What is the prettiest animated film of all time?

is that really a theory?
i mean it can be an opinion

Redline for me. Disney-wise, probably Fantasia 2000. Those unfunny celebrity cameos were annoying though.

Iron Giant? Titan AE is also quite pretty.

Lilo & Stitch. It manages to look unique, have fantastic animation, a great art style, and a wonderful story to boot. Sleeping Beauty is visually beautiful, but I feel that beauty is wasted when the story is so dull. Story can add to the beauty of the visuals, otherwise it's just kind of good illustrations. And I think when you're referring to a product as a whole like an animated film, it should hit every mark, not just one.

I'm sure many disagree with me, but I just think a pretty visual is meaningless without a story.

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Spiderverse

The Thief and the Cobbler.

i didnt know it was 1959

that shit was 30years old already when i first watched it

youtube.com/watch?v=Qrb6qEvjNS4

This

If this dipshit thinks that is impressive his head would explode if he watched Feherlofia.

Cinderella

Is that a HALO ring? Or just a space station?

They used water color in that movie. It was beautiful.

youtu.be/tasyYI6mOms?list=PLr1x47twD6-2fN_OrctW6kssE0SXJMzJ6

The Recobbled Cut, Mk. IV
Literally

A Halo ring is a space station you goon.

The LEGO Movie

I laugh at this joke

Fantasia, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Fantasia 2000, and Lilo and Stitch.
For Disney stuff, anyways.

It's technically amazing and all the mechanical and alien elements of it are god-tier, but I find the character designs to be really ugly. Their faces are so weirdly drawn.

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I will also say this one

you want me to be unironic, okay Treasure Planet

Here’s a list:
indiewire.com/2019/04/most-beautiful-animated-movies-1202059068/

Fuck off weeb

You forgot about this, didn't you?

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Came here to post this, but a few of the other ones mentioned aren't bad either.

It's a boring movie without a story, I don't care how detailed or smooth it is.

>the black and white staircase scene
I lose it every time

HAVE

Redline is better

My vote goes to the chinese fucking shit that nobody ever freaking saw.

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I always assumed Disney would be the first to adapt Princess Kaguya. Thank god I was wrong.

If we're talking visual animation alone then fucking Fehérlófia (Son of White Mare) needs to be mentioned. Nothing can top this in my eyes.
youtube.com/watch?v=enGsRA0Cjck
It use to be on youtube but copyright shit got to it. And its impossible to find online, which pisses me off to no fucking end

Crescent-moon-shaped space station. It doesn't spin.

It's a specific kind of space station that spins to simulate gravity on its inner surface, and is intermediate in size between a Bishop ring and a Banks orbital, and much smaller than a Niven ring. That user's question was analogous to asking if a car in an image is a hybrid or "just a" car.

They'll get to it someday. If they ever decided that a Japanese audience is a priority.

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Prince of Epypt

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youtu.be/b9ZGscuVC8I
>every frame is a wallpaper

They'd probably like it, if done right.
My only hope would be for it to be 2D.

Alice in Wonderland

Fleischer Superman

>it's very flat
that's the point user
it's supposed to look like a tapestry

100% this one

My family owns it on Blu-Ray.

animation vs art style
do you mean beautifully animated or beautifully drawn?

Shit taste, Akira's character designs are amazing

nah

In a technical sense, perhaps, but OP is asking about prettiness. And I wouldn't call the characters in Akira "pretty".

Probably a combination. The images have to look good whether they're moving or not.

Sword in the Stone

theory means that if he gets 3 likes, it becomes the official law.

pretty ballsy argument in a fucking sleeping beauty thread

Fuck Sleeping Beauty.

>The images have to look good whether they're moving or not.
That would be more art style than it would animation
but yeah, it's most likely an animation
nobody would like sleeping beauty if it was animated in goanimate

My nigga. Richard Williams is too good for the industry.

this had some of the most iconic scenes people use today.

This.

>Crescent-moon-shaped space station.
now thats pretty fucking cool kinda half built death star

its because they actually look japanese.

this too.

I'll just say it definitely isn't the prettiest movie, it has really good parts and good animation. There are some clips on Youtube. It's way more than you expect from a damn Curious George movie.

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Thief & the Cobbler

>Beautifully animated
>still images
I mean, YES, Sleeping Beauty is lovely, but come on Literally Who, words mean things!

Paprika?

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i love chris sanders i wish he'd get a show or another film. he loves to draw titties

Titan AE has not aged well. A lot of awful CG

Not that user, but I can tolerate early CGI as long as it is not truly terrible. TItan AE is far from Top 10 Beautiful Anything though.

The post says it’s a beautiful animated movie. Stop being autistic.

Akira

lol fucking laughable Amerimutts are always masturbating like this
i mean..

