I Thought This New Movie Was AI Generated...

[@Marksman3434]

I currently work as a 3D animator in Spain’s animation industry, and several of my coworker friends worked on this. Haven’t seen it myself yet, but they seemed happy with it and the work they did. The director’s son was the inspiration for the non-verbal kid in the film, who suffered the same disease. His son sadly succumbed to it a few years ago at the age of 16 😢 Before he made this film, he did an award-winning short that also featured a similar child character called “Cuerdas”.

[@spawn.officialclownhater2615]

Sabía que había visto ese niño en otro sitio

[@hana_flower875]

I remember that short and thought "This kid and his red haired friend look too much like those other ones from that short I saw years ago, it can't be a coincidence" when I saw the trailer for this, so I was right! I'm so sad to hear that the actual kid passed, I think he would have loved the movie 💔

[@ZacPop11]

oh yeah, the one where he goes to school meets a girl that doesn't laugh at him, girl help him get better. boy is recovering, boy die, girl cry, the end.

[@nappeywappey]

Oh yeah I watched that short many years ago

[@eliseorossiproductions6348]

I also watched that short years ago, I remember being really emotional at the end when the boy died.

[@adro79]

I worked on the film as a 3D Environment Artist. It may seem simple at first, but the movie is full of references to "Cuerdas" short film (made by the same people as this film) and moments from the real life kid Nico itself. It's a beautiful tribute from a father who lost his kid 2 weeks after the greenlight of the film, and got the luck to keep it alive on the big screen. Our team put in a lot of efforts to replicate the movements of Nico and, for 10 times less budget than other international Disney/DreamWorks films, I'm sure we touched a lot of hearts out there. If you read this and didn't watch it yet, I hope you can give it a try on theaters or when it releases on digital, you can be sure that Buffalo Kids it's made with love. ❤

[@ranmedor]

Yeah!! Cuerdas, i remember that short film.

[@M0nst3r_Muncher]

i recognized the style, plus the kid in the wheelchair looks exactly like the kid in that short film.

[@kittyCakes161]

[@adro79]

@@M0nst3r_Muncher Well, both characters were modeled by Juan Solís, who was his uncle and he's also very well known in the industry for working on Disney and Pixar. He's one of the referents on the "Pixar Style", that's why we also use it for our films.

[@feederico1011]

Buffalo king. Crazy slot machine

[@ThatSodaDuckieTVinc]

I know why would you think it would be AI Because for some reason they have this wholesome , Pixar, generic, Disney, glossy style

[@artistanthony1007]

You know people do things like that right?

[@jaf5281]

@@artistanthony1007wow

[@klunk4683]

@@artistanthony1007yeah but it looks like sht so why would they

[@randomrants148]

@@klunk4683 Sometimes they have a small budget not every company is willing to throw into a movie for children.

[@ThatSodaDuckieTVinc]

@@artistanthony1007 yes But it’s still shit.

[@KH0LRA]

Its disgraceful that slop has overshadowed a genuine and sincere project like this.

[@Ssdgg8]

Yup😢

[@rainorld2493]

I hope I was not the only one who noticed, the non-verbal kid is the same non-verbal kid from the animated short "Cuerdas" that has also the director of the Buffalo Kids movie, pedro solis garcia

[@AndrewGoodguy]

Thank god I wasn't the only one noticing it

[@catflyxovo]

I was about to say that! Is it like a long film adaptation of the short i wonder?

[@rainorld2493]

@@catflyxovo maybe a tribute in a way to the original short? with a bigger budget, and more change of people around the world to watch it too

[@catflyxovo]

@@rainorld2493 I hope so, sad it was so badly marketed. This is the first time i'ver seen or heard about this movie. I hope they adapted it well, i may give it a watch aswell. The short is truly touching.

[@jvdos]

Yes! I hoped someone noticed

[@doodlestrudel1991]

We've come to a point where movies are so saturated and bright in lighting: It's easily mistaken for AI Not saying the lighting is a bad thing, But it's just that it's probably a bit sad this film didn't get that audience it needed for some people thinking it really was AI from the way it looks which is probably why it barely got recognized and maybe why some of us are just finding out about the film itself

[@Fatih_M177]

They're either really dark or really bright, no in-between, and they're just SOOOO generic looking.

