Netflix's Orion and the Dark brought back outdated animation techniques | Polygon

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"When you ask someone to do 2D, it almost feels like, what?"

Behind the animation of Orion and the Darkness | Netflix

by Petrana Radulovic

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Like many animated films in recent years, Netflix and DreamWorks' Orion and the Dark stepped outside the design conventions that had come to define American CG films. The stylistic revolution has really taken off as animators struggle against the clever perfection built into earlier computer animation algorithms. And their desire for more creatively stylized animation has been fueled by the massive success of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

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Netflix's Orion and the Dark brought back outdated animation techniques | Polygon.
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