Glad I'm not the only one who misses 2D animation. I like that they're trying a new style, but it looks like they're afraid to break away from 3D imo

To me, it seems that what's wrong with this is that Disney wants to cash in on the spideyverse style of animation without actually commiting to it to not alienate any viewers, keeping it in a lukewarm middle... They're not ready to fully lean into a stylistic choice, like the paperman short is, for example. They want to play it safe, yet want to participate of the animation renaissance

Why we still don't have a feature length film in the Paperman style is baffling to me

I'm glad that disney is trying out a new style, but it seems so unpolished. It feels like disney saw that hybrid 3d animation was getting praise and changed the style later into the movie. Still im exited to see them turn over a new leaf

tbh, Disney needs to take their time making these movies, because animating and voice acting is hard sometimes

This kinda style is perfected in Klaus, I don't understand why that movie is not getting the recognition it deserves.

This is what Disney should’ve done for years now: New animated feature films with an original story, not a live-action remake, reboots or sequels. Encanto was a wonderful example. Strange World was okay, but nothing will be perfect. And i love the animation art style. I’m a big fan of the mixture of 2D and 3D animation.

Whats so ironic is when Disney was a small company, they risked every thing on new techniques and such, but now when they can very much afford to take risks, they just aren't. I feel like its always this way when it comes to getting rich.

I'm an intern at ShiningIsle, a small, crowd-funded animation studio producing the Wingfeather Saga. The show is not perfect, working with such a small budget, but it is truly visionary with its style. It uses a gorgeous, hand-painted look with 2D elements. A lot of former Pixar and Disney animators work there. I was in a design meeting today and this trailer came up. They were... eh? about it. In their words, although it was cool that Disney was trying to break away from hyper-realism, it looks "unrendered." One of them went so far as to say it looks like the animated-character Tiktok filter. (This is, of course, just what seemed to be their first impression of the film, nothing deeper than that.) The faces, in my opinion, look just way too smooth and same-y. I think this is a cool new direction for Disney, and I hope they try out more of this experimentation, but I just wish they would lean into it more. I can see it, but if I squint, it still looks like any Revival-era 3D film.

Hi. Professional 3D animator here. I’ve seen this trailer at work along with some peers who worked at MacGuff on stuff like the Minions, Sing and Mario, and even our animation lead who worked on Arcane at Fortiche and more recently on the TMNT movie. You’ve mentioned this movie’s style, and it’s important to make the distinction between the “art style” (character design, backgrounds, render, compositing...) and “animation” (movement, timing, spacing, body-mechanics...). For me the general art style relatively fine, having traditional chara designs with a graphical, cel-shaded render. (In fact the yellow Luma thingy is kinda cute ngl). But some of my peers while praising the BGs they still felt the character renders were a bit flat (especially the shadows). Our biggest gripe however comes from the animation department, with some shots having some spacing and arcing issues, and even some run cycles looking a bit broken (with maybe some parasitic leftover keys). I’ve seen a comment here from an animation intern who said his coworkers found it “unrendered”, and I think part of this reasoning is that there’s no motion blur. And despite it being a deliberate artistic decision in order to have a more stylized look (even though Arcane has motion blur), it amplifies this lack of animation polish (especially considering the animation by itself is pretty traditionally splined, unlike Spiderverse and TMNT where it’s technically a HEAVILY refined and drawn pass 2 of blocking). Heck if they kept motion blur this would hide a lot of those issues. Bottom line is, if they released it as a low budget Disney+\TV original this would have been fine, but as a big project with a theatrical release, the animation lacks polish in this trailer. And the fact that some people felt something was off proved the importance of this polish.

I have mixed feelings about this teaser, on the one hand is nice that we finally have a new villain instead of the overused trope of generational trauma, and im happy to see that disney is trying something new with their style, however, the character design still leaves a lot to be desired given the fact the protagonist still has the same face syndrome, as in big eyes and small noses (just like in frozen, tangled, raya, encanto, etc.), and i must say im very dissapointed with how the movie looks, it just feels like they slapped a 2d animation filter from like snapchat or smth, it screams unpolished and cheap when compared to other studios like dreamworks with puss in boots, or sony with spiderverse. Overall im curious about what this movie is gonna be about and i hope it's not as generic and bland as strange world.

