Animorphs Film

[Dylan]

1. Lawrence as Rachel?

Actually, I'd watch that movie

Who came up with this?!

I think it's the Tobias_Marco  from AFF

... or it could be online. Wink wink.

Online animation looks like ****. Like poorly done flash animation. Just Sayin

[NothingFromSomething]

Lawrence is a hell of an actor.  But, you know, even when she started shooting the first Hunger Games she'd have been too old.

It's a tricky thing - you want to get good actors, but good actors who're say 13-15 are unbelievably rare.  Just because it worked out with Potter doesn't mean that happens often.  Studios are going to skew older by nature.

[YeerkSalad]

Kay, Dylan. I'll give you that one. To be more specific, it looks like a guy who just ate a lot of Indian food shat all over a drawing tablet, smeared it around using only his nose, and then animated it using only his balls.

In all seriousness, it wouldn't look all that great if it were animated, but I really do think the good would outweigh the bad.

[Dylan]

Kay, Dylan. I'll give you that one. To be more specific, it looks like a guy who just ate a lot of Indian food shat all over a drawing tablet, smeared it around using only his nose, and then animated it using only his balls.

I think that's how they make those weird MS paint animations on Youtube.

In all seriousness, it wouldn't look all that great if it were animated, but I really do think the good would outweigh the bad.

Maybe as a TV quality Hand Drawn animated show

[YeerkSalad]

Is hand drawn animation still a thing?

What do you think about 3D animation? I don't really like that idea.

[Dylan]

What do you think about 3D animation?

EW ICKYICKYICKY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Is hand drawn animation still a thing?

I think so. As long as Animorphs doesn't look like Total Drama Island, I'll be fine.


I saw this on Hirac Delest

I like this fanart. Looks like an okay cartoon  (Rachel's nose looks off though)


I also like this cartoon-ish fanart

[YeerkSalad]

That's okay. I'd prefer less exaggerated character designs, but this is on the right track.

[NothingFromSomething]

That top one's always been one of my favorite fan-art pieces from way back in the day.  That'd be a great 'style' for a traditional animated thing.

[YeerkSalad]

The first one is rather good!

[Snakie]

The length of arc you'd need to have to adequetely tell an Animorphs story is far too long for a film to do it justice.

A TV Series was always the more viable option, but, well, we've been down that road. 

[NothingFromSomething]

How do you think you'd pull off all the effects and "scope" of the final arc in the books on TV though?  Something like Game Of Thrones is probably the high bar visually, for what's been done on TV so far, and a lot of that's still pretty modest.

As for something as basic as conveying the animals themselves, it's going to be CG due to all the action stuff they're involved in, can't get that much movement out of animatronics.  If you look at CG these days for real living animals in films, it's still totally uncanny valley.  That's with big $150mil+ tentpole movies, TV's obviously a great step behind.  We're just not there yet.

[YeerkSalad]

I just got a disturbing mental image of a Roger Rabbit-style Animorphs series. Ugh.

[NothingFromSomething]

Now just what in the hell is wrong with Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 

Shame on you, shame.

[YeerkSalad]

On its own, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is good. It would suck, though, if Animorphs had its style.

[Dylan]

Now just what in the hell is wrong with Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 

Shame on you, shame.

That movie is good, buuuuuuuuuuuut if it's loony tunes-ish style would definitely not work for Animorphs. It's too wacky.

Also, necroing this thread got me all like: