I think if they wanted to run with the theme of celebrating 100 years of animation, it would have been cooler to make the movie fully 2D to pay homage to where the company started. A lot of Disney fans have been asking for 2D animation again so it would've been a great opportunity. This style isn't bad but it does look stiff at some points.
I think they're kinda worried about "looking back," so to speak. When I was growing up, Disney got heat for not being original enough, and I could see them going back to 2D and people saying they backtracked/ran out of ideas.
Well someone else finally said what has been on my mind. While I appreciate different perspectives especially when it comes to animation, it often sounds like an echo chamber.
@@missmadyreads I do love 2D as much as 3D, though! I always hoped we'd get a Japanese-inspired Disney musical with Hayao Miyazaki directing it. 2D would be perfect for it--then again, I'd be cool with 3D since I've never seen a good 3D anime but western CGI is usually great.
I remember when reps from Disney came to my university to talk about The Princess and the Frog. They had plans to continue making traditional animated films. And while the movie made money, I don't think it made Lion King money that they were hoping for. When Glen Keane was the original director of Tangled, he wanted the whole project to be 2D because he always preferred that style.
That's what I keep saying! It doesn't look finished! If they wanted to go for a style that was a blend of 2D and 3D, there's plenty of things they could have added. As it is, it looks like I'm looking at a WIP
There’s an HD version of the trailer of the film. RUclips doesn’t like the watercolor effect of the film and compresses and destroys the quality, I really suggest you give that one a watch. Although still not perfect, it looks much less unrendered :)
@@Infortitude that still doesn't excuse the lighting, though. Everything looks murky and lacks clear light sources, as if they haven't done the process of properly lighting everything yet.
It's not just the animation itself, the colours look weirdly dulled down as well. If Disney actually cared about their anniversary, they would have gone for the hand-drawn style with loud musical numbers and dramatic villains. But clearly they don't, as usual, they just want to make a quick cash grab and use the whole 'Anniversary' thing as a marketing ploy. This sounds very pessimistic but the studio hasn't given me any reason to believe or care about their projects for years
And to think Disney was at one point meant to bring fantastical, almost unbelievable stories to life. To inspire people to do more and to actually have some sort of imagination.
Exactly!! Disney movies don't feel like Disney movies anymore because they don't have as much effort put in as they used to. Not to mention recently they've just tried to make everything political and woke with diversity which feels very forced which isn't what an animated movie should be. (I love diversity but it should make sense and shouldn't feel forced, For example; if a movie was set in medieval Norway, there wouldn't be any African people because back then it was a homogeneous country etc) (This is my opinion as an African) This is the last chance I'm giving Disney to change my mind before I stop supporting them for good so I'm hoping they don't disappoint again.
I kind of have to disagree with the colours. I think the colours make the film quite dreamy looking. But I think it would be improved by a more watercolour artstyle.
More than the animation what gets me is the COLORS. The whole point of animation is that you can present the impossible, and the colours in Wish feel too… realistic? It’s not giving magic or wonder, even compared to their 3D works
I thought that, the colors in the movie are so...low? not enough? the movie just feels so under-colored to me. I would compare it to tangles or brave but even those movies had some pop of color.
Is it me, or Disney has a problem with "same face" characters? It feels they've been reusing their characters assests throughout the last 3 movies. I'm sure I've seen Anna a ton in different movies.
@@jonal5126 and I hate this so much. Asha looks so much like Isabela, having the same color palette, a very similar silhouette and the same proportions. Old Disney films had very distinct princesses, like you couldn't mistake Snow White for Mulan (or Ariel, if you wanna go with the same race) because they had different silhoettes and art styles (and I'm talking stylization, not just the style the film is animated in). Now every girl looks like Rapunzel but in a different pallette. And also, back in the early 2000's, Barbie used to have these 3D animated films, they weren't the best animation wise and hte budgets weren't big, but most of the old ones used classical music and retold classic ballet stories. So they had The Nutcracker and Swan Lake and they wanted to finish off the trilogy with Sleeping Beauty but then Disney didn't allow them because apparently having a blonde girl in a pink dress would be too confusing for kids. And now we have Asha and Isabella. (Yes I know you don't own color palettes and all, I'm just saying it's a shitty excuse)
Every time I see the wish trailer I just think about how much better the characters would look if they were fully hand drawn 2D animated. Imagine if they made it look like the prince of Egypt style or Aladdin.
Agreed, I'm sick of the Frozen/Tangled style of character design and I want to see characters with a variety of shapes, sizes, colors, and expressions as seen in their 2D films.
I fully agree, but just so you know, Prince of Egypt was a DreamWorks movie not a Disney movie, they had a brief stint of doing 2D animation with some 3D elements.
This is why Wreck It Ralph is my favorite modern movie. Tons of characters that actually look different from each other rather then using the same art style.
They tried to do a stylized Spiderverse aesthetic but half-assed it. Its like they wanted to shake things up but not too much less it offend some of their audience. So instead its like a weird hybrid look that pleases no one and actually makes the film appear unfinished. Coming off the heels of ATSV and the new TMNT, which were ridiculously innovative in their art direction, it feels positively quaint. Disney rested on their laurels for too long, allowing the studio which made the freaking emoji movie to step up their game and take the medium to its next level. They may be celebrating a milestone anniversary but no ones excited for the bland, watered down product theyre putting out anymore. 2023 is Sony's time to shine; they beat the mouse at his own game and I think many of us are happy to see them humbled for a change.
Agreed. The character designs also looks just like the previous films. The animation is a bit different but character designs are pretty much the same, there's also a lack of vibrant colors. In some scenes, it feels like they animated it similarly to Frozen and then slapped a cartoon filter over it. Disney is playing it EXTREMELY safe.
I thought the same thing. They tried to do something similar to “Spiderverse”, but failed. “Puss in Boots 2” did a great job combining animation, pacing and style from both “Shrek” and “Spiderverse”, but Disney was probably more focused with pumping out their next generic money maker, that they didn’t really care about the quality which is why “Spiderverse” was so well received. Low-quality just makes the film look choppy and unwatchable, and ultimately cheap.
It's literally giving Sofia the First vibes, and as much as I loved that show (and continue to do so to this day), that is NOT what a big budget, theatrical movie on the big screen should look like, ESPECIALLY one commemorating the 100 years of animation.
I don’t think it’s translating well with the RUclips compression and the cheap lcd screens. I’m sure it will look great in theaters but no so much in homes. Which is a different problem
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Right. Sofia the first is a show. It cant have a high budget on every episode and stick to more simply artstyles etc, especially since it has at least a musical number in every single episode. But Wish is a movie and on top of that a celebration forr Disneys 100th anniversary. It cannot have the same artstyle and simplicity, its simply unfitting of it (coming drom a huge stf fan btw)
yes! for how much they talked about "blending 2d and 3d" they didn't do it that well in my opinion, they should've leaned into the 2d aspect a lot more then they did
Yeah. It’s really close to looking like it came out from one of Disney’s picture books. But I feel like it needs a little bit more in something. I love the designs of everything else though!
The only thing I wish was different is her personality. Nothing wrong, it’s just that she seems to have the same personality Anna has based on what is shown in the trailer. Also I don’t know why Disney is making all of their most recent main characters clumsy. (Ya I know it’s supposed to make the character relatable and endear them to you, but now it just feels cliche)
there was a tweet saying that youtube severely washes down the watercolors or something like that, there apparently supposed to be more that you can look at
There doesn't seem to be any smears or motion blur so when fast movements happen it's hard to follow and is just a mess of frames like when Asha moves around real fast on that stage. It looks incredibly cheap. There is no exaggeration or caricature or stretching and squashing. Yes, theres a little bit but it's so subdued. Disney company should feel embarrassed. This is what they consider high enough quality for 100th anniversary? A studio known for hand drawn fluid caricatured unique style per film featured animation? I'm sure they're terrified of another traditional film flopping so they can't commit to either style. Klaus is a better feature quality film in terms of visuals over Wish.
In recent years, Disney has been so busy making money that, instead of being an animation legendary company, it has made repetitive, bland, soulless or very meaningless cliché works, and this has made me not want to watch everything they do anymore, in people's minds, from Disney making a legend if it makes it. They have so much confidence in themselves that they still don't even realize the damage they have done in recent years. The background of this movie looks nice, but it also looks like it will be boring, so I don't want to watch it at all. In the past, I would have watched it immediately because Disney made it, but no. we are tired, so our time is valuable. They may continue to see us as just marketing clients, but I want to see productions where real art is appreciated. I can't stand Disney anymore, I wish a new studio would come out and make original, creative productions that can accommodate everyone from different kinds and leave Disney behind.
Great analysis of the current situation...and alas I feel just the same, if Disney is not what once was since it's lost its passion and magic touch, may some other company embody the essence of it y'know (regarding the live action department as well, pretty please!). Time will tell I guess...🥹🌠🤞❤️🩹
Love the analysis. I also find it funny that Nimona, a movie that Disney cancelled, was picked up by Netflix of all people and they made it better than all of the recent Disney movies, along with giving us a realistic LGBTQ portrayal
"A blend of present and past" Gurl, just because you kinda made it look 2d, gave it a fairytale princess and gave it generic "Disney numbers" it doesn't immediately make it a blend of classic Disney and today it's the same generic 2019 Disney animation and story style as you've been giving us recently lol.
@@PenguinMajesty No not really, just judging them on quality halting to a big disappointment, empty promises they keep making, artist's skills they waste and expectations they place too high for what they really give. But that's just for modern Disney soo...
@@PenguinMajesty Well, that's what trailers are for. They give you the general feel of the movie, story, and character so you can judge if it's something you would be interested in. The movie still can bounce back thanks to the good word of mouth.
I think a good example of blending 2D and 3D would be arcane. The art syle’s comic book feel perfectly compliments the 2D backgrounds. It also just seems more inspired, expressive, and interesting. Along with their use of colors that capture your attention
Arcane feels like a good style to use for basically any setting, Spiderverse is the peak example of what you can do if you push the technology to its current limits, but not every movie is going to be tonally suited to a spiderverse style. However I don't see any genre that would get downgraded by having the semi realistic but painterly and artistic style that Arcane went for.
i would agree, but i would also add the movie 'klaus' onto that; its a really strange blend of 2-d and 3-d techniques that give it a very interesting and unique look- rather than something unfinished or unsatisfying like wish seemingly is
I'll admit the art style is worrisome, but I still NEED this movie to be good. I don't need it to be the next big thing, i just need it to not suck. If the story is a flop I'll loose the last shred of hope I had left for Disney
Well I'd suggest keeping your expectations as low as possible... I'm not falling for what Disney says that this movie is an "idea 100 years in the making". The animation looks bland and choppy, all the jokes in the trailers are so bad... And the songs are not catchy at all for me, in fact I kinda hate them...
@@inactivehorse9753 The choppiness is a huge problem. It makes the film look cheap, rushed, and unwatchable. It would look 10x better if they kept the smooth animation and pacing style consistent with “Tangled” and “Frozen”. Which is funny cuz it looks like they mixed elements of these two stories together, but reduced the quality.
@@tiahnarodriguez3809 Yes, i've even heard many people around saying that Disney "Finally took the SpiderVerse Route" by mixing 2D with 3D. BULLSHIT! Wish can't even compare to SpiderVerse, it just has an ugly "2D" filter on top. SpiderVerse genuenly mixed both animations styles, taking the time to make every frame feel like it's own separate art piece, Wish's animations is just lazy and ugly.
Can Disney be more unique when it comes to character, seriously they just seem the same with personality and flat out copies of Rapunzel, and the animation still looks very unfinished for some reason, Spiderverse actually had an artsitic vision, This seems like a poor man's version of it
I agree about the personality aspect--which is why I appreciate Raya, Elsa, and Judy for not being as goofy--though I guess this is to appeal to younger audiences for comedy and relateability. This is also why so many "kids' movies" with serious storylines are frequently undercut with humor. I'm iffy about hybrid styles in general, but if this fails, it's fine; this is Disney's FIRST hybrid movie, and failure is a growth lesson. I just hope the music and storyline makes up for it. I will admit I think they suceeded in making it look like a storybook, though.
