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Top 10 Most Beautiful Animated Movies of All Time
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Don't look back, there's a giant white wolf behind you.
Vincent Grayson
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Did they just have a "only one movie per studio" thing or something? Seems crazy not to have several more Miyazaki movies. And I definitely agree that Coraline should replace Boxtrolls.
Besides The Lion King, the other examples are pretty bad. Legend of the Guardians will be hideous in 5 years like Final Fantasy or Polar Express, Waltz and Sound of the Sea look like they were done in flash and the then you have that paper thing.
And there, you have a stylistic reason for a low framerate/stuttery feel, which shows smooth animation is not automatically superior. It depends on the film and there are many factors that determine whether these movies look 'good'. Hence Shinkai.
Paranorman looked better imo. Wasn't it their first movie to use 3D printing? Even Nightmare Before Christmas looks better than Coraline.
George Oscar Bluth II
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That's a bad list.
The Prince of Egypt should've been in there.
The Prince of Egypt should've been in there.
Subpar Spatula
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"Technical" doesn't mean better. You need an argument as to how 24FPS makes these films superior. Having higher frame rate is, yes, technically more frames. You haven't made an argument as to why this is better.
bennywhatever
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Glad to see Legend of the Guardians on there. I was blown away by the visuals on it. Some of the flying scenes were just beautiful.
SaganIsGOAT
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My first reaction.
Ghibli would run these charts in reality. They are just so beautiful.
Messypandas
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The Lego wins because of its mastery of depth of field, lighting, those weird subtle artifacts like grease and fingerprints. You forget that it isn't actually a camera filming at times. And thats just on top of the fact that its beautiful and entertaining.
Finaika
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Not only is Akira beautiful with great inventive art and fun colors, it is the smoothest 2D animation ever put on a cell. There are some thing only money can buy and one of them is an army of hands and pencils putting minute detail into every 1/24th of a second that appears on screen. It's sci fi cheese that's very confusing and doesn't belong on a list of the 10 best animated movies, but it clearly belong near the top of the list of most beautiful animated movies.
Daria Morgendorffer
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I'm a big fan of Wall-e but I think there are other pixar movies that are better animated. Also I would put Paprika somewhere on the list too.
Hmm...I love a lot of the movies on that list to death, but many of them would not be in a top 10 for animation for me.
If we are to exclude anything under an hour long (so excluding the works of Yuri Norstein, Aleksandr Petrov, etc...), and only look at how well they are animated (excluding story) my list would be.
10. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
9. Paprika
8. Sprited Away
7. Fantastic Planet
6.Redline
5. The Nightmare before Christmas
4. Akira
3. Pinocchio
2. Garden of Words
1. The Thief and the Cobbler
But I haven't given it too much thought.
If we are to exclude anything under an hour long (so excluding the works of Yuri Norstein, Aleksandr Petrov, etc...), and only look at how well they are animated (excluding story) my list would be.
10. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
9. Paprika
8. Sprited Away
7. Fantastic Planet
6.Redline
5. The Nightmare before Christmas
4. Akira
3. Pinocchio
2. Garden of Words
1. The Thief and the Cobbler
But I haven't given it too much thought.
Skiptastic
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Glad to see Legend of the Guardians on there. I was blown away by the visuals on it. Some of the flying scenes were just beautiful.
Agreed. The movie story and plot are meh, but my god was this a gorgeous looking film.
Prophet Steve
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Especially when the list features a lot of modern movies and often based more on technical excellence, I am surprised Tintin is not on there.
The Lamonster
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no Fantasia = instant fail
JadedWriter
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I wonder how many animators dyed drawing this... Still surprised Char's Counter Attack and Macross Plus aren't on here.Can't take an Akira-less list seriously.
That's not how it works. A different character or just a small moving part of the environment would be a unique cel.
As far as my eyes can see, some of Akira is animated at 24fps and some of it isn't.
pointless list IMHO. I mean I get everyone wanting to do "Top xx" lists.. but I mean how do you even rank something like this... Just off the top of my head omissions include
Secret of Nimh
Iron Giant
so so so many Ghibli movies (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, Porcco Rosso, etc)
Akira
Finding Nemo
Brave (really, the movie is beautiful)
Sleeping Beauty
Pinocchio
etc
I mean the list isn't junk.. I just don't really know how you could make a top list of beautifully animated movies when there are literally hundreds each with their own merits.
