Major Hollywood studios have grown less fearful of animation that diverges from the norm. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK – When TMNT, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated film, was released in 2007, critic Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in The New York Times that it offered “an impressive lack of visual texture”.
In this new film, the heroes – Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael – appear to spring from a high school doodler’s notebook. Their bodies and faces are rendered with an imperfect, sketchy quality that makes their eyes vivid and their smiles vibrant. Their greenness is distinctive and gains extra contours when reflected in New York’s neon lights.
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse bucked the trend of modern animation by invoking its hero’s comic-book origins with Ben-Day dots and wild, hallucinogenic sequences. PHOTO: SONY PICTURES Rianda – who worked on that movie alongside Rowe, its co-director – was developing it at Sony Pictures Animation while Into The Spider-Verse was in the works. Both were produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and The Mitchells was eventually released on Netflix.)
They felt that the humans should look imperfect and asymmetrical rather than like Pixar’s The Incredibles , because the plot concerned a battle between Homo sapiens weirdos and regulated robots.
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