Imagine a beautifully dressed cat like balletina who gets scared, and then her ears move back, her tail fuzzes up and her eyes change. That fits the mood she's feeling, and also makes her not look creepy as hell!
Cats are really expressive... Body language, their tails, the way they watch you like they’re really paying attention, the eyes and ears... the movie missed it all
Yeah and also when you do something wrong and they look at you indignantly like "you scoundrel shall do this right! My love is only bought with catnip and respect!" (Its better when ya say it in British)
They should have stayed as close to the actual musical, ie using makeup, wigs and fake fur, as possible and only used cgi to animate the tails and ears.
This was what I was hoping and had assumed they were gonna do when I first heard of the movie. Then I saw the pictures and trailers and.....just disappointed.
Yes that's exactly what they should have done, just animate the ears and tails so they can use the movements for more expression (But keeping them a bit like just props maybe)
^^ the first two ppl who commented on this chain, learn to take a joke. I call all my friends, male and female, names like bro, dude, man, bruh, ect. Those are just friendly names and they shouldn't be gendered
While I generally don’t approve of “Fixing” art, this is one case where I’m sure most of us can unanimously agree that there is an issue that needs to be assessed and fixed with the CATS designs.
I totally agree. Usually, "fixing" art is just critiquing and redesigning. But the Cats movie is kind of universally disliked, for the CGI or just in general.
keep in mind, this is a large studio's work that we're fixing, NOT an individual's work. that's the difference. it's one thing to fix, say, Disney's work, than to pick one artist on DeviantArt and "fix" their artwork. edit: grammar
@@ndiyabucaphukelaubusobakho1732 I see as those who 'fix' art are people who make changes to accommodate their own biases. And when you claim to fix something, you immediately put your work on a higher pedastal to the original. Though not all of them are like this, but many.
Most art students pay for someone to "fix" our art, I dont really understand not being able to accept constructive criticism (not bashing the art) if Im drawing unporportionally or I can use a certain brush technique better Im alll ears, but if someone just says "that sucks its weird", doesnt help anyone. I mean if that was the case than why was Sonic successful after being re-conceptualized? Ya know what I mean?
What bugged me the most was the inconsistency in character designs. Example: some had cat like noses while others did not. Some had fur clothes and some had regular clothes. Stuff like that.
@@aussiewanderer6304 Well, they are suppose to be cats... nothing more and nothing less. My cats don't wear clothes.... most actual cats don't wear clothing so XD
@@michelleschaefer683 I've seen a video taped version of the original. Some cats have clothes but they're used to accentuate distinct fur details and characteristics. They look like they're part of the body, like the leg warmers or the fur cloaks. In this film it's inconsistent because some of the clothing is actual clothing while others are part of the fur, which, for the film version, looks clumpy and weird. I personally think for the film version they should have had real clothing on the CG cats rather than weird CG clothing attached to the cats.
How did you read this thread and miss the entire point? Obviously we know about real cats. So then why do the cats wear clothes at all in the movie? Even after 3 years, reading comments like these irk me. @@shinigamikitty
The sad part about Cats is my gran got excited to hear that they were making it into a movie! (She saw the musical in the 80's) and then felt so cheated with the shitty designs.
it's definitely both, the design is bad BUT the quality of the cgi is BAD too. there are people's feet going into the floor & the floor bending around them?, the head overlay moves weirdly sometimes, there's fur-face-overlays disappearing or a visible gap between the overlay and the actual face, etc etc. if you pay attention more and more flaws become painfully obvious. I agree that the design was the main flaw but the cgi is still embarrasing for a 2019 movie and it's mainly because they rushed this film into theatres when the special effects were nowhere near finished. I kind of feel bad for the cgi people who made this because you can see that they do have the skill but they just weren't given enough time to create a consistently good product, let alone a great one.
Like, did you see that water Bustopher Jones was drinking? The CGI was terrible. The proportions and design are all part of the CGI presentation. Was the CGI the only problem? No. Was the CGI also a major problem. Absolutely.
@@Quotenwagnerianer The director finished at the last minute. And no one didn't even saw it before the premiere. Like how can that happen? How can someone spend so much money yet keep editing till the last moment and still show the unfinished product?
WRONG WRONG AND WRONG again cause if you were actually knowledgeable about the musical and understood the material it is based upon you would also know that according to A. L. W. when he approached T.S. Eliot's widow asking for permission to adapt the material into a musical she asked if they will make them like pussycats and he said no, then she replied " cause Disney had approached him ( T.S Eliot) about it and he refused, he didn't want them made into cartoony pussycats"
@@galadballcrusher8182 true, so maybe use costumes from the original musical. Or just do the animation in a style different from Disney, animation is a medium so just because they are animated doesn’t mean they have to be made “Pussy Cats” And 👏 Respect👏Your👏VFX👏Artists
my main issue was the nose. literally if they slapped on a bit of black eyeliner and make a "cat nose" out of it i would have liked it a little better.
I didnt even dislike the cats design that much (yes, that nose idea would have helped alot) but what botherd me the most was the weird effects they used when jumping (them jumping extremely far) or the way they were tiny in that big world. It just looked really weird to me.
The first thing most people do when they put on a cat costume for Halloween it's draw on their noses and the whiskers. I cannot believe they forgot something so basic like that.
I don’t think she’s there yet. Her designs kind of fall around the same body types, skin tones, and proportions. While I like her work, there is a lot she needs to improve on. Her shading is very heavy, and while better than I can do, it is not at a concept design level. I especially struggle with her body types. The facial features of her work are great. However, she tends to draw very thin characters. I’d like to see characters with different body types. I feel as though Lavender towne struggles with this.
Literally. Like so many mainstream movies with anthros fail because they look creepy and five minutes after a trailer drops I see a furry artist doing a quick sketch and making it look fantastic
I find it funny you said this because I've had people going "Well, at least this movie will be popular with Furries" and I was like "Ohhhh no, they hate it!"
I love how macavity was wearing a thick coat at first and then halfway through he was just like "Nah screw this" then went naked and because you had already gotten used to him wearing clothes, he just looked SO naked lmao
Even Avatar made the navi look more cat-like than the CATS movie😂like,navis aren't even supposed to be cats but it still has more cat-like features than the design for the CATS movie
The thing is, their design was intentional. They wanted us to be able to tell that Taylor Swift was Taylor Swift. And that Idris Elba was Idris Elba, etc, etc. They got so many big name actors in there, and they wanted to make sure we knew it. And that's why their faces are too human-like.
@@oh-totoro TBH my approach would have been Alita meets anime catgirl. Use Alita like proportions and animations make them look less human, slap some cat ears on top and give em a floofy collar. Sure animating every single one with the precision and love for details that was used on Alita is a monumental job but considering how much time spent on furry buttcheeks is saved it might just be worth it.
@@System-zu7np some the weird shaping can be partially achieved with illusionary makeup (like the trick mentioned with lips), i think they definitely could've just made like a "Cats the musical but accessible and not in the 80's" and it would've done well
Narnia? It came out years ago and is good as ever. Moviemakers these days are just lazy with design and movements. The Lion King live action remake would have been so much better if they hadn't used the "animals don't have facial expressions" excuse. It's not true and even if it was, it can be avoided with proper design.