Yeah and how ridiculously over the top the villain is, but not in a fun way like Scar or Ursula or Gaston. He just seems to get demented on a dime in the trailer and thats it. Plus the generic goofy animal sidekick ala Donkey...but its a goat. Yawn.
@@theCarbonFreeze I think that scene waa edited for the trailer. I imagine he's a complex villain, given that he seemingly has all the power and has a system/reason for why he only grants certain wishes.
I get that they're trying to make something new that still pays homage to Disney magic, but this looks like a "made for tv" movie at best, not the ultimate climactic moment of "100 Years of Magic." The animation certainly isn't anything special, the story seems extremely safe without any major challenges or threats, I really doubt the villain is going to be that great, and yay another obnoxious talking animal sidekick
I think the first time I heard about 2.5d was Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. I honestly couldn't tell it had 3d parts (I was about 13 when it came out, though). Arcane did the style very well. if you take a screenshot from any scene in it, you could honestly not tell it's got 3d to it, but you can if you see it in motion. It's also got more of a painterly style that just makes it look gorgeous
They reused a character model from Encanto. the older sister, Isabella. The character models are exactly the same. They have the same face and the EXACT same hairstyle. They are literally the same model with VERY LITTLE change. So very very CHEEP.
@BroKenYaKnow the two characters look far too similar for them to not be reusing assets. That is what I mean. Play enough video games and you'll be able to know.
@@mariawhite7337 I play quite a bit of video games. Those aren't the same assets, the only real similarity is the hair. The entire facial structure, height, body physique, and obv mesh is different. Unless them both being a similar skin tone is your problem, your imagining things.
The Disney Renaissance alone had more diverse animation styles. The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, Tarzan. They all had very distinct styles and character designs. If you took a character from any one of those movies and placed them in another one of those movies, they would feel out of place with the other characters and the backgrounds. If you plop Anna and Elsa in Tangled, or placed Moana in Encanto, they would blend in seamlessly. And that's not necessarily a good thing.
I think the problem is the basic plot now. Granting everyone's wishes seems like a bad goal. Unless the ending is the lesson work for your own dreams, granting EVERYONE'S wishes just doesn't work. Especially since a third of them are probably going to contradict another person's wish.
I had the same feeling, when in trailer king told we doesn’t grant all the wishes I was like - yeah it makes sense. So for me it is interesting because apparently I’m on the villain side 😂 it reminded me of Bruce all mighty when he granted all the wishes and it was complete disaster.
I've seen the movie and all of your guesses on how they handle the wishes are incorrect. I agree that the trailer isn't clear, but watch the movie before you form an opinion
I’m tired as hell of Disney making all of their female protagonists all cutesy and bubbly and clumsy. I think Asha is just going to be another Rapunzel, Anna, or Mirabel, just with a new coat of paint, and I found her to be really annoying in the newest trailer. When will Disney make new a female animated protagonist who shines by being more reserved and quiet?
mirabel may have been bubbly and that but I found she was actually quite sarcastic and snarky compared to the others. She didn’t come off as overly quirky or comedic her quirks and humor were just naturally woven into her character
Why is that? I basically happen to adore cutesy, bubbly and clumsy female protagonists. If you ask me, it's part of their appeal. Of course, besides that, being also reserved and quiet is also appealing. Why not balance it out, you know? The yin to the yang? Cutesy, bubbly and clumsy x courageous, levelheaded, and firm. That's what I believe makes a relatable character. I like Asha's cuteness, bubbliness and clumsiness, but she could also be courageous, levelheaded and firm.
@@despinasgarden.4100 yes! mirabel was really calm the most similar traits she had to this description was clumsy but that’s because of her dad and she never made a thing of it either. She was just so normal about it it never came off as annoying. The marketing really made me think mirabel was going to be super annoying and like an Anna clone when she actually ended up being my favorite from the movie
I think it's because they're trying to make Asha relatable to girls of today's time. That's why she acts more like a regular teen than someone regal and poised, like a traditional princess is expected to be. That being said, *this is exactly why I have no interest in her character at all.* Personality-wise, nothing about her in the trailer appealed to an older woman like myself. Disney thinks that animation is only for kids, and I think the way they went about this movie shows it.
I don’t mind the style tbh, I just wish they pushed harder with the lighting aspect in this movie tho, some scenes look weirdly lit, especially on the characters, giving them kind of an unfinished look and dimming the emotion of the scene way too much. Lighting is one, if not the most important aspect when it comes to convey emotions in a piece, and this movie seems to not know that.
that’s exactly what I was thinking!! And I don’t mind that much in smaller movies, but with Disney being.. well.. Disney .. I’m prettty sure they have the resources to make the movie’s lighting have more presence
Even IF Disney made a gem, they’ve driven away the majority of their audience. Yet there is no solid evidence Disney that regrets their betrayal and destruction.
well they are a company made up of thousands of employees I don’t think those employees who make the movies are allowed to speak on how they feel about the studios ethics
@@estherhinds6314 Iger is the one who pushed identity politics in the first place. He started the fire, threw skyscrapers of gasoline on it, and now that he's feeling some heat in his office, now he wants to back down?! He chopped off his own leg and now says he cares about blood loss? Too late to call in surgeon when you're on death's door. We all would LOVE to see Disney back to it's old self, but that will never be under (2shower-day) Iger.
@@lilac3266 Working for a Skinwalker doesn't have many benefits. Seeing that Skinwalker devour than mimic the things you love on a daily basis sounds like pure torture. Better to take chances in the dark ocean than stay on a burning ship.
@@Bopperann this comparison is bizarre because the company is a job and jobs give you money and money is what keeps people afloat. Skin walkers aren’t real but employee layoff is. Don’t be mad at the poor people who just want to feed themselves or their family and be mad at the billionaire CEO’s who cause this
It seems to me like the whole animation style was made out of obligation and not because anybody had any idea how to make it look good. They can't do exactly the same thing as Spiderverse because a comic book style wouldn't fit a fairytale land and when Puss in Boots the Last Wish was released the animation for Wish was probably already underway. I think it would be best for the celebration of 100 years of the studio to make a 2D movie. But I could live with a 3D movie. As someone once said ''Don't half-ass two things. Wholeass one thing.''
thats how it seems to me too. I feel like i can see the conversation of some higher up going "we have to make something like spiderverse, new and innovative to keep up" but not out of artistic integrity, out of capitalistic competing and profit. The textures they chose make some of the backgrounds look like those unsettling AI images. theres something about it that is just so off putting and sterile
It breaks my heart that there's a very real possibility that if this movie doesn't do well, Disney will continue to believe the idea that 2D animation aren't profitable and the chances of them attempting new things instead of just reboots and sequels will be even lower... All because they're just doing it wrong, it looks like it's not even done being rendered to me
The animation style seriously reminds me of Sophia the first, one of those soulless 3d animations for children. And that’s not a good thing. They tried to make it look 2d but failed miserably. I don’t understand why Disney is so scared to make a real 2d movie again
I’m still gonna give this movie a chance in the theaters just to avoid further spoilers. Besides, I still like Disney when it comes to their animated movies. But I don’t like their live-action lineup anymore (with a few exceptions like the Jungle Book 2016 and Cinderella 2015).
@@lilac3266song from encanto disney has took risk at one movie before with snow white and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella The Little Mermaid and they will do it again
Time and time again it seems we've reached the point where all our dreams are crumbling all around us, every outcome unjust Every step it seems has led us further from our goal instead, our triumphs haven't mattered and we're drifting ever backward We're looking in ourselves and trusting the light, a miracle is all we need but there isn't one in sight +did you get it? 😉
I hate his voice so much. I’m tired of his VA being in every single Disney film, and we already had a cutesy goat sidekick in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
I see. I have long outgrown animal sidekicks. I find them annoying more than anything now. There is a funny thing about Hunchback of Notre Dame. That movie had a good excuse to have a goat sidekick. The goat was actually in the book.
The funny thing is that Disney has Paperman with its unique art style right under their nose. Pick that style and make it colorful, write a kind story about hope and pure love. I’m sure it’d be a big hit. And the style of Paperman is a combo of both 2D and 3D which it’s trending these days. For now Wish looks like animators got an order from the heads to make a movie “Like DreamWorks’ Spider Man but make it Disney”
The goat is the only one that feels like an old 2D character brought to life with modern 3D. Everyone else looks like the typical disney 3D. The backgrounds also feel.... so flat. Not in the "painted in 2D" kind of flat but rather that it's hard to perceive it as a live world. It feels like the characters are acting infront of cardboard cutouts instead of actual 3D structures.
I feel like they should have done something like the movie Klaus. Hand-drawn animation but with modern rendering. It's a gorgeous film, especially the background.
I don't care about their intentions, the art style looks more like unfinished 3D than anything else. It looks like they shaded it with black and they most likely didn't check their values in grayscale. All shades are equally blurry, regardless of the shape of the object. In turn, it just looks flat and desaturated. Same mistakes an amateur digital artist would do, really. I'd suggest they take a step back from "branding" and focus more on art direction. Having recognizable style should always be an "add on" to actually good art, animation and story, not its main selling point. *said the art kid and returned to animating silly talking cats*
That’s exactly what I thought today. I saw the trailer yeasterday and had a feeling that something is off. And then I got the same idea as you: it looks like they haven’t finished they usual 3D animation. I just hope it will look better as a final product.
@@That-girliscrazy Yeah, I also saw this, especially in case of the villain (not only clothing but thier faces as well). But story itself looks quite promising so I hope it will be good
I'm still conflicted when it comes to this movie... I normaly don't judge movies to much by their trailer material (trailers ow a days are low key terrible), and some of the scenes shown, like the scenes featuring magic, actually look really nice! Bur for every pretty scene, there seem to be at least two other scenes that look like they wheren't rendered fully... Maybe it's the fact I don't really like the execution of the art style making me more critical, but this was also the first time I saw a trailer and my first thought "ah, another one of THAT character type for the mc...how original". Becouse the female lead seems awfully close to Anna, Rapunzel and Mirabelle when it comes to personalities (seriously, I even thought she and Mirabelle had the same VA for a hot secound...), and for the first time ever, I actually wish for variety! Which honestly, shocks me more than anything, becouse I usualy don't mind seeing the same character type multiple times!
Mirabel really doesn’t fit into this category of protagonist as it’s an act for her. She’s actually really sarcastic, dismissive and snarky. Yeah she’s nice and all but she’s not really that quirky unless you count the opening song which was her act.
@@lilac3266 pretty sure it will also be partly an act for this one, considering the first thing we see of her is her covering up her screw up at, what seems to be, a performance. Besides, I never called the personality type "quirky". I think that's a stupid buss word. For me these characters fall more into the personality type of "silly happy go lucky with a dash of clumsy, who are trying to over compensate with their happy go lucky act"
@@aniflowers1998 i mean it doesn’t seem like an act if the trailer is emphasizing it. For mirabel it made sense because she was trying to make up for her lack of gift. But this asha girl already has an established friend group and seemingly isn’t trying to impress anyone.
You really put into word what I felt about the style of animation. It feels lika Sophia the first but just a little more elaborate. The same choppiness, stiffness even sometimes. This feels unpolished overall meanwhile Nimona (that you highlited) had really this perfect sense of hamony between its backgrounds and action.
Who else felt like they lost faith on Disney’s animation… just how did they got to this place where storylines no longer attract viewers? Note: didn’t expect to get so many likes, thank you!
Im a 3D animator. It's my chosen medium of animation and I love it. That doesn't mean I don't want variety or something new. The animation in this looks dull to me. The 2D Shading doesn't have linework so just looks like cell shaded 3D rather than a blend with hand drawn. The characters are animated on one's but without the motion blur 3D is famous for, making it look cheap. In trying to get the best from the two mediums they've done neither.
(animator here as well, but I mostly do 2D and experimental) Totally agree. I feel like they were trying to do Puss in Boots Last Wish and Arcane, but for some reason they didn't? It def looks like unfinished cell shading and also those early 2000s/2010s films and tv shows with little budgets.
Asha’s design is just so underdeveloped in my opinion, she looks like a background character more than a central protagonist. I understand they want her to look simple but it feels like they went to simple and instead made her look generic NPC you’d meet briefly in a game before you never see her again.
