The Wild

[KimbaWLion]

New pictures from The Wild have been posted at Animated News. (http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00004753.html)

I swear, this is the UGLIEST "3D" computer animation yet. And the trailer at thewildmovie.com reveals that the motion itself is of the old constricted, claustrophobic, unexpressive rubber doll variety.

I am really amazed at how bad this looks.

[athena]

I swear, this is the UGLIEST "3D" computer animation yet.

I'll second that.
That pic of the lion reminds of me a taxidermy exihibit I saw once... only the dead stuffed animal carcasses looked more lifelike. :yuck:

[greykitty]

LOL! Nice comparisson. I think the square-ish Madagascar style is more appealing than this one.

[BeachballSP]

I liked Bridget at a glance. She's lovely. Hope she gets some good one-liners. :P
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1/BeachballSP/Bridget.jpg <3

[Juuchan17]

That looks bad?

O___O

No offense, but I think the animation and character design looks much better than Madagascar does. The characters seem to have that almost-realistic feel to them (mainly the whole fur part - they look like animals and not weird plastic animals with strange shapes.), and to me they look appealing to the eyes as soft and fuzzy animals that you see in zoos (but you can't touch them at a zoo of course - probably not as friendly).

I think it looks like a good film, from what I seen of the trailers and all. Similar to Madagascar, but overall . . . it's different. This sounds like a film I would want to see!

(For some reason, I can sense someone would write a fanfic of the lions in The Wild meeting Simba from The Lion King . . ..oh God.)

- Juuchan17

[lupercal]

No offense, but I think the animation and character design looks much better than Madagascar does. The characters seem to have that almost-realistic feel to them (mainly the whole fur part - they look like animals and not weird plastic animals with strange shapes.)

Whereas I admit I would rather see cartoon animals which looked as if they had fur rather than plastic, animation shouldn't be about realism. Leave that to films like 'Babe', whatever category that falls into.

Just blows me out. We have this medium you can do anything with, and film-makers get hung up on making it look like a photo, like that shot (which yeah I know I keep harping on) in 'Finding Nemo' of Sydney Harbour, which they could have done by just sticking a camera out a window.

[P.C. Unfunny]

"The Wild" will not be shown to critics...

"For the first time in it's history, Disney will NOT, I repeat, will NOT be screening an animated feature for critics. As you know they've screened even live action shit like Meet the Deedles. I've been going to all-medias for Disney animated films for over ten years This has never happened before."


I found this at Cartoon Brew. Not showing a film for critics always screams a crappy movie.

[P.C. Unfunny]

I also wanted to add those character designs are awful. Yes they look realistic, but this is a cartoon and should look as such.

[athena]

"The Wild" will not be shown to critics...
*smirk*
Is the marketing department TRYING to create bad-press for this film? yeesh!





*edited for stupid spelling mistake... :P

[MonkeyFunk]

http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2006/04/09/1772.aspx

[starlac]

Well they've showing it to one "critic" at least :P, and my won't he look creditable when/if the others pan it.

[athena]

anyone besides me curious enough to see if this thing is as much of a train-wreck that Disney seems to think it is...?

[P.C. Unfunny]

anyone besides me curious enough to see if this thing is as much of a train-wreck that Disney seems to think it is...?

I just saw a TV ad for "The Wild",yeah,they do.

[MonkeyFunk]

Interestingly, despite reporting all this stuff about the movie, Animated-News.com has just given itself a Wild-themed makeover.

[athena]

I just saw a TV ad for "The Wild",yeah,they do.


hehe. sometimes I wish Keyframe's users were more geographically localized... we could have premire nights for animated movies and throw popcorn at the screen.
:frontrow:

[Samantha]

Anyone know when is the last time a Disney flick did as poorly as The Wild? Really disappointing box office for its opening weekend, and the Rotten Tomatoes rating is dropping daily. 19% for a Disney film?

[lupercal]

Anyone know when is the last time a Disney flick did as poorly as The Wild? Really disappointing box office for its opening weekend

Teacher's Pet took 2.4 million on its first weekend. The Wild took 9.6 million.

Emperor's New Groove took 9.8 million, but that was 6 years ago.

Interestingly, Treasure Planet took over 12M but turned in to their worst bomb ever (I think).

From memory the only Disney film since the late 90's to make a significant percentage above its production costs was Lilo and Stitich, which was partly because they spent so little on it.

Loop

[Inkwolf]

Why oh why did their trailers try so hard to make it look like they were doing an early remake of Madagascar? :p I expect I will see this one when it comes out on video.

This is just another example of Disney's usual trying to get double mileage out of their film research/development, you know? I mean like, when they did The Lion King, they made a live-action African film. too. (A Far Off Place?) When they made Hunchback, they also came out with the Gargoyles TV show. When they made Tarzan, they made George of the Jungle. When they made Pocohontas, they made Squanto.

So, they learned how to animate a big, realistic lion for Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia. Clearly they weren't going to let all that learning effort be wasted on JUST ONE MOVIE. They HAD to crank out another lion picture, fast! Fools. If Peter Jackson thought like that, his next movie would be King Kong vs Hobbits. Actually, I'd like to see that... :p

[athena]

hmm, it's an interesting theory, but in this case I don't think it actually follows...

The company that did the CG on The Wild is C.O.R.E (http://www.coredp.com/)... a Toronto-based company that I believe was responsible for the realistic 'cartoony' animals in the Blockbuster commercials... the ones featuring the rabbit and guinea pig (http://cavycages.com/images/rabbit2.jpg).

Narnia however was made by Sony Imageworks, Rhythm & Hues and ILM... I understand from the commentary track that portions of the effects were handed off to the companies... so for instance one company did the Beavers, another did Aslan and so on.

At any rate, I'm fairly certain that the research and development that went into Aslan isn't the same as that the went into the lions in The Wild... no FX company would willingly part with those kinds of secrets... certainly considering the quality of Aslan and the other Narnia creatures is so much higher than those in The Wild.

[Inkwolf]

Oh, well, then--I guess my theory doesn't apply in this case.

But I stand by my accusations of earlier doubling up. :p.