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The makers of The Peanuts Movie went against the grain of 3D animation to produce a film that looks deceptively simple…
“I’ve never worked so hard to make things look so simple” was the catchphrase of Blue Sky Studios’ Harald Kraut on The Peanuts Movie. “It looks simple on screen,” he explains, “but it wasn’t simple to get there because of the rules we established.”
Those rules, as descibed here, were established to try to evoke the look and feel of Charles Schulz’s 2D, hand-drawn comic strips on the big screen. Broadly speaking, they involved taking a highly sophisticated 3D animation system and stopping it from doing everything it’s good at; sweeping camera movements, photo-real textures, creating the illusion of depth... All of that went out of the window in the service of staying faithful to Schulz’s original strips.
“We had to...
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The makers of The Peanuts Movie went against the grain of 3D animation to produce a film that looks deceptively simple…
“I’ve never worked so hard to make things look so simple” was the catchphrase of Blue Sky Studios’ Harald Kraut on The Peanuts Movie. “It looks simple on screen,” he explains, “but it wasn’t simple to get there because of the rules we established.”
Those rules, as descibed here, were established to try to evoke the look and feel of Charles Schulz’s 2D, hand-drawn comic strips on the big screen. Broadly speaking, they involved taking a highly sophisticated 3D animation system and stopping it from doing everything it’s good at; sweeping camera movements, photo-real textures, creating the illusion of depth... All of that went out of the window in the service of staying faithful to Schulz’s original strips.
“We had to...
- 12/18/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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