Either we're seeing that this is another Elemental come-back or a doomed failure due to a flawed innovative vision. From where it stands, I feel like everything else has to be really good now in order to succeed if the animation truly feels unfinished.
Honestly I definitely feel Wish is more on the latter. Just looking at the trailers, even the story seems bland and dare I say, nonsensical... Like all of this because the "villain" Won't grant everyone's wishes? Like did they ever consider that some or maybe almost all of the wishes have malevolent or selfish intentions, it's not the "villains" Fault that he has to decide which wishes are worth granting and that are only beneficial to his kingdom... Also every joke in the trailers so far are so cringe Inducing, and I can see that the plot will be contrived as hell... Also this is just me, but the songs in the trailers so far are not catchy in the slightest, in fact I'm kinda starting to hate them... So I definitely think that Wish is doomed to fail.
@@inactivehorse9753 this brings up a good point. I feel like we're maybe getting another "misunderstood villain". My expectations aren't remotely high, but I feel like disney wouldn't screw up a villain *so* bad that they forget a reason for the villain to be evil. Even bottom of the barrel Hans wasn't that bad
@@PenguinMajesty I'm sorry, but with what was shown in the trailer, I have no hope that this film will succeed. It may be average at best, but nothing ground breaking, and given Disney's track record, it's more likely that this will fail just like every other garbage they've been pumping out lately...
Honestly, i am trying to be hopeful for this movie but sadly it doesn't have that zing many old disney movies have. Also why does every trailer reveal too much information. I mean remember when Up or Wall-E were revealed, they showed the concept but kept it vague with what the story was about. I don't remember seeing Eve at all in the trailers apart from the final trailer a couple days after the movie came out. I miss the days where the trailers reveal the concept of the story but let the audience guess what it's all about.
For a 100 year anniversary movie, a kingdom hearts 1 like story would be amazing. Chronologically revisiting movies in their respective artstyles with a classic heroes motivation and the personification of villainy itself as the antagonist. That way, disney could even pocket on the whole nostalgia without ruining my childhood memories. ^^
We kiiiiiiiiiiiinda got something like that im Once Upon a Studio in which you have all of the characters together... but a big epic tale would've been amazing to see.
@@maddieb.440 That was what I was thinking about. Klaus animation looked great BECAUSE it was animated 2d to look 3d. This movie felt like it was trying to do that but with 3d into 2d, but they didn't do it right.
I'm in the same boat. Watching the trailer yesterday morning, I found I was actually less impressed with the trailer. It looks unfinished in some spots, and I think that's because of this style they're doing. Like good on them to mix it up, but it feels like they aren't pushing the style enough, that this is something like a very light experimentation or a cautious exploration and they're just toeing the water instead of diving in. And because it's a itty bitty ripple they're making in the water, I don't want to dive into the film and immerse myself. Hearing that they also went 2D with this film, I wish they did. I think it would look better if it went full 2D, and it'd be a nice way to shake up their usual style by delving back into 2D. I also just do miss western 2D animation. I am biased for the return to it. Sadly we're not there yet.
I agree. It looks somewhat unfinished. The only thing that it has going for it are the colors, and if i wanted a colorful western animated movie with villains, I’d just watch into the spider verse or puss in boots 2
Apparently the reason why the trailer looks “unfinished” is because of the watercolors. RUclips doesn’t like it so it’s blurring and compressing the trailer a lot. You can barely Asha’s freckles. If you look the the HD version it’s much better.
You can make the argument that Disney is finally trying the “spider verse” animation style, but I don’t think that’s the case. The “spider verse” animation isn’t just cgi looking 2d and 3d at the same time, it’s more stylistic in different ways. Like how Spider verse and TMNT (the recent one) look like a comic book and how the animation is used, especially in an action scene or such, frames drop and look like something you’d see in a comic. Same with PIB the last wish. Where it looks like a fairy tale and also used dropped frames and is very colorful with everything, especially the background. Wish though, it looks like Disney is being lazy to where the movie could be animated the usual way Disney animation animates their other movies, and nothing would change. But maybe this movie will surprise everyone. We’ll just have to see
I wasn't a fan of the style for TMNT, personally. It looked blocky and incomplete, but that's just me. I'm curious to see how Disney's watercolor style would've looked for this if they chose 2D or 3D.
The scenes where the characters are outside look alright to me but the ones where we see asha's friends with the grey castle wall behind them look really cheap. I'm concerned about how this is going to look on the big screen. Hopefully it'll be better than i'm expecting.
Here's a word from Lisa Keane, production designer for the film on choosing the animation style: “There’s a watercolor look and a paper texture - it’s like a moving illustration. We’ve had the ability to do watercolor scenes for a long time, but we weren’t able to bring that to the characters. Now, we are able to marry all these ideas in CG, because of the tools we created.”
There's nothing even close to a watercolor aspect in the scenes that I've seen, and I can't believe they're calling "paper texture" the aspect of a not finished render this movie has. There's a ton of types of paper, as paper textures. Not every paper looks like a boring flat block of color without any texture
I wish for Wish they had leaned more into that painterly style like Paperman and Klaus because it could’ve been so gorgeous. I really want to love Asha because I’m so excited to have our first princess with box braids and I do love the casting for her voice, but I’m honestly frightened about Disney and their future right now. I love Disney but I wish they would take Disney 100 as an opportunity to return to form, being on the cutting edge of innovation and storytelling. Doing things no other company was doing because they actually put faith in their crew. I’m wondering if it’ll take another period of failure for another Disney Renaissance but at this point it feels like Disney execs are just gonna run the entire company into the ground. The good faith Disney has cultivated for a *literal century* is running very thin right now.
Am I the only one who thinks all those gouache painted 2D backgrounds just emphasize the 3D characters straight into the uncanny valley? I wish they'd have either committed to the 2D to honor their past or had the different styles in entirely different worlds like in Mary Poppins or Enchanted with 3D characters entering a portal or gateway into a fully 2D world or vice versa.
@@TheFirstHurrah I don't believe any one form of art is inherently better than another. I do love 2d animation and wish it was used more but I acknowledge sometimes a story needs 3d animation to be told. Wreck it Ralph, for instance, benefited from the 3d style because it really gave it the feel of a video game. Enchanted needed 2d to give the feeling of being transported into a classic Disney cartoon. Into the Spiderverse utilized both techniques to great effect (they succeeded where Disney failed miserably on Wish).
For me, my only problem is that I wish they kind merged 2D and 3D into this movie. I think that would make a smooth transition to more 2D Disney stories and them merging 2D and 3D better makes sense for the style they’re going for. There’s been studios who have done this perfectly. Even Spider-verse has. Other than that the movie looks very promising and I’m excited to watch
It seems like they wanted to make a movie with the art style like Arcane, Puss in Boots 2, Nimona, Spider-Man and Tall Grass (from Love, Death and Robots), but it came out like Sofia the First or Elena of Avalor with more investment 😅.
I think it says something that I'm more looking forward to the 100 Year Animated Short 'Once Upon A Studio' than I am to Wish. Because the Short is everything I wanted for their anniversary! It has characters from every previous Disney animated feature in the animation style they are supposed to appear in, both 2D and 3D, with their original voice actors!! They even rehired their old 2D animators to work on the short!! And we finally get Oswald the Lucky Rabbit on film!!!!!!!!!! So, in conclusion, if you want to watch Wish, go watch it, but be hyped for 'Once Upon A Studio'.
@@cheetosan yeah, thats the only problem with it. im pretty sure they used AI because some of them don't sound quite right. like, the sound from the mic is off.
What’s possibly confusing is around the exact same time this was announced Disneys new cruise liner was brought out and it is called Wish. This means whenever you google Disney Wish you might get the cruise or the movie and it makes me wonder if it is a massive coincidence or if one was meant to burry the existence of the other…considering what happened not too long ago on The Disney Fantasy cruise. I’m sure Disney is trying to make us forget that one of their employees did some unsavory conduct. So you pick, is the movie trying to distract from the boat or is the boat trying to distract from the film? I know this sounds insane but it’s happened before.
To me, Wish's art direction looks like Disney was trying to add elements from the art styles of PN'B: TLW and Nimona, but still couldn't let go of its tired, default animation style and try something new. The final animation in the trailers looks like an unrendered storyboard. 😐
I'm just not a fan of 3d animation anymore. It seems more limited. I can't feel the movements or the world as much since they don't seem that exaggerated. It's TOO fluid. I loved pausing 2d films to see how they stretch or even skip frames entirely to get the most out of the motions. 3D is good but I've had my fill of it for now. :)
My beef with 3d is that it tends to age very poorly because of how technology is improving at a rapid pace. What looks fine now may end up looking dated in 3, 4 years time. But you look at stuff like Bambi, Sleeping Beauty and Hunchback. Still gorgeous no matter how much time has passed.
The spider-verse and new teenage mutant ninja turtles movies merged 2D and 3D animation well. They combined bold outlines and varieties of textures to make the animation appear both 2D and 3D. They also experimented with different art styles which helped make the movies feel so refreshing and distance themselves from previous animated movies, their animation choices also made sense and there was a nice balance between the characters and the background. I understand that Disney is trying to bring that magic back to their movies and trying to create something new, but you can't just slap a thin darker outline on the same 3D models and keep the same animation style and call it new and innovative. It just looks low budget and it sort of looks like a giant mobile game cutscene. Another thing that bugs me is their choice of colour. It feels really dull and doesn't feel magical like it's supposed to be
Finally someone else is saying this. It feels cheap and half assed as if Disney knows and understands what works (I mean they’ve seen 5 other movies that succeeded) but still won’t learn and take a chance. It’s more pathetic than inspiring 😕
"Flawless and perfect"? When did we get a female character that was any of those, let alone recently? Anna wasn't, Elsa wasn't, Mirabel wasn't, Tiana wasn't... "Looks the same" is a valid complaint, but anyone who upvoted you for the ""flawless and perfect" comment should be ashamed of themselves and revoked from critiquing media ever again because they clearly have no media comprehension.
@RavenStarMedia I love it when people make assumptions about characters right off the bat before actually looking at the story content. I have many concerns for Disney and their projects. However, I'm not going to make fun of a movie because i think it places stereotypes on people before watching it.
I feel like Disney is trying to echo the Spiderverse blend of 2d and 3d, the way Arcane and Nimona are also known for. But somehow this doesn't really... catch that mannerisms. Like the backgrounds echo the old painting-esque backgrounds of classical Disney movies but it clashes with whatever they're doing in the foreground. My hopes is the king is like the irredeemable old villains Disney somehow sees as problematic. They are villains. They're supposed to be problematic.
When the king said I DECIDED WHAT EVERYONE DESERVES! it's fair to say the least he might be this fairytale villain And the real villains are the ones doing damage to the whole company. So how's it not obvious?
If they really wanted to do a homage to their origins they should’ve just gone full 2D rather than slapping a watercolor filter on top of half-rendered animation. Mary Poppins Returns showed that they absolutely still have the ability to incorporate 2D into modern films.
It’s sadly a major compression problem that sites like RUclips and Twitter face. If you look up the HD trailer the watercolor effects and overall look is MUCH better, but since RUclips and Twitter value speed over quality it looks completely flattened. It should be okay on streaming services thankfully, I really recommend looking the HD trailer up and giving it a look. The difference is night and day
You are so right to compare this to Nimona Honestly the second I saw these trailers I felt like its just Disney trying to slap together something that resembles how amazing Nimona looked but just like you said these trailers make the movie seem like its just not going all the way to make it actually look good because theyre too afriad to push it
comments aside of the technical quality of the trailer, the moment I saw the lamb and star as actual characters on the story the first thing that came to my mind was "oh so they'll make happy meals with these guys as dolls that will come as prizes" like it's so obvious they don't even try to hide it anymore. disney is now lacking of quality on purpose to the point I feel sorry for every person who pays to watch it on teathers
I like the looks of the style so far, and am optimistic about the whole thing. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t expect a whole lot and usually is just happy to watch something fun, has good music, and makes me *feel*. I don’t think it has to be deep or groundbreaking, as long as the story and characters are good. My expectations aren’t incredibly high, but I’m hopeful.