[@ritpop]

saturated and bright ? its a kid film

[@jaredgreen2363]

Saturation and brightness is of course absolutely not a hallmark of ai imagery.

[@valhatan3907]

Sometimes artstyle like that makes me confused if i'm not looking really hard. AI really ruin artist with "this" style because they mistaken it on quick glance.

[@jonal5126]

Or maybe people just weren't interested in the movie? Idk the designs looks generic i think

[@FeelTheBlaziker]

The fact that some people still stigmatise family-friendly foreign CG animated movies like Buffalo Kids till this day even when the quality of such movies had improved is why I do not have much faith in the animation community. Seriously, stop hating such movies, they exist, they are made by actual people and actual animation studios, there are many such movies and they help to develop their countries' respective animation industry. There are many family-friendly foreign CG animated movies all around the world and labeling this as "A/I generated" is an insult to those that worked so hard on such movies on a regular basis.

[@apocalypse.is.near.]

THANK YOU FOR THIS I used to watch Dazz a whole lot but he seems to hate on movies like this a lot fsr and I'm starting to notice...

[@RedFoxSkull]

100%. If people wanna get mad at AI use in media, get mad at stuff that very obviously IS unabashedly AI

[@dollzo]

It's because ai often steals similar looking stuff so it copys what it steals

[@FeelTheBlaziker]

@@RedFoxSkull Such as Who Said Death is Beautiful. At least that thing was booed heavily during its Annecy premiere and got super negative reviews on Letterboxd.

[@pizzahutkidman8806]

@@apocalypse.is.near. Honestly it seems the titles (and thumbnails as well) are also just getting more and more negative. Like "Adraman's not TERRIBLE movie" like... why are you empthaising the TERRIBLE there if it's good. The word "Amazing" is in the thumbnail instead just use that.

[@adadomu]

It's a shame animation studios in Spain don't seem to try to push further than "generic 3D Disney artstyle" nowadays. It happened with Tadeo Jones (which was called "Tad the Explorer" overseas and personally I believe is a terrible translation XD), Capture the Flag, Mummies and now with Buffalo Kids. Don't get me wrong, the short film "Cuerdas" is amazing and a must-watch, but it feels as if in order to "fit" and resonate with american audiences they cut away every brisk of personality the artstyle could have had. In the other hand it's as if companies don't let people experiment with other animation styles or 2D animation, SPA Studios had a new movie in the making but Netflix cut the funds because it was a "lengthy production" :(

[@skootergirl22]

Even g5 of my little pony had the same style

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Tadeo Jones is unfortunately translated as Tad the Lost Explorer (for legal reasons, thank you Disney lawyers!) outside of Latin America and Spain because Indiana Jones is now owned by Disney.

[@Pacotinho-xx1zf]

I hate how you say "they have the same art style as IA" as if they copied the AI "art style" and not the other way around like you do know that all AI images are nothing but copys of real artworks from humans

[@darianstarfrog]

Exactly

[@dragoonphooenix]

So agree. I hate that. Like, I've seen artists put their own work into ai chackers, and getting 99 since the ai stole their art to train off. There's a few ai things that are somewhat good, but most ai in the art community should be limited

[@sophiadebar382]

Ya, if anything they’re being influenced by the “Pixar” style(which can be said for every animation studio honestly). The issue is, most AI art *heavily* references Pixar art so studios that try to mimic Pixar thus look like they’re trying to mimic AI

[@ChocoRinRin]

Yeah! Like it's obviously inspired by pixar, whose style is stolen by AI. Seeing something take inspo from an animation giant and just jumping to the conclusion that is AI is wild to me

[@projp9057]

0:44 The kid on a wheelchair reminds me a lot to the one from the Spanish CG animated short “Strings”… maybe it’s from the same creators!

[@mataengendroz1]

It is! They were both directed by Pedro Solas Garcia

[@grumpydragon8934]

It is! and the characters are both based on the creators son

[@justinferguson2058]

It is! I just wanted to join in on this chain

[@スキスキ]

I swear he looked familiar!

[@rikifukushima9855]

bro got reincarnated to the past

[@thinkandgame3627]

This movie would have probably been more popular if it was more like the Oregon Trail (dysentery and all) Though to be serious, this movie does sound very sweet, I'll have to watch it myself.