While I like that the style is different, it doesn't feel like a full new change, more like they use the same modern Disney style for the models but add a filter over it. The backgrounds do look really pretty though. But the wishing star looked way cooler in Puss in Boots 2.

I am glad we’re moving away from all 3D animated movies but Disney’s mistake of rushing out projects before they’re polished is really leading to their downfall.

I have a problem with Disney's animated faces, and I don't know if it's a consistent style they've adopted or if it has something to do with 3D-animation itself. But it seems to me as if all the female leads have exactly the same face nowadays. For each film, they take the same face and maybe add tiny differences, making it just a bit wider or just a bit longer, making the eyes just a bit bigger or smaller, but nonetheless it's always the same face. Each time I think "Oh, it's Elsa again, except with dark hair. Oh, it's Rapunzel but with curls. Oh, it's Mirabel but with dreads. Oh, it's Moana but blond." That, and (here's where lots of people will probably disagree) they all seem to come with the same basic personality. They're all optimistic, bubbly and driven. The only exception to this rule is Elsa, actually, who was a troubled, timid recluse consumed by guilt and self-doubt, and it was really refreshing. I don't know, perhaps Wish will do it differently, but I'm longing for a female lead with a different character and story arc. Give us a girl who is arrogant and learns humbleness. Give us a girl who has done something terribly wrong (and not the "oops" kind, something actually significant) and is striving for redemption. Give us a girl who is shy or cowardly and learns bravery. A girl who is a control-freak and then turns into a chaotic trickster. Or just give us a static female lead who wrecks the conventions of society from beginning to end and inspires change in others. I don't know, something new and interesting.

Do you want to know what’s the sad thing about this movie within a couple years Disney is just going to discard everything the animators worked on and make a terrible live action remake

The blend of 2D and 3D animation makes me so happy. 2D and hand-drawn just has a certain charm and magical feeling to it that can't be replicated in 3D. I can't be more excited! Disney in 2022 was horrible in my opinion and I lost hope in Disney but hopefully, this year can be an improvement!

I get the concern. My biggest issue is that Disney is doing what I feel is a lost potential. WISH should be good, at least in a disney manner, but it seems like its late to the party. But given Disney's recent track record with jobs, I have no intention to want anything to do with them.

All the characters looks SO generic, and the animation is not so bad but Spiderverse looks 1000 times better

I'm not a Disney fanboy myself, but "Wish" interests me nonetheless. I find the concept of honoring "You Wish Upon a Star", well, interesting.

I mean, Lightyear looked fairly decent by the trailers... And we all know how that turned out... As cynical as it sounds, whether this movie was made with legitimate heart or not is irrelevant. It will very probably bomb because audiences are sick and tired of Disney's overreaching and patronising shenanigans.

When I first watched the trailer, it felt like the animation didn't look completely rendered/they just stuck some of the concept art in just to get a trailer out

i think the reason it looks unfinished is because the models of the main character and the goat still feel very much like the usual 3d model style, juxtaposed to the other visuals. they've got more defined outlines, shadows, and sense of 3d-ness / structure compared to the rest of the scenery, so it just comes across as .. mid production. there's also not a lot of contrast in the movie in terms of lights and darks, it's all just sort of a mid-grey devoid of any real lighting. i hope that as more trailers come out it'll give us a bit better of an idea of what's to come, but as for right now the visuals feel a bit...sad compared to what they could be

I'm just gonna mention that the villian from what we know is the one making the right choice about wishes and only granting the ones that benefit everyone in the kingdom. So I'm worried that the end is gonna be portrayed as a happy ending with everyone getting their wishes with the obvious problem of people wishing for bad things.

This kind of reminds me of what happened with "Mars Needs Moms". They were trying to make a film by jumping on a popular trend at the time that ended up massively backfiring on them.

When i first aaw the trailer, I was excited for the style change but now, seeing the clips over and over, certain scenes look kinda like they're from a video game (in a bad way). Still, cautiously optimistic about an original story with a villain, and glad Disney is trying different things animation-wise. Backgrounds are beautiful though, it's just the characters look a little uncanny in some shots. Paper man still holds up as a beautiful short though.