SO WHAT? YOU CANT MAKE/ANIMATE ANY 2D CARTOON YOURSELVES ANYMORE LMAO ENJOY YOUR HOLLOW NOSTALGIA AND NATIONALISM

Hi South Korea.

Anyone else felt like they re-discovered certain cartoons as they grew up? As I grew, I was used to the quality of the Looney Toons and 2D Disney animation, but I did not quite appreciate the effort put into it.

The Prince of Egypt for traditional animation, Robots for CG, Coraline for stopmotion

Yes, but in a somewhat different way.
I grew up during the Disney Renaissance and later became a fan of Broadway/musical theater. While rewatching Beauty and the Beast, I remember thinking, "Holy shit, Mrs. Potts is Angela fucking Lansbury."

According to John K, The Jungle Book

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I'm sorry

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>le 2d is better than 3d epic maymay
This is the real greatest animated film of all time. Industrial Light & Magic at some of their peak performance.

youtube.com/watch?v=s-UFrmrwiso

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This is where my Thalassophobia started. Prince of Egypt is a stunning film.

Used to talk to Chris back in my deviantart thread, his robot designs and theories were matched only by his wonderful sense of movement in his drawings

nobody here said that 2D is better than 3D

for me it´s the little mermaid which makes me especially sad that modern disney is going to fuck up it´s legacy

I havent seen that movie in, maybe 15 years or so, an announcement I read had some of the comments talking about probably changing some things that are considered problematic today. Kinda tempted to rewatch it and see if is just a lot of fuss about nothing.

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Well look at the bright side. A new company has picked up the rights and the recently completed HD remaster is gonna be shown at a Canadian animation festival in the upcoming weeks. Maybe a Blu-ray release is also in development?

You couldn't be more correct user

The book part of Kells

This

Why is someone a weeb when they nominate a Japanese movie, but someone who nominates an American movie is just a normal person making a reasonable suggestion?

Tarzan has wonderful character animation but otherwise it's tacky and boring.

Sleeping Beauty has good animation. Watch any scene where the fairies argue, or the drunken slapfight between the kings.

Almost all American animation looks flat, it's not some special aesthetic choice.

Does japanese animated movies count?
If it does i nominate koe no katachi

In that movie's case it obviously was. Are you the one autist who always comes to threads about old Disney animation to talk about how the backgrounds don't have the same amount of perspective and detail as Makoto Shinkai's photobashing?

They don't have the same amount of detail or as many different perspectives as anime. Anyone can plainly see that.

Ah so it is you.

I don't have autism and I don't remember "always" bringing up Shinkai's backgrounds in threads about old Disney animation. You need to go back.

Underrated post

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Why did you even open this with a Twitter screencap if it's not intentionally inflammatory or meant to cause drama?

people respond to dramu threads

I remember the soundtrack was a big hit

This!
They sure put a lot work in the backgrounds.

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Redline is overanimated, there are point where the actions moves faster that what your brain can actually process, so all that animation goes unseen for the people that only watched once.

>Disney's Kaguya
What one word name would the movie get? Bamboo, Mooned?
Also how would the butcher the story to make it more American?
>Her origins are made to parallel superman with the old couple raising the space child.
>Her whole character arc is her making sure nobody dictates who she is.
>Instead of going to the moon, she stays on earth thanks to the powers of feelings.

don't want to sound like a dick, but for the sake of simplicity shouldnt we keep it to western animation, lest we incur in a west versus east fight?

This

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A NICE DAY

Correct

nah mate
even with the beautiful 2d, the early 3d bring the whole movie

Prince of Egypt

The Secret of Kells

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I remember catching a bit on tv and leaving it on while doing something else, just so I could look up occasionally and admire the animation.
No idea what the story was.

Rango is gorgeous but it's almost the opposite of pretty.
It's beautifully ugly.

Unironically "Garden of Words"

Waiting for someone to post this.
Animation was still not top tier but if we're just talking style it's got to be in the top 10.

I've never heard of anyone else who's seen it, but "The mysterious voyage of Jasper Morello" is stunning

Your Name has more variety in terms of scenery.

youtube.com/watch?v=dIC4VSUE7q4

Old Man And The Sea has got to be up there right?
Heck, oil on glass has got to be the prettiest animation medium in terms of style.

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The Thief and the Cobbler

It's such a subjective topic I don't even.

Probably one of these

Go back to Yea Forums

Fun movie. WHY THE FUCK DID HE BREAK THE EGG!?

