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The New Lion King trailer style transformed to resemble the animated version
- scarejunba 7y agoVery impressive result. But Christ is it ugly.
- 83457 7y agowhich one?
- scarejunba 7y agoThe transformed version. It looks very uncanny valley to me.
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- remarkEon 7y agoI had the exact opposite reaction ...
- justinjlynn 7y agoSame. I wonder what it is about us that makes the visuals fine for us but uncanny for others?
- pentae 7y agoMaybe he thinks the original is the transformed version
- scarejunba 7y agoHahaha that's a funny one but (at the risk of just adding a new comment that'll get just as downvoted) I've seen the movie so I know which one is real.
- happytoexplain 7y agoHow can such a cartoony style look like it's in the uncanny valley?
- basch 7y agoit seems like the meaning of the term has been lost. the valley part refers to a curve. as in, as it becomes more realistic it becomes more uncanny, eerie, repulsive, until its indistinguishable. something cartooney would not fall in the valley of the curve. i did not find the cartoon version eerie, it looked like a cute cartoon. the deepfake glitches were eerie at times, pumba especially.
- nitrogen 7y agoIt just looks like more saturated colors, but still similar texture detail. Was this done using standard color tools?
- kevinventullo 7y agoAh, I was hoping to see it the other way around.
- manav 7y agoCartoon eyes and to a lesser extent mouths did a lot to display emotion. We are too caught up in making things photorealistic that we miss out on these things.
- dymk 7y agoThe only big movies I know of with talking, photorealistic animals are the Jungle Book remake, and this Lion King remake. “Caught up” is a bit of a stretch when most anthropomorphic stories are still heavily stylized.
- parsimo2010 7y agoThey’ve also remade Winnie the Pooh, Aladdin, Dumbo, and others. They are currently remaking The Little Mermaid, Mulan, and Lady and the Tramp. The entirety of Disney’s classic animated catalog is fair game apparently. Of course not every remake has sparked the same level of outrage, and it’s not always directed at the CGI. Aladdin took flak because they replaced Robin Williams’ Genie with Will Smith, and he wasn’t expected to be as good. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_live-action_remakes_of_animated_films https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_live-action_r...
- kfrzcode 7y agoPeter Rabbit
- ekianjo 7y agoToo bad they don't plan to do the Black Cauldron. If you haven't seen it, it's almost unimaginable it was ever produced by Disney.
- otherjason 7y agoYou’re in luck: > On July 16, 2019, it was reported that a live-action remake of The Black Cauldron is in early stages of development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)
- dymk 7y agoI’m very happy that Disney went whole-warthog in making the models realistic. This halfway between cartoony-but-real look isn’t good. The new Lion King was visually stunning and reminded me of a Nat Geo film. The characters didn’t emote very well, and the voice actors had to carry the performance, but at least the animals looked good. (That’s not to say the story was great... but that’s also not the point.) Detective Pikachu almost fell into the uncanny valley with some characters (especially the ones with the “real” eyes) for the same reason. For 3-D cartoon animals, IMO Zootopia’s style really hit the sweet spot of cartoony-but-recognizable species. Wow, 5 downvotes in under an hour for stating my opinion. Would somebody who thinks otherwise like to share?
- happytoexplain 7y agoI'm just not sure there's much substance to my opposing opinion - I simply think the transformed version looks incredible. I was blown away by the results. I saw all the emotion and affection and beauty of the stylized animation, plus the impressive fidelity of the CG. For me, they came together seamlessly.
- bluesnowmonkey 7y agoIt's a good comment, except that you complain about being downvoted, and I always always downvote that kind of meta whining.
- dymk 7y agoTurns out without that meta-whining I’d be sitting at the bottom of the thread, and you wouldn’t have seen it. 30 minutes after making the edit it shot up 8 points.
- dmix 7y agoMaybe it was inspired by the review by David Ehrlich? > David Ehrlich of IndieWire panned the film, writing, "Unfolding like the world's longest and least convincing deepfake, Jon Favreau's (almost) photorealistic remake of The Lion King is meant to represent the next step in Disney's circle of life. Instead, this soulless chimera of a film comes off as little more than a glorified tech demo from a greedy conglomerate — a well-rendered but creatively bankrupt self-portrait of a movie studio eating its own tail."
- danielscrubs 7y agoDon’t lessen his achievements by connecting him with movie critics.
- paxys 7y agoImpressive work, but the end result is the worst of both worlds for me. If you want to make it cartoony, there's no need to keep the pretense of realism at all. Just go with Pixar or old Disney style animation.
- ravitation 7y agoI just don't find the "New Lion King" all that visually enjoyable aside from purely the appreciation for the talent required to make something look so realistic. I just don't think the various animals are all that compelling to look at as animated, fictional characters.
- mintplant 7y agoI view these as the equivalent of a video game company porting its older titles to new platforms. I have no data to support this, but I would guess that the next generation of kids isn't watching the old versions of Snow White, Cinderella, etc—at least, not at the same level. But Disney needs these movies and their iconography to be embedded in children's minds in order for the multi-billion-dollar merchandizing machine built on them to keep on printing cash. So Disney is bringing their back catalogue up to date.
- mrhappyunhappy 7y agoThe transformed version looks way better. They should hire that guy to do the whole movie!
- ggm 7y agoI came to scoff but is very well done. Many recursion jokes lie in here.
- celeritascelery 7y agoNow they just need to use this same tech to try and fix the sonic the hedgehog trailer.
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