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#moanas jawline and brow and slightly smaller eyes- while still sticking to Disney’s signature soft and big eyed style- is a little better
asyipyip · 3 years
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3D animation gets a lot of flak on this site but honestly it’s potential is incredible? I think people got (justifiably) frustrated with the same face syndrome that it became a means of saying the animation style is lazy as a whole? Which isn’t true at all.
I mean you look at movies like into the spiderverse and you can see the potential the style has. It takes the tools of 3D animation abd goes CRAZY with it. It’s unique and artistic.
But hell, it doesn’t even have to be crazy stylized like spiderverse. The snow effects in frozen, the costume design in the sequel, the city of the dead and intricate skeletons of coco, the EVERYTHING about moana (the ocean, the bizzaro realm of monsters, the island vegetation- MAUIS TATTOOS- the style change during ‘youre welcome’, te fitis lava and vegetation- just. All of it) these things are definitely more about realism but gorgeous nonetheless.
Just because they aren’t drawn on paper and instead are done using modeling doesn’t change that there’s tons of work put into it- and that each detail is artistically and meticulously crafted. I mean look at before and after stuff:
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The lighting, the vegetation, the water!! Even if moanas model was already made, she still has to be rigged, and all those finishing polishes that changes it to the final product still has to be done. I wish I knew more about 3D animation so I could really get what happened in the process from a to c here
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I can’t find any WIP pictures of spiderverse but you KNOW it took a ton to get this to look as it did. The explosion effect, the lighting, the particles emitting from the crash site, the half tones!! How much time did this one shot take!!
Anyway, yeah. Sorry for rambling I just think think that “Disney being really lazy with the facial structure of their characters in their 3D movies” has warped to “3D animation is lazy” which is crazy because, 3D modeling is not only just challenging but also has the potential to be breathtaking in both realistic and stylized ways
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