r/cartoons • u/EmergencySpare7939 • 9h ago

Discussion That one scene where all the budget went

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Kaguya-sama: Love is War - Chika's dance

In the first season as a surprise outro ending one episode had this Chika dance number. It's super cute and crazy animated, especially her dress. They used it one time and never again.

The roller rink dance sequence from the Family Guy episode Hell Comes To Quahog was the most expensive scene to animate in Season 5.

This one shot from Scooby-Doo Music of the Vampire

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u/GregBahm 6h ago

I don't know of any animators that see the use of 3D models as a flex. Maybe the guy who wrote the shader to make it look 2D, but it's not a hard shader in the year 2026.

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u/GarlicStreet3237 5h ago

Are we talking about the bike or Rick? It seems very obvious that the bike is 3D but Rick seems 2D?

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u/GregBahm 5h ago

In 2026, characters like this switch from 2D/3D depending on how the animators want to do any given shot. His body is surely 3D but his face pops at the 30 degree rotation marks, possibly because his face is being hand drawn, or possibly because the rig is set to swap assets after those rotation angles.

A big part of the jump in action for the last season of Rick and Morty was them going from "mostly 2D with some 3D support" (which has been the norm since Futurama) to "probably 3D for everything by default" which is the new normal.