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The Animation...

posted 14 years ago by castostarlight
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The featured review up there said the animation was right up there with Disney classics. I'm sorry, but not even The Aristocats looked so crass. Every character has a wobbling black outline from the xerography process; a trademark of the 60's and 70's I know, but is nonetheless tacky looking. A good chunk of the animation is done at less than full frame rate. And the backgrounds look absolutely awful. They look like half finished watercolor paintings with an offensively saturated color palette. Am I the only one who can see this?

[–] spindly 11 years ago

totally disagree, and the background "half finished watercolor" is one of the many things I love about this film.
Aristocats on the other hand...oh boy. You can see the half finished sketchiness and the lines. That's cheap.

[–] pale_dog 11 years ago

Agree with the other posters that the animation on this is great. As other people said, the fact that it doesn't look like Disney doesn't mean much, as it wasn't supposed to.

The outlines don't look like xerography to me? The characters move just fine and in a surprisingly realistic way. And while it really doesn't have quite as much detail as Disney, it has a unique charm and it's own style (pretty sure the surreal look of the backgrounds is intentional)

[–] StarskyandChinaHutch 11 years ago

Yep. And we're all very thankful not to be wrapped up in your particular overly critical, neurotic-obsessive mindset.

Nothing to say, nothing to hear, nothing to see.

[–] CoriSCapnSkip (2755) 4 months ago

This is one film which could probably do with saving the soundtrack but adding all new animation. The 1973 Charlotte's Web is another. First rate voice work, meh animation.