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Star Wars Resistance - First Look Trailer
- Thread starter BrokenFiction
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Thanks Lux, that was quite interesting and enlightening to read about.
For Tron personally I didn't notice it as much (partly because the masks often covered faces) and because the storyboarding and way the action scenes were framed was so good it took my attention away from it. Hopefully Resistance has some good staff in charge of the show.
I think it is, but yeah the timeslot's a bit weird. Hopefully the Disney Channel isn't like Disney XD where scheduling/poor timeslots endoff killing off some good shows ratings.
Filoni got promoted to running the whole animation division, so he's more like George on TCW now rather than handling things day to day. He came up with Resistance but isn't directing it - he's got TCW season 7 to do anyway.
It looks too childish and I don't think it will add much in terms of story, so this is a pass for me.
So animating on twos on those other shows was an aesthetic choice rather than a budgetary constraint? I always assumed it was a cost cutting measure to basically halve the amount of rendered frames.
Or maybe it's a bit of both.
But I agree that's not what it looks like is going on here.
Ah I disagree.
Clone Wars and Rebels at least had a strong artistic direction. Kinda like claymation.
This looks insanely bland and mediocre visually and very "early cel shading" era. Just looks very poor to me.
I'll say this one positive thing, the ship designs actually look interesting. Where the hell where these fighters in TFA?
Nah, Clone Wars looked amazing. Rebels looked consistently terrible.
Nah, Clone Wars looked amazing. Rebels looked consistently terrible.
TFA had even crazier ship designs done than this. But JJ wanted the nostalgia trip and rejected them all.
Some of those crazy TFA ship designs evolved into Rogue One's U-Wing though.
Isn't that what people said about Rebels compared to Clone Wars?
The studio that worked on this is Polygon Pictures. They worked on Transformers Prime, Transformers Robots In Disguise, and Netflix Godzilla.
Was kinda true, Rebels for the most part was not as violent as Clone Wars. They pulled many punches, lot more off screen deaths, and in season 2 onward especially they often changed it to those who got shot were shown to be still moving on the ground and not dead. There was a clear reduction in violence going into Rebels and even it's most violent moments were tame or showed less than what TCW did.
That doesn't really mean anything? We have zero merch and they only are just now promoting the show with a single trailer less than 2 months from release, that doesn't show much confidence or a long term investment. The animation style is a cheaper type of production, the cel shading completely removed the need of complex texture art assets as well as simplified geometry. It's stylish while also cost savings.
Studio doesn't matter, the budget is what matters. Same studio using different budgets and techniques is going to produce different results.
You think so? The most noticeable thing about the trailer to me is the complexity and subtlety of the movements.
The facial animations, I'm not so sure if are better or worse than Rebels, seemed off at first but as the trailer went on it seemed better.
The cel shaded style reduces work load on the artists as it's typically computer generated flat colors. In TCW and Rebels for examples, artists had to actually draw the textures on every item in the show for example. The cel shading is a much simpler technique that is very stylish and cartoony, but also a cheaper method. So like on a ship panel you have flat surface with a color applied to it, sometimes with an effect like a shine or such, while with Rebels style of artwork they had to have someone draw/paint up that entire panels skin essentially. These cell shaded shows are much quicker and cheaper to produce.
Oh you meant like, literally cheap to produce. I was thinking cheap-looking, which the fluidity of the animations seem to suggest otherwise.
That art style is absolutely disgusting,
honestly i'd have taken Forces of Destiny's cheap art over that
honestly i'd have taken Forces of Destiny's cheap art over that
Well that... looks terrible.
I'm glad Clone Wars is getting a new season otherwise I'd be worried Lucasfilm thinks the lesson to be learned from Rebels is to go with even lamer comedy.
I'm glad Clone Wars is getting a new season otherwise I'd be worried Lucasfilm thinks the lesson to be learned from Rebels is to go with even lamer comedy.
It depends on the studio. For Polygon, I assume it's a bit of both, and am positive that they're rendering everything on 2s. I have to be careful about how much I say about our project since I'm NDAed, but for us we have different framerates on different layers and rendering everything out as if it were 1s. We're also a multi-rendering package studio, so that choice is probably to maintain timing, but it still is a bit of an odd one.
The fact that Filoni isn't involved with this directly in the day to day pretty much kills my interest as well.
Videogames often use similar tricks, with animations close to the camera running at full speed and those far from the camera running at half fps.
I believe Filoni wasn't necessarily involved day to day with the second half of Rebels either. It was the point at which he was promoted to oversee the whole animation division.
This! God, I hated the way that show looked, but this looks so much more vibrant despite the obvious limitations in production.
The ships and flying look great... I am really hoping the majority of the show takes place in the sky and space.
Why? New characters to develop, a pretty unexplored era to deepen and expand ... it's a writer's wet dream.
It feels like one of those Disney XD shows from back in the day with a slightly higher effects budget.
Yeah it gives them a lot more freedom than what rebels did and no more OT wank
Not saying the show would be good but it gives writers a lot breathing room than the previous cgi shows
I really don't like the style, and the tone doesn't catch my interest either. Cel shading can look great in video games, but tends to make TV and film look really cheap.
Then again I wasn't sold on Rebels at first either, and it grew on me, so I'll at least give it a chance.
Then again I wasn't sold on Rebels at first either, and it grew on me, so I'll at least give it a chance.
Still not as pretty as CW but going with cell shading definitely cleaned up a lot of the issues I had with Rebels. Environments, characters, and lighting look so much better.
He basically had everything set up before leaving though
And as some of the concept art shows the show was further ahead than it initially seemed when that was first discussed.
For example the Epilogue Sabine model was completed like 2 months after the announcement Filoni was promoted.
Not saying i won't watch it, my excitement is just far lower especially with this art now.
animation and style are on point imo. good compromise of being "modern" while capturing some of that pre-mid 00's 'animated' aesthetic
show though doesn't look to be my thing. if i was digging the sequel trilogy i'd watch it to see how things are fleshed out like i did with clone wars but as somebody in his mid 30s... nah i'm good
show though doesn't look to be my thing. if i was digging the sequel trilogy i'd watch it to see how things are fleshed out like i did with clone wars but as somebody in his mid 30s... nah i'm good
