@ezekiel43 said:
@jaydan said:
@ezekiel43 said:
It's going to be a box office failure.
Also, I am so done with CG animations. Way to make them completely unappealing by producing nothing but, Hollywood. Until they start making traditional animations again, I will continue to ignore all of them. I find drawings much more charming.
I don't think it's so much computer animated films that are a problem. I think history has shown that live-action with computer animated characters spliced into them clearly do not work as they always enter the uncanny valley.
Well, I'm talking about all CG animations. There isn't a single one I can think of that wouldn't look better drawn. I didn't used to dislike them so much. I watched and enjoyed them. But the abundance of them and the death of the old just makes me want to ignore them all now. I'm not counting TV shows and foreign movies. There obviously still are traditionally animated ones.
See, I can't take that as seriously, though. Because Pixar has proven to be a major achiever in computer animation. You can't tell me that Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up or even Coco have not been major achievements that show what computer animation is capable of, both artistically and narrative-speaking. Some of their movies were major risks that they were willing to take as well. Yeah, maybe Toy Story could have a cool hand-drawn art style, but that's besides the point because that's never going to happen. That's about as bad as saying Disney needs to make live-action remakes of all their classic animated films these days (I really hope that trend ends soon). Toy Story resonates to this day as one of the greatest animated films ever created because it had a good story and good characters on top of the fact it was a pioneering film much like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was.
The problem with computer animation is all the copycat animation studios that tried to get a slice of that pie that Pixar got first helpings to. It's not that other animation studios have not made worthy computer animated films along the way, but the market has become over-saturated with low-brow cartoon-fests clearly aimed for kids that reminisce on the poop jokes and less to feast on for the "all ages" demographic like Pixar has so well been able to balance.
I do indeed think there's become an imbalance of traditionally drawn animated films. It seems like Studio Ghibli is the only studio these days that takes hand-drawn seriously and I wish we had more studios like that on the menu. I also want to see more stop-motion that does not orbit around being gothic all the time. I'm really thankful Wes Anderson broke the goth trend when he made Fantastic Mr. Fox and Isle of Dogs.
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