Favorite animation style/visual scenes.

[Jingo Jaden]

Now, the question is what are your favorite scenes, graphic style or animation style? Please, oh please do include a link or picture. It would make things so much easier. I want to include most of the information that will be posted in. And yes, it will all be anonymous, except on this forum of course.

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This can all be sketching, 2d, 3d, anime, manga - You name it.

[mechana2015]

3D first since its a smaller field than 2D.

Best realistic 3D animation style, design and execution I've seen so far in an animated film is Wall-e, especially the first half of the movie or so, since the movie gets a bit cartoonier later.

Kung fu panda is some of the best 3D I've seen with a more cartooned 3D style so far, handling squash and stretch in a way that didn't look like they were just tweaking curves for the heck of it.

That being said I'm sort of dissappointed in the direction Dreamworks went with Monsters vs. Aliens, as it seems like they lost a lot of the great cinematic detail from Kung fu panda and settled for a more bland and empty look.
I like to refer to this as 3D animation for 3D animations sake, and frankly... MvsA looks like a tech demo, rather than a completed film.

I feel that I shouldn't be looking at a movie and thinking, RIGHT AWAY about how they used 3D animation. I'd rather be lost in the movie and then remember later that they used Maya or something else to make it, rather than having it pounded into my head with every scene.

2D is more difficult to choose from, and been around longer and in some ways might be based a lot more based on style preferences, such as character design.

I like a lot of 2D for extremely varied reasons, but two examples of things that stuck out to me wereI personally liked how they handled Spirited away, especially the whole environment of the bathhouse. They managed to handle lush backgrounds and detailed art, with lots of animation and still keep focused on the charachters without losing it. They communicated the activity and busyness of being in an alternate world, firmly reminding you of the oddness and the bizarre with out distracting from Chihiro and her story.

The other one would be Cowboy bebop, the series. Even with the limitations of a TV budget, it still looks spectacular, and the fight scenes are especially well choreographed.

I also consider there to be one other category of sorts, that category being hybrid animation. I actually enjoy this quite a bit when it's handled well.
Movies like Paprika and Beauty and the Beast and shows like Ghost in the Shell - SAC are examples there and each features great scenes with combined graphics, though beauty and the Beast is one of the more famous, due to the ballroom scene.