[@Bean_Lava]

nah the Teen Titans already did that.

[@MustyYew]

I watched the movie for myself and it was actually pretty good. Of course it's pretty flawed at points and falls into a lotta tropes being a kid's movie & all (including fart jokes, don't say I didn't warn ya), but its narrative was surprisingly heartfelt and really fun to watch overall.

[@DeletedDevilDeletedAngel]

@@MustyYew aw man I thought it was the type of movie to not rely on fart jokes...

[@missplayer30]

I think you mentioned something about this animation style dying due to AI. Well, considering that it was the reason why 2D is dead in the first place, and the Pixar CGI style is over saturated, I feel like it's a matter of time. We might see a boom of experimental indie animation while bigger studios stick to Pixar style made by AI. And Pixar either has to adapt or they'd be accused of making movies with AI.

[@Here_is_Waldo]

I'm pretty sure that Hollywood has been trying to get rid of 2D animation since the 90's. It had nothing to do with AI.

[@prismacod]

the video models are trained from pixar movies i think, idk fs tho. also 2d isnt dead neither is it unpopular cuz of ai. 3d is far easier and cheaper to use and ai only started getting good round a few years ago, when 2d started falling off round the 2010s iirc.

[@MtchndraLrd]

Tbh I think it’s a good shift that a lot of films, shows, and indie shorts/projects have noticeably changed to be more distinct and unconventional in their art styles. Like animation has the potential for all different types of art direction yet the most turned out stuff is this highly saturated smoothed out art style. Like those words just describe ai art in general lol. This movie’s story sounds so wholesome and cute but still doesn’t negate that the art direction is kind of lacking (like art and story are separate). I’m an animation student wanting to go to visdev and art and design is very intentional so might as well play around with cinematography, rendering, medium, etc. (and kids can handle and deserve that, just hope that animation doesn’t devolve into everything looking like a mobile game ad lol)

[@dasutobani]

They look more like stock Blender character models which mimics the generic soft Pixar/Disney look, because...well...every shortcut you can on a budget.

[@plaidhatter1674]

Hey, you can do the style well. It looks just fine. As a movie, it seems to be very sweet.

[@Kazoo336]

honestly I was thinking the same thing somewhat. it's making me wonder if ai "artist" scraped from blender

[@CloudyChair]

The film is based off a short film called "cuerdas" that had a very similar art style They're directed by the same person

[@dasutobani]

@CloudyChair That's good. I love when animation or story can stay as close as possible to an artist's original vision. Styles vary greatly, but i think the video was pointing out the sort of "generic" character look instead of say, something overly dynamic.

[@ftrgstudio2254]

i hate how half of the comments misunderstood the video title and are saying the movie was made by AI.

[@AGZhark]

Blame that on the video creator

[@ChristinaBaltou]

Unfortunatley, i think the kid that inspired the character of Nick passed away a while ago, judging that he is also the protagonist of the animated short made by the same director. Dazz you should definetley check out that short.

[@spaceboyctstudios2934]

I actually have 2 fun facts about “Buffalo Kids”: 1. It’s animated by 4 Cats Pictures in Spain, who also animated the 2023 film “Mummies”. 2. It’s funded by Cinema Management Group, who also funded all 3 of Triggerfish Animation Studios’ movies (Zambezia, Khumba, and Seal Team), as well as funding the 2016 “Ratchet & Clank” movie (and were also originally gonna fund the cancelled “Sly Cooper” movie). I honestly don’t know how to feel about this.😞

[@martinacatlover]

Don’t know about other movies you mentioned, but mummies is my least favourite movie, it was really bad. But I actually liked buffalo kids

[@spaceboyctstudios2934]

@@martinacatlover Wait, you’re not familiar with the 2016 “Ratchet & Clank” Movie?

[@martinacatlover]

@@spaceboyctstudios2934 just looked it up. No, I’ve never seen it before

[@spaceboyctstudios2934]

@@martinacatlover Wow. You really need to play the “Ratchet & Clank” games then.

