Animated Films with stylized Animation Part 2

 The Mitchells vs the Machines


    



    I wanted this part of the stylized animation series to exclusively be about The Mitchells vs the Machines. A film that has already gotten rave reviews from critics. This upcoming animated movie is made from the studio that brought you Spiderman into the Spiderverse, The Mitchells vs the Machines looks incredible. Its about a dysfunctional, screen obsessed (except the dad) family that has to save the world from the robot apocalypse. Luckily, I don't need to talk about the animation because here is a twitter thread that would probably do a much better job at talking about it then me.


Mike (the director)  wanted the film to have a hand-painted watercolor style so we brought mlasker  a genius from the Spider-Verse team - to use some of the techniques developed on S-V to give this movie its own look. Some examples:

Look closely at the texture on the fur collar of Rick Mitchell (the dad)‘s jacket. Instead of super realistic detailed fur simulation, it’s a bunch of hand-painted squiggles.  Which is actually much harder to pull off.





These trees are computer animated but look hand painted



The characters themselves have subtle hand-painted outlines as well as the props and environments even hair is made with watercolor washed shapes accented with linework.

Katie Mitchell is a filmmaker who uses technology to make mixed media short films so her world is filled with her aesthetic. The Production designers
draw 2D “KatieVision” around her to represent her worldview. Everything from little squiggles to more complicated curves



The world of PAL has a totally different palette and is much cleaner and looks like a Journey album cover:

 
But even in the clean world of PAL everything still has watercolor textures and hand-painted outlines. Look closely at these robots





    They chose the water color style and the messy lines to show that humans are flawed and the straight, streamlined lines of the robots to show that they are "perfect". Overall, I'm very excited for this movie. Here are two trailers to tell yah more about it. Oh and one of them tells you that the title is Connected, but they changed the title to Mitchells vs the machines.

    



        See The Mitchells vs the Machines exclusively on Netflix next week on April 30th.Tell me what you thought of the movie in the comments.
    












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