I mean, the whole movie is like in slow motion. Seriously, you play it in any media player that allows you to play the movie twice faster and you'll get normal movement.
Take any Japanese animated show from even 10 years before and it's a non stop roller coaster compared to this.
The rhythm is lethal, i wanted to re watch it lately and couldn't take it, today this movie aged badly to insufferable boredom.
I have no problem with it.
shareWere you high when you watched it? That would explain a lot.
shareI don't remember for the whole movie, but I did feel that sections of the Taarna segment, especially the combat, seems somewhat draggy.
Carve every word before you let it fall. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The slow animation is somehow really cool! I guess you've watched Family Guy too much and moovies from these days with break-neck editing and pacing. I love the "slow" animation in Heavy Metal. It's beautiful.
shareI agree with nunojason. I love the animation. It has a very unique feel to it. It hasn't aged badly at all... it's a classic! It's supposed to be that way.
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It has to do with the amount of detail put into the drawings. When you see a comicbook frame from a graphic novel, there's a lot of hand drawn shading which cannot be duplicated with hand cell animation and still make the film in a reasonable amount of time and still be profitable.
The same goes for Japanese animation and Disney films. If you look at the backgrounds they are very detailed where the shading and rendering of shadows go. But the actual characters are usually drawn with only some lines to accentuate details. Shading the characters by hand would be prohibitively expensive.
There was some experiments done by Disney and Lucasfilm many years back to emulate hand drawn animation with CGI. I don't think the results were conclusive.
I thought the animation was good except for the Den segment. I missed the Richard Corben painted quality of the original comics. All of the stories blended in a little too much for me. Each segment needed to have its own unique style like they did in the magazine.
The most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it. - Cesar Romero
It was an ambition of mine to bring CGI assist to hand drawn animation to make hand drawn animation more fully realized. It'll never happen now, but someone'll do it.
shareYou're high.
The animation is awesome. The very best 1981 had to offer.
"Hey Whitey! Where's your hat?"
HD tvs make old movies look like *beep* Something about image speed? I still have a giant tube TV that i'll never trade for anything.
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