>takes decades to be made
>gets ripped off by Disney
>gets taken away from original director and mutilated
>is released shortly after the Disney movie
>is dismissed as a Disney ripoff and flops

This isn't exactly a hot take but definitely something from Japan like Garden of Words, Princess Kaguya, Redline, Paprika, Princess Mononoke, etc. but I think it's because until very recently Western animation wasn't concerned as much with the animation as delivering a moral story. All the old Disney movies were morality tales or adaptations of famous books whereas Japanese animation was often original stories delivered through the medium of animation. In fact the most expensive Western animated movie up until 2001 was Prince of Egypt and it was highly regarded as the most visually stunning Western animated movie up to that time and it wasn't until the developments at Pixar that we saw how great animation could be with movies like Wall-E, Ratatouille, Toy Story 2/3/4, because those animations were the vehicle to deliver the story not the other way around.

Spiderverse

...

>So triggered by anime he can't even admit when a Japanese film is pretty

Must be 12.

You could always just ignore him like the rest of us did and not give him the attention he is craving you boner

>Ignore him like everyone else did

It's been 30 minutes since he posted.

How new are you, be honest. Do you know how the auto function works?

>Getting this triggered because I responded to someone else that you don't even like

Your autism is just getting confusing at this point.

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I can admit they're pretty and I do, but this still Yea Forums, you dingus.

Alright then I'll spell it out for you since I can't draw you a picture. If you reply to a spammer/shitposter who has notifications on they will come back to the thread and shit it up, which is ironic considering that's what we're doing.

But OP's question was "of all time", and everyone was perfectly willing to throw in a couple of Yea Forums examples for the sake of the question.

He came back with a good answer. You're the one shitting up the thread, you fucking retard.

Not the best animated but I feel this deserves special mention

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Toy story 4

Bs. Sleeping beauty has the best princess, prince and main villain of all the classic Princess by a mile.

This. The finest animated film of all time.

Ghibli is Disney, user.

Disney does not and did not own Ghibli, they only had the rights to distribute some of their films for a while.

The Illusionist is probably the prettiest piece of Western animation I've watched.

Garden of Words is an unremarkable story but holy fucking shit does it look good.

Prince of Egypt and Thief and the Cobbler are both great too.

The Adolescence of Utena

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Is that Akira?

youtube.com/watch?v=wuN8QJDJoz8

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Wrong! Ghibli is deceased

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They're making another movie because Miyazaki pulled himself back in for one last job.

My Little Pony 2017

>Tarzan
Ew, Jesus Christ.

No, way too visually uncreative. It looks like live action except for the characters, which instantly disqualifies it.

Can't find a source for this

It isn’t the best movie out there, but some 3D films like The Good Dinosaur have nice scenery.

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>i dont even
go back to tumblr

95' Ghost in The Shell & it's sequel.
Innocence.

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>it's
inb4 reddit grammar bot
>sequel
Very pretty. And extremely pretentious. Though I’d say neither compare to some of the best western examples mentioned earlier.

>STITCH SER ESPONJOSO

>Most beautiful animated film
>Animated
>Post 4 stagnant shots.
I don't think 4 pics Is enough to make such claim, especially when talking about animation.

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Tell that to Yea Forums and their cinematography charts.

>The Lion King/Hunchback/Mulan/Tarzan/Stitch/all 90's through early 00's 2-D Disney
>The Good Dinosaur and Toy Story 4 (great realistic CGI, Dinosaur shit movie but best CG graphics to date)
>Any Don Bluth film (great animation and sense of style in each film)
>The SpongeBob movies (backgrounds and shading + Spongebob and Patrick really are fun to look at on a theatrical budget)
>That Teen Titans Go movie (had really nice color palette and backgrounds and the flash animation had a nice moving style to it, wish more where like it)
>Madagascar 3 (those colors)
>Ice Age movies look amazing despite shite script
Also these were unique looking and pleasing.

Never heard of Feherlofia until now, but looking it up, I really want to watch this

Is there a version online?

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Belladonna of Sadness

Also patrician-tier picks.

There's a version on Youtube if you know where to look.

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>Barney's Great Adventure
>good
>at all
Words cannot describe how much you need to have your head chopped off your neck

I still remember seeing this in theaters
Good mention, user

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This reminds me, I gotta watch Loving Vincent already

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she goes to the moon but it's hinted she will return and she becomes the face in the moon

Op said prettiest animated film which I took to be about style.

I don't think Animation itself can be pretty. Beautiful yes, but not pretty.
It'd be like calling a dance pretty.

Came here to post this.

I have his other work, the Tradgey of Man on DVD, is there a way I can upload it

i know it's illegal to mention nice things about gigi dg on this board, but this use of bold colours and cloud shapes really reminds me of cucumber quest. i wonder if she watched that film. any other artists similar to this?

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Personally, when I look at the geometric shapes and sparse sound effects in Feherlofia, I immediately think of Samurai Jack.
youtu.be/Rtzy_RJQ7G0
I wonder if Tartarovsky has ever seen it.

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Book of Kells was beautifully done, I agree. Too bad the ending felt so rushed.

I still haven't gotten around to watching Song of the Sea, yet. I should do that this weekend.

