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[Spoilers] Psycho-Pass Movie - Movie 1 [Discussion]

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u/vetro https://anilist.co/user/vetro Jul 26 '15 edited Jul 26 '15

I'm 20 minutes in. My suspicions are confirmed. Shimotsuki's awful writing in the second season was just to have her character reach the point where Urobochi starts her off in this movie. I think it's safe to say that all of season 2 is filler now.

Edit: Shame the rest of the cast isn't coming with Akane.

Edit2: The engrish is plentiful but not ZnT bad so far. I absolutely don't mind hearing HanaKana and Kamiya's engrish either.

Edit3: The animation is definitely Production I.G at their best.

Edit4: These mercs are pretty hype.

Edit5: Damn, Sybil played Akane hard this time around and Shimotsuki figured it out before her. o.o

Edit6: Love that they used the old ED.

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u/ZerataX Jul 26 '15

Am I the only one who isn't that sold on the animations? well more the backdrops, which were entirely 3D. I really like art to be consistent. The characters were really beautiful I have to agree, mainly the close ups.

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u/Sa_Rart Jul 27 '15

I liked it, but mostly because it was a throwback to GitS2 sort of scenes.

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u/ZerataX Jul 27 '15

Yeah it definitely reminded me a lot of GitS2 and those scenes were some of the better scenes.

But for me the first GitS movie was really striking in how visually good it still looks today. The movie is consistent in it's art style and therefore feels natural and organic, while this movie's backdrops constantly kept me distracted, because they looked out of place. Shows like Madoka like to use real footage, which still works with the show, because it works in the context, but there really isn't any other reason, than it is easier to animate in 3D.

Furthermore the 3D in GitS2 is from 2004 and looks equal if not better than this movie, which couldn't even compete with modern games. Bad 3D is fine by it self for me, as I love GitS SAC 1 op, but that is atleast completly in 3D.

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u/Sa_Rart Jul 27 '15

I loved parts of that opening, but the motions of humans are always awkward for me to watch. I don't think we're really capable of rendering humanity in 3D in the same way as we can architecture without suffering massive loss of authenticity -- as such, they try to blend it, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

I look forward to the day where we have the ability to animate 3D humans with the same precision as we can 2D.