[HN Gopher] Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale of 'Coyote vs A...
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Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale of 'Coyote vs Acme'
Author : ChrisArchitect
Score : 77 points
Date : 2025-03-31 15:50 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| whitten wrote:
| Does anyone know the techniques used in making this movie ?
|
| Is it computer generating the between frames ?
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| Is it totally hand drawn ?
|
| Is it computer aided and if so, in what way ?
| oofoe wrote:
| According to
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_vs._Acme#Visual_effects...
| it's a mix.
|
| They apparently actually do have some completely hand-drawn
| sequences, but I expect the bulk of the animation will be 3D,
| with appropriate 2 - 2.5D surface shaders. For 3D, they'll
| probably go pose to pose, with the computer interpolating some
| things (like physics for floppy ears, say) and the animator
| manually tuning the intermediate poses for walks and
| interactions.
|
| Most major 2D animation packages (ToonBoom, Moho, etc.) also
| have robust integrations now for mixing with real sets (
| _everybody_ liked Who Framed Roger Rabbit...), but it doesn't
| seem that they used them too much.
| rtkwe wrote:
| There are really good shaders out there that get really
| really close to the hand drawn look. My personal favorite
| come from the Guilty Gear series.
| glimshe wrote:
| If this is as good as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which appears to
| use a similar technique, it would be AWESOME. Hopefully they
| didn't sanitize the old cartoons.
| JohnClark1337 wrote:
| I can't see them NOT sanitizing the old cartoons
| dartos wrote:
| Loony toons back in action did the same thing too.i don't
| remember it being as good at Rodger rabbit, but it was one of
| my favorite childhood movies.
| bredren wrote:
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit is arguably a classic, so it would have
| to be pretty stellar to be as good as at a film level!
|
| People interested in the live action / toon might also want to
| see the 1992 "Cool World."
|
| It is an early Brad Pitt film, squeezed oddly between Thelma
| and Louise and A River Runs Through It.
|
| Unrelated but fun item for those interested in Roger Rabbit:
|
| There was a ton of crossover between WFRR and Back to the
| Future Part Two.
|
| Both films from the top (Amblin Entertainment, Zemeckis, Alan
| Silvestri) down to some of the production crews IIUC.
|
| So if you listen to the soundtracks of both films they have
| ringing similarities!
| m463 wrote:
| I loved the cartoon effects in "The Mask" with Jim Carrey.
|
| Sort of a tip-of-the-hat to the greats of the cartoon era that
| has passed.
| watersb wrote:
| Space Jam!
|
| https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| However good the film might be, the color grading in that frame
| is distractingly fetid. Quit with the orange/teal mania already.
| ourmandave wrote:
| Original 1990 New Yorker article movie is based on.
|
| https://archive.is/p6RgL
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Some backstory:
|
| November 2023: _Warner Bros shelves finished 'Coyote vs. Acme',
| takes $30M tax write-off_
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38228644
| dehrmann wrote:
| I'm cautiously excited for this just because it's an original,
| clever premise for classic IP. It isn't yet another reboot or
| sequel, and it uses older IP that hasn't gotten much attention in
| a while.
| GauntletWizard wrote:
| Do also check out "The Day the Earth blew up", a love letter to
| the classic cartoons that simultaneously feels like a featuring
| film, and a cartoon short. Not the best thing I've ever seen
| but I'd give it a solid eight out of 10.
|
| I'm so glad Coyote is finally getting a release. It was top of
| my watchlist all through 2022-2023, the test screenings went
| over fantastic, and I've heard a lot of people involved in the
| movie saying that it turned out great.
|
| The decision from WB to shelve it was just cruel; It was 100%
| paid for and the work to complete it was ongoing and completed,
| even after it was shelved. A deep flaw in our tax system that
| it could ever be better to trash completed work than to try to
| find a buyer.
| zzzbra wrote:
| what if the movie is actually bad
| MrMcCall wrote:
| One step closer to 'Sam Sheepdog vs Ralph Wolf'.
| smcameron wrote:
| The premise of this movie reminds me of one time when I was
| working at McDonnell Douglas in the early 1990s on a project that
| was a test facility for space station related stuff. There was a
| database and you could enter issues for various problems that
| testing found. As test data, I added a bunch of issues filed by a
| certain "Mr. W. E. Coyote", complaining about various defects in
| rocket powered roller skates and other such nonsense. Somebody in
| management found it, and I got called on the carpet and told to
| delete it all. Jeez. No sense of humor at all.
| bsder wrote:
| The famed IBM Field Service Memo:
|
| https://www.neystadt.org/john/humor/IBM-Mouse-Balls.htm
| watersb wrote:
| "FRU" = "Field-Replaceable Unit"
|
| Sometimes, you needed to clean the mouse because it felt
| dirty after rubbing its ball.
|
| Easy enough to drop the ball after popping it out, then
| you're chasing mouse balls across the office. Don't lose
| it...
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse#Mechanical_mi.
| ..
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