Rango - Pixar visually outdone

Started by Tangled-Universe, March 05, 2011, 03:21:15 AM

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Tangled-Universe

Anyone seen Rango yet?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1192628/

I have seen it yesterday and I was really blown away!

It's a quite funny movie with really great characters and of course Johnny Depp's voice-acting is tailored for the main character Rango (could also be way around).

However, the most awesome was the superb animation, modeling, texturing and lighting.
In my opinion this movie has really outdone Pixar's latest movies in terms of visual presentation.
The characters are so well detailed, great hair/fur/cloths, butt ugly looks mostly and therefore far more realistic somehow. To me, at least.

Amazingly realistic enviroments with so many details. Dust, sand, boulders, lots of deformations/interactions with characters. It's so detailed.
Especially the chase-scene through a big gorge is absolutely stunning and I really wonder how they made this gorge.
The rock surfaces are so convincing that it almost made me cry I can't do that in TG2.
Another thing which looked amazing were the clouds. Although I'm pretty sure it wasn't 3D especially in specific scenes, it still looked damn good.

Go see it!

Cheers,
Martin

Oshyan

This is ILM's first foray into the realm of fully animated features and indeed it looks quite good from the trailers (haven't seen it yet, but definitely want to). The thing is I'm not sure it's quite fair to compare against Pixar because they're quite different visual styles. Pixar are extremely talented visual artists, see Rattatoulie for some of their best shading work (the food is amazing-looking). So I don't think it's necessarily lack of capability or even motivation so much as different takes on visual aesthetic. That being said some may prefer one to another, and I might be one of those that prefers the slightly more realistic, gritty Rango-esque approach. Can't wait to see it and comment further.

- Oshyan

Tangled-Universe

The visual style difference isn't that big anymore.
Hence Toy Story 3 and Up where the cartoony characters, like Rango himself in Rango, are supported by incrementally more photo-realistic environments.
In that aspect Rango really stands out compared to Pixar's latest two releases.
I tnink you'll see/understand once you've seen it.

Oshyan

I thought Up's environments were quite cartoony actually, aside from the vegetation models. I haven't seen Toy Story 3 though. Looking forward to seeing Rango...

- Oshyan

Seth

absolutely impressive trailer. far better than Pixar stuff, I agree