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Love, Death, and Robots
6 years ago
Have any of you seen this yet? It's a series of animation shorts on Netflix. I'm only a few episodes in and I'm just gobsmacked. I LOVE what I'm seeing so far, at least in terms of animation. Usually, I just put stuff on my second monitor and half-ignore it until it sounds like something interesting is happening but I can't look away from it!
I'm watching Suits at the moment and I've got to say, I'm thrilled to see the "trying to look like traditional animation but really 3D" style finally coming into its own. I usually don't like that particular style because it always looks so fake and sterile. RWBY's animation looks like hot garbage to me. I like The Dragon Prince quite a lot but it's animation is... well, I'm not really impressed. Ajin, Sidoonia, same problem. You can tell that the animators are letting the software do most of the tweening. The results look lazy, swimmy, and sometimes downright robotic.
But whoever worked on Suits got it right. THIS is how it should be done, though, I guess it's easy to say that. I have no idea how reproducible it is, how much effort went into it, how time-consuming it is, or any special tricks they used. Fact is, a style that works well for a short many not be feasible for a series or a movie. Still, it looks fucking amazing. I sincerely hope I get to see more of this style. It's so expressive, fluid, and every frame legit looks like a painting. It's like Pixar meets Borderlands.
The Witness was also really interesting. I've never seen a style quite like it. It was kind of unnerving. At times I felt like I was watching live-action that was painted over but it doesn't look bad at all. Quite to the contrary, it looks amazing. At least to me anyway.
Thoughts?
I'm watching Suits at the moment and I've got to say, I'm thrilled to see the "trying to look like traditional animation but really 3D" style finally coming into its own. I usually don't like that particular style because it always looks so fake and sterile. RWBY's animation looks like hot garbage to me. I like The Dragon Prince quite a lot but it's animation is... well, I'm not really impressed. Ajin, Sidoonia, same problem. You can tell that the animators are letting the software do most of the tweening. The results look lazy, swimmy, and sometimes downright robotic.
But whoever worked on Suits got it right. THIS is how it should be done, though, I guess it's easy to say that. I have no idea how reproducible it is, how much effort went into it, how time-consuming it is, or any special tricks they used. Fact is, a style that works well for a short many not be feasible for a series or a movie. Still, it looks fucking amazing. I sincerely hope I get to see more of this style. It's so expressive, fluid, and every frame legit looks like a painting. It's like Pixar meets Borderlands.
The Witness was also really interesting. I've never seen a style quite like it. It was kind of unnerving. At times I felt like I was watching live-action that was painted over but it doesn't look bad at all. Quite to the contrary, it looks amazing. At least to me anyway.
Thoughts?
I have not even heard of LD&R but the preview of it already has my interest.
Heh, I also noticed the similarities in style ( if you can call it style ) between Ajin, Sidonia and Dragon Prince. Basically, 3D the whole thing and slap a toon shader on it.
Have you seen Gantz: 0?
I have not seen Gantz. Recommend?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantz
I saw the CG animated one, which was a touch wooden at first, but the creatures were professional grade nightmare fuel, and the environments were liffelike, so the juxtaposition of these realistic street scenes with these creatures scuttlijng, slithering or limping through them was somewhat striking. Then you have the heroes in skintight neoprene suits, well yeah.
Well it think it's pretty good. Gantz: 0 is just a 3D film about it but the visuals look amazing: https://youtu.be/r37ARGRJC-k
And yes, I cannot recommend LD&R enough. I'm still only a few episodes in and my jaw is just hitting the floor. Maybe I'm just easily impressed but I'm REALLY glad to see that 2D/3D hybrid style work finally. It looks SO good. One of the episodes actually made me cry unexpectedly, though, I think that's more for personal reasons than due to the story itself. Suffice it to say, the subject matter struck some chords and hit a little close to home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4dIgUgYCxQ
Enjoy!{Edit} inage quality is decontrasted and degraded to pass the youtube censors, the BW is much more lush on the originals.
Ho - Lee - Shit
Why can't television be like this ? I could watch this stuff all day long.
But oh no . . . . this is 'Murica. We get to watch sh*t like American Ninja Warrior
or some overly dramatized reality / talent show. . . . .
And they wonder why I don't watch TV anymore :|
Big fan of the following:
Sonnie's Edge
Suits
Beyond the Aquila Rift
Good Hunting
Shape-Shifters
I'm almost positive the narrator for the Yogurt is Brain from Animaniacs :P
The robots cracked me up as well. . .
And yes, that was definitely Brain. I'd bet my drawing hand on it. :P
Excellent werewolves.
And yet I still love the show and very much find myself looking forward to S3.
I will say this. I am absolutely ass-over-teakettle in love with the designs. The Sun Elves blew my fucking mind. I literally hopped in my chair when Aaravos first came on that screen. Come to think of it, I haven't seen any designs that I flatly don't like except Callum and that's probably more on me than his character developers. I'm not really a fan of milquetoast character designs and his is very bland. I do like his character progression though. I find myself becoming more interested in him as a character now than I was at the start.
Annnd rambling. XD I'll shut up now. I guess what I'm saying is that it's a mixed bag for me. Lots of things to like, lots of things they could improve on.
And as for General Amaya, I've had the same thought. I don't know how practical it would be for a deaf person to be in her position but I'm not going to pick that nit because I really, really like her a whole bunch. I love how she calls Viren on his BS right to his face and those battles with the Sunfire elves were !@#$%^&*ing awesome! Maybe I'm just easily impressed and if that's the case, well, eh. I like her even if she wouldn't be practical in that position.
I feel I'd seen Suits before, and Witness was in my uncanny valley, but they were all compelling (except the ghoul one, but that wasn't because of the animation: I find zombie overwhelming-odds stories irritating wastes of time and emotional energy)
Suits put me in mind of Okami HD - I need to play that again.
There were a few others that didn't really impress me too much but most of them had at least one or two things that were impressive and a few of them rocked my socks.
Also, Okami is one of my favorite games of all time. :B Shame the studio closed down. I would have loved to see more games in that vein.