The art of cell animation is mostly lost now, even if someone wanted to spend the money

Lost to the sands of time alongside plaster frescoes, model miniatures and matte painting backgrounds

I remember watching this movie, but forgot the title.

But why do the characters look so BORED?

I know a lot of people (myself included) have a thing for cel animation because it's a physical medium, but computer animation can be just as good. And cel animation can be as bad as the worst CG animation.

The problem is, for ANY animation to be good in today's economy, you need to grind the people who actually make it to dust.

Look at "Across the Spider-verse." It is so gorgeous. I could pause on just about any frame and it would be a work of art. It's all done on computer and with the assistance of algorithms. But look how long it took to get it to that level of quality and how hard the animators still had to work.

And of course, the studio demands it be delivered at as low a cost as possible.

The only real difference between good cel and good computer animation is that with the former, you have a sweatshop full of people hunched over drafting tables working with physical media and in the latter, you have a sweatshop full of people hunched over workstations clicking their mouse and typing on their keyboards. Both sets of workers are asked to sacrifice huge chunks of their lives to the detriment of their physical & mental health, not to mention their social relationships. And the lion's share of the profits end up going to rich assholes who do no real work.

This looks like a very pretty movie, though. I just wish we could make very pretty movies without literally sucking the life out of people.

i like this movie