I'm curious because I just don't have that same feeling, but why wouldn't you have high standards for the art you consume? Especially when it's coming from the wealthiest film company on Earth.... To me it feels like going to a Michelin star restaurant and being satisfied with a serving of white bread with a Kraft single on top, and being like "Clearly this is enough! Thank you, chef."
@@Madamoizillion I meant that more as an “I’m easy to please”. You do have a good point about expecting MORE out of Disney, but I’ve never really seen it that way. I watch movies to be entertained and to have a good time. If that bar is met, great. And if they go above and beyond, it just means that they’ll blow my expectations out of the water. If Disney puts out a real bomb of a movie; bad quality animation, writing, and acting, THAT’s when I feel cheated out of my time. I know Disney can put out good work. There’s a quality I DO expect and know they can achieve. But I don’t expect them to put out a megahit like The Lion King every single time. I tend to temper those expectations. Maybe it’s because I’m afraid of being disappointed but who knows. Maybe it’s not that deep. Maybe I can just say to myself “hey, this looks like I’m going to have fun watching it :)” and nothing more.
Here's what's going on with the art style: It's the compression rate on social media that is crunching down the quality of the video. The film actually looks REALLY good on the big screen. Not to mention the aspect ratio is actually a 2:5:5 (Cinemascope) which hasnt been done since Sleeping Beauty. I actually managed to see a sneak peek of it at D23 and RUclips is doing a terrible job compressing it. The painterly brush strokes are so subtle that you can only really see it on the big screen. Now.... should Disney have accounted for social media video compression??? YES!! But... I think the art style is way better on the big screen.
I am a really strong supporter of using movie trailers just to understand how close we are to the movie's release. Let's remember how wrong we were about our expectations for Elemental.
I'm glad you made this video. I remember watching the trailer and feeling like something was...off. Like something was missing. I can definitely see it's the style and Disney's lack of risk-taking. I haven't been excited for a Disney movie since Encanto...
They already did a watercolor background movie much better and feels significantly more alive: Lio and Stitch. Idk what happened here with the art direction.
i think that one of the things they are missing when compared to their past animations is, yes, 2d animation but also making the *backgrounds* a character too. i was trying to place my feelings while watching this and upon seeing the clips on loop in this video, it hit me that though the backgrounds are beautiful, they lack life. if that makes sense. im a watercolorist too lol so i love when i see the medium represented in different artworks.
Well,we have to see about it. Because most times,trailers are only as a preview to the actual movie. Maybe some more "unfinished" looking animation might be taken away or have them improve. Theres still one more month for them to finish it,and for me,Im excited. But judging by their other promotional materials like posters and renders,they are still afraid to move on. Honestly its pretty understandable. Sony,the one that made Spiderverse,was also afraid people are going to hate Spiderverse for its visuals being too unrealistic. I think its the same for Disney. Maybe when the movie earned financially and critically success,they will do more stuff like this,like how Sony does with Spiderverse sequels,Mitchells vs The Machines,and so on. Overall,I hope this turned out great,Disney will be more willing to take risks rather than play it safe,and they will become better than these past recent years
If they wanted to combine 2D with 3D, this just feels cheap and like they're doing the bare minimum. They could've done something like Klaus where it looks 3D but is actually 2D and have more life, charm and soul into it. But nah :/
One of the artists posted a trailer with a higher bitrate and... WOW! The animation looks beyond day and night with a higher bitrate. It genuinely has a great animation with a ton of detail in every scene. I hope more people look into the bitrate issue.
To me it looks like they were animating it like they normally would, but then saw the success of Spider-verse and Puss in Boots and decided to try to emulate it halfway through production. It looks like a 2D filter they overlayed on top of their normal animation, which leads it to look half-baked and unfinished. I know that’s probably not what happened, but that’s the vibe I get from it
I will say this though, when I went to see Elemental in cinemas and saw Wish's teaser on the big screen the animation looked phenomenal. You could see every single line and even what looked like film grain in some shots.
It actually looks worse due to youtube's compresion. The actual shots are much more detailed and lively, but the only problem I have is the dull colors. I think it should use the colors to more so set the mood, using duller colors whenever somebody like the king is around with sparks of neon green, but vivid and saturated colors whenever the main character is on screen.
I have seen films and shows that cleverly combine 2D and 3D animation. Films and shows that seem to strike a good balance and make you wonder whether it emulates 2D or 3D animation more. Unfortunately, the characters in "Wish" just seem like they're 90% 3D and 10% 2D. *edit:* you brought up Paperman as an example of blended animation done well and I couldn't agree more.
Yeah, literally my first thought when seeing the trailer was "oh they're scared" like they clearly want to make something stylized but they're too afraid to go for it, it just feels very very cautious
The biggest problem is that it looks unfinished. They're trying to be like Arcane or Spiderman into The Spiderverse, but they're not implementing what makes those animations look like drawings. I'm sure the movie is good, but they're too implemented in the 'disney style' that they wont adjust
So the new trailer made me actually excited for the movie. It looks kinda generic but I actually love the art style. It's the first Disney movie I'm excited for since Encanto
I feel that they just wanted to hop in the "Spider-verse animation style" trend since they saw that many rival studios have been doing the same thing, but without risking the 3D animation technique that they've been using since the eariler 2010's, and at least for me, it's not really convincing, any 2D effect looks great but the 3D animation looks unfinished, like it belongs in a Disney Jr. show, and not in the good way
As soon as I saw the first add I just couldn't help but think that they aren't making the 3D animation look 2D, rather, it looks like unfinished 3D art. It looks like Sophia the First, a kids daytime TV show. Actually, it looks worse, like the Shrek 1 blooper reel. I just DON'T believe Disney did this on purpose, I think they simply ran out of budget to fully render this film. They are doing SO poorly they just couldn't afford to make it look better, but they're too prideful to admit it. XD
Asha's design has always reminded me of Isabella from Encanto and I wish her design was a little stronger. For example, simply having her braids a little looser in animation or maybe giving her an accessory would've helped a little bit with differentiating her. For those who can't see it, she has a similar skin tone, hair color (despite Asha seeming to have African features), and hair length. She also has a very similarly colored and length of dress (with Isabella's dress actually having more designs according to her character). She's so plain looking to me for some reason and Isabella looks better despite their designs being so similar. Also, to say that she's plain because she's poor or something doesn't make sense to me because she's wearing PURPLE. A color for royals.
First impression and fully honest here, the first 20 sec of the trailer were met with "Oh wow I rly like the backgrounds!" followed by "but why are the characters so off?" to ""uhm.. it feels like they put a filter on it" It gives off cgi from early 3D films, I understand what they tried, but clearly either they were too afraid to make big changes or they couldn't find a good way to make it happen. At this point I'm sure Disney tries to "please" everyone, but as we humans tend to be too, you can't please everyone, and if you do it, WHO are you truly in the end? As long es they don't redefine their vision and style, they will be stuck in their jack of all trades, master of none.
The backgrounds are indeed 2d old-school disney animation, and it has a mixture of watercolors. It looks nice but I think will need to watch it in the big screen to see how ti goes.
The trouble is that every artist has a unique and distinct style, so when the same group of artists design and animate everything it all starts to look very samey. John Williams will always sound like John Williams, for example, and Milt Kahl will always look like Milt Kahl. Hiring on or sourcing out to new animators could help alleviate the problem, or perhaps exploring different animation techniques, but some change is definitely needed.
My dude, Disney has always sourced out its artists. Not all the animation is made in house. If you ask me, they were at their most innovative in the earlier years. The shift to 3d is what killed it.
there's also the issue with princesses having the same personality. Anna, Rapunzel, Mirabel, Moana, and now this new princess are all "aWkWaRd and QuIrCkY" just give us a princess with a personality god damn
mirabel is only awkward and quirky when she’s talking to the kids because it’s an act. She’s actually quite sarcastic, dismissive and snarky. Not to mention she’s a lot calmer than the other ones there
I respectfully disagree. I thought the whole 3D era was very repetitive, with the films having all the same too perfect faces for their princesses. I find the art style of Wish very pictural, it looked like painting. Finally, Disney are taking risks with its animation, something we never really saw since Princess and the Frog.
I think if they wanted to run with the theme of celebrating 100 years of animation, it would have been cooler to make the movie fully 2D to pay homage to where the company started. A lot of Disney fans have been asking for 2D animation again so it would've been a great opportunity. This style isn't bad but it does look stiff at some points.
I think they're kinda worried about "looking back," so to speak. When I was growing up, Disney got heat for not being original enough, and I could see them going back to 2D and people saying they backtracked/ran out of ideas.
Well someone else finally said what has been on my mind. While I appreciate different perspectives especially when it comes to animation, it often sounds like an echo chamber.
@@OpticalSorcerer that’s a good point 😭
@@missmadyreads I do love 2D as much as 3D, though! I always hoped we'd get a Japanese-inspired Disney musical with Hayao Miyazaki directing it. 2D would be perfect for it--then again, I'd be cool with 3D since I've never seen a good 3D anime but western CGI is usually great.
I remember when reps from Disney came to my university to talk about The Princess and the Frog. They had plans to continue making traditional animated films. And while the movie made money, I don't think it made Lion King money that they were hoping for.
When Glen Keane was the original director of Tangled, he wanted the whole project to be 2D because he always preferred that style.
To me Wish looks like its in that phase in rendering where everything is animated. but its missing certain shaders and lights.
Exactly! It looks like they cheapened the animation to get the "2D" effect.
That's what I keep saying! It doesn't look finished! If they wanted to go for a style that was a blend of 2D and 3D, there's plenty of things they could have added. As it is, it looks like I'm looking at a WIP
There’s an HD version of the trailer of the film. RUclips doesn’t like the watercolor effect of the film and compresses and destroys the quality, I really suggest you give that one a watch. Although still not perfect, it looks much less unrendered :)
where to find it??@@Infortitude
@@Infortitude that still doesn't excuse the lighting, though. Everything looks murky and lacks clear light sources, as if they haven't done the process of properly lighting everything yet.
It's not just the animation itself, the colours look weirdly dulled down as well. If Disney actually cared about their anniversary, they would have gone for the hand-drawn style with loud musical numbers and dramatic villains. But clearly they don't, as usual, they just want to make a quick cash grab and use the whole 'Anniversary' thing as a marketing ploy. This sounds very pessimistic but the studio hasn't given me any reason to believe or care about their projects for years
Agree. It hardly feels Disney. When first saw the teaser I thought it's some small company.
And to think Disney was at one point meant to bring fantastical, almost unbelievable stories to life. To inspire people to do more and to actually have some sort of imagination.
Right?? It feels so flat and I'm thinking it's intentional to make it look like a story book, but it's just not working for me.
Exactly!! Disney movies don't feel like Disney movies anymore because they don't have as much effort put in as they used to.
Not to mention recently they've just tried to make everything political and woke with diversity which feels very forced which isn't what an animated movie should be.
(I love diversity but it should make sense and shouldn't feel forced,
For example; if a movie was set in medieval Norway, there wouldn't be any African people because back then it was a homogeneous country etc)
(This is my opinion as an African)
This is the last chance I'm giving Disney to change my mind before I stop supporting them for good so I'm hoping they don't disappoint again.
I kind of have to disagree with the colours. I think the colours make the film quite dreamy looking. But I think it would be improved by a more watercolour artstyle.
More than the animation what gets me is the COLORS. The whole point of animation is that you can present the impossible, and the colours in Wish feel too… realistic? It’s not giving magic or wonder, even compared to their 3D works
Yeah nothing really stands out to me.
Exactly
I've never tought about it but youre true!
I thought that, the colors in the movie are so...low? not enough? the movie just feels so under-colored to me. I would compare it to tangles or brave but even those movies had some pop of color.
Yeah I think if they had upped the saturation the style could have been bumped up a few notches
Is it me, or Disney has a problem with "same face" characters? It feels they've been reusing their characters assests throughout the last 3 movies. I'm sure I've seen Anna a ton in different movies.
Asha is just Isabella with a different face
I like to call it the "frozen" style
I honestly miss when characters in fantasy themed movies looked magical and not like people you would typically find walking on the sidewalk.
@@jonal5126 and I hate this so much. Asha looks so much like Isabela, having the same color palette, a very similar silhouette and the same proportions. Old Disney films had very distinct princesses, like you couldn't mistake Snow White for Mulan (or Ariel, if you wanna go with the same race) because they had different silhoettes and art styles (and I'm talking stylization, not just the style the film is animated in). Now every girl looks like Rapunzel but in a different pallette.
