#How to Make Animated Films

[wanderer-clarisse]

I miss them

[nokkiart]

As a long time httyd fan who has been heavily involved in the fandom since the first movie and who has spent years working in the animation industry, I’d like to share my thoughts on the new httyd movie. Keep in mind, this is just my personal opinion and it's completely fine if you disagree with me. I just want to say a little something about all this that really bothers me.

The core reason that Dreamworks and Universal made this film is that it’s a quick and easy cash grab for them. Thats it. They don’t care about telling a good story or making a “better” version of the original movie for fans or even having an accurate portrayal of the characters/story. It’s purely about money. They know that fans of the original film will go see this movie, whether it’s good or bad. And those guaranteed ticket sales are all that matter to the studios. And with Universal, it has the added bonus of being a cheap promotional and merchandising opportunity for the new HTTYD land in Orlando that opens around the same time that the film is premiering in theaters.

And to help the studios make even more money out of this, they are using non-unionized VFX companies around the world to make this film, so that they can get cheaper labor and push the artists to do more that would be against American union standards. The same thing has probably happened with the costuming and fabrication for the filming, hence why the costumes look un-weathered and the sets look cheap. They don’t want to pay for the extra time and effort that it would take to make the practical bits of the production look good.

On top of all this, Dreamworks has already announced that they’re shutting down all their in-house animation projects in favor of using AI and outsourcing projects to cheaper international non-union studios.

With all this in mind, I just can’t support this film and I will not be seeing it in theaters. And I hope that others will do the same.

The only way to stop all these horrible “live action” remakes (which are actually just realistically animated remakes) is to not buy tickets to see them. Money is all that matters to these studios, and if they don’t make any money off of it, then they will stop and try something different. Maybe they'll even go back to focusing on original stories!

That’s the power that we hold as audiences. Our wallets help drive the decisions that the executives make. So support unique storytelling and gorgeous cinematography in movies. Support indie films. Support animators as they're fighting for fair pay and better contracts. But don't support a mediocre shot-for-shot remake riding on the coattails of an already successful film.

And I just want to wrap all this up by saying I have absolutely no hate towards anyone that has worked on the new film. Toothless looks incredible and I know the artists and creatives involved in this project did the best they could with what they were given.

But I also know that those same artists have so many more brilliant ideas that they would’ve loved to be given the creative freedom to do. I just wish hollywood would be willing to take a chance and let them do it.

[estramor]

we can't fix it if we never face it.

[aleduh]

“i’ll be so lucky to have you” is such a beautiful line. himi knowingly returns to a world that is destined to consume her in the fires she holds dear, all because they’re also the very doors that’ll bring mahito into existence.

and that’s the enduring essence of miyazaki’s works: life, through all its suffering and misery, is still worth living. through the people we love and the memories we cherish, we search for and find our reasons to live.

[canisalbus]

Just wanted to say I really enjoy following you and seeing posts on my feed of your oc's! Here's a quick sketch of Machete I drew as I find his design to be amazing

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[paper-bird-n01]

Sea of Remnants | Yo Ho！- First Look Trailer

[zilabee]

I understand that I am late, but I am watching Midas Man. It is such a bad film about Brian and such a nice film for Looking At The pretend Beatles and how in love they are. What they must to do IMMEDIATELY is make Beatles films with those four actors. Not films about the Beatles for fuck's sake never that. Just new Beatles films. A terrible sequel to Help! and a version of Lord of the Rings and whatever that weird western thing was. They're so pleasing, I want to look at them, I want them to be locked in a cellar together and think they're going to die. I want to see fake Ringo knitting fake socks. Their Paul smiles at Tiny John and I am alive, their George made me feel feelings about real George! They should have many films please, now, at once. They could come out to coincide with the awful biopic things we're expected to live through, and the boring serious ones could go see those, but you and I could go see something where they rob a bank to fund a small theatre show to save an orphanage on Mars or whatever.

[tiredeldritchhorror]

I’m having a grand ol time, have the lil doodles of ShadowNilla I made while working on the animatics, hopefully I can finish them sometime in the coming days, we’ll see

[rustedhills]

Disney, releasing Wish: "so it's all about legacy--the new generation surpassing the old, overcoming the evils perpetuated by them, relinquishing singular power... and there's an old man in a tower, uh... animal sidekick, i guess..., ah... magic...?

Miyazaki, just out of frame, sledgehammer raised:

[demadogs]

some of you need to hate ai way more than you currently do

[filmyeyes]

how to make an american quilt (1995) dir. jocelyn moorhouse

[nattikay]

Been seeing some posts about the new live action How to Train Your Dragon (ugh), and while I agree with a lot of what people have been saying about Toothless looking uncanny and not as good as he looks in the original, there is one thing I've been seeing here and there that isn't quite right:

"He looked better in animation than he does in cgi"

um....y'all...sorry to be the one to break it to you, but cgi IS animation 😅 Toothless was a cgi animated character in the original movie, and he's a cgi animated character in the remake too.

CGI in and of itself is not the issue here. The issue is the execution. The issue is that he looks out of place. I'm not sure if it's the model or lighting or textures or what, but he doesn't look like he belongs in his surroundings. It is very much possible to successfully integrate cgi animated characters with live-action surroundings...they just didn't quite manage that here. THAT'S why it doesn't look as good as the original. Not because "it's cgi" 😅

[anonymouslyyourssix]

the fact that willy almost always never stays a consistent character in any adaptation he's in is a concept so interesting to me...

[thatskindarough]

My actual only request and probably unpopular opinion for season 3 is that they tone down the color grading. I think season 1 looked a lot better. Season 2 was way to saturated. Crowley’s skin looked orange.

[monstersanonymous]

and what if i said HTTYD deserved a re-animation where they scale up the animation perhaps to even surpass HTTYD 3 instead of the cash grab live action

[lunarharp]

i just worked out how to make my first animations...life changed. maybe