@@emvuosku4219 Yeah. Like there was a news article about a lion who scared a photographer and then smiled/laughed at him. How does one come to the conclusion of "animals don't have facial expressions. Has the director never had a pet?
Oh yes...I remember seeing the Cats Broadway show on PBS TV in the 90s growing up. And I was hooked. I loved all the "cheesy" 80s stuff in that medium because it worked with the theme and coupled with the acting & music, didn't seem "cheesy" anymore once you got immersed into the show. That was great character & costume designing. Plus they had alot wasted talent in this movie adaptation. The movie would have been cool if they kept some things real and still used CG.
@@irishime two things in the play that everyone talked about -- costuming and choreography, two things they wrecked in the film -- costuming and choreography.
I'm not even halfway through and I already like this better. I previously thought Cats should only be interpreted one of two ways, namely either as a Don Bluth-esque 2D animation, or in the form of the original 80's style costumes, but your third answer is a perfect compromise, I'd say.
I realized that there’s one simple thing that they could have done to take the entire cast out of the uncanny valley, and that is to give them cat noses... that’s it. It doesn’t fix everything but it makes them look exponentially better than they do without.
I really hope Cats comes out with a remake in years to come, with longer production time and a better design, hopefully based off of the musical. Even simply re-releasing the original with a different character design would be so much better.
@@preciouslakez7735 the use of pop singers who expected everything to bend around them is one of the many many reasons it did not work! it was mostly the director, but also literally everything else was part of it. just animate the audio from the original musical recording with, like, cats what are somewhat anthropomorphized in their expressions and behaviors but are still quadrupedal. Or at least re-record everything with people who are trained in musical theater
Petition for the movie makers to hire LavenderTowne to redo the Cats movie, with the same sounds and voices but her animation. Crazy, but it would be so good. I'd actually watch the movie if this was done.
@Ariana Meinking do you know how many PEOPLE and TIME it takes to make a animated movie?! Lavender couldn’t do it alone no matter how much money she was payed. Plus she doesn’t do commissions anymore (I think)
They should have either: 1. Put the actors in costumes similar to those of the stage performance. 2. Make it a 2D animation that was stylistically the same as “The Aristocats” or “Cats Don’t Dance”. The CGI and live action in general was a mistake and I’m getting kinda sick of both tbh.
Imo it could've looked SO good and SO ridiculously adorable if they had just animated cats like in Zootopia, like, just imagine a wittle babeh ballet kitteh but no what we got was a terrifying movie about naked hairy humans lmao
Benedict Cumberbatch played Smaug from The Hobbit. I'm not too knowledgeable about the technical process but I believe they digitally mapped out his face as he acted it so they could use many of his expressions on the dragon itself. If you check out a behind the scenes, it's super entertaining, you just see Cumberbatch crawling around and making these awesome faces
@@HufflepuffsPanda R IGHt between this and the goofiness that is the DBH acting clips, i have concluded we need more motion capture if for nothing more than to get more silly shit like this
*Nope.* There's a HUGE number of people approving/disapproving design elements in every film, especially when CGI is involved. The artists didn't make any mistakes, they did what they were told to do.
Which is gross and defeats the purpose of acting in my opinion. Now they have their face and name associated with shit because they are that conceited.
@@BIOL6895 It's not bad. Basically Judge Dredd in the comics never (or rarely) takes his helmet off and shows his face. The story goes that Stallone wasn't having none of that and that's why there are so many scenes with the helmet off.
Imma be real, the CGI they do now is absolutely amazing and can break boundaries with how realistic it can be All we need is a design team that actually knows how to do their job right
Moonbyul is my obsession if you want to take a selfie of you above water someone could do that over an inflatable pool. The actual motive behind that would be to take a good photo which someone could do with good execution. I’m sure there are examples that just can’t be saved but there are ways people could do that safely
I’m glad you pointed out the inconsistency of some cats having clothes and some not, making the non clothed cats feel more nude than if there were no clothes at all, and you just choose to clothe them all. THANK YOU
I think it’s just because you lose the dancing and the expression in the singing when you just make them cats. The plot is really weak, it’s more of a cabaret with a main goal rather than a story
In the musical some of the cats have “clothes” thats somewhat part of their fur (ie rum tum tugger, Munjoriee & Rumpleteazer, Old Duetoronemmy) and others have Coats (Jennydots, Mr.Mistofflees, Grizabella)and stuff But I think you went the next logical step from the musical like if they were to update Cats or go even MORE ballet than it is (the broadway play is less a play and more a ballet) this is probably what it’d look like. I think you did a really good job. Also fun fact that ill forever be salty about but this WAS supposed to be a 2D animated film. Theres concept art floating around. It was gunna be directed by Stephen Speilburg and the artist who designed for Kung Fu Panda did the concept art. It looked BEAUTIFUL honestly very Miht Khal like designs like an old disney movie (think Robin Hood). Im so mad we got this instead.
I just checked out the concept art, I haven't seen the movie and I refuse to, but the concept art is so appealing to look at. I feel like it's a wasted opportunity, they better recreate and improve it by making the 2d animated version..
I think T.S. Elliot's estate doesn't allow any animated adaptations of his work (he wrote the book that Cats is based on). Apparently this creepy cgi mash-up doesn't technically qualify as an animated movie.
Honestly the og musical and 1998 filmed musical got it the most right, like they styled everything to EVOKE the image of a cat and it worked really really well
0:52 The new Sonic design actually has a worse CGI (the furs don't look as convincing as the previous one). But it's the right proportions and the look that makes it better than the previous design.
@@SuperAllison20 Now it could be possible they improved the CGI in the final version. However, I cannot confirm this since I haven't seen the movie yet and this comment was based on the early trailers of the improved Sonic design. And since the designers were on a tight schedule to improve the design, it is quite possible that the CGI became more realistic in the final movie.
It's supposed to look like that because he's an animated game character. Not a real hedgehog. So they have to keep the normal style and a realistic but not so realistic at the same time so he still looks like the animaited sonic we know. Just like the movie pixles, animal game avatars weren't actually fluffy because that's how they were in the video games. And it looks more convincing because you know that's them. Im not a professional cgi/designer but I'm just saying what's on my mind and im pretty confident with it. Please correct me if you can.
In my opinion, I think they did a much better job with the new one. Sure it looks less realistic, but it's not really supposed to. Sonic isn't supposed to be realistic, he's a lot more cartoonish
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I mean, they were super pressed for time and also were probably on a lower budget after doing so much of the movie in the original design
I think sonic did it as a publicity stunt tbh like it's so difficult to reanimate something like that they probably did the nightmare fuel trailer specifically to build hype
I mean, I remember in July when the trailer dropped, there were many jokes about how awful Cats looked. I would've thought they, Universal, would've gotten the message this movie would need to be fixed.