[@martinacatlover]

@@spaceboyctstudios2934 thanks for the advice! I hope it’s available on nintendo switch

[@Scienceguy721]

This movie's animation reminds me of that animated Scrooge: A Christmas Carol from 2023-ish. There were times where scenes looked like they belonged in Mobile game ads but there was heart and effort put into that movie that did elevate it for me.

[@ZeroJump]

Poor artists on the film...you dont have to insult their work in this way

[@candydream16]

as an artist, telling an artist their art looks ai generated is probably the worst possible insult you can give to an artist. same with telling writers their writing feels ai generated, or musicians their music sounds ai generated

[@honeybelle2850]

@@candydream16fr like how can AI generated images don't look like art, it's literally feed on actual real art made by real people. It's just sad that bc someone sees bright lighting and a overall clean cartoony style they credit AI like it was the one who made it 💀

[@JustOnePaper]

yeah it is not they’re fault. they have like a week to make a month of effects

[@WARTERRORGAMER]

A curious fact. That movie is Spanish, and my father knows the director of the movie. And if anyone asks, I'm not kidding.

[@Minecraftgaming2632]

Are you kidding?

[@Mononisany]

Wow

[@thebrightdiamondtp7871]

Are you kiddin’ me??

[@rockinggamerdude]

Wait a minute this reminds me of a short film that I saw, and the disabled kid became friends with a little girl because she was being nice and in one day the little boy didn’t show up and you presume he was dead. It’s pretty dark.

[@CejaStudios]

I saw the short years ago too, I wonder if there's any overlap?

[@alvaroperez1020]

​@@CejaStudios The director is the same and both disabled kids are based on his son.

[@WhoAmIHmmm]

the film is named "cuerdas"

[@PestilentAllosaurus]

The wheelchair that kid is in is a old wheelchair I've actually was in quite a few times. Maybe it was because it was a antique but it gave me back problems. You could hear ut creek! Lol I am thankful for it as I seriously needed it in my preteen age when fighting a chronic illness endangering my life but seeing the time period this movie is focused on- i had no ideal it was THAT OLD of a wheelchair. It's the exactly same type- they dud amazing on the detail of it. I personally don't know what to think with wild animals like.... buffalo being protrayed as a friendly safe animal for a disabled to just... pat instead of being yeeted across the sky. Really takes me out of the moment but otherwise looks like a cute movie.

[@olleselin]

DOWN WITH AI

[@GamingWithNikolas]

You would be a fool to say that

[@GamingWithNikolas]

And the 50 people that liked this post are fools.

[@potato-kw1er]

GRAB YOUR TORCH MOUNT YOUR HORSE 🔥🪓⚒️

[@Godzillahistoryfan34]

Well thanks for giving me someone to blame when AI turns on us

[@you-are-the-tharpsters]

@@Godzillahistoryfan34M1 ABRAMS!! WHY ARE YOU HERE YOUR IN TROUBLE

[@SaladTheAnnie-mz3lw]

I remember seeing this when I took a vacation to spain and I couldnt find it anywhere else, I tried looking through youtube, twitter, etc but just didn't find it

[@hamsterguysoldierlol193]

The designs are like that one sad short of the girl and the paralyzed guy and the guy dies and she grows up 😭💀

[@alvaroperez1020]

Same director.

[@pegasusbs6237]

Honestly thats marketing genius, basically forcing people to google to see if it's real

[@kreiyu]

when i saw the poster, my first thought was "an animated Secret Garden?" lol

[@tomasmisek5598]

This thing is going to one day be remembered as a notable footnote in filmmaking history

[@htfs493]

Literally came out of the cinema an hour ago and saw a poster for this film on the wall. I immediately thought “that looks like ai.”

[@simondurso6743]

It sounds like a pretty wholesome kids movie.

[@yeoldeseawitch]

Until you realize that in reality, white settlers genocided the buffalo population using trains as mobile gun platforms

[@BooperDooper-u8p]

It may be a forgettable looking movie but it looks like it had allot of heart in it. The thing that sucks is that I can picture people saying that this movie is woke because theres a disabled person in jt.

