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Originally Posted by Coach
It seems like your problem is that it's done with a computer, and not on paper?
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I don't have a problem with computers, its that people seem to think that stuff made on it, no matter how stylistically peculiar, is anything other than just another really nice looking Big Mac.
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We're obviously not going to agree here. Animation is different now because the creators of Spiderverse tried something new. Saying something is a leap forward doesn't take away from the things that came before, and it doesn't mean that hand-drawn things still can't be great. It was a visualization that hadn't been executed before, and I came out of the theatre feeling like I had literally just lived through a comic book and that THAT was how animation would look going forward.
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Saying something is a leap forward when it isn't is disingenuous. I saw the movie, and I did feel like I lived through a comic book. And it was "cool" and that is it. It didn't feel particularly "impressive", which would be the most milquetoast of adjectives for something being heralded as a "leap."
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Would you say the same thing about music? Was Hendrix not a leap forward simply because he was playing Blues music at its base? He didn't invent a new instrument or new notes or something. He just played it in a way that no one else had done before.
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It came out of his body on an instrument that is depicted in hieroglyphics dating as old as 1400 BC. Western music is made up of 12 notes, regardless of genre. So yes, Hendrix was a great big giant effing leap forward. But to be fair, he benefitted greatly from being 14 years old when the electric guitar was invented. Right guy in the right time for a metaphorical musical gold rush. Kind of like with computing power and the original Matrix (and all the crazy innovative camera work and everything else that movie invented that became entirely mainstream).