Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-43VeYGiPM
Warner Bros.’ bizarre 2023 decision to shelve its live-action/animated film, Coyote vs. Acme, sparked outrage both in the industry and among fans online. But the film is finally being released, and Ketchup Entertainment, its new distributor, recently released the trailer. All I can say after watching that trailer is, what the heck was Warner Bros. even thinking? Granted, a killer trailer doesn’t automatically mean it’s a great film, but all the winning elements are here.
The 2D stuff looks so much better. This is honestly the backwards way to do it if they actually gave a shit. You would spend the money to have the main characters animated by hand and use CG for incidentals, vehicles etc.
The hard part of 3D animation is creating the model. Once you have that, animating it is fairly easy. On the other hand, with 2D animation you pay for every frame, but the process of creating a new character design isn’t that difficult.
Therefore it makes sense to use 3D for characters you’re going to use a lot (since you’re going to get a lot of use out of the models) and 2D for characters and objects that only make brief appearances.
It makes sense from a monetary standpoint. Not from an artistic one, which was my point.