Tuesday Numbers: 6.10 M ZOOTOPIA | 2.57 M 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE | 1.41 M DEADPOOL

[Jessie]

20 hours ago, DamienRoc said:

It's not just hair and water, although Zootopia has a ton of both. It's also the huge number of setting environments and perhaps the widest variety of character models ever used in an animated film. 

 

All of that adds up to a lot of required computing power to render. While the Hyperion software makes it possible to do such things it still takes time and money. Plus they will try and push the envelope of what is possible with the existing technology as well as develop new software. 

 

And high end software like this isn't cheap. 

 

Beyond just that, they still need to animate every frame. Every movement of the characters is controlled. And pulling it off to make it look natural and real is a painstakingly slow process. Perhaps not quite as slow as stop motion, but the man-hours required for seconds of footage is going to be really high. 

 

Basically if you want cutting edge animation tech you have to pay for it. 

 

Now this is why we ask on here because you gave more derail than I could find on Google 

[narniadis]

27 minutes ago, yjs said:

yeah honestly those animals from the secret life of pets trailer looked like cheap plush dolls to me...

 

but thats the point - Illumination has never been about creating those uber realistic looks that other studios do. Even Blue Sky with films like Rio didn't go all out on the texture part of the design.

There is a huge difference in what Disney / Pixar / Dreamworks pours into their films than the rest and it shows in the budgets - not saying its the right way to judge things or not but it is what it is.

[yjs]

4 minutes ago, narniadis said:

 

but thats the point - Illumination has never been about creating those uber realistic looks that other studios do. Even Blue Sky with films like Rio didn't go all out on the texture part of the design.

There is a huge difference in what Disney / Pixar / Dreamworks pours into their films than the rest and it shows in the budgets - not saying its the right way to judge things or not but it is what it is.

yeah, and maybe in some ways it's more approachable to its target audience in a sofia the first kinda way