I thought it reminded me of Sophia the first and Elena of Avalon too! Thought I was the only one who thought that. The style looks like the style of a animated TV show. And I do think Disney hasn’t been putting enough money into their movies lately..

I definitely miss 2D animation & in a time of revivals, I wish more studios would bring back 2D! I can't help it, I grew up during an era of phenomenal 2D films like The Prince of Egypt, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Thumbelina, Anastasia, Ferngully: The Last Rainforest - seriously I could keep going! Like you said, I'm cautiously optimistic about this upcoming film, but I rather welcome this than another live action adaption of a perfect Disney animated classic. A lot of people slept on Disney's Meet the Robinsons, but in the spirit of that film - *KEEP MOVING FORWARD!*

I’m just excited for the fact that there seems to be an actual villain in this movie instead of generational trauma or a twist villain

I actually find the art style beautiful! It’s simple but aesthetically pleasing, and mixes really well with some really well animated characters. I’m excited to see what this movie has to offer and where Disney might go from then on artistically speaking

I really hope this movie doesn't end up being disappointing

A lot of people are talking about the animation but one thing I'm getting burnt out on is the typical 'Disney Princess Style'. This is no dis on Glen at all given a lot of what we love about the modern (and by modern I mean Little Mermaid and on. =P) look of the Princesses but maaaaan. When you realize other studios CAN vary their designs from series/feature you start to miss the days when Disney did that and they do....but just with non-Disney Princesses it seems. When you remember how movies like Lilo and Stitch, Atlantis and even grandfathered in 'Disney Princesses' like Mulan, Pocahontas, and Brave looked you just go where is THAT type of flavor? For a company that keeps screwing up the older Princesses and saying how they need to change, they don't seem to want to experiment with the general character designs so we can see that sort of change. And tldr, story is important too. VERY important. Disney ain't cutting it anymore.

Wow, this was my exact thought when I saw the trailer. I didn't pay it much attention, because it was an ad. My thoughts were "what's this? It looks like a Disney short film, or a new TV special." I wasn't getting "new animated film" vibes at all. And i really miss 2D animation from the Disney renaissance era. The Lion King 1994 will always be my favorite.

Everything looks great except for the humans. Unlike Spiderverse and other 2.5D animated hybrids that add small line details to the faces, Disney just seems to outline the basic shapes of the characters which makes the characters look even more plastic and blander than before. They should’ve gone full in on the watercolor aesthetic and used that in the shading and added more line detail to the characters faces because honestly a lot of the time it just looks like a video game.

For some reason, the villain and the way they presented him reminded me of Hawkmoth, and that's the second most disturbing thing that's happened to me today

I can't help but notice how drab the colors look in the teaser. I'm thinking about Moana and Encanto and how bright and saturated everything was, while Wish just looks so dull and grey.

Looks like just another Disney film, same safe art style they’ve been doing since Tangled (but with a cel shading filter oooh) and of course, the wacky cute animal sidekick, that also talks, that’s in every Disney movie. And nothing else of note really. I envy the people that were impressed by that trailer.

Why is it that both the Peanuts (2015) and Captain Underpants (2017) movies were made before Into the Spider-verse (2018) but Spider-verse gets all the credit for doing that stylized CG that looks hand drawn first?

"2D ended with The Princess and the Frog".... Winnie the Pooh 2011 did not die at the hands of Harry Potter just to be forgotten.....

It’s nice that they are “trying new things”, and I keep that between quotation marks, because that’s such an unpolished, timid, and clumsy way of “making a new style”… it’s just some “line art”, with some watercolour looking texturing, and lower polygon elements in the environment, on top of their existing character style. I don’t really have much hopes for it, but I’m ready to be surprised. It could be so much cooler with an actual watercolour and ink style, like Glen Keane made for Tangled’s artworks. And I’m willing to bet the concept art for this are crazy cool too

This literally sums up absolutely everything I thought about this movie 😂 Like first, it looks unfinished because it resembles Sofia the First in animation And second, I just want to see it anyways because Disney never makes original films like this, considering that they’ve been pumping out a ton of live action films instead of original movies like Encanto.

