Sotiris wrote:
Wonderlicious wrote:
They're a set of new commercials for Twinings Tea airing in the UK, and have quite a painterly look to them
Yes, these are really good. Very beautiful and emotive. The first one won multiple awards including this year's Annie for Best Animated Commercial. You can still tell though that it's CG animation with added 'painterly' textures and effects because the character's movements are a bit stiff.
Of course I knew that it was in no means hand-drawn.

I just used it as it did have a painterly quality to it, and it would be a good starting point for comparisons and visualisations.
Sotiris wrote:
You can do so many different things with CG animation but Hollywood just keeps producing generic-looking CG films. It's a shame. I'd love to see a full-length feature looking like these commercials.
Yeah. I could imagine an independent animated film looking like that, and we can hope that Disney does perhaps commit to this new hybrid medium used in
Paperman from early buzz. I don't think it also helps that a lot of the generic-looking films are equally generic in the story department. I went to see
The Pirates! in An Adventure With Scientists the other day (it's already out in the UK - worth watching!) and most of the films in the trailers looked awful (
Hotel Transylvania, Ice Age 5,367, Top Cat 3D). If anything, though, they're just poorly mimicking the formula of a surer studio (Pixar with a healthy mix of Dreamworks, or vice versa), just as many animated films pre-2001 took the Disney formula and made terrible use of it in traditional animation. And of course, there are many alternatives to hand-drawn animation rather than the oft-used Disney/Hollywood style, as
this collection of Richard Williams commercials demonstrates. I suppose you could say film history is repeating itself.

SWillie! wrote:
Those are indeed really really nice. I wouldn't really compare it to Paperman though. Paperman feels much flatter, like a drawing rather than a painting.
Ah okay. Well, in any case, I'm just looking forward to this short hopefully coming out into wider release after all the buzz! Sigh, I really wish I worked at Disney animation sometimes.
