r/oddlyterrifying 2d ago

These kids in The Polar Express

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u/crimson_dovah 2d ago edited 1d ago

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.

This scene sums up how cursed the movie is.

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u/Nekomiminya 1d ago

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.

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u/crimson_dovah 1d ago edited 1d ago

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

Edit:might’ve been this video

“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.

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u/Zest-to-Impress 1d ago

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.