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Poll The TAS Redux That Might Have Been
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Its definitely interesting, but I'm not sure that I liked how they would blur the background or foreground when shifting focus, like it was a real camera.. That was... an interesting choice.
An homage to TMP in all likelihood.
It's a very anime device.
It's a rack focus, which is a common technique. TNG used it a lot. Frakes did in First Contact. It's a way of shifting the focus from one character to another without panning or zooming. I think it worked really well here.
I just felt it was a technique that works ok in live action, but seemed a bit off for animation.
Clearly you didn't watch enough Battle of the Planets and Robotech.
Correct. Neither one. Was never exposed to it on any airing tv stations in my area during my primary cartoon years (1985-1994)
Oh yeah BOTP was rife with it. What an amazing series.
Wasn't at the library.
I think they usually do it because it looks cool. When something intense is happening and you're in the palm of their hand, it does look cool.
But if not, it can look like the filmmaker calling attention to himself in an attempt to look cool, which takes you out of the story.
JJ-Trek's attempts to look cool can take me out of the story in spots, like having lights shining in your eyes everywhere you look, even though it's supposed to be a room designed for people to work in for hours:
Another focus trick that looks cool in a tense moment is the dolly zoom:
Abusing that one would actually be kind of funny in a comedy. I'll bet it's been done.
Yeah, agreed. The prologue adds nothing and spoils the surprise of Cyrano Jones' introduction. It's paced horribly, there are arbitrary changes to the bridge, the new voices sound awful, the designs and likenesses are bad... I had to punch out halfway through.
There's a lot more of that work on YouTube and it's just bad writing and terribly voiced and the pacing is glacial.
Yeah, I watched the rest of them yesterday. It has the usual fanfilm hallmarks of "let's play connect-the-dots" and "fix stuff we don't like" such as giant Spock. Just watching the Tribble episode (where they largely stuck to the original cast recordings) doesn't how how truly terrible the voice work is in the rest of the work. Most of the time it sounds like bad AI-generated slop, plus there are weird decisions,such as Spock sounding like an 80-year old Leonard Nimoy for some reason. I suppose I can forgive the voices, however, since it just seems like one guy is doing the whole project.
I do like the art design for the most part, particularly the character designs, but I can how those who don't like anime styling might be put off. Strangely enough, I seem to be of two minds on some of the choices, or instance, I don't mind the TMP-influenced changes made to bridge consoles and displays, yet I dislike making the Glommer a Pokémon* and the change to the robot cargo ships (even though the latter is entirely inconsequential).
* = even though I thought the scene where it hunts tribbles to the Klingon theme music was cute.
No, thanks. It's terrible.
I spent a good hour looking at their efforts. There's some good work in the visuals.
However, whenever they stray from the script, the result is invariably terrible in all sorts of ways, not the least of which is the excruciatingly awful voice work, which appears to be done with AI.
Their choices of what elements and/or scenes to replace are also poor.
Hard pass.
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