@@cattjohnson1114 Strawman, do you really think that they- 1. Made two entirely different models for the movie. Movie models are leagues higher quality than game models and take much longer to get just right to emote like a real character would, move properly and realistically without clipping, and look good enough to fit in with the world around them. 2. Took the time to animate two different versions of the movie? Movie trailers aren't released with only those scenes you saw in the movie done, they were already a good portion into the movie before the redesign took place. They had to go back and reanimate all of the scenes with Sonic (since this is a movie about him I don't think I need to express why this would take a long time). We've all seen the infamous "Meow?" scene which not only has a completely different background shot been used for the new trailer but also a different animation for Sonic. Other some other scenes play out similarly with the new model but since they would've had to make a new skeleton for him then they'd have to reanimate those shots as well. 3. Reshoot scenes in the movie to account for the change in design. I previously mentioned the "Meow?" scene already, but other shots also need to be redone to account for Sonic's change in overall appearance and stature. If the cop dude shakes Sonic's hand at some point in the film they would've had to reshoot that scene entirely because Sonic's model is entirely different, his hand is not only in a different place but also larger so they would have to make up for this discrepancy. In the scene with Sonic mentioning he'll have to save the Earth from the first trailer they would've had to reshoot the scene to account for Sonic's overall change in figure so that he's in the scene properly without being awkwardly out of frame.
lavender towne in the second half of the video: I JUST DID A BAD TH I N G I REGRET THE THING I DIIIIIDDDD AND YOURE WONDERING WHAT IT IS, TELL YOU WHAT I DID I DID A BAAAADD THIINNNGGGGG
Problem is ALEGEDLY that's why the final product looked so bad, when the trailer dropped they were still in post, and after the mass freak out it's rumored that the studio slashed the end budget in case the movie bombed, which really caused problems in the final product.
or just the og costumes. Obviously, they could have done way more than the og ones and incorporated them but there was nothing wrong with them and they were very aesthetically pleasing.
"This still looks weird" Uh, no. This looks fantastic. It looks like what a Cats stageplay might resemble in the distant future, with animatronic masks and tails, and _I want it so much!!_
Yes, I agree it looks better than before, but we’re all entitled to our own opinions. If someone thinks it looks weird, let them, don’t just say “well it looks great to me, so you’re wrong.” God bless
@@YamiHoOu or they could have preprogrammed movement and remove control the ears to match the emotions the character is supposed to feel at specific time (could be recorder beforehand and automatically played)
I like that about it. It make me wonder if they might have tried framing the film as a "show within a movie," by having it start with the performers putting on their masks to attend the Jellicle ball.
They think they know what the public wants. Hollywood is so out of touch with us "little" people. It's like they are on drugs or something to think that Cats was a good idea.
I think they do, but the problem lies with executives and the higher ups. As someone who works at a children's entertainment company, the art team comes up with really unique and creative idea but is shot down by the higher ups because they "don't get it" or "that's not what children" when they personally don't know what children like.
This is so cool! It also would have been way less stress on the VFX department, I presume - giving them only seven months to perfect a completely new technique and apply it to an entire feature-length film is just not a thing that was ever going to end well, but only having to deal with the eyes/ears/maybe tails, plus the occasional non-cat effect that couldn't be done with practical effects, seems a lot more manageable. Just...masquerade cats is such a cool route to take stylistically and I love it.
The movie would've been 100% cuter if they just designed cats on four legs. I'd rather look at cute cats running around and singing. I know they're trying to nod to the musical, but it turned out bad lol
Cat In Shoe the musical wasnt even MEANT to be seen as a horrifying amalgamation of cat and human. they were literally only humanoid bc naturally they had to have human actors. theyre supposed to be cats walking on all fours and singing yet acting a little human whenever they pick things up and dance, of course.
The colour of noses and toe pads/hooves depends on the surrounding fur. I have a black/white cat and a grey/white tiger with bits of brown. Both got pink noses, but my tiger girl got some multi-coloured toe pads. I've seen something similar in pinto horses.
Fun fact: They actually did consider making the cats movie in 2d, but eventually decided not to. The concept art for the 2d version is still around on the internet.
Pretty sure that studio was from don bluth's; also,he did movies like thumbelina,anastasia,the classics basically,damn cats could've been an animated classic
Oh yeah, it was Steven Spielberg’s animation studio, but I was correct in that the project was abandoned after the studio closed. Sorry I got the two studios mixed up. www.google.com/amp/s/io9.gizmodo.com/stunning-concept-art-for-spielbergs-animated-cats-movie-1599739506/amp
mondenkindqueen goodness the art looks beautiful. 😍 And I agree w/ the commenter who said that Cats could’ve been an animated classic. I hope someone picks it up and they manage to make the animated film w/ the art concept. It really does look like those old, classic animated movies you’d watch as a kid.
@@NekoKumeika Rats are cute, too! I don't get the bad rep rats have. They just happened to spread a couple diseases a few times, so what? By that logic people should hate snakes since they're always biting people. Plus, I would kill for the flexibility of a rat.
![IF MUSIC GENRES WERE CUTE GIRLS [a musical character design challenge]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OAu6k94971Q/mqdefault.jpg)
Imagine a beautifully dressed cat like balletina who gets scared, and then her ears move back, her tail fuzzes up and her eyes change. That fits the mood she's feeling, and also makes her not look creepy as hell!
U ever seen she ra? Basically, take this, remove the ballerina part and make them a suave lesbian. She emotes just like this, and her name is catra
Nat Nat best lesbian cat :3
@@natnat7297 yasss, catraaaaa, she a lesbian beannn
👏👏👏👏 FRICKIN YASS
@@natnat7297 Omg yes
"so now i'm just gonna circle a few places-" *circles 80% of the image*
And the other 20% is the actual face and the background
XD
Lol
Can’t blame her-
Probably because 80% of the image was shit lol
lavender town: I’m gonna circle everything that looks wrong *circles everything*
im gonna circle everything that looks wrong
*lights the computer on fire*
*Exactly*
I mean she’s not wrong-
Cats IS a circle.
She should've circled the director.
Cats are really expressive... Body language, their tails, the way they watch you like they’re really paying attention, the eyes and ears... the movie missed it all
fabiana espinoza true
Ik
Even the way their fur ruffles is expressive qwq
Yeah! Just by looking at my cats (or any) i can completely tell if they're sad, happy, tired, angry, scared, calm, curious e.c.t
Yeah and also when you do something wrong and they look at you indignantly like "you scoundrel shall do this right! My love is only bought with catnip and respect!" (Its better when ya say it in British)
I feel like leaving the human noses was one of their biggest mistakes.
The mouths bothered me far more. Especially if the lips were really full.
Yeah!
@death is a preferable alternative to communism you're rude...but also true
I hate the lips. They're just..disgusting
@@sailiealquadacil1284 Yeah, my brain just went "nope!"
They should have stayed as close to the actual musical, ie using makeup, wigs and fake fur, as possible and only used cgi to animate the tails and ears.
Lace Neil Yes! It would look better
In fact maybe just do a theatrical release of a professional recording
This was what I was hoping and had assumed they were gonna do when I first heard of the movie. Then I saw the pictures and trailers and.....just disappointed.
Yes that's exactly what they should have done, just animate the ears and tails so they can use the movements for more expression
(But keeping them a bit like just props maybe)
Yeah, and they should have made special clothes to look like fur but more fluffy so it doesn't look so naked QwQ
lavendertowne: it's not the cgi, it's the design
me, tired artist: *ah, a man of the culture as well*
@@GrimDarkParadise A *tired* artist, i think that was proposital
Also lavendertowne:
They should avoid using CGI everywhere they can.