I mean, of all the new Disney movies, after Encanto, it looks and seems pretty good, but all it takes is a few mistakes to be another disappointment

The style doesn't feel fully coocked, like it's a weird experiment from part of disney as well as the shots, they look all too similar to me and kinda amateur in some scenes, i like it but those things make it feel really off, like the movie isn't finish even in the shots and planes the movie present us

we have the same thoughts about the "unfinished" look, its like its missing something. its honestly a risk for them to produce something like this when we have spiderverse and puss in boots the last wish that did that art style so well. I don't have high hopes for this film other than how they would execute the villain but I'd still watch it.

I feel like they saw Puss in Boots 2 and were like: "No Fair I can do that too!"

I forgot how cursed Cinderrella looked in Sofia the first.

OKAY thank you!!! I saw the trailer and couldn't place why the animation felt "off", but you've described it perfectly! It feels unfinished, and yeah the style of it really DOES mske it look like a series for children like Sophia the First, instead of looking like a feature film.

I knew something was off when I first saw the trailer. I am also worried about the similar reasons you said. This is their 100th anniversary and I don’t want them to screw this up. I still appreciate their new approach to adapt a 2D and 3D style of the animation a actual villain, interesting characters, the art design and concept. But we obviously would need to see the movie to know if it will be good or not and I’m just worried it won’t meet my expectations and I’ll become disappointed with another animated Disney movie and for them to then again release it in November when that obviously has not worked out for other Disney animated movies in the past as well. But I am a little excited tbh.

So happy about a original story for a new character but the animation is something I'll need to get use too.

What makes this sadder is this mix has been done well by Disney before. Treasure Planet was an amazing movie which blended cgi animation and 2d animation seamlessly and beautifully. Everyone, including critics, loved it and it probably wouldn’t have bombed if the advertising for it was better.

I was seriously excited when they announced the movie, thinking it would be a fully 2D animated movie and when I saw the trailer I was just "Eh..?". Like you said, it looks WAY too tame to be stylized. I do like the colours a lot but sometimes the light hits it wrong and then my eye focuses on thinks that aren't the focus... hard to explain. It's odd at times.

I feel like the only way disney would ever go back to 2d animation style is if they see some other company like Dreamworks or illumination do a single movie in 2d and then disney would start "copying" the "trend" even though viewers and animators have wanted a 2d movie from them for the longest time

It looks very unfinished and outdated, exactly like a disney junior show. I don't know, everything else except for the human characters looks good, but something about the shading and the textures, it just feels cheap for disney. Also the human characters's designs are just so boring.

it really does look like sofia the first, I legit thought the main character was elena of avalor. also the goat looks eerily like simba.

For me, I think what they’re going for style wise at least is a Snow White kind of look. The backgrounds especially. The semi realism in the characters reminds me of Snow White herself. However- I agree. I’d love more stand out character designs. Heck- Think of the witch and the seven dwarves in Snow White. Even still, I’m super excited for this.

Truthfully, this just looks like the 3-D movies with a different coat of paint. I don't think this is going to scratch the 2-D itch most seem to have these days.

I think more exaggerating movements would work so much better, in the trailer you can see they use the comfort normal style of movement they been using a lot, i think-

This... Kind of looks like a straight to DVD release from the 1990's. Disney needs to work a little more on this.

The graphic style is perfect for me as it looks like a storybook People spend forever comparing too many complex technologies 2d and 3d are not the point The key is whether it meets the needs of the story often forget that there is only one thing people should be doing [Relax and enjoy the movie] That's 30 years of moviegoing experience

They're only trying that new style because other studios did an amazing job using it. They're not trying to be sentimental. They saw movies with such style (Bad Guys, Spiderverse, Puss in Boots and even a show like Arcane as a bit more of an adult series) succeed and they thought "lets copy what they're doing" without thinking for a second longer that maybe it's not about visuals. They fail to realize that people could give less than two shits about the style of animation if the story is good if there is an actual passion behind those stories. I do not doubt that people who actually work on them have so much passion for delivering a good and beautiful story but the executives of disney are limiting them. It's the same what happened to last 2D animated movies. They were amazing and they would've done so much better at box office if the people who are responsible of running this goddamn studio cared to give those movies the advertisement and care they needed. Instead they shoved them aside and went "yep 2D animation isn't cutting it anymore". Just like they did with strange world recently. I had no idea it was a movie till it literally released. You know what they probably said "yeah maybe people don't want gay characters". I have so much hetrage towards this goddamn company. There is so much love and care that people who actually work on these movies have for these films but the "product" part is just ruining everything.

