Eden – Why Are People Saying This Is Really Good?
Eden is definitely nothing to write home about. It wasn’t bad, and there were good things in it, but it solidified something as a problem that hadn’t bothered me on previous occasions I encountered it. A lot is lost when you chose CGI over hand drawn animation (or an equivalent, such as tablet drawn) but when you do this to anime the gap between the two is much, much wider. Eden makes you feel nothing and it is almost one hundred percent down to the animation, or lack of it a lot of the time. It is particularly bad when it comes to character expression, which there is a severe lack of in the protagonist. I’ve seen way better in MMD dance videos. Heck even most storyboards put together for testing look more expressive and dynamic. And don’t get me started on the crying cycle. Not only is it the most unconvincing animation ever (and so obvious a layer on top of a model) but it's painfully obvious it is cycling over and over again, with the exact same time gap between. Ok...