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I finally saw Moana. Really liked some parts (Maui rules, the crab rules) but in a lot of it (especially the first act) I had a sense of the hero's journey story beats conspicuously clunking into place and it didn't really resonate with me emotionally. Lin Manuel-Miranda did a good job but the dude has an awful habit of going for the most cringeworthy/obvious rhymes (please never rhyme "oh" with "yo" again please). I don't know--I was kind of assuming it was going to be a lock for the best animated feature nomination, because it has a princess and songs, but now I'm not so sure.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:it's a little weird that Disney spent enough money to put a man on the Moon building these CGI puppets to mimic realistic physics in great detail so that posing and rendering them from that point on would be click-and-drag simple, and then just photoshop the same half-dozen prerendered cutouts of them over and over for all their promotional material. Speaking as a maker of CGI puppets, I'd just as soon not be involved every time someone in marketing wants to tweet a character in a Santa hat, haha
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The other thing is, it's not so much the software being a barrier for entry (they use Maya), but the Twitter team isn't really trained in posing characters correctly so you'd probably end up getting stuff like this released as Official Canon Disney Art. e - I think they did have some B-team work when the movie came out, but I'd assume they still got paid more than whoever photoshopped the beard on Clawhauser. Haledjian fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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JnnyThndrs posted:Oh hell, Rango, time to rewatch that yet again. Which is I guess impressive but also why the hell would you ever do that
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My favorite bit of Lion King 2 animation is when Simba kind of slides into the frame like a Flash tween. It cracked me up the first time I watched it.
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I would have been up for a "shiny" reprise, personally.
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Das Boo posted:So, like... does anyone actually enjoy watching a cartoon character dance? At least one guy has built a little internet career out of it.
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Shaocaholica posted:Did any of you know Prince of Egypt was on Bluray? I didn't until I got it. Where'd you get that collection/what all is on it? I can't find it on Amazon.
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Jan 19, 2017 22:20
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Magic Hate Ball posted:lmao at Antz being included in a prestige ghibliesque blu-ray animation package 96% tomatometer baby The delicate pastel of Princess Bala(?) is pretty funny though
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I finally saw Kubo and I don't think it deserves best animated but I'd love to see it get the visual effects award. Laika is basically running up the score on anyone who's ever done stop motion animation at this point. I thought Zootopia was excellent, Moana way too unambitious. Haven't seen the other two.  I did think the Kubo script was better than the other Laika movies I've seen, if uneven. Hopefully it's the beginning of an upward trend? My SO is on the Samurai Jack reboot, super excited!
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There's a not a lot of studios who could bring to bear the kind of resources it took to make that movie, so it's a bit of a moot point I think.
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wuffles posted:The only thing Zootopia was missing was a great villain. I mean, I adore Jenny Slate and I liked Bellwether well enough, but I'm pretty sure that Disney has enough money now that they could have exhumed and reanimated Milt Kahl, uploaded the requisite 3D skills into his brain like neo in the matrix, and made him the character lead for an antagonist with more presence on screen. Bellwether wasn't super memorable, but I wonder if a stronger villain might have hurt the messaging. The more the movie blames foxism on a shadowy cabal rather than historical/institutional prejudice, the less relevant it becomes as a parable. Maybe that's still a needle that could have been threaded, though.
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Her using tigers as stage props is pretty problematic tbqh
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K. Waste posted:Not really. That's just the Iggy Azalea meme, that she's appropriating predator culture, that she doesn't understand its authentic roots, etc. In reality, all of those dancers are paid very well, their families are very happy for them, they are privately parleying their own newfound privileges onto either their own 'personal endeavors' or 'giving back to the community,' whatever. There is functionally no difference between what Iggy Azalea does and what Shakira and Rihanna do. I'm just teeing them up here, aren't I.
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Unmature posted:I made a video about what a dick John K is and one of the dickiest things he ever did: https://youtu.be/TCK-4S7EHbA 
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Shadow Hog posted:Counterpoint: Nick Wilde is clearly best Disney princess. Just look at him: Meg in a tie.
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ThermoPhysical posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxPY3PdnmrY This is...haunting. Haledjian fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Feb 11, 2017 |
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The Silver Snail posted:Yeesh, I'd never seen Infinity in action before but that's way worse than I expected. Skylanders at least had a passable game to go along with their 15 dollar toys. But yeah, the end result is definitely not quite landing, haha  I'm so glad Youtube exists. Haledjian fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Feb 12, 2017 |
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mycot posted:I'm so confused; I thought Infinity was dead, so was this released post-humously? This is from March last year. Infinity was around at that point--i think Zootopia was the last Disney property that was added.
