I'm the most appalled by all the 3D animators who keep saying "it's no big deal b/c you can share animations between rigs" -- like, even if that is true in a sense that it's sometimes done
a) those rigs are designed in a way that allows them to share animations and
b) movie animation uses multiple different models, usually, for different distances and levels of detail, and since they've already shot the plates they're forced to stick to Sonic being roughly the same size anyway, that's still way more animation than is sensible to resynch across camera angles, distances and lenses
c) ...*drags hands over face* either way the compositing and effects teams are going to have to redo literally everything and even if the best-case animation-wise is not going to help them because 3D models need to be lit and composited separately since, may I remind you, the rest of the movie is not in 3D.
So, yeah, it's a bad look overall.
And I can, like, suspend my annoyance with people who really fucking hate how Sonic looks? Fine? Taste is subjective, I think he looks fine except from a few highly specific angles, I think he looks good in motion, I think he has a nice expressive, and people are free to disagree with that, but this is just fucking gauche.
I really hope this was a publicity stunt, and they cut the trailer from shots finished with some old model before they decided internally that hey, we gotta rework this, it Looks Weirder Than Intended.
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Date: 6/5/19 19:51 (UTC)a) those rigs are designed in a way that allows them to share animations and
b) movie animation uses multiple different models, usually, for different distances and levels of detail, and since they've already shot the plates they're forced to stick to Sonic being roughly the same size anyway, that's still way more animation than is sensible to resynch across camera angles, distances and lenses
c) ...*drags hands over face* either way the compositing and effects teams are going to have to redo literally everything and even if the best-case animation-wise is not going to help them because 3D models need to be lit and composited separately since, may I remind you, the rest of the movie is not in 3D.
So, yeah, it's a bad look overall.
And I can, like, suspend my annoyance with people who really fucking hate how Sonic looks? Fine? Taste is subjective, I think he looks fine except from a few highly specific angles, I think he looks good in motion, I think he has a nice expressive, and people are free to disagree with that, but this is just fucking gauche.
I really hope this was a publicity stunt, and they cut the trailer from shots finished with some old model before they decided internally that hey, we gotta rework this, it Looks Weirder Than Intended.