Dragonlance trailer at Youtube at last!

[Morrus]

Heh - it's a hell of a lot better than this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFZnfzVjsY&NR=1

 

[Clueless]

In it's favor - the folks working on it have cartoon credits such as the Real Ghostbusters... so for being cartoon, it's the right people to work on a cartoon in terms of writing and development...

edit after seeing trailer: Oh for. *sigh* I'm not sure who made the artistic decision to try to mix 3d and 2d - but they need to be shot. At least with the 3d go with cel-shading or *something*. The difference in surface texture between the two mediums is jarring.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I know part of the reason I'm disappointed is that on the official movie website, they posted a few images in the gallery back in June. The images posted were pretty decent 3D computer generated shots of the dragons and draconians. The background images also seemed to be decent CG shots. They only had concept artwork of the main characters, so I had an expectation that it would be a similar style for them as well.

I looked at the website again today, they have not updated any of the images in the gallery, so nobody had anything more to go by (although now looking closer at Paladine in one image, I can see he was drawn in the 2D animation style).

Also, it appears that YouTube is the official distribution method for the "rough cut" trailer, since that is what they have on the official website. Would have been nice if they had a better quality download available there, but maybe we are better off not having it and hoping it will look better in higher res...

 

[ShadowDenizen]

Granted, this is only the first trailer (and hopefully a placeholder), and a very short one at that.

That said, count me in as someone who found the mix of 2D and CGI animations to be very jarring.

Personally, I wish they would have gone with traditional 2D animation styles (Note to TPTB; NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE CGI TO CAPTIVATE PEOPLE!!), as well as the more "Iconic" Elmore interpretations of the character. The close-up of Raistlin and the hourglass pupils? Was not impressive to me at all.

That said, I'll still see it, as I've been a DL fan since the line debuted in the early-80's.

 

[Wormwood]

I'm wondering if people wanted a more Asian/anime style, or maybe something along the lines of the animated Clone Wars series?

I would sacrifice a sentient being to have had Genndy Tartakovsky in charge of this project.

A man talented enough to make Lucas's Prequel Trilogy interesting? Just imagine what he could do with Krynn!

 

[krissbeth]

No amount of rendering can make that not look like an 80s television reject.

/actual professional opinion.

 

[Eridanis]

Merged a thread from General into this one.

 

[crazy_cat]

Looks absolutely terrible.

I'm thinking the 1st D&D movie could be facing a new challenge for the dubious honour of most awful and poorly made D&D related movie ever.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I'm aware of Lodoss Wars.. but my point is that all those "Don't get anime in my DND" gonards out there would cry foul if Dragon Lance was anime. I however, don't mind as long as the quality of the animation and script is good.

 

[Vocenoctum]

I have been really surprised that something from D&D's IPs cannot get the proper funding and talent to be done right. All this sort of work does is make gaming and D&D look bad. Dragonlance deserves something better. Those stories could be D&D's lord of the rings if done right. Someone get Weta and Peter Jackson to take over and start from scratch.

It's odd to me I suppose, that the things which I think would make good movies, can't get the budget to be made right. Halo is another example.