This doesn't look bad exactly (haven't seen it yet), but it just looks like all those bad commercials that try to catch on.
Am I just being salty or what?
Everyone is slowly realizing that Wallace and Gromit is the pinnacle of animation
That's true, but I think it's more like Carcinisation but influenced by capitalism.
W&G was claymation though, so blobbiness is understandable
It would be a lot cooler if “Turning Red” was a thinly veiled metaphor about communism, rather than a thinly veiled metaphor about menstruation.
Literally the opposite. It's like, "Embrace your inner beast! And use it to raise money!" It was very cute. :marx-joker:
it's :corporate-art: for animation, easily marketable with mass appeal: colorful and round shapes
I saw the trailer for this on TV the other day, and remember thinking that since Disney had switched to all computer animation, all animated kids' movies look the same, with no discernible difference in style. Although, in the '90s when everything was hand-drawn, Dreamworks movies were basically indiscernible from Disney movies, so maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon.
Some kids won't even watch hand drawn animation anymore.
They look at it like black and white TV.
There's probably some art direction reasons, too. They're expressive and relatable without falling in to the uncanncy valley. There have been characters that look like that for at least twenty years. Oooold nickelodeon shows from the 90s had the same general cartoon style but done in traditional animation instead of CGI.
I think its more the association with this style and grub hub advert which ruined it.
sorry, you're just being salty. most children's cartoons are drawn inoffensively, john k being the (unfortunate) exception. imo the character designs and expressions here seem to draw more from french and japanese influences than previous iterations of the stock Didney style, which was highly influential, nearly static for decades, and in no danger of offending anyone. i won't launch a full bore defense of a kids cartoon as high art, but if you're going to make an aesthetic critique of children's media, you have to accept that fact that you're not a child first.
This reminds me of how much I hate cutesy music on cat videos. I want to watch cats do cute things, not wake up the apartment with your garbage music.
