This is a weird-looking movie. The directorial debut of South Korean animator Kyung-hun Cho and his Studio Animal, it really says something when the most bizarre aspect of this whole production is how inconsistent the animation is. Not that it’s even that bad (far from it, it works really damn well); just that it uses a combination of traditional 2D line-drawn animation and 3D cell-shaded animation and… I think the 3D is devoted solely to the main-ish characters (basically whoever affects the plot in a substantial way), but going back and forth between the two styles is quite jarring. Ditto for the moments when the 2D work steps into budget-cut territory and suddenly gets extremely choppy and chicken-scratchy for a few frames.
