I enjoyed all of Hosoda's films, so I was looking forward to this anyway, but I'm even more excited about it now that I've learned Jin Kim worked on it as a character designer and Cartoon Saloon is doing background art for it. It'll be fascinating to see the result of this rare East-meets-West collaboration.JTurner wrote:This is a trailer for Mamoru Hosoda's newest film, BELLE. While American studios seem to have lost faith in 2D animation, the Japanese have not.
I thought the 2D animation was subpar. It looked quite vector-based, probably due to the use of Toon Boom. The quality of 2D here is drastically lower to that in the first Space Jam or Looney Tunes: Back in Action. It's frustrating how they went all out with the quality of the CG animation, but 2D was treated as an afterthought.JTurner wrote:I enjoyed the 2D animated bits in the trailer, but my biggest problem is that WB didn't show enough of it. I'll still go see it just to show my love of 2D, but I wish WB had a bit more guts rather than playing it too safe. Nonetheless, a bit of 2D animation is better than none at all. Here's hoping we can build that bridge back to its relevance.