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Misleading Headline of the Day

New Footage From Highly Anticipated Film Adaptation of Beloved Children’s Novels

by Susana Polo | 3:18 pm, July 8th, 2011


The actual full trailer for this movie, while it contains some things that are jarring (CGI Honey), almost manages to completely awaken our nostalgia.

(via The Daily What.)

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  • http://twitter.com/Amciel Megan Lloyd

    The honey isn’t CGI, actually.  It’s drawn out by hand–no particle systems or simulation.  They colored it with the computer, though, which probably accounts for the weird looking effect.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7G4SWUX2MCWWXLMYNN347JMIZY Frodo Baggins

    Yeah, the over-rendering is unsettlingly conspicuous. Even the backgrounds, though, are clearly painted in a computer. You can see where they used the Photoshop Dodge tool, giving a piercing, artificial glow to what is ostensibly a book illustration.

    Still, it’s a lo-fi 2D animated feature film, and those are an endangered species these days, so I’ll hold my tongue. If they gotta paint it digitally to lower costs, so be it. Most modern studios treat CGI like Pooh treats honey: gorge yourself until you’re too bloated to get your ass out the door.

    Is Optimus Prime still voicing Eeyore? That should make for some fun mashups.

  • Ceili

    This. Looks. AMAZING. So so so amazing. I waxed nostalgic about the lack of traditionally animated movies these days, ever since the loss of Dreamworks Animation and then some. I’ve always said if I had the money I’d love to start up a new animation studio to keep the traditional mediums alive, but alas, I don’t have said funds, nor contacts, or any other way to keep hand drawn artwork from going the way of the dodo.

    I will, at least, be buying this the minute it comes out and seeing it on opening day to show support that there are some of us, at least, who remember how beautiful traditional artwork can be, even moreso than the deluge of CG films flooding theaters.

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