Man can mean female or male don't get butt hurt. An example "all of man kind"
^^ the first two ppl who commented on this chain, learn to take a joke. I call all my friends, male and female, names like bro, dude, man, bruh, ect. Those are just friendly names and they shouldn't be gendered
Although I would want to probably see a 2D version.
While I generally don’t approve of “Fixing” art, this is one case where I’m sure most of us can unanimously agree that there is an issue that needs to be assessed and fixed with the CATS designs.
I totally agree. Usually, "fixing" art is just critiquing and redesigning. But the Cats movie is kind of universally disliked, for the CGI or just in general.
@@nocarbonationtm21 How are you supposed to "fix" art without critiquing and redesigning?
keep in mind, this is a large studio's work that we're fixing, NOT an individual's work. that's the difference. it's one thing to fix, say, Disney's work, than to pick one artist on DeviantArt and "fix" their artwork.
edit: grammar
@@ndiyabucaphukelaubusobakho1732 I see as those who 'fix' art are people who make changes to accommodate their own biases. And when you claim to fix something, you immediately put your work on a higher pedastal to the original. Though not all of them are like this, but many.
Most art students pay for someone to "fix" our art, I dont really understand not being able to accept constructive criticism (not bashing the art) if Im drawing unporportionally or I can use a certain brush technique better Im alll ears, but if someone just says "that sucks its weird", doesnt help anyone. I mean if that was the case than why was Sonic successful after being re-conceptualized? Ya know what I mean?
"The clothes should be real and should always be on"
*Thank you*
*takes clothes off*
Clothes Always
*Zips off skin, revealing clothes underneath*
The naked Cat-Human bodies are so disturbing. It's like material for r/confusedboners, with empathis on "confused"
This is amazing out of context
What bugged me the most was the inconsistency in character designs. Example: some had cat like noses while others did not. Some had fur clothes and some had regular clothes.
Stuff like that.
And some had no clothes. Nudist cats?
@@aussiewanderer6304 Well, they are suppose to be cats... nothing more and nothing less. My cats don't wear clothes.... most actual cats don't wear clothing so XD
Did you see the original? Some cats in it wear clothes and it's quite important
@@michelleschaefer683 I've seen a video taped version of the original. Some cats have clothes but they're used to accentuate distinct fur details and characteristics. They look like they're part of the body, like the leg warmers or the fur cloaks. In this film it's inconsistent because some of the clothing is actual clothing while others are part of the fur, which, for the film version, looks clumpy and weird. I personally think for the film version they should have had real clothing on the CG cats rather than weird CG clothing attached to the cats.
How did you read this thread and miss the entire point? Obviously we know about real cats. So then why do the cats wear clothes at all in the movie? Even after 3 years, reading comments like these irk me. @@shinigamikitty
I don't know why they made almost all the cats short haired, when all of the cats were very fluffy originally.
gwen I’m guessing bc the cgi would be easier to animate
@@littlebug.crochet ha, laziness
And the one that did have long fur seemed way more normal than the other cats
Ctcartsandgaming yep what do you expect from movie companies now
The sad part about Cats is my gran got excited to hear that they were making it into a movie! (She saw the musical in the 80's) and then felt so cheated with the shitty designs.
*we must avenge your grandmother, WRONGS MUST BE RIGHTED*
We must fix this for your grandma sake
Avenge the gran!
@@tiredfruit_
*Y E S*
Imma eat da peeps who made the cats movie for making your grandma sad >:D
“I’m just going to circle what makes me uncomfortable”
*circles everything*
The thing that freaked me out was the fact that they had noses...human noses...
Auburn Sandner samee!
I didn’t even realize this oh my god you’re right...
And their lips looked so bizarre especially if they had dark/red lips with light fur coats. It just didn't look good.
Anime
And lips....
I just saw the cats movie and let me just say: This would be a tremendous improvement.
Serena Kielley I might see it tomorrow... How should I prepare myself😂
Mars Tea get ready for a very weird beginning with a whole bunch or cats surrounding a bag with a white cat in it, it gets better after that
@@leigheaux928 Don't question what jellicle mean.
@@leigheaux928 shield your eyes when James Cordens character cat comes on, my friend started crying from fear when he came on...i don't blame her...
Serena Kielley AH YES, ENSLAVED KNOWLEDGE
It's honestly funny how the live action Cat in the Hat movie from 2003 made a better humanoid cat than Cats in 2019
Well I mean the cat in the hat is still horrific
The bar was so low and they dug a hole to avoid it.
I find the Cats cats much more approachable than the live Cat in the Hat. No idea why.
Cat in the hat live action haunted my dreams as a kid.
Honestly both are horrifying
Lavender: “The clothes should always be on.”
Me: “ONE MORE TIME FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK”
MARVELous Smol Pidgeot I ate a man alive tonight
@@linforthewin well this conversation escalated quickly and it wasn’t even long enough to become a conversation, was it-
Keep em on 👀
oh ok, I'll put pants on then
@@linforthewin I mean... did he taste good?
"I did a horrible thing. And I want to show it to you" best thing ever
Yes, that is very true. That section was honestly the most I've laughed in months.
@Joseph Chavez-Jackson
That is basically my constant mood while drawing.
UA-cam: Three seconds seems like long enough to start recommending people this video
Me: *oh nice*
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You know there's something wrong with it when furries start hating it.
True dat
Tru
True dah-
As a semi-furry, I can confirm this
Dat tru
I hate when people say "It's bad CGI"
It's not bad CGI, it's bad design
It's both. They didn't do their homework with clear plates and as usual calculated way too little time to finish the effects properly.
it's definitely both, the design is bad BUT the quality of the cgi is BAD too. there are people's feet going into the floor & the floor bending around them?, the head overlay moves weirdly sometimes, there's fur-face-overlays disappearing or a visible gap between the overlay and the actual face, etc etc. if you pay attention more and more flaws become painfully obvious. I agree that the design was the main flaw but the cgi is still embarrasing for a 2019 movie and it's mainly because they rushed this film into theatres when the special effects were nowhere near finished. I kind of feel bad for the cgi people who made this because you can see that they do have the skill but they just weren't given enough time to create a consistently good product, let alone a great one.
the design is part of the cgi
Like, did you see that water Bustopher Jones was drinking? The CGI was terrible. The proportions and design are all part of the CGI presentation. Was the CGI the only problem? No. Was the CGI also a major problem. Absolutely.
@@Quotenwagnerianer The director finished at the last minute. And no one didn't even saw it before the premiere. Like how can that happen? How can someone spend so much money yet keep editing till the last moment and still show the unfinished product?
If Cats looked like this I’d go see the movie
Same tho
Same.
Much batter look than that abomination
agreed
Samee
My opinion:
1. They should've used actual costumes like the musicals; or
2. They should've made it a 3d animated feature film.
Definetely the costumes. Making it fully 3d animated would make the movie lose the most integral part of the show: The dancing.
Idk maybe a 2d film would be cooler. The again I just prefer 2d animation.
