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I didn't even know another one came out and now I'm sad again lol
I just want a good animated movie without caveats god damn it, why must the humans look SO bad
Like I said, it was played as a joke, not a "calm the retard" session. The rest of the movie trailer looks and sounds decent.

I think the humans have to look bad so the weird-looking main character creatures can look good by comparison. It's a beauty cheat.
 
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Like I said, it was played as a joke, not a "calm the retard" session. The rest of the movie trailer looks and sounds decent.

I think the humans have to look bad so the weird-looking main character creatures can look good by comparison. It's a beauty cheat.
no, I realize it was a joke, I'm just coping over the art style (still) :(
The more I look at it the more it reminds me of some horrible lovechild of Corporate Memphis and the shitty "realistic cartoon" stuff I elaborated on earlier in this thread
and I'd agree with you on the main character thing if those looked decent, but honestly Ruby's kraken form looks really disproportionate and her rival's eyes are a bit unsettlingly huge
also everyone has really big hands for some reason
 
Yaoi hands in modern Western animation is not an entirely new thing, but it is distracting these days.
Even cartoon characters with big hands have been a thing since the dawn of animation. Animation is never considered to be 100 percent logical, especially in design.
 
Even cartoon characters with big hands have been a thing since the dawn of animation. Animation is never considered to be 100 percent logical, especially in design.
exactly this is a medium that can have skeletons coming to life to dance around a graveyard one era then show a mouse whomp a cat with frying pan the next. or as America's favorite non prehistoric family once said.
 
exactly this is a medium that can have skeletons coming to life to dance around a graveyard one era then show a mouse whomp a cat with frying pan the next. or as America's favorite non prehistoric family once said.
This! If anything, the whole entire point of animation isn't about real-life logic. It's nothing more than just imagination.
 
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This! If anything, the whole entire point of animation isn't about real-life logic. It's nothing more than just imagination.
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come on, man
I'm hardly demanding realism here- I'm demanding the exact fucking opposite- I just don't want to watch a movie that looks like the aborted lovechild of Corporate Memphis and pseudo-realism, which this totally does
 
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come on, man
I'm hardly demanding realism here- I'm demanding the exact fucking opposite- I just don't want to watch a movie that looks like the aborted lovechild of Corporate Memphis and pseudo-realism, which this totally does
If you know visual communication, curves equals friendly, curves equals non threatening, curves are easier to construct than straight lines and complex polygons. Its a corporate push to both eliminate skill and disguise the rape of entertainment in a friendly and acceptable veneer. Which is why Calarts looks that way, btw.
 
If you know visual communication, curves equals friendly, curves equals non threatening, curves are easier to construct than straight lines and complex polygons. Its a corporate push to both eliminate skill and disguise the rape of entertainment in a friendly and acceptable veneer. Which is why Calarts looks that way, btw.
Yes, I know and understand it
Which only furthers my irritation
Because why the fuck does everyone look the same (very ugly)
Why is the villain just as soft and curvy (arguably curvier due to not having triangular ears) as the protagonist
Why does this film look so bad

I mean, I know why
It's Chris Meledandri, it's fucking Illumination's fault
because that blemish on filmmaking bought out Dreamworks in 2016 and is too busy forcing the studio to make a Shrek Cinematic Universe to care about making their work visually appealing
but it's still annoying, so I will still rant about it
 
I mean, I know why
It's Chris Meledandri, it's fucking Illumination's fault
because that blemish on filmmaking bought out Dreamworks in 2016 and is too busy forcing the studio to make a Shrek Cinematic Universe to care about making their work visually appealing
but it's still annoying, so I will still rant about it
Become a blackpilled prick like me and refuse to watch anything modern. There's actually a ton of good animation out there which is not modern, not kidding.
 
Become a blackpilled prick like me and refuse to watch anything modern. There's actually a ton of good animation out there which is not modern, not kidding.
Newer animated stuff that's actually good are rare to find these days, as with everything else in this world.
 
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