Honestly, I’ve given up on Disney, I’m not going to hope that they’ll release good films anymore. I’m just tired of them and I want Dreamworks and Sony and maybe more indie companies to have the spotlight now, because I know they’ll actually make thought provoking, emotional, and mature films. If Wish is good, cool, you can say ‘I told you so’, but that’s not going to put me back on Disney’s side. The bridge has already been burnt for me.

Asha's face looked a bit like Moana, she is wearing a purple dress like Rapunzel AND have a goat pet like Esmeralda. Putting elements that already exist to make a new character is NOT creative. At least the backgrounds are pretty and the little star is cute. Not sure it's enough to make the movie good. If the villain is boring, the songs not memorables and the action lame; having a cute star won't save the film 🤨

The animation looks AI generated. Like they applied a 2D filter to their 3D animation last minute because of the success of Puss.

I just realized something... The art style of "WISH" Looks like the art style of "THE LAST WISH"

On one hand, I'm so happy to see something that's not a cheap remake. But on the other hand, I've been burned so many times by Disney in the last 4 years that I'm not sure if the studio can make another great movie. Encanto was the last universally agreed upon honest to god good movie and their last great movie was Coco all the way from 2017. I'm way more interested in seeing a new story than I am a new style.

I also worried about the style, but I do think and love if this was a decision to make it more simple animation with 3d and 2d combined But if it wasnt, Ihope its because theyre focusing more on the story

I feel like if this is the movie that encapsulates 100 years of storytelling, if this is the same wishing star that brought Pinocchio to life, that guided Peter Pan to Neverland, that became Mufasa after his death and all the other things that the marketing team themselves have said; then they did the absolute lamest, laziest and least effort thing they could do with it. It should have been about Walt himself.

You know what boggles my mind is how Mickey and his Friends haven't had any films in forever like bruh no brainer type beat

Well, that’s the thing. Choppy frame-rates aren’t something associated with Disney animation. Smooth frame-rates have always been the style Disney have prided themselves with and having a film evoking that particular style isn’t going to have those lower frame-rates.

I have mixed expectations. On one hand, I love the animation, but on the other hand, It's Disney who we're talking about. They'll most likely prevent their redemption

I really hope it won’t flop since I love the concept and I really don’t want to end up seeing people hate on Disney again

I still think this movie looks visually better than strange world. Strange world's human designs looked so ugly to me.

glad to know im not crazy and someone also sees that this animation feels lazy, in feels like a sketch but not in a good way, when i saw the concept art (the first pic of asha sitting on a tree) i was like "ok, this could be cute!" but this just feels like a lazy attempt to those viewers that wanted a 2D movie, somehow they are saying something like "Hey kids! look we did 2D mixed with 3D! like spiderverse! thats what you wanted right? now we have your money again right?" and it feels...wrong...idk is missing like soul.

they want to hearken back to ground breaking work but want to play it safe. completely ignoring that they can't have a ground breaking film without risk. something that Walt Disney himself new exceptionally well.

1:46 Thank you! When I first saw this, I thought the movement of the characters looked similar to Sofia the First, then after a bit I thought I was just nit-picking! But thank you!

I watched the teaser with my sister. She said that it looks unfinished too. She said Wish looks too close to 3D. Like its being non-committal to the whole 2D-3D hybrid style. She also pointed out that the braids are animated incorrectly. They're animated like Caucasian hair. I got all excited because I think this is the first EVER Disney protagonist with a head full of braids and now I could not be more disappointed 😭

Disney Animation needs to bring back love stories. Elemental finally did it right with Elemental. The closed off girl boss finally fell in love. Lol

