Thread 149879024

>Backgrounds that are both photorealistic and stylized in a neat way
>Wacky cartoony designs with fluid squash and stretch

Meanwhile Pixar executives would rather force all their projects to be beanmouth GrubHub slop in a shit attempt at appealing to the masses. Like they’re films with multimillion dollar budget Pixar, there’s literally no reason to use that cheap ass overused beanshit style. Illumination is like the most corporate studio ever and not even they use that corporate style.

Their style isn’t the best example of stylized 3D I can think of and their films are still literal toddlerslop, but I just find it funny that they currently have more visual appeal than the actual first studio that should come to mind when one thinks "3D animation"

>>149879024 (OP)
Can we all agree that the art direction of Lightyear is hilariously bad?

Sing 3 when?

>>149879097
Its so fucking boring, no reason for it to be animated

They should’ve made it a live action spinoff to release exclusively onto Disney+ rather than putting that embarrassing shit into Pixar’s lineup.

>>149879097
I haven’t see in it but this comparison pic is retarded and unconvincing
lightyear in this pic looks more like a Star Wars character than anything.
and the background doesn’t even have the architectural cubism that the left-hand screenshot does.
there’s no comparison to be made here

>>149879097
nah it would be a good art direction if it was actually a action adventure and not tryhard interstellar rip off with twist villain. I would have liked it more if it was a fun adventure.

>>149879334
Lightyear could’ve at least been visually interesting, The Incredibles whole retrofuturistic aesthetic is an example of how to do stylized 3D sci-fi correctly. Lightyear is boring in comparison.

>>149879024 (OP)
They look like the same Disneyfied slop that all 3D movies have the style of. Those bug-eyed ducks are rancid.

>>149879579
I’d take Disneyslop over ugly GrubHub shit any day desu, beanmouth is cancer and I want it to die already

>>149879097
I liked it. Some of the backgrounds and architectural aesthetics reminded me of Homeworld.

>>149879024 (OP)
I saw some screen caps of Despicable Me 4 and it blew me away how high-quality the rendering was

>>149879680
We’ve come a long way since 2010

>>149879228
Possibly after Minions 3.

We get it, you’re fucking autistic

>>149879024 (OP)
>>149879680
During Pixars golden age they were seen as something unique, and one of the reasons why was because they had the best 3D animation of any studio, their competitors like Dreamworks and Blue Sky just didn’t compare, and every new Pixar film around then came with a new technological advancement, The Incredibles taught them how to properly animate humans with fat and muscle, Finding Nemo taught them how to animate water, Cars taught them RTX, etc.

But we now live in an age where every studio mastered Pixars techniques, every studio has the budget for super high quality rendering, and Pixar’s new "technological advancements" that come with their films are minor shit like "how do we animate the sea monsters turning into humans in Luca?"

Pixar ain’t special anymore and there was nothing that could’ve prevented this from inevitably happening.

>>149879996
>4 Despicable Me films
>3 Minions films

That’s 7 fucking films of this franchise, they’ve already outmilked Ice Age holy shit.

The directors already said they’re going for a "Simpsons Approach" to not age the characters and keep the status quo, basically their way of saying that this franchise will never end.

>>149880010
It's because of the PBR book (researched for Wreck it Ralph 1), it revolutionized CGI.
Now anybody's renderer has at least a highly realistic result, let alone any new discoveries / improvements that they make on their own

>>149879679
Shut up Gamerfag, Lightyear was ass

>>149879097
>>149879293
>>149879334
>>149879384

I find it funny in hindsight how everyone was hyped for this slop but it turned out to be one of Pixar’s worst films by a long shot, the trailers don’t even look that good, the film could’ve had MCU-tier writing at best.

>>149880149
the book first version is from 2004, not from wreck it ralph
and the disney guys werent first to try some unified shading model, it was a big race between 1999-2004 with a lot of competing solutions

either way it has nothing to do with anything, as all those studios create custom shaders anyway

>>149880961
Who was hyped for it?? The most "positive" discussion I saw was "well it's toy story, so of course it will make money, haters". And then it didn't make money.

>>149879024 (OP)
Means shit if the movies are still written like shit with shitty lame characters. That's the illumination quality. Dreamworks is the better Universal animation studio.

>>149882184
Toy Story 5 is going to make money because normies are stupid.

>>149882232
Normies don’t care about the fact that Toy Story should’ve ended at 3, they just wanna see their favorite toys on screen again, this why Shrek 5 will gross lots of money, this is why Minions 3 will gross lots of money, this is why Ice Age 6 will gross lots of money…

This decade feel like if someone wished for more continuations of their favorite properties on the monkeys paw but now that’s all what people get these days while any new shit is left to dry.

>>149882326
Yeah I hate people and hope something kills the Earth because human stupidity is far too annoying.

>>149879024 (OP)
Ducks!

