Season 1’s animation was never groundbreaking, but they were pretty creative with character movement and fight scenes always felt well choreographed with fairly liberal frame use. After watching episode 4, I feel like it’s pretty safe to say that this season is a step down in animation quality when compared directly to the first.
Characters are often stiff in all scenarios, fight scenes don’t have the intensity or weight they used to, weird pacing artificially lengthens action scenes that I would otherwise just like to watch uninterrupted. There were some glimpses of decent fight choreography when Mark finally started going all out in e4, but it felt like a sparse exception instead of the rule.
Anyway, my question is just: What happened? Is this a result of the strikes? Did the first season not do as well as we thought it did? Were talented people laid off for whatever reason? I hope future seasons are at least on par with S1!
I feel like they spent most of their money in licensing music and hiring high profile voice actors.
Totally agree with this. I really am not a fan of how many high profile celebrities and regular actors they got for voice actors instead of actually good voice actors.
Don’t get me wrong, some odd celebrity choices ended up solid to the point I don’t see the character without that voice (Seth Rogen as Allen), but so many hires just seem like pulling in high profile voice actors instead of actual good ones.
Not saying these hires don’t have talent, but talent on the screen like many of these celebrities and talent in the voice recording booth are two very different things.
Actually putting the budget into the animation pipeline (larger animation team to divide episodes to, more talented industry veterans for high profile fights, etc.) would’ve made this so much more worthwhile.