You know a beef I have with Illumination that most others put behind its communist-border marketing plans? The way they animate their films. As destructive as the CG comedy is to animation's reputation and comedy itself, animation quality is something Illumination Mac Guff lacks. Rather than staying true to their influences in a technically impressive way they instead opt for a kind of drabness to their CG, pushing motion blurs and quasi-realistic movement and detail even further than Pixar themselves. Cartoonish energy without hyperreal details is something they pretty much nailed in Despicable Me 1, when computer animation still couldn't get as detailed as it is now, but for their future... |