@@lucidmoth1023 I love 2d, but without the choreography, it just aint Cats
my mom belives that they should have hired circus olay (a group of acrobatics and dance) and nefver had it done in cgi
I like having them in the costumes like in the musical
How to successfully adapt Cats into a movie:
Step One: don't
Step Two: don't
Step Three: make it a cartoon
Step four: Respect your VFX artists
WRONG WRONG AND WRONG again cause if you were actually knowledgeable about the musical and understood the material it is based upon you would also know that according to A. L. W. when he approached T.S. Eliot's widow asking for permission to adapt the material into a musical she asked if they will make them like pussycats and he said no, then she replied " cause Disney had approached him ( T.S Eliot) about it and he refused, he didn't want them made into cartoony pussycats"
@@galadballcrusher8182 true, so maybe use costumes from the original musical. Or just do the animation in a style different from Disney, animation is a medium so just because they are animated doesn’t mean they have to be made “Pussy Cats”
And 👏 Respect👏Your👏VFX👏Artists
@@galadballcrusher8182 who cares? Make it a cartoon or don't do it.
@@galadballcrusher8182 Well live action pussy cats didn't work out so does he really have anything to lose at this point?
my main issue was the nose. literally if they slapped on a bit of black eyeliner and make a "cat nose" out of it i would have liked it a little better.
Agreed, the noses were awful
Don't forget about the human hands.
olivia scorciolla yes! thats what i’ve been saying!
I didnt even dislike the cats design that much (yes, that nose idea would have helped alot) but what botherd me the most was the weird effects they used when jumping (them jumping extremely far) or the way they were tiny in that big world. It just looked really weird to me.
The first thing most people do when they put on a cat costume for Halloween it's draw on their noses and the whiskers. I cannot believe they forgot something so basic like that.
No cap why the hell isnt this girl not hired at a top digital art and design company?
i know right?!
Righhhttt? 🚫🧢
The problem is whether or not she can keep up with the work strain
Why? she makes her living off her own art, she doesn't need to work for anyone to make money.
I don’t think she’s there yet.
Her designs kind of fall around the same body types, skin tones, and proportions. While I like her work, there is a lot she needs to improve on. Her shading is very heavy, and while better than I can do, it is not at a concept design level. I especially struggle with her body types. The facial features of her work are great. However, she tends to draw very thin characters. I’d like to see characters with different body types. I feel as though Lavender towne struggles with this.
Cats Movie : *exists*
*everyone felt uncomfortable*
Hi how are Ya it’s super effective!
Everyone cried lol
Hi how are Ya hello Bakugou
@@MudPuddIeOinks
Yeah.. it doesn't look right ;- ;
Nobody's gonna like Taylor swift anymore..
speak for yourself hun
Let's be real: most furries could have done better than the cats movie.
Edit: what the fuck how is this my most liked comment-
😂
This should be pinned
i agree and love this comment xD
I'm a offended fur
Uhm.. what?
"I'm gonna circle a few places were it make me feels uncomfortable"
Me: Circles the hole image
Hole
Hole image
LoL! I burst out laughing when I read that 😂
Same
"H o l e"
you mean um.... whole..?-
“I’m going to Circle the areas that make me uncomfortable”
*me circles everything*
That was, uh, quite the autocorrect
@@Cecil... what was it before?
Jellatin "Corvallis" instead of circle :P
C OOF
Me too I'd do that
they couldve solved the whole thing by talking to just one furry
Literally. Like so many mainstream movies with anthros fail because they look creepy and five minutes after a trailer drops I see a furry artist doing a quick sketch and making it look fantastic
I don't even support furries, but I completely agree with you
I find it funny you said this because I've had people going "Well, at least this movie will be popular with Furries" and I was like "Ohhhh no, they hate it!"
@@Nionivek the last good movie with anthro animals was zootopia ksksksksksksos I feel like the designers were furries
Mer Rowley lol
I love how macavity was wearing a thick coat at first and then halfway through he was just like "Nah screw this" then went naked and because you had already gotten used to him wearing clothes, he just looked SO naked lmao
“Running around with their furry little butts hanging out” 😂
Lmao
Hockey Demon *Butt Cheeks
Ooooooooooooof
Your prof. Matches what I looked when she said that 😂
Even Avatar made the navi look more cat-like than the CATS movie😂like,navis aren't even supposed to be cats but it still has more cat-like features than the design for the CATS movie
Adriana Carolina Lmao I agree
Agree 100%.
I think its the nose and the hair
Facts
I was so confused but then i realized you were talking about the movie, not the last airbender.
Lavendertowne: *sees cats*
Lavendertowne:
Lavendertowne:
Lavendertowne: well this need to gO
I agree lol
pswsh was bad 34 people like you belong in prison
pswsh was bad 34 my bad dude
pswsh was bad 34 *stage whispers* ...is your dad a furry
pswsh was bad 34 oh my gods I’m so sorry
They low key looked like a medieval painting of a cat..
Spot on! The terror of cats in old paintings never ceases to amuse me~
They really do
This is something I would watch.
Savannah German ok
Yummy Phil boomer
Savanna German oh, wich one?
It is almost like the people who designed the cats for cats had never actually met a cat
The director held them to unrealistic deadlines. They were given 7 months. Toy Story took 2 years.
The thing is, their design was intentional. They wanted us to be able to tell that Taylor Swift was Taylor Swift. And that Idris Elba was Idris Elba, etc, etc. They got so many big name actors in there, and they wanted to make sure we knew it. And that's why their faces are too human-like.
Or they took their inspiration from renaissance painters :D Look it up, don't thank me :p
@@oh-totoro TBH my approach would have been Alita meets anime catgirl. Use Alita like proportions and animations make them look less human, slap some cat ears on top and give em a floofy collar. Sure animating every single one with the precision and love for details that was used on Alita is a monumental job but considering how much time spent on furry buttcheeks is saved it might just be worth it.
@@System-zu7np some the weird shaping can be partially achieved with illusionary makeup (like the trick mentioned with lips), i think they definitely could've just made like a "Cats the musical but accessible and not in the 80's" and it would've done well
“Cats” can’t be “Cats” without the wigs, leg warmers, and spiky collars. Making things all cgi is never a good idea.
Narnia?
It came out years ago and is good as ever. Moviemakers these days are just lazy with design and movements. The Lion King live action remake would have been so much better if they hadn't used the "animals don't have facial expressions" excuse. It's not true and even if it was, it can be avoided with proper design.
@@emvuosku4219 Yeah. Like there was a news article about a lion who scared a photographer and then smiled/laughed at him. How does one come to the conclusion of "animals don't have facial expressions. Has the director never had a pet?
Oh yes...I remember seeing the Cats Broadway show on PBS TV in the 90s growing up.
And I was hooked.
I loved all the "cheesy" 80s stuff in that medium because it worked with the theme and coupled with the acting & music, didn't seem "cheesy" anymore once you got immersed into the show.
That was great character & costume designing.
Plus they had alot wasted talent in this movie adaptation. The movie would have been cool if they kept some things real and still used CG.
@@irishime two things in the play that everyone talked about -- costuming and choreography, two things they wrecked in the film -- costuming and choreography.
Actually the design is already gud but the only thing that is wrong is the face
It would be better if the face is a real cat face and not human face
I'm not even halfway through and I already like this better. I previously thought Cats should only be interpreted one of two ways, namely either as a Don Bluth-esque 2D animation, or in the form of the original 80's style costumes, but your third answer is a perfect compromise, I'd say.
I realized that there’s one simple thing that they could have done to take the entire cast out of the uncanny valley, and that is to give them cat noses... that’s it. It doesn’t fix everything but it makes them look exponentially better than they do without.
