What’s crazy is that the team was likely given creative freedom, a general direction, and just went for it.
This is in contrast to other movies where they slave away for wages to get the carrot and the movie is lackluster because it has no soul.
Is the movie good enough for people who dosen’t care about K-pop or demon hunting?
I watched it with my kids and had more fun than i expected. So, I guess maybe?
It launched a crazy interest in kpop in my house. I’m not complaining :) Though the kids singing to the songs is… something… to grow into.
It’s fine. The final act is rushed, as in, they set up an emotional conflict and the resolution is just one scene with a bunch of singing that doesn’t really address the emotional side of the conflict almost at all. The rest of it is quite high quality animation and general production values.
The quality is good, but the low framerate esthetic of a lot of animated movies lately makes them hard for me to watch and screams SAVE SOME MONEY. The other animated movie like this I can think of is the 2023 TMNT movie.
Spider-verse is why that style is popular now. K-Pop Demon Hunters was made by the same studio.
Personally I think it looks awesome.
Or maybe it’s because of the incredibly successful Spiderverse movies which pioneered this style & made it very popular?
I don’t think it’s measurably cheaper to produce this kind of animation.
Spiderverse at least had a comic book filter applied, and made it look like that low frame rate style made sense. Now it’s just being used where it doesn’t really belong. I can appreciate some people seem to enjoy it, but as someone who played video games where I would get a frame every two seconds (ok that was just one room in Duke Nukem 3D) I learned to hate jittery visuals and love smoothness.
I haven’t seen any of these movies but from a purely technical standpoint it would be cheaper to render a CG movie at a lower frame rate.
Movies like this aren’t rendered in real time like a video game. We’re certainly getting a lot closer to that as video game fidelity has started to catch up to CG movies. But, just as a for instance, at the time that Big Hero 6 came out the computer Disney built to render it was the second most powerful computer on the planet and it still took weeks to render.
The movies aren’t rendered at a lower frame rate.
It doesn’t save them money, at least not much. Adding in-between frames just means more time spent on the final render.
IMO it’s done in order to make the movie look more like stop motion animation, a la The Lego Movie, which I think was also CG
Time is money. And if they can skip rending 2/3rds of the movie that’s a lot of render farm time saved. Plus it also probably covers up a lot of animation issues.
You’re still rendering every frame. Do you think the rendered character is just copy-pasted while camera, lighting etc. still change at 24fps?
I did a quick look at Kpop and advanced frames in VLC. It looks like every other frame is a duplicate for just the main characters, but the backgrounds or other things will still move on every frame. I didn’t realize there were some things that moved with every frame.
Looking at it a bit more, I can’t see any reflections or lighting effects updated on the characters on the duplicate frame even when there are changes elsewhere. So maybe they did find some ways to save money. The duplicate frame on the main characters doesn’t seem to be applied everywhere but I’m not sure why it is in some places but not others.
Yes, that’s how the Spiderverse animation style works. The characters are drawn at half framerate, but not everything else.
I haven’t seen Kpop, but I’ve read that whether they’re animated at half or full frames is a story-based choice due to some stuff with the demons. But still - it’s just weird to assume it’s about saving money.
I found it entertaining but flawed when I watched it the first time. There were some moments that got genuine, big laughs out of me.
I have kids, so I’ve seen it a bunch of times now. Like most good comedies and most good musicals, it gets better the more times you see it.