Secret of Nimh
Iron Giant
so so so many Ghibli movies (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, Porcco Rosso, etc)
Akira
Finding Nemo
Brave (really, the movie is beautiful)
Sleeping Beauty
Pinocchio
etc
I mean the list isn't junk.. I just don't really know how you could make a top list of beautifully animated movies when there are literally hundreds each with their own merits.
br0ken_shad0w
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As far as CGI movies are concerned, a huge omission is Rango. It was one of the only CGI movies in recent history that still wows me. The textures, the lighting, the cinematography. So criminally underrated.
Much better in motion:
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Much better in motion:
http://c.1339.cf/depdaoj.webm
http://g.1339.cf/jxfzzxp.webm
http://b.1339.cf/dejieqa.webm
Bjomesphat
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Fantastic Mr Fox was shot at 12 fps. Stop acting like you have any idea what you're talking about.
Kaguya is easily the best looking and most visually impressive film put out by Ghibli though. Miyazaki's eye candy is more down to content.
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
No top 10 best animated films is legit without :
The Jungle Book - any film that Milt kahl worked on could be in the top 10, this one just stands out for me
Akira
The thief and the cobbler
The Illusionist
The Incredibles - underrated in animation for some reason but it raised the bar for all cg movies after that.
After that you can add many movies from the 2d disney films, or ghibli.
Ps tint ok was motio captured, should not be in any best animated list
The Jungle Book - any film that Milt kahl worked on could be in the top 10, this one just stands out for me
Akira
The thief and the cobbler
The Illusionist
The Incredibles - underrated in animation for some reason but it raised the bar for all cg movies after that.
After that you can add many movies from the 2d disney films, or ghibli.
Ps tint ok was motio captured, should not be in any best animated list
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
My god I need that Blue ray :O
Ps if Don Bluth made a space ace or dragons lair movie...it would be on the list.
How many entries do you generally put in a top 10 list?
Man, I can't agree at all. Kaguya's a fine film but I never felt anything in Kaguya really blew the doors off, animation-wise. There's always several shots in any given Miyazaki film that have my mouth agape and stay with me forever.
That's not how it works. A different character or just a small moving part of the environment would be a unique cel.
As far as my eyes can see, some of Akira is animated at 24fps and some of it isn't.
By that standard has there ever been a hand drawn animated work that literally re-drew background for every single cel?
3rdman's critique was that they reshot the same identical cel as filler to meet the 24 shots per second number, i.e. shot on the 2's, 4's, etc.. Akira had some level of modification to effectively every 1/24th of a second. Did they redraw entire cityscapes? I'd presume not, but they did specifically detail every single 1/24th of a second even if the image was more or less static.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Any movie not shot at at least 120fps is automatically bad.
/expert opinion
/expert opinion
It's because it's stylistic. It's a combination of traditional ink drawing and Western watercolors, and it works brilliantly. Now, that doesn't make it an "animation feat", but that could mean it's "beautifully animated". These two ideas could mean different things.
It makes me wish I had a Blu-ray player. D:
Specifically the pizza.
Well, Miyazaki specifically aims for that in most of his films. That's why I put it down to content. The most impressive Miyazaki film in terms of the animation is Ponyo IMO, much more unhinged on the animation front than its companions, but even then, it's the fact that they're animating giant waves wrecking havoc what impresses in the film.
Tanabe's style from Kaguya and Yamadas is much more interesting and fleshed-out, and I think it's more flexible as well. The quietest scene with two characters simply talking can feel impressive, but you can also get things like this:
http://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/8391/animated-background_animation-my_neighbors_the_yam
http://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/8394/animated-effects-kenichi_yoshida-liquid-my_neighbo
http://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/11671/animated-background_animation-running-seven_years_
http://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/11712/akiko_yamaguchi-animated-effects-hiroyuki_morita-l
Also, the art direction in Kaguya is easily Kazuo Oga's most labored despite the faded style. It's hard to pay attention to that as you watch the film, because it's so immersive, but seeing the art boards after the fact was enlightening.
LOL. Ok.
My general point STILL stands. I apologize for sharing my opinion...I am out.
Crossing Eden
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The fact that the wolf isn't moving at all in that shot is ridiculous jarring.
Boxtrolls was beautifully animated, there is a ton of nuance in the motion of the characters, especially the expressions.
It's not a top 10, it's a list of some which should have been included in place of what was given.
pretty sure the fur is moving because the wolf is growling. bad gif.
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