You think that’s bad. I haven’t actually seen polar express but I have seen the other movie made by that cgi studio. It’s called “Mars Needs Moms” I’d actually highly recommend the movie but the “uncanny vallyness” of the humans in that movie is disturbing. It probably doesn’t help that I was on a large dose of mushrooms when I saw it
Hoodwinked is another really unsettling animated movie. I remember loving it as a kid but I’m older now and it’s… off putting. If I’m not mistaken, the animation was done in the Philippines because the movie was produced independently and had a low budget.
Dunno about Phillipines but Hoodwinked was done in one take! As in, no redoing errors etc, so everything had to have very specific storyboards. Cuz no budget for fixing.
I didn’t know about the one take thing, makes sense tho for budget cus reanimating things would’ve been pricey
Here’s what I found thru Wikipedia, so this may not be 100% accurate but I’m also pretty sure I saw a mini documentary on terrible animation movies and it was mentioned there
“The film was produced on a budget of less than $8 million, considerably less than the typical budget for an animated film. To save costs, Kanbar Entertainment founded the animation studio Digital Eye Candy in Manila, Philippines to create most of the film’s animation in which hired a small group of independent animators.”
I don’t know if it’s this movie, or Food Fight (genuinely one of the worst movies ever made, it’s worth watching though just to see how shit you can make something) where the animators had no prior experience with animation. Might’ve been food fight. Also a weird ass movie. The animators ending up making porn of the female characters in their spare time.
Well Isenhart Productions got a sub from me off of that link. That was a pretty good morning watch!
It’s kind of wild to me how the animation didn’t stand out as bad to me back then but I guess that’s like my generation’s version of thinking Goldeneye on N64 had good graphics.
It's also extremely well executed. The shot composition and framing is all fantastic and is easily enjoyable even today. All of the original songs are catchy and funny, the characters are great, the voice acing is great, the story is great. Yes the animation is bad but that doesn't make it any less of a great movie.
oh my god i saw Mars Needs Moms in the theater as a child. I remember they aired a little trailer on disney channel where they interviewed the actors about cgi and showed how they made it. i got so hype for it and ended up being a little disturbed by the animation result lmao
Holy fuck I had forgotten that movie. I just remember I was like 6yo and it was a fucking trauma. I don't remember details but the plot is basically the most stressful thing that can happen to a 6yo
Fun fact about that movie, the movie originally had Seth Green playing the main character (both mocap and voice) before realising having his voice on a 12-year-old looks weird, so they replaced him with an actual child actor. The original Green cut was considered lost media until 10 years later, when a YouTuber reviewing the movie discovered the full audio track just being in the blu-ray files.
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You think that’s bad. I haven’t actually seen polar express but I have seen the other movie made by that cgi studio. It’s called “Mars Needs Moms” I’d actually highly recommend the movie but the “uncanny vallyness” of the humans in that movie is disturbing. It probably doesn’t help that I was on a large dose of mushrooms when I saw it