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Offline deadvoid

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Re: Dresden Files show
« Reply #15 on: December 16, 2020, 03:59:47 AM »
I've always felt animation would be the wrong format for Dresden Files, most people don't realise it's harder to make a good animated film, even harder for series. The cheesy result impression is always a bigger risk in animation because of smaller talent pool available in the animation industry, on the flip side it's easy to get trapped in melodramatics as many animes shown over the years.
Action scenes might've seem to be the major point for an urban fantasy story, but backbone of DF's actually drama, adult dark drama even, which is much much easier to accomplish in cinematic live action with the right set of creative people, especially actors that understand subtleties.

edit: there's a reason it's kind of a formula now in Hollywood that many scifi films/series established themselves in live actions before releasing animated feature/mini series as support/fillers/alternate universe.
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Re: Dresden Files show
« Reply #16 on: December 17, 2020, 05:37:14 PM »
@Kindler: The FMA style of animation is my favorite except for when they go cartoony in some scenes. E.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/FullmetalAlchemist/comments/f2p6yk/alphonse_is_the_best_character_in_fullmetal/

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Re: Dresden Files show
« Reply #17 on: December 29, 2020, 05:02:15 PM »
@Kindler: The FMA style of animation is my favorite except for when they go cartoony in some scenes. E.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/FullmetalAlchemist/comments/f2p6yk/alphonse_is_the_best_character_in_fullmetal/
Heh, yeah. There's a name for that art gag, but I can't remember it. They do it at least once an episode in Brotherhood, and once every chapter or two in the manga. Not exactly my kind of humor either, but I still love the visual elements of the combat, particularly as seen in the final arc between
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though I'm a sucker for hopeless fights.
Kinda annoys me when you compare it to current anime, like My Hero Academia. There is a ridiculous amount of potential for grand battles, but I find most of the fights visually boring. Closer to Jojo, which are all about "HA! YOU DIDN'T EXPECT THAT!" moments. Too much narration, not enough martial arts. The closest things to good fights were Stain and the vampire girl, what's her name, and that's only because they don't have powers you can really see. Meanwhile you have Deku punching (more recently, KICKING! WAHOO!) things, Bakugo blowing things up, All Might also punching things, and Todoroki freezing and/or burning things. Like.. come on. I'd like to see FMA-style fights set in that universe.

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Re: Dresden Files show
« Reply #18 on: December 29, 2020, 06:44:59 PM »
I'd love to see Dresden done in the style of The Irregular at Magic High School. That series has it all, martial arts, swordplay, gun-fu and magic and all done in varying light and dark environments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WVrbltApNg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHR3ht1K0n0



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Re: Dresden Files show
« Reply #19 on: December 29, 2020, 06:55:41 PM »
My personal belief is that character design would be the first make or break moment for an animated Dresden. Next would be writing. The story and the character design will carry the animation whichever style it is.  Either live or animated and you do away with the first person and the worst of Jim's excesses.