And also, back in the early 2000's, Barbie used to have these 3D animated films, they weren't the best animation wise and hte budgets weren't big, but most of the old ones used classical music and retold classic ballet stories. So they had The Nutcracker and Swan Lake and they wanted to finish off the trilogy with Sleeping Beauty but then Disney didn't allow them because apparently having a blonde girl in a pink dress would be too confusing for kids. And now we have Asha and Isabella. (Yes I know you don't own color palettes and all, I'm just saying it's a shitty excuse)
Omg yes!! I think she literally looks like Moana but with different hair and clothes
Every time I see the wish trailer I just think about how much better the characters would look if they were fully hand drawn 2D animated. Imagine if they made it look like the prince of Egypt style or Aladdin.
Or the Princess and the Frog
Agreed, I'm sick of the Frozen/Tangled style of character design and I want to see characters with a variety of shapes, sizes, colors, and expressions as seen in their 2D films.
I fully agree,
but just so you know, Prince of Egypt was a DreamWorks movie not a Disney movie, they had a brief stint of doing 2D animation with some 3D elements.
I miss movies like 101 Dalmatians so much for the characters shapes and scenarios scribbled with monocolors
This is why Wreck It Ralph is my favorite modern movie. Tons of characters that actually look different from each other rather then using the same art style.
They tried to do a stylized Spiderverse aesthetic but half-assed it. Its like they wanted to shake things up but not too much less it offend some of their audience. So instead its like a weird hybrid look that pleases no one and actually makes the film appear unfinished. Coming off the heels of ATSV and the new TMNT, which were ridiculously innovative in their art direction, it feels positively quaint.
Disney rested on their laurels for too long, allowing the studio which made the freaking emoji movie to step up their game and take the medium to its next level. They may be celebrating a milestone anniversary but no ones excited for the bland, watered down product theyre putting out anymore. 2023 is Sony's time to shine; they beat the mouse at his own game and I think many of us are happy to see them humbled for a change.
Agreed. The character designs also looks just like the previous films. The animation is a bit different but character designs are pretty much the same, there's also a lack of vibrant colors. In some scenes, it feels like they animated it similarly to Frozen and then slapped a cartoon filter over it.
Disney is playing it EXTREMELY safe.
I thought the same thing. They tried to do something similar to “Spiderverse”, but failed. “Puss in Boots 2” did a great job combining animation, pacing and style from both “Shrek” and “Spiderverse”, but Disney was probably more focused with pumping out their next generic money maker, that they didn’t really care about the quality which is why “Spiderverse” was so well received. Low-quality just makes the film look choppy and unwatchable, and ultimately cheap.
im happy they basically let spiderverse be better
I really hope we get another spiderverse styled movie soon. Maybe KP4?...
@@tiahnarodriguez3809 And TMNT: mutant mayhem. I haven't seen it yet, but it looks so good.
It's literally giving Sofia the First vibes, and as much as I loved that show (and continue to do so to this day), that is NOT what a big budget, theatrical movie on the big screen should look like, ESPECIALLY one commemorating the 100 years of animation.
I don’t think it’s translating well with the RUclips compression and the cheap lcd screens. I’m sure it will look great in theaters but no so much in homes. Which is a different problem
My thoughts exactly! 😔
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Yup.
Right. Sofia the first is a show. It cant have a high budget on every episode and stick to more simply artstyles etc, especially since it has at least a musical number in every single episode. But Wish is a movie and on top of that a celebration forr Disneys 100th anniversary. It cannot have the same artstyle and simplicity, its simply unfitting of it (coming drom a huge stf fan btw)
It looks nice and I like Asha’s design, but I wish they went further with the watercolor art style.
yes! for how much they talked about "blending 2d and 3d" they didn't do it that well in my opinion, they should've leaned into the 2d aspect a lot more then they did
Yeah. It’s really close to looking like it came out from one of Disney’s picture books. But I feel like it needs a little bit more in something. I love the designs of everything else though!
@@rinwhittney5039 yeah, I barely notice any 2d aspects at first, when I looked more carefully, then I saw it. I wish it was more apparent.
The only thing I wish was different is her personality.
Nothing wrong, it’s just that she seems to have the same personality Anna has based on what is shown in the trailer. Also I don’t know why Disney is making all of their most recent main characters clumsy. (Ya I know it’s supposed to make the character relatable and endear them to you, but now it just feels cliche)
there was a tweet saying that youtube severely washes down the watercolors or something like that, there apparently supposed to be more that you can look at
There doesn't seem to be any smears or motion blur so when fast movements happen it's hard to follow and is just a mess of frames like when Asha moves around real fast on that stage. It looks incredibly cheap. There is no exaggeration or caricature or stretching and squashing. Yes, theres a little bit but it's so subdued. Disney company should feel embarrassed. This is what they consider high enough quality for 100th anniversary? A studio known for hand drawn fluid caricatured unique style per film featured animation? I'm sure they're terrified of another traditional film flopping so they can't commit to either style. Klaus is a better feature quality film in terms of visuals over Wish.
Agreed. I myself wish for once Disney, or at least someone else, can do fluid classical hand drawn animation again.
🙌 YES
@SapphireGem-is6jyyou're probably one of those people that say don't judge a movie by its trailer as if that's not the whole point of a trailer
@SapphireGem-is6jy bro thinks he's funny
Smear frames help so much with fluidity in animation.
In recent years, Disney has been so busy making money that, instead of being an animation legendary company, it has made repetitive, bland, soulless or very meaningless cliché works, and this has made me not want to watch everything they do anymore, in people's minds, from Disney making a legend if it makes it. They have so much confidence in themselves that they still don't even realize the damage they have done in recent years. The background of this movie looks nice, but it also looks like it will be boring, so I don't want to watch it at all. In the past, I would have watched it immediately because Disney made it, but no.
we are tired, so our time is valuable. They may continue to see us as just marketing clients, but I want to see productions where real art is appreciated. I can't stand Disney anymore, I wish a new studio would come out and make original, creative productions that can accommodate everyone from different kinds and leave Disney behind.
Great analysis of the current situation...and alas I feel just the same, if Disney is not what once was since it's lost its passion and magic touch, may some other company embody the essence of it y'know (regarding the live action department as well, pretty please!).
Time will tell I guess...🥹🌠🤞❤️🩹
@@federicatrevisan3767 yea..
🧚🏽♀️💗
Love the analysis. I also find it funny that Nimona, a movie that Disney cancelled, was picked up by Netflix of all people and they made it better than all of the recent Disney movies, along with giving us a realistic LGBTQ portrayal
@@BrianCannan-em1nk yea too bad for them, nimona is awoseme and a lot of people loved it 😌💗🕺
@@HiidesuI’m one of those people
"A blend of present and past"
Gurl, just because you kinda made it look 2d, gave it a fairytale princess and gave it generic "Disney numbers" it doesn't immediately make it a blend of classic Disney and today it's the same generic 2019 Disney animation and story style as you've been giving us recently lol.
Are we really still judging movies by their trailers?
@@PenguinMajesty No not really, just judging them on quality halting to a big disappointment, empty promises they keep making, artist's skills they waste and expectations they place too high for what they really give. But that's just for modern Disney soo...
@@PenguinMajesty Well, that's what trailers are for. They give you the general feel of the movie, story, and character so you can judge if it's something you would be interested in. The movie still can bounce back thanks to the good word of mouth.
And worse, sometimes the characters doesn't have those lines in their faces, they look like Sofia The First
@@PenguinMajesty a trailer is made to judge
I think a good example of blending 2D and 3D would be arcane. The art syle’s comic book feel perfectly compliments the 2D backgrounds. It also just seems more inspired, expressive, and interesting. Along with their use of colors that capture your attention
Spiderverse is a good one too
And nimona !
Arcane feels like a good style to use for basically any setting, Spiderverse is the peak example of what you can do if you push the technology to its current limits, but not every movie is going to be tonally suited to a spiderverse style.
However I don't see any genre that would get downgraded by having the semi realistic but painterly and artistic style that Arcane went for.
i would agree, but i would also add the movie 'klaus' onto that; its a really strange blend of 2-d and 3-d techniques that give it a very interesting and unique look- rather than something unfinished or unsatisfying like wish seemingly is
I'll admit the art style is worrisome, but I still NEED this movie to be good. I don't need it to be the next big thing, i just need it to not suck. If the story is a flop I'll loose the last shred of hope I had left for Disney
Well I'd suggest keeping your expectations as low as possible...
I'm not falling for what Disney says that this movie is an "idea 100 years in the making". The animation looks bland and choppy, all the jokes in the trailers are so bad... And the songs are not catchy at all for me, in fact I kinda hate them...
@@inactivehorse9753 The choppiness is a huge problem. It makes the film look cheap, rushed, and unwatchable. It would look 10x better if they kept the smooth animation and pacing style consistent with “Tangled” and “Frozen”. Which is funny cuz it looks like they mixed elements of these two stories together, but reduced the quality.
@@tiahnarodriguez3809 Yes, i've even heard many people around saying that Disney "Finally took the SpiderVerse Route" by mixing 2D with 3D. BULLSHIT!
Wish can't even compare to SpiderVerse, it just has an ugly "2D" filter on top.
SpiderVerse genuenly mixed both animations styles, taking the time to make every frame feel like it's own separate art piece, Wish's animations is just lazy and ugly.
@@inactivehorse9753 Disney still better than DCEU
its supposed to be watercolors, which youtube heavily compressed and made it look really bland. its better in hd✨
Can Disney be more unique when it comes to character, seriously they just seem the same with personality and flat out copies of Rapunzel, and the animation still looks very unfinished for some reason, Spiderverse actually had an artsitic vision, This seems like a poor man's version of it
I agree about the personality aspect--which is why I appreciate Raya, Elsa, and Judy for not being as goofy--though I guess this is to appeal to younger audiences for comedy and relateability. This is also why so many "kids' movies" with serious storylines are frequently undercut with humor.
I'm iffy about hybrid styles in general, but if this fails, it's fine; this is Disney's FIRST hybrid movie, and failure is a growth lesson. I just hope the music and storyline makes up for it. I will admit I think they suceeded in making it look like a storybook, though.
Yeah and how ridiculously over the top the villain is, but not in a fun way like Scar or Ursula or Gaston. He just seems to get demented on a dime in the trailer and thats it. Plus the generic goofy animal sidekick ala Donkey...but its a goat. Yawn.
@@theCarbonFreeze I think that scene waa edited for the trailer. I imagine he's a complex villain, given that he seemingly has all the power and has a system/reason for why he only grants certain wishes.
@theCarbonFreeze Which is funny considering Donkey is supposed to be a parody of *exactly* this lol
I like the animation
I get that they're trying to make something new that still pays homage to Disney magic, but this looks like a "made for tv" movie at best, not the ultimate climactic moment of "100 Years of Magic." The animation certainly isn't anything special, the story seems extremely safe without any major challenges or threats, I really doubt the villain is going to be that great, and yay another obnoxious talking animal sidekick
I think the first time I heard about 2.5d was Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. I honestly couldn't tell it had 3d parts (I was about 13 when it came out, though). Arcane did the style very well. if you take a screenshot from any scene in it, you could honestly not tell it's got 3d to it, but you can if you see it in motion. It's also got more of a painterly style that just makes it look gorgeous
They reused a character model from Encanto. the older sister, Isabella. The character models are exactly the same. They have the same face and the EXACT same hairstyle. They are literally the same model with VERY LITTLE change. So very very CHEEP.
@@mariawhite7337 they literally aren't tho? what are you on about
@BroKenYaKnow the two characters look far too similar for them to not be reusing assets. That is what I mean. Play enough video games and you'll be able to know.
@@mariawhite7337 I play quite a bit of video games. Those aren't the same assets, the only real similarity is the hair. The entire facial structure, height, body physique, and obv mesh is different. Unless them both being a similar skin tone is your problem, your imagining things.