[@Fewji_0]

The problem is it looks like a cheap mobile game ad

[@Pokewho-6475]

Yeah you’re right

[@Moonstalker46]

ikr

[@haterofmyself_numberone]

Oh god it does

[@mydogghost]

That’s just an insult to how hard the animators worked on this

[@thebrightdiamondtp7871]

This is what cheap mobile game ads wish to be

[@titisfloal8004]

Hi! Some aspects of this movie, were already represented in a short film, from the same creators called “CUERDAS”, I think you could like it

[@AtelierOfWeebs]

Wait holy shit they made a movie about it? That's the kid from the short Cuerdas Shame they didn't include Maria as well They even used the bloody rope, the soccer ball, and even the dancing scene, I'll be damned it is the same kid!

[@Luney2Mooney]

Ai, ai, ai. It does not have a style. It imitates styles based on stolen artwork. Aaaaaaand it's just really good at replicating that particular style.

[@PainoMailo]

Maybe this will manifest the Steel Ball Run anime...

[@TheSoviet_Onion]

Idk why, but when I saw the thumbnail, I was thinking "why tf is he making a video on Cuerdas?" Cuerdas is an animated short that has a pretty sweet and sad story, really recommended. If you know it, you may see why I was so confused.

[@Strontium-89]

Unlike white settlers in the early 1800's, I am first.

[@benjamingaster]

The movie takes place in the early 20th century, not the 19th.

[@Elliottblancher]

And Grand Central Terminal didn't exist in 1886

[@GrowlitheGaming]

*Late 19th century, around 1890*

[@Dakrep]

I think it is based on a animated short film called “cuerdas” (ropes) And is of a little girl that lives on an orphanage, one day a sick/paralized (I don’t remember very good what his sickness was) arrives and Maria (the girl) becomes friends with him and to help him move she uses ropes I really recommend you trying to search a dub for the short film because is a very cute and sad story, in any case if you want I can give you the ending: SPOILER ALERT eventually the boy dies because of his sickness, and Maria when she finds out About that ties the rope around her arm. Eventually she grows up, it is never said if she was or wasn’t adopted, but when she is an adult she becomes a teacher of that orphanage and still has the rope on her arm. *IM NOT CRYING YOU ARE :(*

[@pittiebaby]

It was the same director yes

[@sirbachelorboredmen1314]

Worst insult to an artist, "dude, is it ai?" I would apologise, I know it hits them like a train

[@pinkdiamond1847]

It has the same animation style as Ballerina which is a movie that was made years ago before This level of AI became available to the public to use and it follows a similar story style which is a fictional tale that uses real historical events in its storytelling if you know what I mean (I don't think my explanation made any sense) I think they're made by the same studio but I'm not sure they look very similar and are both aimed at kids.

[@Amanda-zn7ox]

(Did they mention at all that those are bison and not buffalo? Very common misconception. It's ok if they didn't, but it's just me being nitpicky.)

[@Disconly]

I don't know how they marketed this in Spain but I had never heard of this film until now.

[@leruetheday377]

THE FRONTWARD FACING EYES ON THE BUFFALO, HOLY FUCK!!! Who greenlit that?! Put them in jail!!!

[@BloodMarket]

It kinda sucks that people see this style as "AI" cause it looks so cute and seems like a pleasant movie to watch.

[@pittiebaby]

Yeah same

[@Quatrocincoiv]

All those “buffalo” are actually bison.

[@andykite1]

I have no idea how you would assume it's AI in the first place. What makes AI art recognizable when looking at any 3D Disney-like poster is that it's overly vibrant and significantly distinguishes foreground (characters) and background, the color palette is quite limited, has characters with not many emotions, and everything must look consistent, and Buffalo Kids' movie poster does almost the opposite.

[@adelcipher5617]

Surprised I haven't heard of this.....if this was done in Spain I'd expect Europe to be all over this, but nothing. It looks charming enough tho and I don't think I've seen a paraplegic main character in an animated movie like ever...also really love that natives are portrayed as the good guys since this is a wild west movie.

