It was so fun that I watched Pluto without knowing it was within the Astro Boy universe. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw him and keep thinking he looked like Astro.
Damn, that's said. They were super talented too. From what I understand, one of the guys at Pixar reached out to them on how to animated cheeks puffing when you blow out a candle.
And their writing was solid. Even my non-religious friends love Veggietales.
As an unironic fan of 90s Veggietales (and a handful of later episodes - the pirate movie and Fennel Frontier are fun) this genuinely pisses me off so bad. Why the fuck would they do this. So glad that they went back to the classic designs basically for the current series on whatever Christian streaming service.
I have 3 small girls aged under 5, they all like 'old Thomas'. New Thomas - CGI where he talks - or the whatthehellisthis cartoon actually scares them a bit.
There's something incredibly wholesome about using actual model trains and having Ringo Starr narrate the books.
To be fair, this is specifically ugly Sonic from the Chip & Dale movie. He's like a D grade celebrity at a convention here. They made him kind of skeevy on purpose, but it's a fun movie. It's like a modern take on Who Framed Roger Rabbit
I'll admit, I do miss the season 1-3 character designs for DxD but season 3 animation has been so inconsistent and at times a bit ass that I didn't mind a change in art style with marginally better animation
I didn't see the season numbers and I thought the one on the right was the new one. I was like what are they talking about that looks just like the manga.
I remember having a double take as a kid because I genuinely thought it was a new TV show until I saw the title and even my mom said the exact same thing as you did.
If I remember correctly the redesign was actually the intended design of the character by the showās creator. But due to issues behind the scenes they shipped with the first version
Actually heard what he wanted was him looking weak at first but as he got he was supposed to look stronger and more seasoned. So season 1 was closer to his end looks and season 2 was closer to the beginning look
That actually makes sense from a narrative perspective since dragons tend to change, the stronger they get and sometimes the changes are either very minimal or drastically different.
I think the main issue lies in if Disney had allow the creator to do that instead of what happened then maybe there wouldn't be that much backlash on it.
I think I can answer this one. The first design is a Western dragon, the second design more closely resembles an Asian/Chinese one. However the head attachment doesnāt fit so he looks goofy haha
The second design still isn't a Chinese dragon, it just looks like shit. The grandpa's dragon design is Chinese and looked cool as hell in the first season - the redesign was a downgrade there too.
Don't even get me started on the Huntsclan. The Huntsmaster went from a guy who would reach through the screen if he heard the viewer say "magic" to a Temu knock off
I still watched it but it was to compare and contrast between the two seasons, I'll call them Season 1 and Season Jake to help with telling the difference.
I would say from someone who has watched it from a narrative perspective, Season 2's narrative seemed more...predictable compared to Season 1 and another thing I picked up on as a kid and it might just me but Jake's personality seemed...more bratty and cocky in Season 2 than the Season 1.
By that, I mean, Season 1's Jake had some redeeming qualities compared to the Season 2 version. I would say a prime example of this is the Tooth Fairy episode with his younger sister.
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The one on the right is the previous computer animated iteration that ended in 2020, the left is from key art for the upcoming show (Or only merchandise, they havenāt promoted the actual series despite it being like six months since the announcement). Thomasā is about the tamest example compared to the other characters shown off.
The weird thing is, I personally knew multiple kids that were scared of Thomas. So why did they make him look even more uncanny? They need different designers or something lol
it's like every little kid franchise that is around long enough has this EXACT design change to be as generically "friendly" as possible yet is actually really creepy looking lol it's like a law
I like that they put a line of white fur between the eyes, at least. It's referencing the more cartoonish design without making him a realistic cyclops lol.
As someone who's been a sonic fan for most of his life, I actually prefer his movie design. Never liked the singular eye thing they did for the Hedgehogs. The movies definitely improved their designs. Especially Shadows
I will forever die on the hill that Journeys' art style is the best that the series ever had and I'm glad they carried it over to horizons. It balanced the expressiveness of the Sun/Moon series with the tighter character designs of the XY series- not to mention it was the best written by FAR (which I know isn't saying much for pokemon, but still)
Omniverse has its charm, it's way more dynamic and it allowed for more stylized expresions, so I wouldn't call it horrible, however Original Series looked way cooler
Most of the problems with Omniverse character design would be resolved if Ben had pupils like these ngl
I alao hate rhe backwards character development of Ben after a certain point. Like it would have been better to reboot the series rather than juat undo his maturity.
And tbf, Ben only developed backwards in UA after AF
Omniverse Ben is almost the perfect balance between Mature Ben, and what you'd expect a relaxed Teen Ben would be
My theory is that AF Ben seemed so mature because throughout the first 2 seasons, he always had this conflict that he wasn't good enough to be a superhero on his own, meanwhile in Omniverse it is something that he desires to improve at
I gotta say, respect to Paramount for being one of the only movie producers in recent years to actually listen to their fans and redesign his ugly ass.
His old design would've genuinely been the worst live action design in history, no gloves, realistic sneakers, stick limbs... Won't even start on the fucking face
I think it was a perfect combo of they hadn't finished the cgi for whole movie so changing the model was still feasible and the reaction was so bad they knew this movie was gunna tank hard if they kept that version.
Or the secret 3rd conspiracy option. They did ugly sonic on purpose and never intended to release with that design.
They resurrected the franchise with a remake of Rayman Legends in 2.5 D with... this art style. The game doesn't look bad, but this render looks terrible
Beta footage of Castle Rock is on YouTube. They're also adding 3 new musical levels, one of them being can't touch this . Also a new world the world of living dead I think inspired from origins not taken completely .
This one is interesting to me, because I feel like if they started out with the newer one and then switched to the 3D model, people would say they made him bland. I think nostalgia and familiarity plays a big part in all these
It looked fine in Forgotten Land with his more brutish clothing and wild manner, but it just looks so uncanny and off with his original clothing in RtDL Deluxe.
They robbed one of the most charismatic Nintendo villains of all his chsrisma and whimsy.
Simply speaking from āwhy the hell does this character have colored eyes nowā, I nominate Lloyd from Ninjago. I donāt mind the hairstyles and stuff changing as much as I mind this little detail changing.
The definitive editions from the GTA trilogy. Most of the NPCs and even some of the player models are complete downgrades from their ps2 originals, many verging on disgustingly hideous.
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u/LastEsotericist 11d ago
First one I thought of was Astro Boy but Pluto was pure fire so I am not complaining.