down to you imagination, even though a group of pixels look something like a dragon your mind would transform the pixels in your mind and made them pixels a dragon and far more better than whats actually on the screen. today though pixles look like they are supposed to be in the programmers eye leaving nothing to the imagination which is a shame because the imagination can produce far better things than real life and what the programmer/graphics department has achived.
just my view of course thats why people say books are better than the film it reproduced!