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Dragonlance trailer at Youtube at last!
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Grimstaff
Explorer
My thought exactly.Pale said:
It looks like they painted new costumes over some old GI Joe cartoons, and added in some computer animations from 15 years ago.
Was this a serious production? Cause it looks like a class project.
Seriously, though, I suspect this must be a "fan-made" trailer and not the real thing.
broghammerj
Explorer
Grimstaff said:
Go Joe!
Merlin the Tuna
First Post
Beast Wars (as well as Reboot, by the same studio) was pretty much rock-solid in terms of CG animation for its time. This? Not so much.Pale said:
And I've seen animated and computer art blend well, but only from Asian studios. Strange.
Merlin the Tuna
First Post
I don't think so. They do mention that it's a "rough cut," for whatever that's worth.Grimstaff said:
MoogleEmpMog
First Post
Astonishingly weak.
Considering that they assembled what has to be at least reasonably expensive voice talent, the wealth of Dragonlance artwork in multiple styles to draw upon, and the average quality of animation these days, I simply cannot believe the animation for this project could be this terrible.
As bad as the drawn art is in several scenes - especially in terms of looking almost nothing like previous illustrations of the characters - the blatantly C&P'd draconians in that one scene take the cake. That kind of same-pose same-model duplication hasn't been acceptable in real-time strategy games since Warcraft 1; it certainly shouldn't be in a movie-length animation produced in 2007, much less one attached to a New York Times bestselling novel.
I had really been looking forward to this, but now...
Ouch.
I can only pray this is a fan-made trailer, not actual footage from the movie.
The voiceover was terrible, too. Rather than sounding like 'that guy who does the dramatic movie trailers,' it sounded like someone trying way too hard to be that guy. Painfully.
Considering that they assembled what has to be at least reasonably expensive voice talent, the wealth of Dragonlance artwork in multiple styles to draw upon, and the average quality of animation these days, I simply cannot believe the animation for this project could be this terrible.
As bad as the drawn art is in several scenes - especially in terms of looking almost nothing like previous illustrations of the characters - the blatantly C&P'd draconians in that one scene take the cake. That kind of same-pose same-model duplication hasn't been acceptable in real-time strategy games since Warcraft 1; it certainly shouldn't be in a movie-length animation produced in 2007, much less one attached to a New York Times bestselling novel.
I had really been looking forward to this, but now...
Ouch.
I can only pray this is a fan-made trailer, not actual footage from the movie.
The voiceover was terrible, too. Rather than sounding like 'that guy who does the dramatic movie trailers,' it sounded like someone trying way too hard to be that guy. Painfully.
WayneLigon
Adventurer
The animation looks OK; the CGI looks fairly bad but since it's a rough cut, that's to be expected; normally rough cuts like that don't do all the rendering passes. CGI and 2D animation can be cut together quite well, or pretty poorly. Remains to be seen which this is.
