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Im a fan of Samurai Jack and the combination of that stylistic approach to the starwars universe was awesome, and extremely appealing when I first saw the clone wars animated cartoons. once i was hearing about a third animation installment i got my hopes up only to be let down with the first viewing of the character designs.
The main thing that bugged me right off the bat was that the design approach was completely akward and inconsistent. Whereas you have non realistic characters the environments and skies and effects are uber realistic, creating a sort of conflict of interest. And even between characters the design is inconsistent. Yoda is very angular and closest to his 2D design of all the characters ive seen so far, whereas Asajj Ventress is very fleshed out and minimalist in charicature. The acting is also barely even existant. In the 2d screengrabs you can pick up right away what the characters are thinking, or how they are reacting. Can you do the same for the 3D version?
My second big beef was with the story timeperiod itself....this is actually happening right inbetween the animated series. How much more can you possibly stuff in there or milk out of it?
Anyways. I just thought I'd share my artistic evaluation. Ultimately, I find it just sad that they couldn't have taken a different approach, either gone in a completely different direction from the 'sam jack' style of the 2D version, or at least taken a more simplistic and appealing design approach to everything. When it comes to 3D animation you either put out your best 'pixar/feature film' quality animation or you go with something that looks like...well.....a video game.
DARTH MALAK: video game
Ahsoka Tano: 3D animated character/ video game cinematic
The official air date for the new animated show is AUGUST 15. im going to watch it, and hopefully the stories and music will save the terrible visuals. Just going to have to wait and see.
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I thought the whole point of the Samurai Jack style for the 2D one was to show off what 2D could do. Stylized visuals with neat animation tricks that could only work and look good in 2D.
Now they got this 3D technology only trying to 'mimic' it's 2D predecessor instead of trying to take advantage of it's 3D capabilities.
When I heard of a 3D animated StarWars, I thought that it was going for a uber realistic approach. It might've not been the most original thing ever, but I thought it would suit the StarWars style. Kind of give a video game feel perhaps.
Other thing was the timeline. Like why not between episode 3 and 4? Why revisit something that's done already? Whatever Lucas Film is thinking, I'd like to know :/
I just wanted to point out Chris, that although the models from Star Wars : KOTOR (where you pulled Darth Malak) are kinda cruddy. Story made up for it there - so it's not unlikely that story might make up for it in this one too.
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