You now what else I'm tired of? All the main characters in modern Disney films all look basically the same. Same usually heart shaped face with small chin, big round eyes, little gently sloping button nose, (usually) full lips, usually long flowy hair... and it's getting visually boring. Think Rapunzel, Anna, Elsa, Moana, Mirabel (except she actually had short curly hair, which I loved, it was refreshing), Isabela and now this character (although she has braids, but it has the same effect). Characters like Megara with her sharp features and unique hairstyle, Ariel with her big poofy hair, Luisa with her bigger athletic body shape, Dolores with her curly bun, Pocahontas with her unique face, Tiana with her curly hair, Snow White with her smaller eyes and short fluffy hair, Mulan with her Asian eyes and round face, Merida with her wild red curls, all of those are characters that look different and distinct from each other to me. Their character designs are unique and fresh. Most modern characters may have different skin colors, hair and eye colors, and slightly different heights, but their facial features look more or less the same. If you change the colors of their complexion, they look very similar. I feel like I'm seeing the same character over and over again, but with slightly different hair eye and skin colors and slightly different hairstyles. They're a little better at making the male characters more unique and distinct, but too many of the modern female characters have the same kind of character design. I want something fresh and different. Gimme chubby cheeks and a double chin, a sharp, prominent nose, a tooth gap, bushy eyebrows, square faces, long, slim faces, freckles (kudos to this character's freckles), wide-set eyes, close-set eyes, small eyes, hooded eyes, flat noses, wide jaws, more unique hairstyles sometimes etc. I just want more creativity in the character designs. It feels like they're recycling the same template. Anybody notice this too or agree?

I feel like they're just trying to jump in on the Spiderverse style before everyone gets inevitably sick of it.

personal thought, i would love to see something animated in an artstyle similar to that of the “skunk and badger” series. i bring up s&b in specific, and not just jon klassen’s artwork as a whole, because the illustrations for this series really seem to go in their own, unique direction compared to his other stuff, and i would love to see something like that animated

My friends and boyfriend and me we all enjoyed the most: Kubo and the two strings and Song of the Sea. It is way more cinematic and magical seeing how the animators, the background creators, the puppeteers, the researchers, and the paintings they used to inspire themselves. It is so fascinating and it's not from Disney. Both films have a few flaws but with the animation and the story building it is great! And yes, we are still waiting for a whole movie feature film of The Paperman. 👨‍💼 📝 📝 🖇

I really hope it looks better in the film than in the trailer... The first thing that came to mind when I watched it, as mentioned on the video, was Sofia the First, when I think they were aiming for Spiderverse or Arcane. It will also be a real shame if this tanks and they decide it's because of it being an original story... when we desperately need more of that

Honestly, i really prefer this "less detailed style" rather than the "cartoonish hyper realistic style" that Disney was smashing all these time, looks more minimalistic wich is rare for a big companny such as disney and in geenral watercolor in real life, use to look like this. Giving that watery soft vibes, allmost childish but inocent, something that Disney was lossing this last years

The look of the movie is giving me video game vibes. Reminds me of the look of BORDERLANDS series but in a disney movie form.... The trailer looks more like a video game preview to me LOL

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I’m glad Disney is attempting a new style, following Spiderverse and Puss In Boots 2, but it just kinda looks like a filter that they quickly added on without going all the way like those other two films. I think the problem is the character designs, the backgrounds look great.

Spider verse and PNBTLW( puss n boots the last wish) does the 2d and 3d thing so SO much better Edit: why does wish look like a Christian movie?

There’s just something about the style where sometimes it looks like a beautiful shot from a classic traditional animation film, and then other times it looks like a video game cutscene with lazily rendered lighting. It’s the inconsistency, man

the comments made me realize that no matter how much effort u put into a certain project or work, ppl will still find it hard to give appreciation to it and point out negative things they can think about

With Disney leaning so heavily into nostalgia bait these days, I foresee the possibility that in the not-so-distant future Disney might actually make the decision to create a 2d animated movie like the ones they used to do. People have a lot of nostalgia for the Disney renaissance era of films after all. It might be wishful thinking, but hey, a man can dream.

i wish they would make 2d movies again. clearly they can do it, and princess and the frog was gorgeous to look at. and there's a market for it, given that a lot of people love 2d films. there's a reason why anime has a lot of fans, given that it's one of the only place we can get 2d at all these days. disney (company) says they want to push through and make new things but now they just fall back to the safe, same-y things because it's safe and because it's disney it will generate money for them.