[@Erased_UnityXDX]

Ok i read the comments and i didn't expect this movie being directed by the same person that directed "cuerdas" (and also worked on Tadeo Jones) If i didn't want to watch the movie before, i now really want to

[@1Kekz]

"early 19th century" It's actually 1886, so rather late 19th century

[@Efegaming1]

Disabled individual myself I like the concept that there's a disabled individual in this movie we should normalize this

[@moonyboye5194]

The film was done to honour the creator's disabled son, so it is quite real bc it portrays a real person :)

[@MakoTaco]

It's unfortunate that the lighting and style has been a target for AI generation, but if you observe the animation more carefully you can tell there's heart and soul in this film-- Clearly not AI generated

[@HydraSpectre1138]

Warner Bros.' China division also helped with distributing anime in Southeast Asia. They released the likes of: - Suzume - The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes - City Hunter: The Movie: Angel Dust - The Boy and the Heron - SPY x FAMILY Code: White - Look Back - The Colors Within

[@artsiesteph]

Only only thing is that buffaloes are actually super dangerous to be around 🤣🤣🤣 But it looks very cute and I like the inclusivity there

[@Starsuki7090]

If you know who's the kid in the wheel chair, you are a real one for that

[@arturoplaying7445]

this fucking movie was in every single ad break on TV (in spain), everywhere it was buffalo kids this, buffalo kids that, like... nobody fucking saw the movie

[@thundercat9427]

to be honest, this movie looks kinda cute and wholesome. It really does.

[@monkeypec9041]

tbh this doesn’t even look bad

[@LeBongFairy]

So sad that people call bison " buffalo." To the point where a whole city is incorrectly named after the wrong animal. 😂

[@Irobert1115HD]

buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo. dont know why but htis is a fully legit english sentence.

[@Zach476]

Most dictionaries I can find list bison as one of the definitions of buffalo, at least for American English.

[@PrestonTheSooza]

I looked at the thumbnail and the first I thought was "When did they animated Chucky?"

[@MintChoco-g4f]

This does kind of sound interesting because of its time period and disabled representation. I was worried about the portrayal on Native Americans though at least they’re involved in a sweet scene (even if their involvement isn’t direct) I might give it a watch.

[@ChristinaBaltou]

awww the kid in the wheelchair is the same one from the same short the same team did, i think. Such a sad short.

[@Blablabla20093]

I remember how it was advertised for a couple of months with the voice of the actor who played Marat in "The Boy's word", which became very popular at the end of 2023 among young people, although the series itself is designed for adults, especially because of the bloody violence and vocabulary.

[@carafurry7862]

I think the most AI looking scene is when they are walking towards the buffalo. AI has this weird slow style, where nothing moves to fast. It looks like this movie is relatively action packed, so hopefully more emotion and speed will come to the actual movie.

[@schniekeschnalle]

I have not heard about this at all. Whatever you think of this movie, I really love the disability representation I can glimpse from it. I feel like they actually made the animation for the character and his facial expressions feel real. I've met a lot of nonverbal folk in my life and I really love how accurate it feels. Lovely job by the animators. ❤

[@AngryCyn2008]

What the... I remember that boy! Isn't him from that sad animation??

[@schizophreniagaming1187]

it's the ole switcheroo.. you thought it was slop. but it's actually gold

[@vinnyvbg]

I’ve seen people use AI to redesign a picture of a house to give themselves an idea of what they could do to remodel and I think that is what people should be doing with AI

[@PixelaGames2000]

Honestly, this sounds like a fun movie. I might give it a watch sometime

[@sydneyb2378]

Damn, I was really liking this movie (I'm autistic and disability rep means so much to me!) until it got to the "disabled character dreams he can dance" bit. "Glee" did that, and spoiler alert, it aged poorly. Oh well... one step forward, two steps back, as always....

[@redi.c.e.6046]

Hey, I’m also autistic m, so could you please explain to me what makes this scene problematic? Srsly, if there is something I wanna understand it. /gen

[@destroyerofyorks]

Yeah, can you explain what was so wrong with it? Just curious since you don't really specify what exactly the film did wrong, you just point out another movie's flaws to compare.

[@V6HAVOC]

If you were bound to a chair would not atleast once in your life dream to dance? Cmon man, be more understanding.