Cats: the awful human cat hybrid cgi
Avatar: the amazing human cat hybrid cgi
exaccctlyyyyyy 👏👏👏
PREACH
Exactly
YES
Tea
I really hope Cats comes out with a remake in years to come, with longer production time and a better design, hopefully based off of the musical. Even simply re-releasing the original with a different character design would be so much better.
better yet remaking the a film version into an animated version for netflix based on the amblimation art galleries
As long as it still has Taylor Swift in it, I'll vibe and watch it.
@@preciouslakez7735 the use of pop singers who expected everything to bend around them is one of the many many reasons it did not work! it was mostly the director, but also literally everything else was part of it. just animate the audio from the original musical recording with, like, cats what are somewhat anthropomorphized in their expressions and behaviors but are still quadrupedal. Or at least re-record everything with people who are trained in musical theater
i hope we get an adaptation or even another proshot with growltigers last stand, its such a good number thats left out way too often
Petition for the movie makers to hire LavenderTowne to redo the Cats movie, with the same sounds and voices but her animation. Crazy, but it would be so good. I'd actually watch the movie if this was done.
Idk if lavendertowne could make a whole movie
@@lowercase_ash if she was commissioned, she probably could make the time for it. And she definitely has the skill
@Ariana Meinking do you know how many PEOPLE and TIME it takes to make a animated movie?! Lavender couldn’t do it alone no matter how much money she was payed. Plus she doesn’t do commissions anymore (I think)
Rather than having her animate the whole movie, i would say she could be hired as a character designer
She could do the design and basic movements, but they could hire professional animators to do the animating in her style.
They should have either:
1. Put the actors in costumes similar to those of the stage performance.
2. Make it a 2D animation that was stylistically the same as “The Aristocats” or “Cats Don’t Dance”.
The CGI and live action in general was a mistake and I’m getting kinda sick of both tbh.
At this point, the Cats movie even scares away the furries..
As a furry I can confirm it does
As another furry I can confirm that it scared us away
Can confirm
Meh... as a theater kid... it’s fine, I’m not easily scared
(snowflakes)
As a furry, I can confirm
Imo it could've looked SO good and SO ridiculously adorable if they had just animated cats like in Zootopia, like, just imagine a wittle babeh ballet kitteh but no what we got was a terrifying movie about naked hairy humans lmao
Pardon.
I wish they animated it. That would be so much better than this.
Agreed! Cats sounds like it could've been a really good musical animation in the right hands
i heard that they were planning on animating it, but the idea was scrapped because the animation studio shut down
@@CryptidVow That's unfortunate.
4:59 those random lines are what we call “artist accidentally creating lines because they slid their hand across the screen”
Yas
@@kk_cats6072 *mourning*
(translated by google)
Yeah that happens to me a lot.
@@trevor_phillipz plastic
@@trevor_phillipz mine is just *"plastic"*
"They used Benedict Cumberbatch's facial expressions on a dragon, so.."
They did w hat
In the hobbit ...
Benedict Cumberbatch played Smaug from The Hobbit. I'm not too knowledgeable about the technical process but I believe they digitally mapped out his face as he acted it so they could use many of his expressions on the dragon itself. If you check out a behind the scenes, it's super entertaining, you just see Cumberbatch crawling around and making these awesome faces
it is a r i o t ua-cam.com/video/sXN9IHrnVVU/v-deo.html
Peeble Kitty THIS VIDEO IS INCREDIBLE
@@HufflepuffsPanda R IGHt
between this and the goofiness that is the DBH acting clips, i have concluded we need more motion capture if for nothing more than to get more silly shit like this
"unintentionally sexual" I'm pretty sure it was fully intentional.
Two words. Kitty tiddies
It really is intentional, especially that Tugger.
Ewww...
listen to the original choreographer , Gillian Lynne, talk about the show. The overt sexuality is 100 percent intentional.
That's just how the musical has always been
Original Tugger has girls screaming at his crotch while he hip thrusts
It's great
They should have just hired furries. This is literally their thing.
wait bruh you're right
Mew
yeah they should’ve hired my entire friend group. we’re all furries in this group
They should of i'm kinda creeped out because of this movie ( I'm a furry so OwO )
I'm a furry too. I could've been hired as a kitten or cat
“I did a bad thing and I’m going to show it to you now”
UA-cam: perfect just in time for an add
@Chloe Han lol thanks
Yeah that happened to me too 💀
*is anyone wondering why the character design artists didn't catch these mistakes* ??
*Nope.* There's a HUGE number of people approving/disapproving design elements in every film, especially when CGI is involved. The artists didn't make any mistakes, they did what they were told to do.
But can you really fix this monstrosity?
Edit: Yes, Yes you can. They’re super cute~
*they're
Sorry I'm a grammar nazi
Debil sorry couldn’t resist lol
They’re*
The issue with this approach is, I think, a lot of the celebrities wanted to have their actual faces in the movie. :/
Which is gross and defeats the purpose of acting in my opinion. Now they have their face and name associated with shit because they are that conceited.
so they pulled a Stallone/Judge Dredd. LOL
@@yakuza01 I actually liked that movie. But I didn't have any background on it before hand.
@@BIOL6895 It's not bad. Basically Judge Dredd in the comics never (or rarely) takes his helmet off and shows his face. The story goes that Stallone wasn't having none of that and that's why there are so many scenes with the helmet off.
@@frostfang1 Could be that, and studio interference.
How about they just use the musical's costumes?
_This is an issue that has already been solved._
Imma be real, the CGI they do now is absolutely amazing and can break boundaries with how realistic it can be
All we need is a design team that actually knows how to do their job right
😆
A wise man once told me, "There is no such thing as a bad idea; only bad execution."
Not a Prophet
Starlight Express is a bad idea. Actually it was three bad ideas.
Moonbyul is my obsession if you want to take a selfie of you above water someone could do that over an inflatable pool. The actual motive behind that would be to take a good photo which someone could do with good execution. I’m sure there are examples that just can’t be saved but there are ways people could do that safely
Tea Dragon airs not a bad idea if he didn’t take that darn “sandwich”
@Tea Dragon I don't know who the first dude is but I knew ANYBODY meeting Tomura is a bad idea.
@Tea Dragon don't forget the bombs. those are important.
Me: it would be cool if cat girls existed Irl.
Hollywood!: makes Cats the movie.
Also me: Change my mind
You: Uh, nevermind, um, no thank you, no cat girls.
😂😂😂😂😂
BURN IT
Marcymallow
Same
Lol!
I’m glad you pointed out the inconsistency of some cats having clothes and some not, making the non clothed cats feel more nude than if there were no clothes at all, and you just choose to clothe them all. THANK YOU
I don’t see why they didn’t just animate it and have it feel almost like Disney’s aristocats
Spielberg was going to do that in the 1990s but the studio closed and they made the 1998 movie
Apparently, T.S. Elliot's widow didn't allow it back in the day.
because it’s got no plot either? that’d be just as, if not more, boring
I think it’s just because you lose the dancing and the expression in the singing when you just make them cats. The plot is really weak, it’s more of a cabaret with a main goal rather than a story
Because the entire allure of Cats is the live, intricate dancing.
