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Dreamworks Animation
- Thread starter trunks2kawaii
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I agree. I actually enjoyed Over the Hedge, but then, the comic strip that the movie was based on amused me as well, even it wasn't in my local paper so I couldn't read it regularly.
Dreamworks films work when they have a good concept. As prepared as I was to hate Kung Fu Panda (I thought that it was going to be just another forgettable talking animal movie), I found it to be quite an enjoyable film. My biggest complaint about Dreamworks animaltion is how poorly most of the human characters are desinged. The human characters in the Shrek movies looked like lifeless, soulless dolls, although the human desings got better by the time of Over the Hedge and Bee Movie.
Dreamworks films work when they have a good concept. As prepared as I was to hate Kung Fu Panda (I thought that it was going to be just another forgettable talking animal movie), I found it to be quite an enjoyable film. My biggest complaint about Dreamworks animaltion is how poorly most of the human characters are desinged. The human characters in the Shrek movies looked like lifeless, soulless dolls, although the human desings got better by the time of Over the Hedge and Bee Movie.
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IIRC, Chicken Run was a co-production between Dreamworks and Aardman (the same studio who produces Wallace & Grommit).
The problem I have with Dreamworks is that many of their films are, for lack of a better work, ugly. Sharktale has one of the worst over all looks I've seen in a major studio production: weird characters that look like the VA's face of a fish body, garish, clashing colors, lack of a unifying style. There was an episode of the Backyardigans that was under water, and that looked better than Sharktale. Ants had characters who looked like shriveled raisins, and Shrek, well, I guess the point is that they are ugly (except Puss). But besides the actually appearance of the characters, their movies just fail to create a pleasing look to them. Even though the animals in Over the Hedge were pretty good, the people were awful.
The only time a film visually came together was Kung Fu Panda. The backgrounds were perfectly stylized, the character design was good (strangely enough, the main characters, Po and Shifu, had, IMO the weakest character design, while Viper and Crane had the best), and there was an over all palate of reds and jade greens that fit the Chinese setting. The intro and credits actually upstage the movie because the smooth traditional animation is a pleasant change from a string of CGI productions.
The only time a film visually came together was Kung Fu Panda. The backgrounds were perfectly stylized, the character design was good (strangely enough, the main characters, Po and Shifu, had, IMO the weakest character design, while Viper and Crane had the best), and there was an over all palate of reds and jade greens that fit the Chinese setting. The intro and credits actually upstage the movie because the smooth traditional animation is a pleasant change from a string of CGI productions.
I thought their Aardam co-productions (I.E. Chicken Run and Flushed Away) looked pretty good, and I throw in my vote with Montery Jack on the MvA humans. Other than that, you're right, but I've always thought Dreamworks movies had beutiful backgrounds and effects, even when their character animation suffered.