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THAT'S WHY IT LOOKED LIKE A GAME!!
Back when I first saw the trailer, I instantly assumed it was a game, only to be surprised it was a movie.
The Eevee renderer uses tons of the same rendering techniques as game engines, to achieve its fast rendering speed.
I have to say, when I saw the trailer it absolutely did not make me want to watch the movie.
It looked exactly like an in-engine game cutscene, and that just felt really jarring to me, and visually distracting from enjoying the story.
Perhaps I should give it a try regardless.
I've been watching machinema since I was a wee lad in the 2000s with halo 2 being peak for me. I am so pumped the tech is there for full length feature films! This is like the opposite effect for me, I want "cheaper" methods of making what matters: the story and the narrative using cinematic language. Very glad eevee is getting recognized. Whether it's hand drawn or rendered in a billion dollar engine that took 50 years to render one frame or with realtime 3d, I don't care. I just want it to be easy for a kid to say "I have a story to tell and I want it on a screen" and be able to do that without weird criticism like "you did it with the wrong tools"
I'm glad for that too. Making the barrier to creative entry lower is going to help people bring their vision to life, and that's great. I'm pleased that Flow was made, and that more things like it will also be made, and I'm sure some of those things will have a visual style which I really vibe with.
One more thing for me to add that I just found a bit interesting after thinking about it:
People pay $70 for glorified movies in video game format. I know I just wanted to see the story of Knights of the Old Republic more than anything when I was a little kid and playing it. Not diminishing anything about games, I'm just talking about the market economics now haha, I know these are games and we can't just say $70 for this vs $20 for a 1.5h movie, but there is absolutely a market incentive for these types of films to be made. They are cheap alternatives (and better for the environment) to video game movies. Think high quality actual plays of story rich video games.
People love the stories of MGS as well, and that series might as well be just be a movie , I "watched" all of metal gear solid on YouTube because I don't have a PlayStation growing up. I would love for an eevee version of all of those cutscenes, and I'm sure others would and probably pay for that—I'd throw $10 at that I think instead of having to play through all of it now that I'm in my 30s
/rant lol
It was a little jarring sometimes. The character animations specifically felt very video gamey, like they were being strung together and blended like video games to to allow simi-fluid animations with player freedom. Despite that distraction, the story was great, and the drama of the scenes were top notch.
Honestly I think it happening to a cat instead of a human really made a difference, because we've all watched humans fake drown or fake die a million times.
I felt the same way but we always watch all the animation nominees so I gave it a go. The look is exactly what you see in the trailer, kind of under cooked for a feature in my opinion. But the animation is great the movement and, for lack of a better word, flow feel really nice. The story is pretty good too, lots of feeling and tension I related to the characters and like them all. The ending didn’t quite hit but more sputtered a bit. Over all I’ve seen a lot worse Academy Award winners and I’d recommend watching it.
I watched it, but couldn't finish it, for the aforementioned reason. The visuals were pretty decent for a benchmark test, but that's about it. Take a shot whenever the cat falls out of the boat.
It played out like a game too