The Disney Renaissance alone had more diverse animation styles. The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, Tarzan. They all had very distinct styles and character designs. If you took a character from any one of those movies and placed them in another one of those movies, they would feel out of place with the other characters and the backgrounds. If you plop Anna and Elsa in Tangled, or placed Moana in Encanto, they would blend in seamlessly. And that's not necessarily a good thing.
Strange World tried to be different but came out as extremely ugly.
I think the problem is the basic plot now. Granting everyone's wishes seems like a bad goal. Unless the ending is the lesson work for your own dreams, granting EVERYONE'S wishes just doesn't work. Especially since a third of them are probably going to contradict another person's wish.
I had the same feeling, when in trailer king told we doesn’t grant all the wishes I was like - yeah it makes sense. So for me it is interesting because apparently I’m on the villain side 😂 it reminded me of Bruce all mighty when he granted all the wishes and it was complete disaster.
Asha: Let's grant the wishes of criminals!!
The King: What!?
I for sure don't wanna grant the King's wishes. This point is totally valid
That's the plot of the movie??? Goodness, they can't even think of a good new plot.
I've seen the movie and all of your guesses on how they handle the wishes are incorrect. I agree that the trailer isn't clear, but watch the movie before you form an opinion
I’m tired as hell of Disney making all of their female protagonists all cutesy and bubbly and clumsy. I think Asha is just going to be another Rapunzel, Anna, or Mirabel, just with a new coat of paint, and I found her to be really annoying in the newest trailer.
When will Disney make new a female animated protagonist who shines by being more reserved and quiet?
mirabel may have been bubbly and that but I found she was actually quite sarcastic and snarky compared to the others. She didn’t come off as overly quirky or comedic her quirks and humor were just naturally woven into her character
I agree, Mirabel didn't come off as "bubbly" to me, she was more calm and kinda snarky (specially towards Isabella).
Why is that? I basically happen to adore cutesy, bubbly and clumsy female protagonists. If you ask me, it's part of their appeal. Of course, besides that, being also reserved and quiet is also appealing. Why not balance it out, you know? The yin to the yang? Cutesy, bubbly and clumsy x courageous, levelheaded, and firm. That's what I believe makes a relatable character. I like Asha's cuteness, bubbliness and clumsiness, but she could also be courageous, levelheaded and firm.
@@despinasgarden.4100 yes! mirabel was really calm the most similar traits she had to this description was clumsy but that’s because of her dad and she never made a thing of it either. She was just so normal about it it never came off as annoying. The marketing really made me think mirabel was going to be super annoying and like an Anna clone when she actually ended up being my favorite from the movie
I think it's because they're trying to make Asha relatable to girls of today's time. That's why she acts more like a regular teen than someone regal and poised, like a traditional princess is expected to be. That being said, *this is exactly why I have no interest in her character at all.* Personality-wise, nothing about her in the trailer appealed to an older woman like myself. Disney thinks that animation is only for kids, and I think the way they went about this movie shows it.
I don’t mind the style tbh, I just wish they pushed harder with the lighting aspect in this movie tho, some scenes look weirdly lit, especially on the characters, giving them kind of an unfinished look and dimming the emotion of the scene way too much. Lighting is one, if not the most important aspect when it comes to convey emotions in a piece, and this movie seems to not know that.
that’s exactly what I was thinking!! And I don’t mind that much in smaller movies, but with Disney being.. well.. Disney .. I’m prettty sure they have the resources to make the movie’s lighting have more presence
When characters are in a fully lit environment, appears that the quality drops drastically
Yeah! like 0:49 the crowd shot just looks unfinished to me…
Even IF Disney made a gem, they’ve driven away the majority of their audience.
Yet there is no solid evidence Disney that regrets their betrayal and destruction.
well they are a company made up of thousands of employees I don’t think those employees who make the movies are allowed to speak on how they feel about the studios ethics
Actually, Bob Iger does say that he wants to fix the division that drove away their audience.
@@estherhinds6314 Iger is the one who pushed identity politics in the first place. He started the fire, threw skyscrapers of gasoline on it, and now that he's feeling some heat in his office, now he wants to back down?!
He chopped off his own leg and now says he cares about blood loss? Too late to call in surgeon when you're on death's door.
We all would LOVE to see Disney back to it's old self, but that will never be under (2shower-day) Iger.
@@lilac3266 Working for a Skinwalker doesn't have many benefits. Seeing that Skinwalker devour than mimic the things you love on a daily basis sounds like pure torture.
Better to take chances in the dark ocean than stay on a burning ship.
@@Bopperann this comparison is bizarre because the company is a job and jobs give you money and money is what keeps people afloat. Skin walkers aren’t real but employee layoff is. Don’t be mad at the poor people who just want to feed themselves or their family and be mad at the billionaire CEO’s who cause this
It seems to me like the whole animation style was made out of obligation and not because anybody had any idea how to make it look good. They can't do exactly the same thing as Spiderverse because a comic book style wouldn't fit a fairytale land and when Puss in Boots the Last Wish was released the animation for Wish was probably already underway.
I think it would be best for the celebration of 100 years of the studio to make a 2D movie. But I could live with a 3D movie. As someone once said ''Don't half-ass two things. Wholeass one thing.''
thats how it seems to me too. I feel like i can see the conversation of some higher up going "we have to make something like spiderverse, new and innovative to keep up" but not out of artistic integrity, out of capitalistic competing and profit.
The textures they chose make some of the backgrounds look like those unsettling AI images. theres something about it that is just so off putting and sterile
It breaks my heart that there's a very real possibility that if this movie doesn't do well, Disney will continue to believe the idea that 2D animation aren't profitable and the chances of them attempting new things instead of just reboots and sequels will be even lower... All because they're just doing it wrong, it looks like it's not even done being rendered to me
The animation style seriously reminds me of Sophia the first, one of those soulless 3d animations for children. And that’s not a good thing. They tried to make it look 2d but failed miserably. I don’t understand why Disney is so scared to make a real 2d movie again
The only explanation is financial decision. 3D animation it's cheaper to make it, considering the equipment Disney' studios have
Sofia the first is the goat
This Movie needs to be a Miracle in Order of Disney to Succeed.
I’m still gonna give this movie a chance in the theaters just to avoid further spoilers. Besides, I still like Disney when it comes to their animated movies. But I don’t like their live-action lineup anymore (with a few exceptions like the Jungle Book 2016 and Cinderella 2015).
It'll do fine, everyone is just overreacting
I guess you could say they’re “waiting on a miracle”
@@lilac3266song from encanto disney has took risk at one movie before with snow white and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella The Little Mermaid and they will do it again
Time and time again it seems we've reached the point where all our dreams are crumbling all around us, every outcome unjust
Every step it seems has led us further from our goal instead, our triumphs haven't mattered and we're drifting ever backward
We're looking in ourselves and trusting the light, a miracle is all we need but there isn't one in sight
+did you get it? 😉
This movie looks a bit promising, but I have a feeling Valentino will annoy me.
Same, the goat bothers me too. 🐐
I hate his voice so much. I’m tired of his VA being in every single Disney film, and we already had a cutesy goat sidekick in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
@@Antifearn bells of noooootreee daaameee!!
I see. I have long outgrown animal sidekicks. I find them annoying more than anything now. There is a funny thing about Hunchback of Notre Dame. That movie had a good excuse to have a goat sidekick. The goat was actually in the book.
I wouldn’t have mind the goat if the goat didn’t talk. I kind of miss when animal sidekicks stayed silent and cute like Pascal from tangled.
I think a lot of people would have liked it better if they had made it in 2D animation like the older movies.
The funny thing is that Disney has Paperman with its unique art style right under their nose. Pick that style and make it colorful, write a kind story about hope and pure love. I’m sure it’d be a big hit. And the style of Paperman is a combo of both 2D and 3D which it’s trending these days.
For now Wish looks like animators got an order from the heads to make a movie “Like DreamWorks’ Spider Man but make it Disney”
The goat is the only one that feels like an old 2D character brought to life with modern 3D. Everyone else looks like the typical disney 3D. The backgrounds also feel.... so flat. Not in the "painted in 2D" kind of flat but rather that it's hard to perceive it as a live world. It feels like the characters are acting infront of cardboard cutouts instead of actual 3D structures.
I feel like they should have done something like the movie Klaus. Hand-drawn animation but with modern rendering. It's a gorgeous film, especially the background.
I think the reason the goat feels like that is that its a copy of Esmeralda's goat...
I don't care about their intentions, the art style looks more like unfinished 3D than anything else. It looks like they shaded it with black and they most likely didn't check their values in grayscale. All shades are equally blurry, regardless of the shape of the object. In turn, it just looks flat and desaturated. Same mistakes an amateur digital artist would do, really. I'd suggest they take a step back from "branding" and focus more on art direction. Having recognizable style should always be an "add on" to actually good art, animation and story, not its main selling point.
*said the art kid and returned to animating silly talking cats*
That’s exactly what I thought today. I saw the trailer yeasterday and had a feeling that something is off. And then I got the same idea as you: it looks like they haven’t finished they usual 3D animation. I just hope it will look better as a final product.
@@elentari_22same and then the clothing looks like something from frozen 2 it looks like a unfinished product from frozen 2 In some scenes
@@That-girliscrazy Yeah, I also saw this, especially in case of the villain (not only clothing but thier faces as well). But story itself looks quite promising so I hope it will be good
I'm still conflicted when it comes to this movie...
I normaly don't judge movies to much by their trailer material (trailers ow a days are low key terrible), and some of the scenes shown, like the scenes featuring magic, actually look really nice! Bur for every pretty scene, there seem to be at least two other scenes that look like they wheren't rendered fully...
Maybe it's the fact I don't really like the execution of the art style making me more critical, but this was also the first time I saw a trailer and my first thought "ah, another one of THAT character type for the mc...how original". Becouse the female lead seems awfully close to Anna, Rapunzel and Mirabelle when it comes to personalities (seriously, I even thought she and Mirabelle had the same VA for a hot secound...), and for the first time ever, I actually wish for variety! Which honestly, shocks me more than anything, becouse I usualy don't mind seeing the same character type multiple times!
Mirabel really doesn’t fit into this category of protagonist as it’s an act for her. She’s actually really sarcastic, dismissive and snarky. Yeah she’s nice and all but she’s not really that quirky unless you count the opening song which was her act.
@@lilac3266 pretty sure it will also be partly an act for this one, considering the first thing we see of her is her covering up her screw up at, what seems to be, a performance.
Besides, I never called the personality type "quirky". I think that's a stupid buss word. For me these characters fall more into the personality type of "silly happy go lucky with a dash of clumsy, who are trying to over compensate with their happy go lucky act"
@@aniflowers1998 i mean it doesn’t seem like an act if the trailer is emphasizing it. For mirabel it made sense because she was trying to make up for her lack of gift. But this asha girl already has an established friend group and seemingly isn’t trying to impress anyone.
@@lilac3266 gues we'll have to wait and see
You really put into word what I felt about the style of animation. It feels lika Sophia the first but just a little more elaborate. The same choppiness, stiffness even sometimes. This feels unpolished overall meanwhile Nimona (that you highlited) had really this perfect sense of hamony between its backgrounds and action.
Who else felt like they lost faith on Disney’s animation… just how did they got to this place where storylines no longer attract viewers?
Note: didn’t expect to get so many likes, thank you!
Storylines should attract people. Viewers are stupid for thinking otherwise.
Bob iger
Im a 3D animator. It's my chosen medium of animation and I love it. That doesn't mean I don't want variety or something new. The animation in this looks dull to me. The 2D Shading doesn't have linework so just looks like cell shaded 3D rather than a blend with hand drawn. The characters are animated on one's but without the motion blur 3D is famous for, making it look cheap. In trying to get the best from the two mediums they've done neither.
(animator here as well, but I mostly do 2D and experimental) Totally agree. I feel like they were trying to do Puss in Boots Last Wish and Arcane, but for some reason they didn't? It def looks like unfinished cell shading and also those early 2000s/2010s films and tv shows with little budgets.
@@spntageous5249 That's totally what it looks like. An early 2000s CGI TV show.
Asha’s design is just so underdeveloped in my opinion, she looks like a background character more than a central protagonist. I understand they want her to look simple but it feels like they went to simple and instead made her look generic NPC you’d meet briefly in a game before you never see her again.
