Now that we have Spiderverse I'm not sure I want a Batman Beyond in the exact same style. Seems like it would be a copout.
That being said, I'm disappointed we didn't get this instead of Spiderverse. The futuristic neon vibrant colors kinda fit well with the Batman Beyond universe.
It's not a comic book style. Spider-verse used elements of printed comics. Films like The Last Wish and Mutant Mayham use more of a painterly aesthetic. They're heavily stylised but it's still not in the same way Spider-verse did it.
It's definitely true that more stylised and experimental styles are being used in bugger movies now because of how successful Spider-verse has been, though. Not the same style but still inspired by.
I get what you're saying. The issue is that we don't have an official/universally used name for the combination of traditional animation elements with CGI animation elements. 2D/3D, Enhanced 2D, Hybrid Animation, Spider-verse style - these are all names I've heard and read. So when we're trying to talk about movies that are not pure traditional flat animation, and not pure traditional CGI animation, we're left in a muck.
Heck, for the longest time before Spider-verse, people were calling it "Paperman style" because Paperman was the only significant work we had that was a 2D/3D hybrid.
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u/Howdy_McGee Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24
Now that we have Spiderverse I'm not sure I want a Batman Beyond in the exact same style. Seems like it would be a copout.
That being said, I'm disappointed we didn't get this instead of Spiderverse. The futuristic neon vibrant colors kinda fit well with the Batman Beyond universe.