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Poster and trailer tonight
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Pixar's Onward First Look
- Thread starter Spectromixer
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Update:
Poster and trailer tonight
After falling in love with Spiderverse it's hard to be particularly moved by this aesthetic. Wish more studios would push the medium beyond photoreal lighting/materials. In for JLD though
I don't want any road trip movies that don't include a deep-voiced dude extolling the virtues of Cup Noodles.
Pixar does this though. They use 3D of course, but they invoke a wide variety of styles.
If you would have told me this was DreamWorks, I would have believed you.
Not liking this style at all.... :/
LOL
Not liking this style at all.... :/
LOL
For a movie in a fantasy setting, it sure does look generic.
Excited to see JLD land her (first?) animated roll. Love her.
Excited to see JLD land her (first?) animated roll. Love her.
Yeah this will be wack
Only Pixar movie I'm interested right now is Pete Doctors sign language film.
Only Pixar movie I'm interested right now is Pete Doctors sign language film.
I loved Coco despite not being moved by the aesthetic at all in what they initially showed so im willing to wait and see on this one.
Granted these days Im only ever interested in Pixar's visuals when they lean into the muppet-y aspects of their general aesthetic (like some of the designs in Monsters University, Inside Out and the recent business short they put out)
Granted these days Im only ever interested in Pixar's visuals when they lean into the muppet-y aspects of their general aesthetic (like some of the designs in Monsters University, Inside Out and the recent business short they put out)
There are outliers but looking at the catalogue I can't say that any one film takes as drastic a stylistic/rendering departure as Spiderverse. I guess I wish they didn't reserve their more experimental side for their shorts (Day & Night, Sanjay, their YouTube shorts series, etc).
Ikr? This totally seems like an idea that Dreamworks usually entertains
Pixar is better off than Disney since 90% of their movies aren't just using 3D Glen Keane as a base but the rendering style is mostly consistent. Regardless of art direction if the character has hair/skin/fur etc they'll shoot for a relatively realistic simulation of that. Incredibles 2 is the only film that comes to mind where they kind of pushed it into a slightly painterly aesthetic.
The character designs for Inside Out are fantastic and have that cool ethereal fuzzy look (id prefer the eyes were cartoonier instead of having that generic vaguely real look but whatever), but the actual sets inside the head still use realistic materials and lighting despite the surreal architecture and landscapes
Inside Out and Coco were above average for sure, but compared to the Ratatouille>Wall-E>Up>Toy Story 3 run? Not a chance bud
I'm not crazy enough to imply that Pixar has "bad" or "lazy" art direction just that there is limit to how far they're willing to stylize. Even in Inside Out the more cartoony emotions are still wearing realistically rendered cable knit sweaters like the humans outside.
Oh, yeah if you're looking for them to literally change their style into a completely new medium they probably won't do that. But I think that request is a little unrealistic.I'm not crazy enough to imply that Pixar has "bad" or "lazy" art direction just that there is limit to how far they're willing to stylize. Even in Inside Out the more cartoony emotions are still wearing realistically rendered cable knit sweaters like the humans outside.
Up is the Stripes of animated movies. No body remembers what happens in that film after the opening. Inside Out and Coco are way stronger films.
That summary is burying the lede a tad.
The last summary they released said the brothers are looking for magic
The last summary they released said the brothers are looking for magic
"in order to spend one day with their father, who died when they were too young to remember him. "
Pixar's take on Fullmetal Alchemist.
Of course. Its just a little sad that Pixar set the industry standard for the look of 3D animation 24 years ago and no one is really pushing it forward that dramatically except for Spider-Verse.
I'd take both Inside Out and Coco over any of those other films.
lol I love the Stripes comparison. I agree that's it's not on the same level as the other three but I still like it a lot more than Inside Out and Coco. Feels like something's missing in their work since Toy Story 3. Can't put my finger on it but they're just not as good as they used to, aside from the animation itself of course
Up is the Stripes of animated movies. No body remembers what happens in that film after the opening. Inside Out and Coco are way stronger films.
I don't want to sit here and pretend like those films are bad, but they're a bit overrated in my opinion. I'll take The Incredibles, Brave, and Coco any day over those films, the best of which are Ratatouille and Up, and all of which save for Ratatoullie drag a bit, in my opinion.
Coco is so fucking tight and has the best art and music of any of Pixar's films, by far.
Is the dad not actually dead and the dad's soul stuck in the Dragon then?
But its not a new medium, Spiderverse is still (mostly) cgi. It would be cool to see more studios try radically different things like that, or that paperman short from a while ago.