Dragonlance trailer at Youtube at last!

[Loincloth of Armour]

As an anime fan who knows exactly how good well-done animation can look, this is a total embarrassment.

For the love of all that is unholy, if you're going to do animation, get the Japanese, or the Koreans... people who actually care it if looks good.

Do not hire a hack-job studio so you can spend more on 'name' actor for voices. I can forgive bad-voice acting far more readily than I can ignore crap-tastic animation.

To whomever green-lighted this thing: I'm coming to get my childhood memories back. And I'm bringing a heavy mace with me.

 

[Mad Mac]

As an anime fan who knows exactly how good well-done animation can look, this is a total embarrassment.

For the love of all that is unholy, if you're going to do animation, get the Japanese, or the Koreans... people who actually care it if looks good.

Do not hire a hack-job studio so you can spend more on 'name' actor for voices. I can forgive bad-voice acting far more readily than I can ignore crap-tastic animation.

You can get good american animation, it's just really pricey. Still, there's a reason so much animation is done in Korea now. Offers the best balance between quality and cost, apparently. I remember when the movie was first announced, they said they were going with an Indian animation company I'd never heard of...and the quality of their sample work was quite bad.

Still, I agree. You can hire the Saturday morning cartoon voice actors and do just fine, but you can't skimp on the animation for an animated movie and expect to get anywhere with it. There's been higher quality animation in kids cartoons for at least a decade now, which makes this trailer all the more embaressing.

 

[DandD]

Animation is okay, but blended with that CGI it looks awful. I'll probably buy it anyway, but I am bummed. Hopefully the Conan Red Nails movie will be better. Just from looking at the website it looks head and shoulders above Dragonlance and there is no cheesy CGI that I can see...

Whoa, that conan animated-movie looks simply marvelous. Thanks for the link.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

um...wow...that was really disappointing. I was kind of looking forward to this once upon a time. Now, not so much.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

Wow, that was terrible.

 

[Yalius]

Why am I getting this message at YouTube?I have the latest Flash player (I confirmed it), and JavaScript is turned on (I confirmed it). I've watched YouTube videos many times, even as lately as a couple days ago. But now I can't see any YouTube videos.

Bullgrit
Total Bullgrit

By chance using Firefox with Noscript?

 

[YourSwordIsMine]

wow...

That was really bad...

It looks like they have taken what animation they had already done 15-20 years ago and then filled in the holes with badly done CGI, squashed it together and called it complete...

I'm curious though when it does come out just how many copies will actually sell and how much of a loss Paramount is going to take on it...

 

[Dragonblade]

The best "American" (animation studio is Korean) animated series on TV right now is Avatar The Last Airbender. Nickelodeon spends about $1 million per 20 minute episode according to a recent interview. But that could even be discounted by volume because Nick orders episodes in batches.

Animated movies should be a cut above TV animation. To make a 90 minute movie they should be prepared to spend at least $10 million but probably closer to $15 or $20 million to make a "good" film. And that is still probably much less than what Disney spends on an animated film.

Either this film was woefully underbudgeted, or their animation studio seriously sucks. Or they spent too much of their budget on voice talent instead of on animation (which is more important).

 

[WhatGravitas]

What kind of budget could they have had? 50 bucks?

Look at Princess Mononoke, that was done 10 years ago on a modest budget. Its a beautifully rendered film, and timeless.

This is simply...disrespectful? Lazy?

Perhaps they should get a Japanese animation studio... for single films, they have a higher consistency in quality, not that shoddy CGI-80s-mix.

Meh. While I'm not a hardcore Dragonlance fan, I hoped for some D&Dish entertainment. Now it looks, as even the Earthsea-miniseries was good. Double-meh.

Cheers, LT.

 

[Mad Mac]

Probably both, but I'm leaning towards the suck option. This is the primary animation studio for the movie.

http://www.toonzanimationindia.com/toonz.htm

Just for laughs, look at the "Dream Witch" clip. If that's typical, I'm officially scared of Aussies now.