Either we're seeing that this is another Elemental come-back or a doomed failure due to a flawed innovative vision.
From where it stands, I feel like everything else has to be really good now in order to succeed if the animation truly feels unfinished.
Honestly I definitely feel Wish is more on the latter.
Just looking at the trailers, even the story seems bland and dare I say, nonsensical... Like all of this because the "villain" Won't grant everyone's wishes? Like did they ever consider that some or maybe almost all of the wishes have malevolent or selfish intentions, it's not the "villains" Fault that he has to decide which wishes are worth granting and that are only beneficial to his kingdom...
Also every joke in the trailers so far are so cringe Inducing, and I can see that the plot will be contrived as hell... Also this is just me, but the songs in the trailers so far are not catchy in the slightest, in fact I'm kinda starting to hate them...
So I definitely think that Wish is doomed to fail.
@@inactivehorse9753 this brings up a good point. I feel like we're maybe getting another "misunderstood villain". My expectations aren't remotely high, but I feel like disney wouldn't screw up a villain *so* bad that they forget a reason for the villain to be evil. Even bottom of the barrel Hans wasn't that bad
@@inactivehorse9753It won’t fail. Trust me
@@PenguinMajesty I'm sorry, but with what was shown in the trailer, I have no hope that this film will succeed.
It may be average at best, but nothing ground breaking, and given Disney's track record, it's more likely that this will fail just like every other garbage they've been pumping out lately...
@@inactivehorse9753 How can you live your life with so much negativity and pessimism in you? It must be so sad to experience everything that way.
Honestly, i am trying to be hopeful for this movie but sadly it doesn't have that zing many old disney movies have.
Also why does every trailer reveal too much information. I mean remember when Up or Wall-E were revealed, they showed the concept but kept it vague with what the story was about. I don't remember seeing Eve at all in the trailers apart from the final trailer a couple days after the movie came out. I miss the days where the trailers reveal the concept of the story but let the audience guess what it's all about.
For a 100 year anniversary movie, a kingdom hearts 1 like story would be amazing. Chronologically revisiting movies in their respective artstyles with a classic heroes motivation and the personification of villainy itself as the antagonist. That way, disney could even pocket on the whole nostalgia without ruining my childhood memories. ^^
We kiiiiiiiiiiiinda got something like that im Once Upon a Studio in which you have all of the characters together... but a big epic tale would've been amazing to see.
Wish pays homage to the past films on its own way. Some are subtle like easter eggs and others are really obvious
They tried to make one for Mickey Mouse’s birthday but it was too difficult to come up with a good plot with all Disney characters combined
@gavinschmidt8993 honestly, after seeing it, I'm pretty sure this is going to make as much, or more than frozen did.
The new animation style from this movie looks like something you would find on Netflix but that's just me...
Yeah it does
Klaus still looks better and that was a Netflix movie.
@@maddieb.440 That was what I was thinking about. Klaus animation looked great BECAUSE it was animated 2d to look 3d. This movie felt like it was trying to do that but with 3d into 2d, but they didn't do it right.
The main characters design really looks a lot like that older sister in Encanto 🤔😅
Fr i said the same thing ;;;
I'm in the same boat. Watching the trailer yesterday morning, I found I was actually less impressed with the trailer. It looks unfinished in some spots, and I think that's because of this style they're doing. Like good on them to mix it up, but it feels like they aren't pushing the style enough, that this is something like a very light experimentation or a cautious exploration and they're just toeing the water instead of diving in. And because it's a itty bitty ripple they're making in the water, I don't want to dive into the film and immerse myself.
Hearing that they also went 2D with this film, I wish they did. I think it would look better if it went full 2D, and it'd be a nice way to shake up their usual style by delving back into 2D. I also just do miss western 2D animation. I am biased for the return to it. Sadly we're not there yet.
I agree. It looks somewhat unfinished. The only thing that it has going for it are the colors, and if i wanted a colorful western animated movie with villains, I’d just watch into the spider verse or puss in boots 2
They can probably fix that by making it more flashy or make the animations choppy in some scenes
But that’s just me
Apparently the reason why the trailer looks “unfinished” is because of the watercolors. RUclips doesn’t like it so it’s blurring and compressing the trailer a lot. You can barely Asha’s freckles. If you look the the HD version it’s much better.
You can make the argument that Disney is finally trying the “spider verse” animation style, but I don’t think that’s the case. The “spider verse” animation isn’t just cgi looking 2d and 3d at the same time, it’s more stylistic in different ways. Like how Spider verse and TMNT (the recent one) look like a comic book and how the animation is used, especially in an action scene or such, frames drop and look like something you’d see in a comic. Same with PIB the last wish. Where it looks like a fairy tale and also used dropped frames and is very colorful with everything, especially the background.
Wish though, it looks like Disney is being lazy to where the movie could be animated the usual way Disney animation animates their other movies, and nothing would change. But maybe this movie will surprise everyone. We’ll just have to see
I wasn't a fan of the style for TMNT, personally. It looked blocky and incomplete, but that's just me. I'm curious to see how Disney's watercolor style would've looked for this if they chose 2D or 3D.
@@OpticalSorcererThe Mutant designs looked great but the Human designs were ugly, overall it is a good movie
I don't get that argument. This looks barely looks Spiderverse inspired
@@camrendavis6650maybe it’s just me because Disney is using some new style so I’m just assuming
@@ch42965I never saw it
The scenes where the characters are outside look alright to me but the ones where we see asha's friends with the grey castle wall behind them look really cheap. I'm concerned about how this is going to look on the big screen. Hopefully it'll be better than i'm expecting.
Here's a word from Lisa Keane, production designer for the film on choosing the animation style:
“There’s a watercolor look and a paper texture - it’s like a moving illustration. We’ve had the ability to do watercolor scenes for a long time, but we weren’t able to bring that to the characters. Now, we are able to marry all these ideas in CG, because of the tools we created.”
But it didn't turn out well.
I would hv loved if they did something like Mononoke and Toilet Bound Hanko San. But it's totally out of the pocket.
If they want to looks like moving illustration, I would expect something like recent Genshin's trailer/demo/some cutscenes.
Watercolor? WHERE?
There's nothing even close to a watercolor aspect in the scenes that I've seen, and I can't believe they're calling "paper texture" the aspect of a not finished render this movie has. There's a ton of types of paper, as paper textures. Not every paper looks like a boring flat block of color without any texture
I feel like paperman was a short Disney flick that dreamworks themselves was inspired to create their next movie “Me and my shadow”.
Me and my shadow? but wasn't it canceled by Dreamworks a long time ago?
@@giuliasole9878 yeah it was but dreamworks cancelled it for unknown reasons? 🤔
@@chevonjunor it seems to have been canceled mid-production due to various management changes at Dreamworks
I wish for Wish they had leaned more into that painterly style like Paperman and Klaus because it could’ve been so gorgeous. I really want to love Asha because I’m so excited to have our first princess with box braids and I do love the casting for her voice, but I’m honestly frightened about Disney and their future right now.
I love Disney but I wish they would take Disney 100 as an opportunity to return to form, being on the cutting edge of innovation and storytelling. Doing things no other company was doing because they actually put faith in their crew.
I’m wondering if it’ll take another period of failure for another Disney Renaissance but at this point it feels like Disney execs are just gonna run the entire company into the ground. The good faith Disney has cultivated for a *literal century* is running very thin right now.
Am I the only one who thinks all those gouache painted 2D backgrounds just emphasize the 3D characters straight into the uncanny valley? I wish they'd have either committed to the 2D to honor their past or had the different styles in entirely different worlds like in Mary Poppins or Enchanted with 3D characters entering a portal or gateway into a fully 2D world or vice versa.
Forget about honoring their past -- just make it 2D because 2D is better.
@@TheFirstHurrah I don't believe any one form of art is inherently better than another. I do love 2d animation and wish it was used more but I acknowledge sometimes a story needs 3d animation to be told. Wreck it Ralph, for instance, benefited from the 3d style because it really gave it the feel of a video game. Enchanted needed 2d to give the feeling of being transported into a classic Disney cartoon. Into the Spiderverse utilized both techniques to great effect (they succeeded where Disney failed miserably on Wish).
For me, my only problem is that I wish they kind merged 2D and 3D into this movie. I think that would make a smooth transition to more 2D Disney stories and them merging 2D and 3D better makes sense for the style they’re going for. There’s been studios who have done this perfectly. Even Spider-verse has. Other than that the movie looks very promising and I’m excited to watch
It seems like they wanted to make a movie with the art style like Arcane, Puss in Boots 2, Nimona, Spider-Man and Tall Grass (from Love, Death and Robots), but it came out like Sofia the First or Elena of Avalor with more investment 😅.
I think it says something that I'm more looking forward to the 100 Year Animated Short 'Once Upon A Studio' than I am to Wish. Because the Short is everything I wanted for their anniversary! It has characters from every previous Disney animated feature in the animation style they are supposed to appear in, both 2D and 3D, with their original voice actors!! They even rehired their old 2D animators to work on the short!! And we finally get Oswald the Lucky Rabbit on film!!!!!!!!!!
So, in conclusion, if you want to watch Wish, go watch it, but be hyped for 'Once Upon A Studio'.
Same.
well, surely not EVERY original voice actor, considering a good chunk of them are long dead 😂
@@cheetosan yeah, thats the only problem with it. im pretty sure they used AI because some of them don't sound quite right. like, the sound from the mic is off.
@@trinityharrison939 YIKES 😬
@@cheetosan yeah.... i'm pretty sure that Flora, Fauna, Merryweather, and Thumper are AI voices.
What’s possibly confusing is around the exact same time this was announced Disneys new cruise liner was brought out and it is called Wish. This means whenever you google Disney Wish you might get the cruise or the movie and it makes me wonder if it is a massive coincidence or if one was meant to burry the existence of the other…considering what happened not too long ago on The Disney Fantasy cruise. I’m sure Disney is trying to make us forget that one of their employees did some unsavory conduct. So you pick, is the movie trying to distract from the boat or is the boat trying to distract from the film? I know this sounds insane but it’s happened before.
😬 what exactly happened on that cruise?!
@@arkbien9303 a child was SA by a staff member, that is all I will divulge lest I get in trouble by RUclips comment mods.
i don't trust cruises, so lowkey i hope both fail if that was the plan.
To me, Wish's art direction looks like Disney was trying to add elements from the art styles of PN'B: TLW and Nimona, but still couldn't let go of its tired, default animation style and try something new. The final animation in the trailers looks like an unrendered storyboard. 😐
I'm just not a fan of 3d animation anymore. It seems more limited. I can't feel the movements or the world as much since they don't seem that exaggerated. It's TOO fluid. I loved pausing 2d films to see how they stretch or even skip frames entirely to get the most out of the motions. 3D is good but I've had my fill of it for now. :)
My beef with 3d is that it tends to age very poorly because of how technology is improving at a rapid pace. What looks fine now may end up looking dated in 3, 4 years time. But you look at stuff like Bambi, Sleeping Beauty and Hunchback. Still gorgeous no matter how much time has passed.
The spider-verse and new teenage mutant ninja turtles movies merged 2D and 3D animation well. They combined bold outlines and varieties of textures to make the animation appear both 2D and 3D. They also experimented with different art styles which helped make the movies feel so refreshing and distance themselves from previous animated movies, their animation choices also made sense and there was a nice balance between the characters and the background. I understand that Disney is trying to bring that magic back to their movies and trying to create something new, but you can't just slap a thin darker outline on the same 3D models and keep the same animation style and call it new and innovative. It just looks low budget and it sort of looks like a giant mobile game cutscene. Another thing that bugs me is their choice of colour. It feels really dull and doesn't feel magical like it's supposed to be
Finally someone else is saying this. It feels cheap and half assed as if Disney knows and understands what works (I mean they’ve seen 5 other movies that succeeded) but still won’t learn and take a chance. It’s more pathetic than inspiring 😕
A lot of people aren’t giving this movie a chance. They’re already calling it garbage, when they’ve only seen the trailers! I mean, come on!
How many times are they going to make a strong female character that is flawless and perfect and looks the same?
I mean bruh. I bet she isn't going to be perfect, but the character design looks too much like Moana as does Raya. Just a tiny bit concerned.
