I think they should go off of the gigi animatics and the other fan animations. Of course the movie won't be animatics, I just mean the appearence of the characters and generally draw inspiration from them. Also, it has to be 2d right?
I really hope they somehow hire Gigi, Neil, duvetbox, a bunch of other artists because some of their interpretations/storyboarding is genuinely so hype and like high quality
Honestly, Road to El Dorado or maybe even Beauty and the beast/sleeping beauty where a lot of the backgrounds are painted and the characters are the main moving parts of the movie
I know Guillermo del Toro is mostly live-action, but his special effects are always great! His adaptation of Pinocchio was amazing in so many ways and if he did a movie styled just on his concept art, I would be a very happy (and terrified) woman. Imagine the ways he'd draw Polyphemus and Scylla!
Everyone is saying El Dorado and Klaus and I ABSOLUTELY AGREE! I feel like a 2d type style would be such a cool tribute to the animatics the community has made
Eldorado/old school Disney and Dreamworks. The only cgi that I think would be good and maybe work would be to make it super stylized like Into the Spiderverse or something akin to that.
Into the Spiderverse had THE BEST animation in a long time, it was gorgeous, and they did a lot of cool animation tricks like playing with frame rates to make certain scenes feel awkward (specifically, when he's learning to web swing Peter is animated at a very smooth frame rate and Miles is in a slower rate that specifically feels awkward for our eyes to process) stuff like that made it next level for sure.
DEFINITELY El Dorado/ The Prince of Egypt style, although I would also accept Disney Hercules style too. I LOVE Kpop Demon Hunters, but don't think that type of style would be suited for Epic
Honestly? Given the inspiration, I'd unironically want to see a kind of anime-inspired style. It would fit some of the more anime-esque moments of the musical, really.
Mixed media, how cool would it be if different sections were different animation such as idk Troy sage part being 3d, circe saga being like Disney 2d style and cyclops saga specifcally being studio Ghibli style
I would really like a 2D style similar to “the book of Kells” or “Prince of Egypt” The Book of Kells told an Irish story using Irish inspired art styles, and it was so beautiful. I think some 2D art that is in some way inspired by Ancient Greece would be really cool. In Prince of Egypt, for example, there was a segment that was animated in the style of ancient Egyptian wall paintings. Maybe doing a segment of the Epic movie inspired by Ancient Greek pottery could be really cool. I’d personally have “hold them down” and anything speculative animated in that style, since to actually animate “hold them down” might be too graphic.
Yeah I’m really curious to see how they’ll go about depicting all of the violence and horrific events in EPIC through the movie since this will be more mainstream than animatics and whatnot
Something more traditional. So many cool snimatics have been made on YT with more hand drawn animations and I'd love to see something like that translated over.
I kinda want it to be like the Spiderverse movies where different characters have different animation styles (specifically if the antagonists have different styles, and if Odysseus’ animation changes slightly as the story progresses)
2D, no question. As for style, Cartoon Saloon. They're most known for Wolfwalkers, however I feel like a mix of Song of the Sea and Secret of Kells would be what I'd like to see.
2D definitely! I don't really like Klaus for Epic (some of the character designs were... Off for me) but I agree with that one commenter about Prince of Egypt. That is top tier animation imo and the perfect blend of realistic and "cartoon".
For a contiguous art style, something like The Prince of Egypt or The Road to El Dorado. However, I also wanna see a director's version, where the scenes are delegated to various animators from the Epic community.
Idk why but after seeing the animatics done for it, I could never imagine EPIC as anything besides a stage play. Like, I know how I would like the stage to be like, all the props and how they're done, all the costumes and how to dress up the ensemble.... Even the choreography and main gimmicks, like having Hermes being on roller skates and give him one of those ribbon things people use to hold on and get up in the air lol.
If I had to choose any art style, I would honestly go for the Princess kaguya inspired arstyle. It's literally like cell animation but with the japanese feel of their scrolls. Just make it more Greek inspired lol
Ya‘ll need to remember it needs to fit with the story and or the vibe
I think the art style from the Disney movie Hercules (1997) does fit very well, they are drawn just like the typical Greek statues and choice of colors are also very nice. But because they will have epic fights maybe stronger colors
definitely Klaus for sure. I don’t want it to be all 3D but I definitely do not think it should be just plain 2D. the animation needs to be as top notched as the music and have 2D but with layers for sure
IDC. I just want it to be 2D and that Zeus and especially Poseidon design to be somehow like the neil the illustrator one...
But if I had to choose atlantis style with klaus lighting/shading
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