I miss Disney’s old 3D artstyle. - /co/ (#149275807) [Archived: 592 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/5/2025, 1:58:51 PM No.149275807
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Like the one used in the films Chicken Little and Meet The Robinsons as well as a couple of cancelled projects, where characters look more cartoony and exaggerated, I’m not a fan of how every film since Tangled basically has the same artstyle.

I feel Chicken Little’s animation is under-appreciated, for as panned as that movie is I like how the characters move in an exaggerated 2D-like way, it’s not as good-looking as something like Hotel Transylvania but I’d take it over something like Wish any day.
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:01:46 PM No.149275819
Good taste.
Anonyrnous
7/5/2025, 4:08:03 PM No.149276494
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>>149275807 (OP)
That era was experimental while still keeping true to Disney Feature's goals of having all kinds of unique art styles for their hand-drawn films. Chicken Little doesn't look like Meet the Robinsons, and I'm all the more grateful for that.
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 4:15:52 PM No.149276557
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>>149276494
I definitely gave off "still trying to find their style" vibes, but IMO their old 3D designs are much more appealing. I feel like Bolt is where the standard modern 3D Disney style began developing, in the early concepts for that film (originally titled American Dog), it looked more in-line with the old 3D style.
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 4:19:05 PM No.149276580
>>149276557
Would it be Bolt or Tangled when it was Rapunzel Unbraided?
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 4:38:08 PM No.149276716
>>149276580
That film was in production all throughout Disney’s post-revival era
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 4:42:24 PM No.149276746
>>149276716
It was but Disney's modern in-house style for cgi feels like it has its roots partly in Tangled.
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 5:43:30 PM No.149277208
I don't it was always just Pixar/Dreamworks but shittier
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 5:54:30 PM No.149277282
>>149277208
I mean it does give off a 2000s charm to it, I’d take this over Disneys current stagnant artstyle. The only 3D Disney film from the past 15 years to try something different stylistically was Strange World, but that film sucked ass, the style was fine though, at least it didn’t go the beanmouth route like Pixar

This era of Disney was quite experimental, Chicken Little was their obvious attempt at trying to make Shrek, but now that I think about it, Meet The Robinsons felt like their attempt at making a Pixar film, not saying that its a bad movie, just saying that the era between Disney’s renaissance period and its revival period was the "experimental period" for Disney, containing a series of financial failures due to the new cool studios on the block.