Peter Nash talks about Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 Foodimals - Reported by CartoonBrew

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 had potential to be a great animation, to be up there with the disney greats, live in the history books. However it's poor storyline let it down. However it's character design is beyond belief. There's a link at the bottom to a cartoon brew article where Peter Nash talks about the foodimals, unfortunately the link can't be embedded but I've taken screenshots of some of the great ideas of the character design from it.

As you can see the creative brains behind sony pictures have worked there socks off invested a whole new universe filled with foodimals. The wittiest of the creatures include the mosquitoast, flamango and buffaloaf. I think credit is due with the playfulness of design they are really spectacular.

 The Shrimpanzee probably is my favourite out of all the foodimals, the way it combines the oafish arms of a chimp and the shape of a chimp is really clever but at the same time it also remains simplistic and not overwhelming with details. This applies to all the foodimals, i think this takes a really skilled animator to be able to evaluate how much detail is needed without going over board.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/how-to/exclusive-sony-animator-peter-nash-talks-about-the-foodimals-in-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs-2-89532.html





I think it's important to note how in the article on cartoon brew they make note of how they didn't invest all there money on the basic design but they invested into the movement's too to round them off. If only they'd of invested the same amount into the story line.