Does anyone else find it odd that there's almost no shading on the whites of Anna's eyes now? Compare it to the original, and to Elsa's eyes (which have a lot of grey in the whites, typical of CG). I could totally be off here, but it almost leads me to believe that someone did a last minute edit to reshape her eyes for the new image.
Since there have been so many comparisons to Tangled, I'm just gonna hope that it's far from it; unlike many others--on here and, of course, the general public--who loved Tangled, I found it to be pretty bland (I much prefer The Princess and the Frog, actually). Disney is obviously going the same route as Tangled, unfortunately; I'm hoping I'm proved wrong, though. The teaser wasn't too thrilling for me, it was average, so I'll just have to wait for the full trailer and see if it convinces me that it's not simply Tangled 2.0.
Steve Hulett wrote:I spent a large part of the afternoon at the Hat Building on Riverside Drive (Burbank edition). I got to see some impressive scenes from Frozen; it's going to be one fine-looking movie, and the characters in the snippets I saw look compelling. A staffer on the Hat's first floor said:
The last screening of the picture, everything was working well. It's like happened with Tangled, they're adding some nice action sequences, and they're fleshing out character development, adding some connective tissue that helps.
After July 4th, we're going to be pressing the pedal to the metal around here and working longer hours and more days to get Frozen finished. We haven't been working six days yet, but that's going to change after the 4th. ...
Does anyone else find it odd that there's almost no shading on the whites of Anna's eyes now? Compare it to the original, and to Elsa's eyes (which have a lot of grey in the whites, typical of CG). I could totally be off here, but it almost leads me to believe that someone did a last minute edit to reshape her eyes for the new image.
Its not a last minute reshape, its just a refinement of her design. A number of things could explain the lighting on her new eyes. It still has shading, its just more diffused. Could be the result of adding more global illumination.
It looks to me they used the Rapunzel base model (just as before) because the topology is already there, simplifying the rigging process . They just moved some vertices around a bit. And of course re lit her. The flatter shading on the eyes probably helps to push it further from the uncanny valley and a bit closer to a hand drawn design.
Those are amazing and the first pic really capture Snow Queen's more older mature and elegant look just like the old concept art which I love a lot. I also think the 2D look actually helps make them look way less generic. As much as i'm becoming more accepting of CGI disney movies and Frozen's no exception, I do still find thanks to these images that Frozen/The Snow Queen would of have worked a hell fuck lot better in 2D in this case. It really pulled out well on Elsa compared to the CGI image we have.