I loved this so much I got the dvd. Aleksandr Petrov is an absolute madlad.

The Lego Batman Movie

HOLY SHIT WHAT
Thank you for this news user this is fucking wonderful

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>Tarzan
>Yea Forums

World of Tomorrow 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts

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Make a Mega of it maybe?

Unironically the kung fu panda movies.

i'd bet rebecca sugar and her crew would have seen it, she loves obscure animation

if we're posting obscure russian shit, here's the little mermaid:
youtube.com/watch?v=Zvyt2fdWJAQ
and tin soldier:
youtube.com/watch?v=EA6L_t-a66I

Russian animation is really underrated.

I just hope they'll actually go through with a legit release and that this won't be some festival exclusive thing that only attendees can watch. I keep checking the company's official Blu-ray thread but they're awfully secretive.
We know they have the rights, we know they did a restoration and we know they're planning an announcement for an animated work. If it ain't Feherlofia, I'll be miffed.

Ghost in the Shell 2. The story was so pretentious that sniffing its own farts wouldn't be enough to describe, but it is GORGEOUS.
American animation has stalled, but thankfully other countries haven't given up

Persepolis and Millennium actress aren't the prettiest of all time, but I always thought they looked fantastic.

Absolutely based and nitropilled

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The End of Evangelion.

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Metropolis (2001) is a movie I could watch on mute and still have a good time. I LOVE the setting and backgrounds in this movie, I don't even care if the story makes sense or not

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Am i only one who thinks its bambi

At least you have good taste in Disney movies, user.

Come to think of it, it's definitely one of the prettiest ones.

You're parsing it as [beautiful animated] [film] when the context makes it clear it should be read as [beautiful] [animated film].

Fucking beautiful.

Song of the Sea really shines in the soundtrack.

Not that guy, but I also came to put forth Garden of Words.

I do understand the appeal of variety, and usually agree, but It's not everything. Your Name almost has too much for it to stand out in my mind, in part due to the runtime, and the characters don't have much to do with the art aside from the impact craters. Garden of Words is much more concentrated and focused, with a strong contrast between the three main spaces, the garden, the urban, and the home, all with strong ties to the characters (it says something that the school does not especially stand out - it's already an afterthought to the main characters).

youtube.com/watch?v=wJjL_YUTcMw

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>Only watching Redline once
I don't understand.

snow queen

youtube.com/watch?v=cV1M1y595_U&t=8m54s

nice pick. one of my favorite films. Also one of the few films where the dub is imo much better than the sub. american voice actress nailed the shit out a part that was basically one or two words.

This thread is literally about aesthetic quality.

Tarzan? Can you explain why? It's animation is fluid but it's not what you'd call pretty. The actual film itself is not really great either.

*Writing on notebook*
I'll add that to my watch list.

really, nigga?
You seen it on blu-ray?

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I haven't, actually. That's pretty purdy.

watch stuff in HD, moron.

more

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This wins it all and was a man's magnum opus.

Yeah but it’s still not the best, idiot. Go beyond Disney if you ever want to see something truly well animated.

wew, lad

Yes, look above in the thread.

Is it really a film if it wasn't actually finished? No thank you.

what, thief and the cobbler?

>You seen it on blu-ray?
I saw it in theaters. Not the best by any means.

this, unironically

they don't look like actual people, obviously, but their heads are broadly round, save for the cheekbones and/or jaws, depending on the individual; becoming more prominent in the older ones, with no one character having both a pointy jaw, and pointy cheeks, while also understating things like eyelids and nose bridges, which are much less prominent on many mongoloid genomes than caucasoid; to say nothing of their complexions or hair coloration.

I'd more say the proportions of things like shoulders-to-hips or leg length are more tilting than the faces; those are just abstracted Asian faces.

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DreamWorks made some of my favourite animated films growing up
>Prince of Egypt
>El Dorado
>Sinbad
What the fuck happened?

Sinbad was a bomb because they spent a lot on advertisment, and Shrek was a huge hit, so they decided to stop making 2D features.

Miyazaki has "retired" like 5 times. He won't stop making movies until he drops dead.

Kubo one had great stop-motion animation. I’m not a stop-motion connoisseur though so I’m sure there’s better.

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Coraline while not being as technically impressive was much more interesting. I wanted a 3d tv because of coraline but while I enjoyed kubo I don't think it's quite as good in some places.

Kubo is beautiful but I'll always prefer it when stop-motion has a homemade look to it.

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I agree.

I like pokemon.

The bad 3DCG stands out like a sore thumb. Also all of the backgrounds are live action scenery but they color over them to make them a cartoon which I fel is cheating. I believe it's called rotoscoping.

Lupin III: Dead or Alive has some of the best backgrounds of any cartoon I've ever seen.

forgot pic.

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For fucksake. Larger version here.

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