Why is Turning Red’s animation style so divided among fans

The kind of digital wizardry that Pixar introduced to the world with 1995’s “Toy Story” has come a long way and has at times provided an opportunity for animators to experiment more with style. “Turning Red” offers plenty of room for success with its anime-influenced flavor of animation, thanks in part to the film’s much-hyped giant red panda and family curses. families and teenagers, etc. However, not everyone is on board with looks.

Redditor u/peb-is-takes wrote that the background color is “flat” and everything on the screen “looks like plastic”. Others expressed dissatisfaction with the cartoonish appearance of the characters, especially the “bean mouth”, a reference to the cartoon mouth being rounded like a pea. “Some of us don’t really like the bean mouth art style”, u/cinnabun6 commented on “Turning Red”.

There’s a clear love-hate divide in cartoons, as others push back at people who are nostalgic for the Pixar movies they grew up in. “I don’t think the Pixar movies are becoming less appealing, I think they’re just changing the style,” u/ficcvre offered an explanation of Pixar’s change in looks. Others said people who weren’t satisfied with the “Turning Red” look were looking for too much reality in their animations. “At this point, people just seem to like animation when it’s surreal and hate it when it’s stylized,” u/Aleppo_the_Mushroom wrote.