The Human Factor
Submitted by jim on Mon, 10/04/2004 - 11:51
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Painting or sculpting people is hard enough, but animating them convincingly is damn near impossible:
[The animators] must capture all the nuances that make us human, and then put them in motion. And mostly, they've failed to do so. Even the great Disney animators couldn't make Snow White as compelling as her dwarfs, who have a blobby believability that she is entirely lacking. Cinderella is never quite as lovable as her mice, and not one of the human characters in the world of animation has the poignant humanity of Dumbo or the lively spark of Bugs Bunny. If to err is human, to animate humans is to err almost every time.
Click through for more on Pixar's big gamble putting the (super)humans front-and-center. « via Movie City News »
Yes, this has long been my biggest fear about The Incredibles. I didn't want to jinx it, though - let's hope Movie City News hasn't done so.
I'm not as concerned -- based on the previews I've seen, although the characters are human, as opposed to toys or bugs or fish, they're still pretty cartoonish, and seem to be more on the iconic side of things as opposed to photo-realistic (to use some terms/ideas from Understanding Comics). I mean, it ain't Final Fantasy by a long shot.
Not to mention, it's Brad Bird of The Iron Giant! Something would have to go seriously wrong for it to be genuinely bad.