>>149882184
Idk maybe it’s just cause I was more of a normie retard around the time when it was released and in online circles of cartoon spergs hyped for it, my opinions on shit are very different compared to how they were 3 years ago

Migration is duck kino

>>149879097
"Art film about space"
i fucking tired of see scifi movies with helmets being backlit from the inside

>>149883711
>>149885245
Yeah, it was great. I hope we get a sequel.

>>149879024 (OP)
Really nice looking water

>>149889975
I like water.

>>149879024 (OP)
Is this an uncommon opinion? I always felt that Illumination were technically competent, but that their overall stories and writing were very safe and boring.

>>149879024 (OP)
>unironically
You didn't need to use that in that sentence. Meet me after class, i'll assign you some more vocabulary homework.

>>149879024 (OP)
Yeah, it is pretty funny.

>>149879024 (OP)
The blue duck and heron need more art

>>149891589
Do you ever drink water?

>>149879024 (OP)
What so funny about it, bub?

>>149894594
It's been known to happen.

>>149892200
I’ve seen retarded critics online say that "their style is too overly clean and polished in order to appeal to normies"

Like I’m not denying that Illumination does pander to normies but I think you’re looking too deep into their artstyle bub

>>149895562
That the studio known for making slop content has more visual appeal than the studio that basically invented 3D animated cinema, bubby.

>>149879024 (OP)
That movie was FAR better than it had any right to be. The animation, the storytelling, the jokes.

I love when a random animated film ends up being good. This and Ron's Gone Wrong were such nice surprises.

>>149879024 (OP)
Pixar is a tech company larping as an animation studio now.
Back then they rewrote toy story because you couldn't render subsurface scattering on human skin properly, these days they'd put a hundred million on R&D to figure that out first and then make a movie about a former funk singer contemplating shaving his afro to get a job and keep his house in a gentrified neighborhood and the lice living in his hair forming an unlikely alliance (they move to his balls in the post credit scene) second.

>>149879024 (OP)
It's very funny.

>>149897737
The Good Dinosaur was basically just one giant tech demo to show off how realistic of landscapes they can make, same can prob be said about Lightyear

>>149897641
The film wasn’t amazing but it felt like Illumination actually tried for once, you can tell when they make a slop film, Sing was made cause kids love pop songs and millennials will find it "inspiring", The Secret Life of Pets was made cause Facebook moms love pet videos, a new Minions film is made cause kids love Minion shenanigans.

Migration didn’t feel like it was made to pander to a specific demographic of brainlets

>>149882103
Thanks for the correction anon. I could swear it was done on commission, but based on their paper from SIGGRAPH 2012 it's like your said, it's Disney's own research that others have used (like offline renderers and game engines). They don't even cite the book in their paper.

https://disneyanimation.com/publications/physically-based-shading-at-disney/

>>149899193
It pandered furries. Specifically avians.

>>149899629
Finally represented

>>149899629
>Migration pandered furries. Specifically avians.
What was Rio then?

Bring out the funnies!

>>149901238
Nico was cute no homo

>>149903526
She's sexy

>>149903526
She needs more incest with her son

>>149879024 (OP)
I think Migration is the first of their films in which I find any of the final character designs appealing. Not across the board, but generally pretty damn solid.

>>149901238
A test balloon.

>>149905449
>latina milf

>>149899629
Which is kind of a mistake since avians are not that popular.

>>149879024 (OP)
Was it at least good?

>>149906359
Yeah

>>149879024 (OP)
>their projects to be beanmouth

Getting fucking tired of that flavor word of the month. As if Pixar is just that. But otherwise I agree. Fuck humans too, animals aee more fun to look at. I love that Migration has normal-ass barely exaggerated ducks.

>>149899629
Nah.
>there is an unfinished long ass porn animation of this, for some reason
Oh...

>>149899389
Yes, the Disney BRDF is highly preferred due to its artist-oriented flexibility compared to alternate reflection models that may be technically more physically accurate i.e. basic Cook-Torrance to the point where it's so commonplace, everyone who works with it knows where it came from so it doesn't really need to be cited
t. rendering engineer

>>149879384
That's literally Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and even that Saturday morning cartoon was ten times higher quality than the prequel slop that pixar put out.

>>149906412
Alright then, where could I watch it?

>>149901238
Prometheus giving fire to humanity

>>149908274
Why couldn’t Pixar just go for a more stylized look with Lightyear? The film is literally supposed to be the in-universe film that the toy was based on, the Toy Story Buzz looks nothing like the more detailed movie Buzz, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command was a good attempt at making an in-universe tv show that the toy is based on but I guess that show was completely retconned out of existence.

>>149879097
it should have been a full version of the opening to Toy Story 2

Don't make it funny

>>149879024 (OP)
Yes, we can laugh about it. HA!

We're talking about ducks now?

>>149913846
Hopefully.

>>149906359
Why don't you watch it and find out.

>>149915567
I already did, I liked it.

>>149916152
Ok good. :D

>>149913846
This picture of Daisy does something for me.

>>149913846
Wow