@@t0xic_b0y72she also looks like and kinda has the same personality as rapunzel and she looks like Isabella from Encanto.
You haven't even seen the movie. How would you know she's flawless and perfect?
"Flawless and perfect"? When did we get a female character that was any of those, let alone recently? Anna wasn't, Elsa wasn't, Mirabel wasn't, Tiana wasn't...
"Looks the same" is a valid complaint, but anyone who upvoted you for the ""flawless and perfect" comment should be ashamed of themselves and revoked from critiquing media ever again because they clearly have no media comprehension.
@RavenStarMedia I love it when people make assumptions about characters right off the bat before actually looking at the story content. I have many concerns for Disney and their projects. However, I'm not going to make fun of a movie because i think it places stereotypes on people before watching it.
I feel like Disney is trying to echo the Spiderverse blend of 2d and 3d, the way Arcane and Nimona are also known for. But somehow this doesn't really... catch that mannerisms. Like the backgrounds echo the old painting-esque backgrounds of classical Disney movies but it clashes with whatever they're doing in the foreground. My hopes is the king is like the irredeemable old villains Disney somehow sees as problematic. They are villains. They're supposed to be problematic.
Dude yes… this movie wants to be nimona so bad but they’re too scared to actually do the damn thing
Lmao, now that you point it out, i can't unsee it 👁👁
One good thing about Wish is that it is going to give us a TRUE villain.
When the king said I DECIDED WHAT EVERYONE DESERVES!
it's fair to say the least he might be this fairytale villain
And the real villains are the ones doing damage to the whole company. So how's it not obvious?
the netflix show Arcane is a great example of 3D animation and characters with 2D background and FX. This film just isn't pushing it far enough
If they really wanted to do a homage to their origins they should’ve just gone full 2D rather than slapping a watercolor filter on top of half-rendered animation. Mary Poppins Returns showed that they absolutely still have the ability to incorporate 2D into modern films.
It’s sadly a major compression problem that sites like RUclips and Twitter face. If you look up the HD trailer the watercolor effects and overall look is MUCH better, but since RUclips and Twitter value speed over quality it looks completely flattened. It should be okay on streaming services thankfully, I really recommend looking the HD trailer up and giving it a look. The difference is night and day
You are so right to compare this to Nimona Honestly the second I saw these trailers I felt like its just Disney trying to slap together something that resembles how amazing Nimona looked but just like you said these trailers make the movie seem like its just not going all the way to make it actually look good because theyre too afriad to push it
Nimona was so good!
And I enjoyed it very much indeed
comments aside of the technical quality of the trailer, the moment I saw the lamb and star as actual characters on the story the first thing that came to my mind was "oh so they'll make happy meals with these guys as dolls that will come as prizes" like it's so obvious they don't even try to hide it anymore. disney is now lacking of quality on purpose to the point I feel sorry for every person who pays to watch it on teathers
I like the looks of the style so far, and am optimistic about the whole thing. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t expect a whole lot and usually is just happy to watch something fun, has good music, and makes me *feel*. I don’t think it has to be deep or groundbreaking, as long as the story and characters are good. My expectations aren’t incredibly high, but I’m hopeful.
Same
I'm curious because I just don't have that same feeling, but why wouldn't you have high standards for the art you consume? Especially when it's coming from the wealthiest film company on Earth.... To me it feels like going to a Michelin star restaurant and being satisfied with a serving of white bread with a Kraft single on top, and being like "Clearly this is enough! Thank you, chef."
@@Madamoizillion I meant that more as an “I’m easy to please”. You do have a good point about expecting MORE out of Disney, but I’ve never really seen it that way. I watch movies to be entertained and to have a good time. If that bar is met, great. And if they go above and beyond, it just means that they’ll blow my expectations out of the water. If Disney puts out a real bomb of a movie; bad quality animation, writing, and acting, THAT’s when I feel cheated out of my time. I know Disney can put out good work. There’s a quality I DO expect and know they can achieve. But I don’t expect them to put out a megahit like The Lion King every single time. I tend to temper those expectations. Maybe it’s because I’m afraid of being disappointed but who knows. Maybe it’s not that deep. Maybe I can just say to myself “hey, this looks like I’m going to have fun watching it :)” and nothing more.
even walt disney himself said "if you only aim towards children, your product will fail".
Here's what's going on with the art style:
It's the compression rate on social media that is crunching down the quality of the video. The film actually looks REALLY good on the big screen. Not to mention the aspect ratio is actually a 2:5:5 (Cinemascope) which hasnt been done since Sleeping Beauty. I actually managed to see a sneak peek of it at D23 and RUclips is doing a terrible job compressing it.
The painterly brush strokes are so subtle that you can only really see it on the big screen.
Now.... should Disney have accounted for social media video compression???
YES!!
But... I think the art style is way better on the big screen.
ABSOLUTELY. I saw teaser in a cinema with my mother and we were so excited about it, because honestly? Art style is magical and comforting, I like it!
Please bring back 2d animation, Disney.
I am a really strong supporter of using movie trailers just to understand how close we are to the movie's release. Let's remember how wrong we were about our expectations for Elemental.
I'm glad you made this video. I remember watching the trailer and feeling like something was...off. Like something was missing. I can definitely see it's the style and Disney's lack of risk-taking. I haven't been excited for a Disney movie since Encanto...
They already did a watercolor background movie much better and feels significantly more alive: Lio and Stitch. Idk what happened here with the art direction.
If they really wanted to celebrate 100 years of animation they would have given us a 2d/3d mixed movie of Fantasia
i think that one of the things they are missing when compared to their past animations is, yes, 2d animation but also making the *backgrounds* a character too. i was trying to place my feelings while watching this and upon seeing the clips on loop in this video, it hit me that though the backgrounds are beautiful, they lack life. if that makes sense. im a watercolorist too lol so i love when i see the medium represented in different artworks.
Disney forgot how to tell touching stories or do great animation
Well,we have to see about it. Because most times,trailers are only as a preview to the actual movie. Maybe some more "unfinished" looking animation might be taken away or have them improve. Theres still one more month for them to finish it,and for me,Im excited.
But judging by their other promotional materials like posters and renders,they are still afraid to move on. Honestly its pretty understandable. Sony,the one that made Spiderverse,was also afraid people are going to hate Spiderverse for its visuals being too unrealistic. I think its the same for Disney. Maybe when the movie earned financially and critically success,they will do more stuff like this,like how Sony does with Spiderverse sequels,Mitchells vs The Machines,and so on.
Overall,I hope this turned out great,Disney will be more willing to take risks rather than play it safe,and they will become better than these past recent years
If they wanted to combine 2D with 3D, this just feels cheap and like they're doing the bare minimum. They could've done something like Klaus where it looks 3D but is actually 2D and have more life, charm and soul into it. But nah :/
Wish looks like a dreamworks television animation.
One of the artists posted a trailer with a higher bitrate and... WOW! The animation looks beyond day and night with a higher bitrate. It genuinely has a great animation with a ton of detail in every scene. I hope more people look into the bitrate issue.
It’s funny how some still try to trash 2d animation, and yet anime uses it all the time and look at the sheer ART that they can make.
To me it looks like they were animating it like they normally would, but then saw the success of Spider-verse and Puss in Boots and decided to try to emulate it halfway through production. It looks like a 2D filter they overlayed on top of their normal animation, which leads it to look half-baked and unfinished. I know that’s probably not what happened, but that’s the vibe I get from it
I will say this though, when I went to see Elemental in cinemas and saw Wish's teaser on the big screen the animation looked phenomenal. You could see every single line and even what looked like film grain in some shots.
It actually looks worse due to youtube's compresion. The actual shots are much more detailed and lively, but the only problem I have is the dull colors. I think it should use the colors to more so set the mood, using duller colors whenever somebody like the king is around with sparks of neon green, but vivid and saturated colors whenever the main character is on screen.
I have seen films and shows that cleverly combine 2D and 3D animation. Films and shows that seem to strike a good balance and make you wonder whether it emulates 2D or 3D animation more. Unfortunately, the characters in "Wish" just seem like they're 90% 3D and 10% 2D. *edit:* you brought up Paperman as an example of blended animation done well and I couldn't agree more.
Yeah, literally my first thought when seeing the trailer was "oh they're scared" like they clearly want to make something stylized but they're too afraid to go for it, it just feels very very cautious
The biggest problem is that it looks unfinished. They're trying to be like Arcane or Spiderman into The Spiderverse, but they're not implementing what makes those animations look like drawings.
I'm sure the movie is good, but they're too implemented in the 'disney style' that they wont adjust
I'm not really surprised to learn that Disney were almost going to make it fully 2D before they copped out. That explained some things.
So the new trailer made me actually excited for the movie. It looks kinda generic but I actually love the art style. It's the first Disney movie I'm excited for since Encanto
Im so glad that I've been seeing people agree that the animation looks unfinished. Its like it's not fully rendered
This movie looks really weird. They really should have put in the effort and made this movie with classic habd-drawn animation.
I feel that they just wanted to hop in the "Spider-verse animation style" trend since they saw that many rival studios have been doing the same thing, but without risking the 3D animation technique that they've been using since the eariler 2010's, and at least for me, it's not really convincing, any 2D effect looks great but the 3D animation looks unfinished, like it belongs in a Disney Jr. show, and not in the good way
As soon as I saw the first add I just couldn't help but think that they aren't making the 3D animation look 2D, rather, it looks like unfinished 3D art. It looks like Sophia the First, a kids daytime TV show. Actually, it looks worse, like the Shrek 1 blooper reel. I just DON'T believe Disney did this on purpose, I think they simply ran out of budget to fully render this film. They are doing SO poorly they just couldn't afford to make it look better, but they're too prideful to admit it. XD
Asha's design has always reminded me of Isabella from Encanto and I wish her design was a little stronger. For example, simply having her braids a little looser in animation or maybe giving her an accessory would've helped a little bit with differentiating her.
For those who can't see it, she has a similar skin tone, hair color (despite Asha seeming to have African features), and hair length. She also has a very similarly colored and length of dress (with Isabella's dress actually having more designs according to her character). She's so plain looking to me for some reason and Isabella looks better despite their designs being so similar. Also, to say that she's plain because she's poor or something doesn't make sense to me because she's wearing PURPLE. A color for royals.
First impression and fully honest here, the first 20 sec of the trailer were met with "Oh wow I rly like the backgrounds!" followed by "but why are the characters so off?" to ""uhm.. it feels like they put a filter on it"
It gives off cgi from early 3D films, I understand what they tried, but clearly either they were too afraid to make big changes or they couldn't find a good way to make it happen. At this point I'm sure Disney tries to "please" everyone, but as we humans tend to be too, you can't please everyone, and if you do it, WHO are you truly in the end? As long es they don't redefine their vision and style, they will be stuck in their jack of all trades, master of none.
The backgrounds are indeed 2d old-school disney animation, and it has a mixture of watercolors. It looks nice but I think will need to watch it in the big screen to see how ti goes.
The trouble is that every artist has a unique and distinct style, so when the same group of artists design and animate everything it all starts to look very samey. John Williams will always sound like John Williams, for example, and Milt Kahl will always look like Milt Kahl. Hiring on or sourcing out to new animators could help alleviate the problem, or perhaps exploring different animation techniques, but some change is definitely needed.
Thats no excuse for a whole, very rich company.. They aren't even trying anymore, just want to lecture
My dude, Disney has always sourced out its artists. Not all the animation is made in house. If you ask me, they were at their most innovative in the earlier years. The shift to 3d is what killed it.
there's also the issue with princesses having the same personality. Anna, Rapunzel, Mirabel, Moana, and now this new princess are all "aWkWaRd and QuIrCkY" just give us a princess with a personality god damn
mirabel is only awkward and quirky when she’s talking to the kids because it’s an act. She’s actually quite sarcastic, dismissive and snarky. Not to mention she’s a lot calmer than the other ones there
The actual 100 year celebration special that’s going to play like house of mouse is exciting me more than Wish.
I respectfully disagree. I thought the whole 3D era was very repetitive, with the films having all the same too perfect faces for their princesses. I find the art style of Wish very pictural, it looked like painting. Finally, Disney are taking risks with its animation, something we never really saw since Princess and the Frog.