#and that hundreds of diffrent artists and studios from america to Japan have been experimenting with heavily stylised cg for actual decades | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

ohfugecannada · 1 year

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Calling any cg animated film with a stylised 2D inspired aesthetic “like Spiderverse” or Spiderverse-esque” is starting to become the animation equivalent of describing any experimental movie with a disturbing, uncanny or surreal tone “Lynchian”.

#puss in boots the last wish #puss in boots 2 #spiderman into the spiderverse #spiderman #like I get it #Spiderverse is having a significant influence on how studios like Dreamworks are stylising their films and everything #and it’s safe to say bad guys and puss in boots 2 wouldnet look the way they do #would simply not turn out the way they did without Spiderverse proving that not only could a 2d styled character feature film work visually #but also be very successful box office wise #…but like #you guys do know 3D/2D style hybrid films existed before Spiderverse right?#you know Sony pictures animation and marvel didn’t single gandedly invent the concept of a cgi cartoon that looks/movies like 2d animation #right??#and that hundreds of diffrent artists and studios from america to Japan have been experimenting with heavily stylised cg for actual decades #before Spiderverse came along #right????#like I’ll give the benefit of the doubt most people who call The Bad Guys Arcane or Puss 2 “Spiderverse like are simply just #not well read on the subject and history of this style of animation #so I don’t want to sound like I’m punching down at others for simply lacking context on certain things #but at the same time something about it just really irks me because by constantly comparing these distinct and unique looking films #to one film that shares a similar technique just bothers me #as someone said before; Spiderverse is like a comic book come to life #the bad guys is like a cartoon (or to me anyway a cartoony anime)#and Puss in boots 2 is like a lush concept art painting come to life #all of these films while using a similar method have their own distinctive identity and style #and by some animation fans calling Puss in boots 2 or bad guys “like Spiderverse it just feels very reductive and dismissive of these films #and thier respective creators unique creative identities and voices #again it’s a similar reason to why I and other hate it when some film bros call any experimental art film Lynchian #it just undermines what makes that work unique to itself and the artist who made it

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