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temper-temper · 4 days ago

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I’ve been saying this for years AAAAAA

speaking of how to train your dragon and creature design, the shift from the really naturalistic art direction and character animation for the first movie's toothless- the face getting flatter, the eyes bigger and closer together, getting rid of the little realistic details like the dust collecting between the scales, the pink splotching where the scales end at the nostrils, the muted markings, the animation making a shift from largely realistic animal behavior to much more anthropomorphic- is such a huge downgrade to me, made worse because it's subtle in such a way that you will sound insane if you mention it

(huge L for the "the audience's capacity to find a creature cute and empathetic and expressive is directly proportional to how much it looks like a human baby" principle of character design because the first one is so so much cuter)

#I honestly feel that everything after the 1st movie just can’t compare #they do the same with the people and it really bugs me because I really enjoyed how kinda gross and greasy everyone looked #it wasn’t relying on anything else to be enjoyable and has its own awesome art direction and they took it away in the second movie #and changed a bunch of lore #the second movie is fine for a story line at least but it doesn’t hit like the first movie did #not a fan of the kids becoming weird anime characters and the dragons becoming “uwu cute”#this was against me personally as a child

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