Elio

Shut up troon

3D animation must be eradicated. It's pure satanic evil.

looks like shit

It's actually impressive how largely uninteresting Elio continues to be. I hope it's just the marketing that's ruining things, but that director shakeup has me worried this film might actually be a wash

I saw alien planet as a kid and they made a comment about different planets having a different common ancestor and that always struck with me as someone obsessed with biology. The alien designs there really lean into “what if most creatures were largely 2 limbed and didn’t have traditional eyes or faces”. I rethinking anatomy in these basic questions can give some more creative results.

Lilo & Stitch is a good example of harmony in its designs. All the aliens taking influence from sea life

??

But anon, life from different planetary ecosystems *shouldn't* have visual harmony. They evolved from completely different pressures for different environments. By all rights they shouldn't even be able to co-exist in the same place for lack of a neutral gravity/pressure/radiation level/atmosphere that is mutually nontoxic.

There's production guides out there instructing the artists on how to think about the world when designing characters. There's a shape harmony where they pull a lot of references from sea creatures, especially sharks and manta rays, when designing everything. So when the movie fades from the alien ship to underwater with Lilo, it's supposed to feel like a seamless transition of life.

Yes, that's why I say it makes sense logically. But this is supposed to be movie that is heavily visually driven and aesthetics and appeal should take a bigger precedent when making art over logic.

You just don't want to look at an animated movie that is ugly and mismatched just because it "makes sense".

Ugly and mismatched are not the same. Spiderverse is intentionally mismatched, and people praised it for its visual style.

Whoa I never noticed, thanks for giving me yet another thing to love about my favorite film ever!

Disgusting blobby nonsense, only the rightmost one has any merit

But that's the point, right? That Spiderverse has an asethetic harmony to it even if the characters are from different dimensions. They don't stick out horribly the same way as like, the new characters in Incredibles 2 or Clone High S2 do when compared to the old cast.

You can justify those, as well. "Oh, these are the MODERN guys, they have different fashion!". But it still looks like a visual mess where none of the artists were allowed to talk to each other before designing things.

Seethe troon

If no one noticed, the effect wasn't successfully communicated, maybe Gantu was shark like, but the rest of the aliens only have smooth skin at best. Meanwhile all 600+ experiments were extremely mammalian, and not the sea kind.

They had this whole montage of capes the omnidroids killed off and they looked nothing like the sequel caricatures

Wayne Barlowe has to be the best creature designer of all time, even Dougal Dixon can't compete.

The difference there is simply the result of the two movies being made by completely different artistic teams like 20 years apart from each other, in a style of animation that is tech dependent and thus what is even *possible* to represent in that style of animation has changed dramatically since then. Yes, there was an artistic direction failure there, but the core reason behind that is the Incredibles 2 was a movie that in all honesty never should have existed in the first place, its time of relevance was 10 years past before it was even announced.

None of this applies to a new movie made with even the sheerest degree of intentionality.

Doesn't that diminish the skills of the artists? That they're too incapable of looking at old production guides made by other people and designing new characters based around that? Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar sequels were able to make good designs despite being different crews between the first and last installments.

4 definitely went off the rails, there are no chameleons in China and the supporting characters looked incredibly out of place

That's why I said artistic direction and not artistic skill. The failure was not the artists "inability" to adhere to the existing style of the first movie, it was the directors failure to ask them to do so in the first place.

Actually unique and cool. I love how this movie looks and i was autistically obsessed with aliens like the protag is when i was a kid so it resonates personally to me

And there aren't any gorillas or giant turtles so your point falls flat

I just want to see the alien vore the boy

They all look like aliens from a vore comic

Happens about 46 minutes in, hope you enjoy

Its whatever. That thing in the middle is just a Qu.

Would, no, no, no, no, would, no, no, no, would.

I hate that this reworking of Elio pushes back development on Domee Shi's next film. I also think it would've benefited Maddie Sharafian if her feature directorial debut wasn't salvaging somebody else's vision. It won't be a full representation of what she can come up with

Cuuute!

Lmao this movie finna flop worse than LIGHTYEAR

This looks horrible. Look if Disney thinks boys will gravite to this ugly lame s o y boy shit then they are begging for failure.

Why would any boy be interested in faggot Elio when they can probably rewatch the first cartoon of Ben Ten. The aliens designs in Ben Ten are cooler and the powers each alien has are neat. Elio is losing against Ben Ten in terms of appeal a twenty year old cartoon series.

I just don't understand why Disney thinks anyone wants to see the adventures of an unappealing lame s o y boy. How popular was Steven Universe with young dudes? Not at all. And I doubt girls liked that effeminate faggot. Girls would sooner prefer watching things like Miraculous Ladybug for the rich boy soap opera romance NOT Steven Universe with the dyke aliens.

I don't want to hear any of you say Elio was not given a fair chance Elio looks lame. Maybe not as toxic as Steven Universe but Elio is failing because it grabbed a premise and gave it a hell of a lame foundation starting with the ugly character designs. I hope this fails but above all I hope all the Disney sequels like Coco 2 that are coming are also failures.

It will probably fail like Luca and Elemental did the problem is all the idiots who claim Luca and Elemental are actual bona fide successes when they are not.

And the bigger problem is how many stupid people go and automatically buy Disney sequels and live action remakes in general. Disney never suffers because these shit for brains love buying sequels and soulless remakes. Is it any wonder the other studios like Dreamworks are imitating Disney right now? Disney has taught every studio in America the worst lesson of all....

Don't worry the customer IS stupid.

Crappy. No polish. Garten of banban style.

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I hate this short because that rabbit is supposed to be a girl yet looks like dude. I hate this No feminine characters movement that homosexual North Americans are proud of. And by homosexuals I also include the shitty aging spinster hags who keep getting hired at companies, they may not be dykes but they are still shit like all homos because they attack femininity.