I hope they stick to the style they debuted in Mutant Mayhem for its sequel, and I feel confident that they will.
I imagine Into the Spider-Verse's visual style wasn’t popular with everyone, but Sony and Sony Pictures Imageworks kept that look so that the films are consistent with each other… It’d make no sense whatsoever for Paramount and Mikros Animation to sterilise “Mutant Mayhem 2” in order to appease people who didn’t like the background art or the character designs.
How is it “janky”?
It’s stylised, yes, and they’ve opted to use a less-fluid movement to the animation, but I believe Predator: Killer of Killers is a lot more competently-achieved than “janky” would suggest.
Sometimes I do think we’ve been spoiled by animation in the '80s and '90s (even though there were plenty of bad examples back then, even in shows that also had fantastic examples). Considering how much discontent there was about the Gravity Falls/Stephen Universe Cal Arts Style in recent history, I would’ve thought these more distinctive animation styles might’ve been more welcome.
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It’s not that we were spoiled we were given art. Hand Drawn animation is basically extinct these days thanks to Flash and Photoshop. Not saying those programs didn’t create anything decent companies put a bit more time and effort into their projects. I still love watching the older cartoons and noticing all the hand drawn mistakes like Discolored TMNT bandanas, two Ninja Turtles with the same colors Etc…
What’s scary is less than two years your average joe that doesn’t have a lick of artistic talent will be able to create an animated series from the ground up with the use of A.I. People are already posting fan-fiction that could be mistaken for the real deal. This is why we have so many new animated commercials for insurance and medical companies. Disney doesn’t like this and why they’re suing Midjourney. I think they’ll lose this case as the court may decide AI generated images will fall under parody or fan art.