One of the best developments in recent American big-studio animation has been the realization that these films aren’t required to show off. It’s also been one of the worst developments, as the new movie Sneaks—about sneakers that talk (really)—proves.
Movies like Turning Red, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Lego Movie, and especially Sony’s Spider-Verse series are less enamored of photorealistic blades of grass or tufts of hair, instead choosing to embrace a variety of designs, textures, and motion styles that often have as much in common with hand-drawn or stop-motion animation as formerly cutting-edge eyesores likeShrek. Outside the U.S., the form is getting even more daring: Flow was made with open-source software and just won the Oscar for feature animation!
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