ANIMATION DISCOURSE S2

[u/CryptographerLost825]

So it seems like since the last episode dropped, there’s been a lot of discourse around the animation for Season 2 overall. I’m going to try to give my most level-headed thoughts on this. As a passionate fan of the comic, after seeing how they adapted the fight on Thraxa, in my opinion the fight lacked and underdelivered on the sheer visceral gore and ferocity in the comic. This is one of the first few times I think that the show paled in comparison to the comic in terms of the scale, spectacle and amount of detail that was put into the comic. The issue is less about the blood and gore being shown in the episode, it’s more about the level of detail of the gore, battle damage and destruction. I think there’s nothing wrong in constructively levying criticism to a property I’ve immensely loved and only want to see thrive and constantly improve. In season 1 a lot of the focal moments like Guardians massacre, Machine head fight, Omni Man/Invincible showdown and by extension the Atom Eve special episode were massively improved and the elevated in grandiosity, scope and brutality, which is what I was expecting for the Thraxa fight but unfortunately its came off a bit weaker for me than the source material. Now overall I do think that S2 has stepped up the animation in terms of the character models, lighting and lack of CG models in the background, but it hasn’t made the animation really count where it matters most like in S1.

I think a lot of the fans that have concerns about how certain moments will be adapted in terms of the animation are valid. The comics only get crazier in blood, gore and spectacle from the Thraxa arc and if this animation we got for Thraxa is emblematic of how future moments will get translated, I think it’s alright to be mildly concerned. Now is it possible that they repurposed most of the budget towards the second half and namely the finale, where we’ll see the animation shine and pop off, sure. Until then I can only judge off of what we have so far. What do you guys think?

[u/Tw3lve1212]

People talk about the season 1 animation being great like the Mars episode didn't happen lmfao.

[u/bwood246 → u/Tw3lve1212]

The fucking birds and horrible CGI crowds of people running out of sync with everything else as well

[u/FaithlessnessLess673 → u/Tw3lve1212]

Ye I really do not get how people are praising season one’s animation, it had even worse animation than season two imo.

Where season one shined was in it’s direction of the animation with a prime example of that being Omni-Man destroying the Flaxan dimension. That scene does not have particularly good or even decent animation but it was covered up by the use of black and red lighting alongside good shot choices.

Season two, for whatever reason, just isn’t as well directed as season one was and it’s hurting the quality of the show.

[u/Kaiiu → u/Tw3lve1212]

S1 was not great but S2 is somehow worse