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sirenemale · 7 months ago

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everything abt the httyd remake feels like such a deep insult to the first film. Insulting animation as an artform, insulting the texture and lighting work that still holds up so so well. Insulting everything they put in to make it such a tightly written and skillful film. Like what could you improve with this scene, the amount of character you get from toothless here and seeing his thought process, fhe mix of accepting his fate, weariness and curiosity, you're just sucking the life and intention out of it for what. To see the dirt in between toothless's scales? Guess what you can already see that in the first movie. To flatten the lighting, remove all mood so you can see how good they modeled his new scales? Show you how real the mulch looks. Whatever. They do this all the time but this is personal (autism) you're being shown up by a film from 2010. She is eating you ALIVE. Even the other httyd films couldn't quite re-capture what they did with toothless in this first one, they remodeled him ever so slightly and he lost that edge of intelligent Animal, and became a Slightly more condensed version of himself now that his personality was established.

#i can see his tear duct i can see inside his nose i can see the where his #bigger scales thin out into softer ones #even the choice to make his eye colour such a loud green instead of the paler one #it's like yes that's an eye that's a HD eye texture i know i get it #it looks realer in the first shot. like everything else #like i was a dragon obsessed kid when this came out i was eating up every detail #you can see those subtle mottled patterns across toothless in certain light #when he's abt to attack stoic you can see the methane gas building in his throat first #for the sake of grounding these designs they incorporated Every detail you could ask for #literally the only thing that wasn't realistic is when toothless is stuck in the gorge and needs to rescue hiccup #and he clings to the edge of the caldera and his Claw the nail of his claw changes shape to be more hooked to get a better grip #that's it and we get why that happens for the scene it's good #DISCRETION. you need doscretion every shot can't be a vfx showcase #environmental lighting is always going to obscure some detail it's going to react differently it looks so fake because nothing is being #obscured or effected by their environment #the way the shadows react to toothles in the first shot gives such a good sense of his form. it makes it moody #it makes it feel colder and the shadows on his face help obscure his mouth making him harder to read. okay #can anypony hear me #what's wrong with you

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