Oh god. I hope this “Spiderverse” comic book style doesn’t become another trend that we get sick of, just like how the 3D Pixar style was the previous trend. I want each studio to try new things, not copy each other. Spiderverse was great but I don’t want to see copies of that film, there being only one Spiderverse is what makes that movie special. I would like to see another stop-motion Disney film in the style of The Nightmare Before Christmas

I’m really exited for this film and I feel like it has a lot of potential, but seeing the trailer I had a hard time putting a finger on WHY the animation, while aesthetically pleasing, felt a little off to me. I feel like this video put it into words really well, so thank you for that! I can tell that a lot of love and hard work went into this movie, but as with all things experimental, it may take a while to perfect a new technique. I’m just happy to see Disney trying something new and I hope it’s the start of a new era for them. That being said, Wish isn’t even out yet so it’s way too early to judge it. Once it’s in theaters tho, you bet I’ll be there to check it out!🙏💕

Disney here trying to fool us and make us believe that hybrid animation is just putting black lines around the characters like? Lol, I’m so tired of their incapacity to make distinctive characters that can be recognized by their sillouette, voice, and mannerisms. All of the characters in this trailer look like someone using the Disney filter on TikTok and calling it a day.

Besides paperman, there's also Klaus. They could have gone for that feel,a 2D movie that feels 3D, instead of a 3D film that feels 2D

Disney should also make a movie in the style of Klaus.

It seems like Disney originally was going to animate this in their more usual 3D realistic style but then wanted to cash in on the cool spider verse style and decided to throw a shitty Snapchat cartoon filter over their whole movie

disappointed, I thought this was going to be fully 2d animation :( and you put it perfectly with how it feels, it just looks off. they did not do a good job at following the Spiderverse style smh

(warning; I make long comments) If they want to pay homage to a century of the company's history, I really want them to go all out. And that applies to all aspects of this film: the artstyle, animation, writing, music and score, character designs, you name it. The saddest thing here is that it seems like, ironically, there's *too much* of "the old ways" they're trying to harken to. We have what looks to be a "traditional Disney princess", but she didn't really grab my attention. The animal sidekick is inoffensive(?), but I almost scoffed when I realised they're potentially another comic relief. The premise of "a place where wishes come true" has nothing else to its description(apart from villain setup). And speaking of, he just looks like a guy with fancy clothes. None of these feel like real characters The trailer also seems to be presenting the classic "I Want" Song, except I couldn't glean off the singer's personality from it. Which would have been greatly appreciated, because the rest of the trailer did have anything in the way of characterisation either. In fact, I don't think it was introducing _any_ character, as all but one is unnamed(Valentino the goat). To me, they're all being presented as traditional fairytale roles then real people I want to root for/against. And then the writing. Obviously we don't actually know the plot yet, so I instead have a suggestion: that if they still want to have a sympathetic villain, that they go for the "understandable, but nonetheless evil" route. Villains need proper motivation that drive them to do evil. And those reasons could be understandable, but still lead them to perform terrible acts the story denounces them for. And as they seem to have a form of magic system, they can also invoke the Deconstruction of old systems being outdated, but Reconstructing and creating a new system while honouring the original intent behind the old way. Like how real world traditions and cultures adapt and change alongside the people who practice them. Plus, in a metatextual sense, it could represent Disney moving to a new era, allowing itself to evolve and grow while keeping alive the spirit of its old works. Like the video speaker, I'm cautiously optimistic, but personally leaning more to "cautious". In my eyes, they're not really selling me on the whole "a century in the making" bit, because you can't say that without incorporating those elements _equally_ . It feels too much like they're trying to do the bare minimum of "modern era" and that's a hue turn-off for me. There's takeaways from both extremes, not even considering whole exhibits' worth of nuance in-between a hundred year's worth of animation history. And I'm not one to favour picking a side unless it's a deliberate (artistic) choice that makes sense for the work.

For the 100th anniversary they SHOULD make a 2D film.

I'm glad they're doing something different at all, visually. Some of the shots are unique. It looks like something straight out of a children's book.