[@techeyer6616]

@@destroyerofyorksIt’s an annoying and overused trope for disabled characters to be depicted as incapable or hopeless

[@megalopath]

When it finally does come to pass that a film is made entirely with AI, then there will be no more reason to go see films. The snake will have eaten its own tail and completely consumed itself, leaving us with nothing left. :(

[@pipopawebghost8095]

Ah yes the swansong of this artstyle being made with heart

[@piperb1384]

The concept vaguely reminds me of the wingfeather saga. One of the siblings in the story can’t walk very well, and through the first book she rides a giant dog to help her get around

[@penginlord9396]

Personally, I would actually say that this movie has broken boundaries: by being a fairly accurate period piece as an animated film set in the turn of the century. I am very fascinated with that era in general, and seeing an animated film actually pay a lot of attention in getting details right (or close to right) to make something wholesome makes me actually want to watch the movie. And in a way the animation reminds me of The Sea Beast, another kids animated film that I found and enjoyed on netflix.

[@santos8468]

The style looks similar to Leap aka Ballerina.

[@t3chon]

I am not excited for A.I generated movies, since more adults will more likely to buy these movies thinking that it's fine for kids. Even though it's soulless, as my mom thought she putted a real "animated movie." But, yet me and my sister quickly noticed that it was A.I.

[@alternativewalls4988]

Actually positively surprised about a movie, for the first time this year

[@HermitKing731]

Its also just this specific type of animation that looks AI.

[@juansiino2982]

Is not an AI movie, is a 3D Animated Spanish Movie, see Mort & Phil: Mission Implausible, Tad: The Explorer or Planet 51.

[@TribicalFonzo]

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thought of this - the animation of the trailer just looked like ai and I was confused whether it was helped by ai or not

[@jowelltrejo8430]

If 2D animation still existed I bet this is going to be directed by don bluth

[@SolaireHighwind]

This would have slapped so hard in Don Bluth animation style.

[@alinashard8967]

everything you see in the movie is not ai, but its not unlikely that the concepts and design didnt use ai in the process, a lot of companies are doing that at the moment and not publically

[@ianmoises]

NO WAY THATS THE GUY FROM CUERDAS HAHAHAH

[@luxgh]

I only saw I think three clips of them putting the wheelchair in front of the cart and that kid would have died in all of those

[@Yassoune]

Finally people realizes that ai are getting more human and humans are getting more ai

[@Shirou_Ogami21]

I actually thought it was a CGI Secret Garden Ai slop adaptation lol

[@pandoraarts7748]

Just watched the short "cuerdas" and i am in tears. Its such a beautiful and heartfelt short, and i am absolutely buying this movie to share with my family. As soo as i fine a officially place to buy and watch it from.

[@levievil9220]

Is it me or does that kid in the wheelchair have the same shirt as woody

[@AlexsAdventures-j4s]

My grandma says never give up - the nerd 🤓

[@Probox-hn9yf]

You really hate Warner Bros don't you? I mean, Im more against the ceo than the actual studio.

[@Here_is_Waldo]

What about the Warner Sister Dot?

[@Mr.Tw1sty]

​@@Here_is_Waldoshe passes the vibe check

[@Misscouchpotato-]

​@@Here_is_Waldo lol

[@just_a_hampa]

The movie is playing during the 1850s-1870s, I think.

[@ivanpellegrini5974]

In Italy, it is promoted so much.. that everyone- not only thinks that it is made maybe with AI, but even for the graphic style that this film has, apart the story of the film and of the possible overused and now useless "good example" that they make with the protagonist on a wheelchair..

[@JVSTG4L4XY]

The character design looks like the character design from Leo on Netflix

[@Sparkleortizjohnsom]

I thought it was AI too you're not the only one

[@theworkshopwhisperer.5902]

It's strange isn't it, a sign of the times maybe? When I first saw the poster and small snippets being passed around it didn't quite look right. All computer animation doesn't quite look right but that was part for it until AI started saturating everything. It's a pity how we are all so suspicious these days I guess we have to be though. I hope the smaller firm does find some attention.

[@Misamisakira]

they have a movie? omg i used to cry watching cuerdas

[@brianmcguire5175]

I live in Spain and it was heavily advertised in Spain the time of it's cinematic release

[@mirrikybird]

The style (coincidentally) has a hint of AI haze, but nothing else in this movie looks to have any AI in it. It genuinely looks like a beautiful movie visually and narratively

[@ThePlut00galaxy]

Just seeing the characters in the thumbnail made me think it was gonna be a secret garden adaptatiln