CGI replacing puppets and cartoons :(

[Drtooth]

I saw Secret Life of Pets yesterday, and got a trailer for some lame James Patterson novel for kids adaption called "Middle School: The Worst years of my Life" or something to that extent. It's some cartoonishly unrealistic school principal and the whole thing felt like it's a theatrical Nickelodeon telefilm.

And this would be truly unremarkable if not for one thing. The kid has a journal of sketches...

Which are animated tradtionally. Yep. You got 2-D animation in my mediocre tween movie. Yeah, it sound like a knockoff of that Kirby buckets thing, but the 2-D animation scenes looked beautiful. It's a shame they blew it on a movie that's clearly inferior to what that kind of animation deserves to be pared with.

 

[mr3urious]

Supposedly Toho's newest Godzilla movie due out by the end of this year in the U.S. uses a combination of animatronics and suit work with motion-captured CGI. Would have loved to see the American movies use that.

 

[D'Snowth]

I feel like if you're going to do motion capture, you might as well just do the movie live action, because it essentially is.

 

[Drtooth]

If you haven't seen the incredibly impressive Futurama Fan Film trailer already, you should.

But besides that, considering this is a fan film, there's such a level of care and dedication, that we can see something like this:

They could have made a CGI, they could have just sampled the cartoon series, but they went the ambitious route.