In the musical some of the cats have “clothes” thats somewhat part of their fur (ie rum tum tugger, Munjoriee & Rumpleteazer, Old Duetoronemmy) and others have Coats (Jennydots, Mr.Mistofflees, Grizabella)and stuff But I think you went the next logical step from the musical like if they were to update Cats or go even MORE ballet than it is (the broadway play is less a play and more a ballet) this is probably what it’d look like. I think you did a really good job. Also fun fact that ill forever be salty about but this WAS supposed to be a 2D animated film. Theres concept art floating around. It was gunna be directed by Stephen Speilburg and the artist who designed for Kung Fu Panda did the concept art. It looked BEAUTIFUL honestly very Miht Khal like designs like an old disney movie (think Robin Hood). Im so mad we got this instead.
I just checked out the concept art, I haven't seen the movie and I refuse to, but the concept art is so appealing to look at. I feel like it's a wasted opportunity, they better recreate and improve it by making the 2d animated version..
Damn seems like a big loss. The concept art looks great!
I think T.S. Elliot's estate doesn't allow any animated adaptations of his work (he wrote the book that Cats is based on). Apparently this creepy cgi mash-up doesn't technically qualify as an animated movie.
Just saw it and hot damn, that is some really good concept art! I really wished that one was made instead
I hope they're happy with what they've done, because a lot of people aren't.
“We need to find out what is the problem...”
Me: Everything
Pepsi Gachalife yes
How there's nothing even wrong with it and I can spot something wrong with something right away
There’s nothing wrong, their designed to look like that, y’all just don’t understand because you guys don’t do your research
Everything*
XoXoTrenni Am I not allowed to have an opinion?? My lord
Honestly the og musical and 1998 filmed musical got it the most right, like they styled everything to EVOKE the image of a cat and it worked really really well
Universal: "Write that down, write that down"
A M Harrison I wish
"I-I dont know it doesnt look right."
*Me when Im trying to draw the other eye*
Same I just normal cover my characters faces, or one eye with hair
Same,or the hands
I’ve never related to comment so much before lmao
Im waiting for this comment to reach 666 likes
Just to make all the christians freak out. :V
The easiest thing they could have done was to give them cat noses.
Higauge peridot
And eyes!
Yess
When I saw the Cats movie I was like-
"*_SIGH_* juST HIRE _FURRIES_ THIS IS THEIR THING" (I sound rlly aggressive lmao)
Jessica Havice
Like this: _ Hello _ (Remove the spaces between the underscores and the letters though)
Jessica Havice Np ^^
_lol_
_Ey this is fun_
_hehe_
Cursed idea: CATS but everyone’s wearing a cat fursuit
that would be a tremendous improvment
Yeah at least it wouldn't be _as_ creepy
so..... the actual onstage cats musical??
an improvement in my opinion
Fursuits themselves aren't creepy, the fact that people willingly walk around in them is creepy
Lavendertowne: “You aren’t going to like what I did next.”
Me: No, how could I? Never!
Me: Oh. Oh no.
It was so scary 😂😂😂
@@callmesummon I wont sleep tonight 😥
Oh god why did it came up as soon as i read this.
When is it?
@@Skuddchan around 8:50
*sees her start photoshopping a cat’s face and a human together*
Me: Oh no..
Lavender:I’m going to circle every wrong
Lavender: continues to circle everything
0:52
The new Sonic design actually has a worse CGI (the furs don't look as convincing as the previous one).
But it's the right proportions and the look that makes it better than the previous design.
I didn't even notice when I saw the movie. Good design really is key
@@SuperAllison20 Now it could be possible they improved the CGI in the final version.
However, I cannot confirm this since I haven't seen the movie yet and this comment was based on the early trailers of the improved Sonic design.
And since the designers were on a tight schedule to improve the design, it is quite possible that the CGI became more realistic in the final movie.
It's supposed to look like that because he's an animated game character. Not a real hedgehog. So they have to keep the normal style and a realistic but not so realistic at the same time so he still looks like the animaited sonic we know. Just like the movie pixles, animal game avatars weren't actually fluffy because that's how they were in the video games. And it looks more convincing because you know that's them. Im not a professional cgi/designer but I'm just saying what's on my mind and im pretty confident with it. Please correct me if you can.
In my opinion, I think they did a much better job with the new one. Sure it looks less realistic, but it's not really supposed to. Sonic isn't supposed to be realistic, he's a lot more cartoonish
I mean, they were super pressed for time and also were probably on a lower budget after doing so much of the movie in the original design
when she was circling parts that were uncomfortable, I'm surprised she didn't circle the whole thing
Ikr
I wish we bullied the cats movie people to get this design like we did with sonic
I think sonic did it as a publicity stunt tbh like it's so difficult to reanimate something like that they probably did the nightmare fuel trailer specifically to build hype
@@cattjohnson1114 They did not, lots of crunch went into making the redesign.
I mean, I remember in July when the trailer dropped, there were many jokes about how awful Cats looked. I would've thought they, Universal, would've gotten the message this movie would need to be fixed.
@@arctiwolf857 how do you know? Did you work with it?
@@cattjohnson1114 Strawman, do you really think that they-
1. Made two entirely different models for the movie. Movie models are leagues higher quality than game models and take much longer to get just right to emote like a real character would, move properly and realistically without clipping, and look good enough to fit in with the world around them.
2. Took the time to animate two different versions of the movie? Movie trailers aren't released with only those scenes you saw in the movie done, they were already a good portion into the movie before the redesign took place. They had to go back and reanimate all of the scenes with Sonic (since this is a movie about him I don't think I need to express why this would take a long time). We've all seen the infamous "Meow?" scene which not only has a completely different background shot been used for the new trailer but also a different animation for Sonic. Other some other scenes play out similarly with the new model but since they would've had to make a new skeleton for him then they'd have to reanimate those shots as well.
3. Reshoot scenes in the movie to account for the change in design. I previously mentioned the "Meow?" scene already, but other shots also need to be redone to account for Sonic's change in overall appearance and stature. If the cop dude shakes Sonic's hand at some point in the film they would've had to reshoot that scene entirely because Sonic's model is entirely different, his hand is not only in a different place but also larger so they would have to make up for this discrepancy. In the scene with Sonic mentioning he'll have to save the Earth from the first trailer they would've had to reshoot the scene to account for Sonic's overall change in figure so that he's in the scene properly without being awkwardly out of frame.
lavender towne in the second half of the video: I JUST DID A BAD TH I N G
I REGRET THE THING I DIIIIIDDDD AND YOURE WONDERING WHAT IT IS, TELL YOU WHAT I DID I DID A BAAAADD THIINNNGGGGG
we can make this into a religon
@@cabbage2329 no don't
The sun is a deadly lazer
I feel like if they listened to people’s opinions after releasing the first trailer like the Sonic people did, they might have improved it.
Problem is ALEGEDLY that's why the final product looked so bad, when the trailer dropped they were still in post, and after the mass freak out it's rumored that the studio slashed the end budget in case the movie bombed, which really caused problems in the final product.
I feel like the cat characters would have been fixed if they just had a damn cat nose and extra head fluff.
Yes!!!!
or just the og costumes. Obviously, they could have done way more than the og ones and incorporated them but there was nothing wrong with them and they were very aesthetically pleasing.
Yep. That's all it needed.
