King of the Railway Advert
Yes the first glimpse of Sodor in all new CGI by Arc has been released! As the majority of you will know Thomas & Friends was previously animated by Nitrogen Studios, who went out with a bang with the highly successful 'Blue Mountain Mystery'. So Arc have a lot to live up to!
I have read a number of comments regarding this advert and a lot of people have been saying that the CGI is low quality, cheap and various other derogatory comments. First of all I think it is too early to start judging the quality of the CGI, this advert was likely released by mistake. But if I must pass judgement; I think the actual CGI does look good, but the quality of the video itself is quite poor. The engines look nicely detailed and coloured. Lip syncing is poor to say the least! The background scenery in places is bare but overall not too bad, I am sure it will look better in the finished product. What do you all think of the hill (I assume this is Ulfstead hill?) at the end? I think it was nicely detailed and very grand, quite impressive!
The characters all look good in my opinion. At times they look very much like the Nitrogen characters, not that this is a bad thing however. Some comments have said that they look too much like Nitrogen models, I don't see the problem with this, Nitrogen did a very good job. The troublesome trucks looked very much like the Nitrogen ones, shame that they were all the same, it used to be that the Troublesome trucks all had different faces! It is good though to see that they are back to their troublesome ways, that is what they are there for after all!
Andrew Brennar is writing this movie so this is a bit of a debut for him! Other than a few TV series episodes in the 1990's and editing Blue Mountain Mystery Andrew has had little chance to 'shine', so let's hope this film goes well for him! It won't be long before we start seeing Merchandise creeping onto the shelves, 'Train Cellar' have already released pictures of the new engines in wooden railway.
New characters included, Millie, Stephen (named of course after Robert Stephenson) and Sir Robert Norramby, The Earl of Sodor. It looks like Andrew Brennar has been reading the Wikia, to find out about Robert! (Joke)
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