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I don't think it's an unfounded criticism, but it's a little overstated--Pixar has 13 feature films, not counting sequels. Disney has well over 30 2D-animated movies (many of which look super similar to each other) so it's easy to pick out the outliers. The "samey" 3D Disney movies number maybe 6 or 7. So there's going to be plenty of time and opportunity for them to diversify their art direction. Also the issue of samey "appealing" female leads is somewhat distinct from the house style issue, I would say. Frozen is pretty egregious on that point, haha.
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Hedrigall posted:Not sure if the thread covered this yet, but Sing's getting a loving sequel. Disney is finished.
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Hedrigall posted:The fact that they created a "hey we're a big name, recognise us!" logo thing with the minion (aping Pixar's Luxo Jr logo) makes me worry they really do think they're on that level It's definitely in their interest to push their studio as a household name, whether they think they deserve it or not. I can't wait for people to start saying the new Overwatch trailer "looks just like an Illumination movie." 
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I loved Titan AE as a kid. I watched it again recently with a bunch of friends, and I didn't feel like it's held up. The 2D/CGI mixture has aged really poorly, obviously, but it's also a surprisingly long and convoluted story that's easy to lose track of if you're not giving it your full attention, which may have made it difficult for kids to connect with. Janeane Garofalo as a kangaroo will never not be good, though.
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Laika actually poured a yuuuge amount of Nike money into promoting Kubo for the Oscars. Kind of glad it didn't win Best Animated just for that reason. Although Jungle Book was definitely the most boring possible pick for Best Visual Effects.
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Hedrigall posted:The real joke is the complete lack of LGBTQI representation in modern animated films Remember when people wanted to boycott Finding Dory because two women were standing too close to the same stroller
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Hedrigall posted:http://people.com/movies/beauty-and-the-beast-disney-first-openly-gay-character-lefou/ This all rings a bit hollow after watching Peter Rosenthal's trenchant analysis of the original
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Macaluso posted:John Powell is always the bomb and no one ever notices Also as a kid I'm pretty sure I hummed this song for a year straight.
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Crazy Ferret posted:To contribute scores, I know the Zootopia score has been brought up but I love the track, Some of My Best Friends Are Predators. The buildup is just great and hits me right every time. If nothing else, that was definitely my favorite track title.
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Macaluso posted:The writing, story, and voice acting is all pretty bad. But the animation is pretty good which is something you can't say for most of these weird low effort animated movies that come to theaters somehow. The environment design is actually pretty cool. If you mute the audio it looks like it could be a solid Rotten Tomatoes 75%
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Beachcomber posted:Reminded me of Zootopia.
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Any goons at the Samurai Jack premiere last night? I was at the merch table  The show looks dope as hell. Haledjian fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Mar 10, 2017 |
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Shadow Hog posted:Hedrigall is female? idk that looks like a boy lion.
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In no particular order: The Fantastic Mr. Fox The Iron Giant My Neighbor Totoro Persepolis* The Rabbi's Cat* Zootopia The Lion King Spirited Away Monsters University** Chicken Run *Probably ok for kids **I really liked this movie for having a message of "you might not be able to achieve your dreams"
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Judy bequeathed it to him
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Hedrigall posted:I also think the "nobody liked Avatar and it was the worst movie ever and who even wants these sequels???" meme is one of the most overblown on the internet I didn't like the movie but I also disliked ever James Cameron movie I've ever seen (inc. Aliens) so I'm maybe not the best judge. I'll probably still go to at least the first sequel, haha PenguinKnight posted:There's a German CGI short called "Ugly" that's coming out in June and it looks cool. It embraces a lot of the oddities and glitches that can happen with CGI software. Haledjian fucked around with this message at 18:46 on May 15, 2017 |
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Fangz posted:I kinda want more shows with a message of "don't be yourself, if 'yourself' is actually a lovely person". That seems a rather more relevant message today. As middling of a reception as "Monsters University" got, I still love that it committed to a message of "you might fail at your dreams, some people just aren't cut out for some stuff," which is almost heretical for a Disney movie.
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No Hedrigall but were they trying to make that Bigfoot super hot
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Shadow Hog posted:Only thing you're missing is Byron Howard drawing fox and bunny and answering Q&A about himself/the industry. No word on a sequel. He cut his hair. We're never getting a sequel.
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Fangz posted:You can go and click play on the facebook page. The_Doctor posted:Is that tiger at the back vogueing?
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