They could have just given the actors cat ears and tails. Everyone would have been fine with that
ImmaGrill they could have just worn the Broadway costumes. Everyone would have been fine with that
älskling I would have loved that!
Yes! Maybe They could CGI the tails, just so they arent limp and swing all over the place. But yes!
@@kmart3453 the musical costumes are so cool I don't know why they didn't just go with that
..and painted on a dang cat nose. 🙄
Bruh there used to be a scrapped idea of a Spielberg animated cats movie in the early days
The designs are actually beautiful
How could I find the old art for that?
@@lakynpayne6476
Search 'Amblimation Studios Cats'.
"This still looks weird"
Uh, no. This looks fantastic. It looks like what a Cats stageplay might resemble in the distant future, with animatronic masks and tails, and _I want it so much!!_
Oohh they better follow the steps of Sonic's movie: Re-make all the shit
oh like those ears that move to brain waves. It'll be cool if they could make them so advanced the ear movements to match the emotions.
Yes, I agree it looks better than before, but we’re all entitled to our own opinions. If someone thinks it looks weird, let them, don’t just say “well it looks great to me, so you’re wrong.” God bless
@@YamiHoOu or they could have preprogrammed movement and remove control the ears to match the emotions the character is supposed to feel at specific time (could be recorder beforehand and automatically played)
Uh, opinions.
“Your not going to like this next part”
Me: I’m sure that’s not true, I like all of your work!
Me, a few seconds into that part: Oh no, honey, no!
Me: you're moot like lee sleepen in gramer clas
LT. oG rever
Nani?
@@nothingbutfantasy2965 yes
LT. oG rever
.-.
@@nothingbutfantasy2965 why is bye
Honestly, I think your masquerade idea feels more surreal than creepy.
Yeah. I think they looked really beautiful, honestly.
I like that about it. It make me wonder if they might have tried framing the film as a "show within a movie," by having it start with the performers putting on their masks to attend the Jellicle ball.
Would be like MirrorMask, and in a good way
@@easterslice that would've been awesome! Maybe in another universe they did something like this😕
It would definitely would've worked better with the whole original story, that has a rather surrealistic feeling, too 🤔
0:28
"This is an example of bad CGI"
No, this is THE example of bad CGI.
Me:*enjoying the video*
Lavendertowne: *starts photoshopping* "I'm sorry"
Me: WHAT THE-
😂😂
They need to hire people like this to design the movies coming out.
Yesss
They think they know what the public wants. Hollywood is so out of touch with us "little" people. It's like they are on drugs or something to think that Cats was a good idea.
I think they do, but the problem lies with executives and the higher ups. As someone who works at a children's entertainment company, the art team comes up with really unique and creative idea but is shot down by the higher ups because they "don't get it" or "that's not what children" when they personally don't know what children like.
Lavandertowne: cats are cute
Tablet: *LINE*
This is so cool! It also would have been way less stress on the VFX department, I presume - giving them only seven months to perfect a completely new technique and apply it to an entire feature-length film is just not a thing that was ever going to end well, but only having to deal with the eyes/ears/maybe tails, plus the occasional non-cat effect that couldn't be done with practical effects, seems a lot more manageable.
Just...masquerade cats is such a cool route to take stylistically and I love it.
critics: its the cgi
lavendertowne: its the design
me, an intellectual: just make them furries-
Me, a weeb: **laugh in anime catgirls**
ikr
For real
Its also the direction and the editing
Why are all the comments talking about furries what are they
The movie would've been 100% cuter if they just designed cats on four legs. I'd rather look at cute cats running around and singing. I know they're trying to nod to the musical, but it turned out bad lol
Cat In Shoe the musical wasnt even MEANT to be seen as a horrifying amalgamation of cat and human. they were literally only humanoid bc naturally they had to have human actors. theyre supposed to be cats walking on all fours and singing yet acting a little human whenever they pick things up and dance, of course.
Irl Weeb , well if that’s the case put in people in cat costumes or anime cat girls
Except for the Shimbleshanks and Mr. Mistofelees parts. Those were pretty charming in my opinion
I would honestly hate if they went the cute route because of the orgy scene and like the themes of decaying, getting old, and wanting to be reborn
Iron Wing Artist Yeah, I can see where you come from. Especially the part where Victoria enters “womanhood”
I literally tell everyone that they either always have clothes or they have no clothes. Don’t compromise!!
Pluto and Goofy are a terrifying example. Why is nobody enraged over this
What if they all have just hats?
I don't like the idea of naked furries because of that
how about fur clothes like fur that resembles an outfit like a tailcoat could be long fur
"I did a really bad thing....im gonna show it to you...now"
UA-cam: *RAIDSHAWDOW LEGENDS-*
Me: AHHHHHHHHHJDIEJEBJDJDBD
The main thing I found creepy was how they didn't have dark noses
The colour of noses and toe pads/hooves depends on the surrounding fur. I have a black/white cat and a grey/white tiger with bits of brown. Both got pink noses, but my tiger girl got some multi-coloured toe pads. I've seen something similar in pinto horses.
Imagine they remake the movie like how you explained it
Me : it was bad... So i remake it but with 2D animation and with good desings
Or
Me : i just filmed the whole play but with better costumes.
I would love that.
the den of the clouds 505 can I help you animaet??
@@isanya1548 yes! I can do the concept art.
the den of the clouds 505 Is okay if it’s an anime style
my recommendations:
the beautiful and talented Lavender Towne fixes a bunch of ugly circles
me wearing $9 air buds "hi everybody its BATTERY LOW " XD there dead now
Fun fact: They actually did consider making the cats movie in 2d, but eventually decided not to. The concept art for the 2d version is still around on the internet.
Pretty sure that studio was from don bluth's; also,he did movies like thumbelina,anastasia,the classics basically,damn cats could've been an animated classic
It is not that they “decided not to do it.” Unfortunately, Don Bluth’s studio closed down while the project was still in the conceptual art stage.
@@mondenkindqueen Oh, my friend told me they "decided not to do it for financial reasons" but that is definitely an understatement then.
Oh yeah, it was Steven Spielberg’s animation studio, but I was correct in that the project was abandoned after the studio closed.
Sorry I got the two studios mixed up.
www.google.com/amp/s/io9.gizmodo.com/stunning-concept-art-for-spielbergs-animated-cats-movie-1599739506/amp
mondenkindqueen goodness the art looks beautiful. 😍 And I agree w/ the commenter who said that Cats could’ve been an animated classic.
I hope someone picks it up and they manage to make the animated film w/ the art concept. It really does look like those old, classic animated movies you’d watch as a kid.
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Wait she has pet *MICE* ?! I freaking love mice! They're so cute 😍
@@47ratsinahoodie She has rats actually. Two if I'm correct
AoTako yes, she has two rats
@@NekoKumeika Rats are cute, too! I don't get the bad rep rats have. They just happened to spread a couple diseases a few times, so what? By that logic people should hate snakes since they're always biting people. Plus, I would kill for the flexibility of a rat.
Hooded Raire Same but my mom won’t let me have one.
Basically if they looked like chat noir it would have been a lot better.
lol problem solved just make multiple cat noirs
Yay! Cat noir fan
YES
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UwU m'lady yasssss
“Furry but cheeks” is a phrase I’ll never get out of my head lmao