This phrasing really demonstrates how the annoying orange's failing brain activity does not perceive human beings, only stock markets.

Joo kans katselin artikkeleita ja ihmettelin miten asiaa on esitetty. Pelätäänkö *Hesarissa* nyt jotain Trumpin silmätikuksi joutumista jos sen kaikkia oikkuja ei tarpeeksi mielistele...?

Yeah the art style and unique, imaginative creature design was such a huge part of what made the HTTYD dragons stand out from "standard" movie dragons. It's not just you. HTTYD loses a lot when the art style is obliterated.

The "live action" CGI Hookfang does really just look like any generic "realistic" fantasy movie dragon....

Then again, I've also seen plush toys convey the "horrifying unholy abomination" angle better than the "live action" CGI creature

I'm not finding anything cute in the new abomination. Like yeah he doesn't feel like a powerful apex predator the way 2010 Toothless did, but he's not exactly appealing either. I think I've seen actual (fan-made) plush toys convey the aura of 2010 Toothless better...

I'm only mostly joking when I wonder if the remade scenes in the live action trailer looks so bad compared to 2010, because they didn't wanna pay Roger Deakins this time, so they just removed all the... cinematography...

"Live action" Toothless looks like they murdered cartoon Toothless, desecrated his corpse by turning it into bad taxidermy, and hired the cheapest necromancer they could find to reanimate that abomination.

In the live action version of the Downed Dragon scene seen in the trailer, it somehow looks like they managed to remove all the cinematography. Were they unable to pay Roger Deakins this time, and worried that he'd ask for compensation if it looked remotely good?!

It doesn't appeal to my nostalgia, it makes my nostalgia hiss like an angry cat.

The fact that the characters looked like cartoon characters was a feature, not a bug.

And the creature design of the dragons in the animation were so much more interesting than the average, generic movie dragon. Yes, they look "cartoony", whereas the "realistic" 🙄 designs might be very superficially "cooler", but most of their personality and uniqueness and charm gets lost.

Like how Hiccup is tiny and flaily, small enough to be picked up and lifted by other people like it's nothing. Stoick is literally and figuratively larger than life. A lot of the characters have highly exaggerated, expressive designs and animation.

Also a big part of the charm of HTTYD 2010 was the visual style, character&creature design. The humans are stylized to emphasize characterization. The dragons look unique and interesting and expressive. They all lose so much when irl humans and generic "realistic" CGI dragons are used instead.

Someone asked "what if there was a HTTYD without an art style" and then they actually thought that'd be a good idea

Seems to have been Rob Wilkins, actually.
www.artsandcollections.com/article/terr...