That’s, uh… not really an endorsement.
Friday saw the season 7 finale of NBC’s The Blacklist. Thing is, it probably didn’t look the way series viewers might normally expect.
See, due to the pandemic going on, they weren’t able to get the entire episode filmed. They were able to film for 4 days before the production got shut down, leaving them 20 minutes short of their expected runtime. They had to finish the episode, though, so they turned to a medium that wasn’t shut down by the pandemic: animation.
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They turned to studio Proof, which normally does pre-production work to plan out film and TV shows using CG animation. Typically, their work is never seen by the general public. But still, animation is many things, but cheap and fast it is not. So the fact that Proof was able to turn out 20 minutes of animation in five weeks is impressive; especially considering that they normally work for months on a single scene.
What’s not impressive is how it actually looks, at least to most people. It looks like a Goichi Suda game that really needs a bit more time in the oven (which, were it one, it’d have even odds to get versus not; Suda 51 loves to troll the audience). I mean, it literally looks like Killer 7 or something. Which I can probably appreciate, but I imagine most find it off-putting.
Then again, it was probably a matter of whether or not they even had a season finale. So it’s not the worst thing in the world; hell, getting 20 minutes of CG animation done in a little over a month is still pretty damn impressive. But it’s likely not everyone is going to see it that way.
Source: Kotaku
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