BRING BACK TRADITIONAL ANIMATION ALREADY GODDAMMIT

[spatch]

Just saw the trailer for Hoodwinked.

Holy crap. It looks terrible. It doesn't even look like someone's demo reel from back when teapots, brushed chrome spheres and checkerboards were all the rage. I did better animation with my 486/66, a copy of POVray, and two nights' worth of rendering. (It was called Purvis The Blob and it wibbled.)

And this one defies all logic. Or maybe you'd like to explain to me why the cows (as evidenced by their udders) are speaking in tough guy voices?

I don't want to hear anything about how it's supposed to be for the kids, blah blah woof woof. Kids deserve better.

Comments

[rigel.livejournal.com]

As much as I miss traditional animation (and I do, for several reasons, including my mother being an animation art dealer) and as much as doesn't look terribly good, I didn't take that as due to the animation style. I don't mind CGI.

I do mind the feeling that it's supposed to be more trendy / "cute" than interesting, and both the story and portrayal seem to be dragging it down. While I can't say for certain that mmcirvin is correct, it does seem entirely plausible.

The problem, to me, is not that CGI is becoming so popular. It's that it has such a potential for being crappy given how easy it is to crank out crappy CGI movies these days.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I think the hipster attitude is almost certainly the result of some suit saying "Shrek and Shrek 2 made a lot of money; let's do another thing like that."

[spatch]

"And don't forget to make Grandma do a rap. That stuff's hilarious!"

[argentla.livejournal.com]

No, that's why the Weinsteins bought it. The Edwards Brothers wrote it that way just because that's what they think is funny.