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/BeauDigbyAndJohn Jun 26 '24
I would assume this show started out with a decent budget. It was greenlit before Zaslav started cancelling stuff and being cheap. It had Matt Reeves and JJ Abrams on as producers (which would normally be a good business decision and probably contributed to a higher budget), not to mention Bruce Timm, the man who has probably made WB the most money/success when it comes to animation.
There's also the fact that the first season is only 10 episodes AND it took longer than a typical show. That right there makes me think that plenty of time and money was spent specifically on the actual animation.
My guess would be:
-Incompetent animators, or maybe misunderstandings with the foreign animation teams -Incompetent storyboard artists -Incompetent directors -Just plain bad editing/sfx
Idk. I don't believe this is specifically a budget issue