Why was Industrial Lights and Magic needed for Akira Kurosawa's Dreams?

[stalepie2]

https://imgur.com/eqMPJKs

I was watching Mary Poppins and I thought the scenes in the chalk painting looked just as good as the scenes of Van Gogh at the end of Dreams, where Martin Scorsese plays the artist:

(76) Behind The Scenes of DREAMS w/ Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese & George Lucas - YouTube

But were these new techniques in 1990 needed if you could do such a good job back then in 1964? It would seem not so much.

 

[Ron Texas]

Perhaps it cost less or was faster to use new methods. Dreams is a really great movie although rather disturbing.

 

[stalepie2]

It costs more. I can never believe what movies cost these days. I mean Disney spends half a billion dollars on each Marvel film.

 

[stalepie2]

You're right. Well, the scenes were much more complicated, and have only gotten far more complicated in all the special effects-driven movies now. Just seems like those simpler techniques go a long way. and like they weren't even really trying that hard to make it perfect, because it's a lighthearted film.