Nah fuck that gay shit. It's still part of nu-Disney canon. Eps 1-6 + Expanded Universe will always be Star Wars.
I like harsh criticism. Especially towards a director that almost everyone considers a darling (looking at you Christopher Nolan).
It doesn't help that the main character is so fucking generic (despite being played off as being just as smart as the other two) that she effectively says halfway into the end the equivalent of, "Look, I know (insert real life dictator here) killed a lot of people and ruined a lot of lives. But, they were doing it for a good purpose. They just wanted all of the unnecessary bloodshed to end."
You cannot have a "X is misunderstood" story when X eats children like pickled plums, you simply cannot. That there is a subset of a subset of a subset that would be willing to cooperate (maybe) does not suddenly change everything. Basically, Norman was absolutely right and if anything, he should have gone in harder. And then Ray loses any sense of autonomy and just becomes Emma's simp.
It also had a panel with Covid. Covid!
This. Even for the shows I lauded earlier - the production values are beyond poor at this point in the global depression. Backgrounds are flat, everything else is a CGI abomination to try (and fail) to save money, and the characters are the lowest detailed they've ever been. Even the most glowing bones/madhouse moment these days is a far cry from the old days - the old days without wacom tablets, without digital cheats, and without easy-to-use digital animation software.
The worst part for me personally is post processing effects. They try to compensate authentic colors, lighting and shading with fucking bloom and particle effects, like its a video game. It looks fucking awful, even ignoring the awful designs and coloring. 90s lighting and coloring combined with the thick linework is just unmatched, Takeshi Koike felt like a stylistic evolution of the 90s but after 2010 everything went to shit. Even the worst 90s anime, something like Vampire Wars, looks better than most anime today.
Am I to understand that The Promised Neverland has the same ending as Steven Universe?
Man the closest to that feeling of stylized animation was Boy and the Heron and that was just only Ghibli and last year. I can't imagine how gun animations are in the modern anime industry.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - CGI absolutely can look good if the people utilizing it know what the fuck they're doing. Knights of Sidonia has fantastic actions scenes using almost entirely CGI, albeit with clever tricks to minimize their reliance on the jerky motion.
93 OVA is still better, had an episode directed by Satoshi Kon as well.
So basically 90s Disney with their Deepcanvas shit, I like that but I like watercolor backgrounds better.I've said it before and I'll say it again - CGI absolutely can look good if the people utilizing it know what the fuck they're doing. Knights of Sidonia has fantastic actions scenes using almost entirely CGI, albeit with clever tricks to minimize their reliance on the jerky motion.
This does not, however, apply when it's being used to animate characters. Never do that.
The posing here looks horribly stiff and unnatural. This is a persistent problem throughout the series. Additionally, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR FAAAAAACE?
I think most places are using motion-capture when it comes to this to save time. Unless you go in there to tweak the in-betweens, it's going to look weird.
Basically.
It's not even the in-between, the actual resting poses look off. Notice the figure folding her arms. her arms are clearly hovering over her body. Her right hand is just dangling rather than being wrapped around her upper body like you'd expect when folding your arms. the guy resting his hands on the desk has his elbows flaring out way too far and is merely resting his hands on the desk rather than his forearms. This would make sense for the hand he's using to point at the paper but for the other arm it just looks weird. Their poses are just fundamentally too loose. It looks robotic.
bang dream has been using full CGI since season 2, animating characters isn't really the problem anymore. it's still noticeable but necessary saturday morning cartoon level.
Wait, what? I need a screenshot of that.
Pretty much. I don't remember the details since I only skimmed through it, but the Mary Sue sacrifices her memories and that... fixes things somehow and she's supposed to live alone but is instantly found by the other orphans. So standard copout ending.
