I only watched the first bit of it but remember the perspective seemed strange and then a few times it was "shaky" as if the camera man had moved while holding the camera. Was that a stylistic choice by the makers or a learning curve coming into animating within a 3D modeler like that?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's decent, not amazing. It's been a pretty weak year for animated films. Couple of years if I'm being honest.

Inside Out 2 just made me want to watch the original again. The Wild Robot was certainly no Iron Giant.

I think the last nominated movie at the Oscars that I genuinely loved was Klaus.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

I'll have to give it a chance again I guess. I turned on Flow the other day, made it ~5-7 mins in and gave up on it. I'm sure the budgets were no where near the same but I think I ended up watching Elemental instead. Overall it was pretty decent. Not as good as some but still made me fucking cry like animated movies are so good at.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

The Wild Robot was better than the Iron Giant because it criticises capitalism.

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I briefly click through it after downloading and thought I accidently downloaded one of those chinese knock-off movies. But apprently it really is supposed to look like that.

Guess the story must be really, really good if that was the best animated movie that year.

[–] Franklin@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

I actually quite liked the visual style, to each their own I suppose

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I haven't watched it yet (besides a few clips I've seen here and there), but I'm reminded of how so many games in the 2010s got caught chasing graphical fidelity. That led to a surge in interest in indie games, many of which had objectively shitty graphics, but an art style that was deliberate and interesting. A recent game in that vein that I have played and loved is Signalis, an incredibly artistic survival horror game.

Gaming and animated movies are obviously two completely different mediums, but I reckon we can use the same lens here; I'm going to wait until I've seen this movie (or at least, substantial chunks of it) before I judge it. As you suggest, it being voted best animated movie suggests the story must be great, but what I'm really intrigued by is how well this particular animation style works to support its characters and story

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 4 days ago

but what I’m really intrigued by is how well this particular animation style works to support its characters and story

Yeah, I'm as well, especially since it's apprently a silent (no speaking) movie, so the animation really has to do all the heavy lifting. It's only 85 minutes, I might give it a try (I've made it through 3 episodes of Arcane before dropping that because of the animation style). Something about that kind of 3D animation style just looks weird to me and constantly breaks immersion.

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

I saw the whole thing when it was playing at a kava bar i was at. There was music playing over it but there's no dialogue so it works out. Excellent bar movie

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

Congratulations to Latvians. Must be amazing to have 6 toes now.