This interview is awesome. Thanks for posting.
New animated show announced... Star Wars: Resistance
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This interview is awesome. Thanks for posting.
To me, it looks like exactly the same kind of bouncy 3D CGI, just cel-shaded and with a slightly different character design style. I always felt the Rebels characters moved around too much when they talked, and I see the same kind of thing in this trailer.
The art style was a bit jarring at first, but it was already growing on me by the end of the trailer. I'll probably love it by the time the pilot is over.
What little we see of the characters and story look pretty interesting, and I found the humor funny. I'm pretty excited right now.
What little we see of the characters and story look pretty interesting, and I found the humor funny. I'm pretty excited right now.
I personally would've preferred an art style that was more reminiscent of The Clone Wars and Rebels just for the sake of consistency, but that's really neither here nor there.
As far as the trailer itself goes, I really miss the days when watching a Star Wars trailer - even a teaser - meant you had at least some inkling as to the storyline of what you were going to be seeing, but I like the 'look' of some of the characters we saw and hope we learn more about them soon.
As far as the trailer itself goes, I really miss the days when watching a Star Wars trailer - even a teaser - meant you had at least some inkling as to the storyline of what you were going to be seeing, but I like the 'look' of some of the characters we saw and hope we learn more about them soon.
I didn't love or hate the trailer. It would've been cooler to keep a similar visual style as Clone Wars/Rebels, but at the same time, it's also cool they are doing something different, showing Star Wars in a different visual style, and it sets the sequels apart.
My hope is this series does for the sequels what Clone Wars did for the prequels, like fleshing things out, developing characters more (or better), and that Resistance can perhaps even provide answers about Snoke, the First Order, the Knights of Ren, etc.
My hope is this series does for the sequels what Clone Wars did for the prequels, like fleshing things out, developing characters more (or better), and that Resistance can perhaps even provide answers about Snoke, the First Order, the Knights of Ren, etc.
That seems silly.
It seems like the concept is to start a new animated show every five years or so, to roll through the target age group anew each time (they did it was Clone Wars and Rebels), the content growing up as the intended audience grows up a bit. Than starting over (mostly). But also preparing the younglings for the larger (Star Wars) world.
Cartoon Network does something similar with its shows in long-running franchises like Batman/DC, Scooby-Doo, and Ben 10. They never seem to let any single series run more than 65 episodes before replacing it with a sequel or reboot series.
And it's probably driven at least as much by the toy companies wanting to launch whole new lines of merchandise every few years. People tend to forget how heavily Star Wars in particular has always depended on its toy lines as a major part of the franchise. So much of the universe-building, like the names and histories of background characters and alien species, was introduced in the toy packaging.
The first time I saw cel-shade-effect 3D was about 20 years ago and I thought it was a neat gimmick. The problem I see here is sort of an uncanny valley effect caused by the motion screaming "3D" and the look screaming "2D". If they wanted an anime look they should have dropped frames like how the Lego Movie is jerky to simulate stop-motion. Then again, so much anime these days is mixed with CG, which is also jarring, but it's worse with the floaty character motion.
The earliest instance I can remember seeing was the 2003 MTV Spider-Man series (the one that presented itself as a sequel to the first Raimi movie and starred Neil Patrick Harris as Spidey), and I didn't care for it there. I felt the technology wasn't ready to achieve what it was trying to do. I rewatched a few clips from it recently, though, and found that it didn't look that much cruder than the stuff we've seen in subsequent cel-shaded shows like Iron Man: Armored Adventures and TRON: Uprising.
Yes, exactly. It's the dissonance between the frame rates, CG animation tending to be "on ones" and moving much more fluidly than 2D animation. Which you wouldn't think was intrinsically a bad thing, but it's the cognitive dissonance with the way I expect "cel" animation to look that makes it off-putting.
Also, 2D animation in TV tends to have more limited movement -- particularly in anime, where the style is for character poses to remain rather static most of the time. But this show is apparently following Rebels' lead of having the characters sway and bounce constantly while they talk, which is kind of distracting. It would help if they split the difference -- maybe not make the animation as static as it tends to be in anime, but keep the movements more subtle and restrained. I think this same studio is doing the Godzilla anime movie trilogy, and the cel-shaded 3D animation there looks a lot more convincingly like 2D, partly becasue the character movements are subtler (and I think the frame rate is 2D-style). Although it's also that the shading is more nuanced. Cel-shaded TV animation tends to have a fairly simplified way of rendering light and shadow that makes it look kind of cheesy, and it looks like Resistance is no exception.
The series might be set 6 months before TFA
https://twitter.com/Darth_Hardy/status/1031053502523424768
https://twitter.com/Darth_Hardy/status/1031053502523424768
That's surprising -- I would've expected it to be several years before. If this is true, then either the series will have a very decompressed timeline and spend several years covering less than 6 months of story time (like the early seasons of LOST), or its subsequent seasons will actually overlap with the sequel trilogy. Though it's hard to see how that could work, seeing as how TLJ picks up mere hours after TFA and Episode IX is still nearly a year and a half away.
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