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Pokemon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back EVOLUTION's director explains the decision to us CG animation

Trying something new
by rawmeatcowboy
28 July 2019
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Pokemon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back EVOLUTION is the first movie in the franchise to go with CG over traditional animation. In an Anime Expo 2019 panel, director Kunihiko Yuyama explained why the decision was made.

"It has been our plan to use 3D animation on a Pokemon movie for some time now.. However, we felt that using 3D animation technology, we could portray maybe an extra level or different dimension of the Pokemon world that maybe would be a little bit difficult to do with one dimensional methods.

[W]e felt like there was a level of depth and a level of interesting imagery that we were able to achieve thanks to the 3D technology that we used. [T]his is first time we have done full 3D computer generated animation. And so even though we've done over 20 Pokemon movies, it feels like this is the first time. And I was so worried that this was just going to be a flop and that people weren't going to like it."

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