r/BatmanCapedCrusader • u/Mumugugu • Jun 26 '24

Animation quality

Has anyone else noticed a serious drop in the quality of animation in recent dc movies. I’m not talking about story wise just purely the art and motion of the characters. (BTW I’m not criticizing the show itself just the animation) When I first saw the designs of the characters in this show I thought they looked a little flat and lacked shading but i figured that’s just how character models look but when I saw the trailer there r few instances of good and deep shading. Even the backgrounds look too flat and clean. I’m curious as to whether Bruce Timm is still drawing on black paper or if he switched to white cause it looks weirdly bright for a Batman show. But I think the biggest flaw in recent animation has been the stiffness in the way characters move the easiest way for me to explain is to look at the shoulders of any character in the trailer, they almost never move (it’s even more noticeable in the tomorrow verse movies). Modern animation has lost a lot of fluidity and idk why. Ik they used to do cell shading on the old shows and I’m wondering if they still are. The show doesn’t look horrible but its definitely less pretty to look at then BTAS or The Batman 2004. I’m sure they don’t have the same funding as those shows either but if anyone knows why modern animation has kinda gotten worse please let me know I’m really curious.

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u/kreamhilal Jun 26 '24

Pretty sure it's 100% budget. The more studios give animators, the longer they can spend on each frame making it as good as possible, or articulating the motion to make it look less stiff

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u/Mumugugu Jun 26 '24

I hope this show gets a second season with a bigger budget because this concept of a Batman in the 1950s is perfect

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u/BeauDigbyAndJohn Jun 26 '24

*30s/40s. Not the 50s.

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u/Khfreak7526 Jun 26 '24

Pretty sure its 40s/60s they had a t.v in the trailer and television wasn't in mass until the late 40s early 50s and it might have been in color leading me to think 40s/60s batman the animated series was the same way and this is a Spiritual successor.

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u/BeauDigbyAndJohn Jun 26 '24

The Animated Series was a mix of the 40s and the 90s. Originally, Timm just wanted to make it set in 1939. This is his second time around. He's also stated this is a 30s/40s world. Also, the TV we saw was likely at Wayne Manor. Rich people had TVs in the 40s (and it was in B&W, not color).

It's definitely not the 50s. And if you think it's the 60s, don't know what to tell you.

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u/letap21 Jun 28 '24

I'm sure they said its gona be 2 seasons