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PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:38 pm 
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Watching this one on HBO Max. Really nice animation, very cool looking, and the voice acting is solid. It's not as cheesey as some of these can be.







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PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:16 pm 
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 Post subject: DC Universe Animated Films
PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 12:07 am 
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I'm finding the style of these, like the Flashpoint one, kind of ugly

https://collider.com/best-dc-animated-movie-universe-films-ranked/

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:41 pm 
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Allen Berrebbi wrote:
I'm finding the style of these, like the Flashpoint one, kind of ugly

https://collider.com/best-dc-animated-movie-universe-films-ranked/

The style is "let's have anime animators modify their style slightly to more resemble the western super heroes, but still have that anime feel". :) I don't care for it. I do like many of the animated movies, but it's because they're doing a good story, not because the animation is what I'd like to see.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 4:00 pm 
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 4:06 pm 
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Jeff wrote:
Allen Berrebbi wrote:
I'm finding the style of these, like the Flashpoint one, kind of ugly

https://collider.com/best-dc-animated-movie-universe-films-ranked/

The style is "let's have anime animators modify their style slightly to more resemble the western super heroes, but still have that anime feel". :) I don't care for it. I do like many of the animated movies, but it's because they're doing a good story, not because the animation is what I'd like to see.

What animation style would you like? I don't think these are overly anime, they look more like a normal modern Western cartoon style to my eyes.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 11:24 pm 
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Hanzo the Razor wrote:
Jeff wrote:
Allen Berrebbi wrote:
I'm finding the style of these, like the Flashpoint one, kind of ugly

https://collider.com/best-dc-animated-movie-universe-films-ranked/

The style is "let's have anime animators modify their style slightly to more resemble the western super heroes, but still have that anime feel". :) I don't care for it. I do like many of the animated movies, but it's because they're doing a good story, not because the animation is what I'd like to see.

What animation style would you like? I don't think these are overly anime, they look more like a normal modern Western cartoon style to my eyes.


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 Post subject: DC Universe Animated Films
PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 7:17 am 
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Justice league Crisis on Two Earths is the best DC cartoon and the best animation style.

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Hanzo the Razor wrote:
Jeff wrote:
Allen Berrebbi wrote:
I'm finding the style of these, like the Flashpoint one, kind of ugly

https://collider.com/best-dc-animated-movie-universe-films-ranked/

The style is "let's have anime animators modify their style slightly to more resemble the western super heroes, but still have that anime feel". :) I don't care for it. I do like many of the animated movies, but it's because they're doing a good story, not because the animation is what I'd like to see.

What animation style would you like? I don't think these are overly anime, they look more like a normal modern Western cartoon style to my eyes.

The faces are certainly not anime style, no. It's more the exaggerated limb length, tiny feet, weightless feeling about movement...they don't all exhibit all of these features, but they all have some of the elements. TAS or the Fleischer Superman is what I like best.


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 Post subject: DC Universe Animated Films
PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:57 am 
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Jeff wrote:
The faces are certainly not anime style, no. It's more the exaggerated limb length, tiny feet, weightless feeling about movement...they don't all exhibit all of these features, but they all have some of the elements. TAS or the Fleischer Superman is what I like best.

It's basically unfair to compare any modern animation to Fleischer! :D I won't argue that it's not the best, lol.

But that said, and I'm sure which DC animated movie you are referring to, but the one most typically used from I've seen is this one -- it's the one they use in their moves that follow the same continuity and aren't direct adaptations of a specific artist's style (like New Frontier or some such).

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To my eye, the proportions aren't terribly different from the standard "heroic proportions" of fan favorite artists like Perez, Byrne, and Jim Lee. (I think these proportions were popularized for superheroes by Neal Adams and John Buscema, but I'm not sure.)

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:58 am 
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Li'l Jay wrote:
Justice league Crisis on Two Earths is the best DC cartoon and the best animation style.

Yeah, I think so as well. That said, if they could have gotten the New Frontier cartoon to feel a little more like Cooke's cartooning (and I know he did the models), I think that could have been my favorite.


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 11:49 am 
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Hanzo the Razor wrote:
Jeff wrote:
The faces are certainly not anime style, no. It's more the exaggerated limb length, tiny feet, weightless feeling about movement...they don't all exhibit all of these features, but they all have some of the elements. TAS or the Fleischer Superman is what I like best.

It's basically unfair to compare any modern animation to Fleischer! :D I won't argue that it's not the best, lol.

But that said, and I'm sure which DC animated movie you are referring to, but the one most typically used from I've seen is this one -- it's the one they use in their moves that follow the same continuity and aren't direct adaptations of a specific artist's style (like New Frontier or some such).

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To my eye, the proportions aren't terribly different from the standard "heroic proportions" of fan favorite artists like Perez, Byrne, and Jim Lee. (I think these proportions were popularized for superheroes by Neal Adams and John Buscema, but I'm not sure.)

Something off about it, I'm not sure how to describe it. The head's too small maybe (or just the faces)? To angular? I don't know...I just don't care for it and it reminds me somehow of anime. :lol:


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:33 pm 
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"Something off"
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:43 pm 
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They are drawn with really sharp angles instead of curves. It kinda throws me off, probably because I grew up on Filmation, Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. cartoons.


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:31 pm 
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Yeah, the angles and the leaning-backwards postures, as if they're being pulled off and up into a vanishing point perspective.
That gives them the small heads.

Aquaman's hip is broken or his left thigh bulges out weirdly, like he's shoved a baby dolphin down his tights.

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Li'l Jay wrote:
Justice league Crisis on Two Earths is the best DC cartoon and the best animation style.

That is a good 'un.


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:15 pm 
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Jeff wrote:
Something off about it, I'm not sure how to describe it. The head's too small maybe (or just the faces)? To angular? I don't know...I just don't care for it and it reminds me somehow of anime. :lol:


Agree. Ugly, to me.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 11:05 am 
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Yeah, the angles and the leaning-backwards postures, as if they're being pulled off and up into a vanishing point perspective.
That gives them the small heads.

Aquaman's hip is broken or his left thigh bulges out weirdly, like he's shoved a baby dolphin down his tights.

Maybe he's just excited to be front and center! :lol:


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If his excitement was front and center, it's look more natural.

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