I just watched the movie. Not gonna lie, I cried at the end. I think you guys did a fantastic job.
Of course I have critiques too. There’s always critiques. Just like the movie says, no one’s perfect. But not any more than I’ve had of movies from the big studios.
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I don't know how much influence Tangent had on the story, but _thank you_ for not having the robot magically get his memories back at the end. That was my biggest gripe with Wall-E, was the deus ex happy ending. I appreciate you sticking with the consequences, both good and bad, of the sacrifice. And then seeing the characters doing their best to deal with it positively.
Also, holy crap, whoever did the animation of the robot controlled "meat sack" director guy at the very end is _amazing_. The zombie-but-robot-like movement super nailed it. My jaw was on the floor.
EDIT: figured out a way to do spoiler hiding that actually works, so put my spoilerific comment back in.
I watched this the other night, and like many other’s here I am quite happy with the animation, models and rendering, umm honestly I like where the hair was at while it could have looked more realistic well…we know it is not and quite frankly it works with the stylized style of the movie.
From a storytelling perspective I do think that there was room for work, it is a wonderful first draft and the overall arc of the story was good. I would have liked to see a bit more of her, well all of the characters journey, Honestly I think a solid 5 minutes to frame each of their backgrounds could have served well for the story.
The main critical point I have on this is more from a storytelling perspective; put us in their shoes and skin, let us feel why the AI wanted to end humanity, each of us in the real word most likely has experiences that can resonate with why someone would wish to end humanity, tap into that, many of the best villains ‘have a point’.
I’m not saying that this movie was the perfection of rendering, animation or special effects, but those are at the point where the studeo now has a viable sellable skill base in that, and they need to focus on storytelling.
i have seen it too now and after my second viewing i also think that the story could have used some more work (i enjoyed it nevertheless though). that’s the real difference to pixar. they have the money to polish the scripts for years. technologically, while i notice the small differences, they don’t matter much to me. a lot of next gen’s shots are visually stunning and animated really well. so what if some background characters have bad hair day.
Who ever is doing their shots has a fine understanding of aesthetics, so even if their art/animation skills stay where there at they should be doing just fine as a studio, but they seriously need some writers on deck, a problem I tend to find with any animation or game making project, not a writer to be found for miles.
Honestly if one wanted a crash course on how to write for a visual medium there are some courses aimed at comic artists that translate quite well.
Finally got to see this film with my little girl over the weekend and we absolutely loved it! The vast majority of the visuals were just beautiful and were at least on par with the biggest budget animated films of the last ten years. Of course it wasn’t perfect (I was quite shocked at how bad some of the hair was on secondary characters, as others have pointed out) but what is? On the story side of things my wife and I both agreed that it was far more coherent and enjoyable than a number of the animated films we have seen recently, Big Hero 6, Wreck-It-Ralph, and Para Norman, to name a few. Overall I was pleasantly surprised with the movie and it was a real thrill to finally see Blender showcased on a full length film, especially one of this quality.
When I first saw it on Netflix I thought it was another stupid kids movie. After I found out blender was used in production I decided to watch it. It was a very enjoyable movie.
But not any more than I’ve had of movies from the big studios.