I thought it was alright, gave a nod to the a Heavy Metal/Barbarella style but drew it it's own unique style. Nothing wrong with looking contemporary.

I didn't really have a problem with that.. plenty of modern cartoons emulate 80s styles with better animation (Steven Universe, MLP, Thundercats and all those Cartoon Hangover episodes, specifically Manly in this case) but it loses a star for me because of the "found footage" fakey skips at the end.

I don't think MLP invokes the 80's much. I mean, there WAS an 80's MLP cartoon, and it looks NOTHING like the current version.

Yeah, I don't have a problem with this as contemporary animation even though it's not really my thing, but it seems like the INTENT was to make it look like something from the late 80s/early 90s and at that it really fails, all of the line work is VERY digital looking and the 3d elements are rendered in a really modern style that wouldn't have even been possible with the most sophisticated renderers available at the time. So it kind of falls short of its own intent.

The bakground art is my favorite part of it.

Has anyone actually seen the movie? I can't find much information on it and my French is middle school level at best, but what I got from the French Wikipedia entry is sort of a mix between Amelie and Scott Pilgrim, only younger. Looks cute.

aside from music and font, this is pretty standard french surrealist sci-fi, but done with modern CG 2D animation.

I agree with OZ; some of the character designs are very 80s, but the animation is unmistakeably digital. FiM isn't very 80s, either; it was an 80s franchise and it plays well with grown-ups born in that decade, but that's where MLP's 80sness ends.

Unfortunately, this clip isn't representative of the rest of the series. Lou! is a slice-of-life comedy, not a fantasmalicious sci-fi romp. The main character's mom is an aspiring author, and Sidera is the mom's author-insert heroine; sort of like Biker Rose from Rose is Rose, only I guess the mom isn't typically depicted as transforming into her. Here's a page from the comic, to give you some idea of what it's like:

http://www.coinbd.com/series-bd/lou/journal-infime/images/plan che/3862_t1.jpg

Space Dandy approaches this style at times (the racing episode in particular) but you probably already know that.

I would have watched the hell out of this and never understood a damn thing. That's why I loved french cartoons as a kid.

She's upstaging Wonder Woman's jet with a semi-invisible Acanti.

Totally, just for the music alone