Animation's new wave has creators 'fighting the computer' to make things weird - Polygon

DreamWorks director Pierre Perifel talks about the problems with straight lines and ‘boring’ CGI in American animation, and how he had to break the usual algorithms to get the cartoonier look he wanted for The Bad Guys. The movie hits theaters on April 22.

For two decades now, American computer-generated animated films have more or less followed a similar visual template. While their character designs arent necessarily hyper-realistic, everything else … [+5697 chars]

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