We are in the middle of the biggest animation revolution since the big visit to the CG 3D animation in the 2000s. The big studios (especially in the United States) adopt 2D 2D textures in 2D in addition to the CG 3D animation following the enormous success of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”-a film so visually magnificent Shame on all superhero movies live.

DreamWorks followed suit with “The Bad Guys”, a spectacular film that mixed stylized looks with live influences. Then Paramount joined the trend with its “Ninja mutant grungy and textures” turtles “, and Disney join by adding 2D touches to 3D characters in” Wish “.

Now Pixar, the most determined studio to advance CG 3D technology, takes a revolutionary left turn with His next slate, in particular “Gatto”, “ The next film by the director of “Luca” Enrico Casarosa. During the Annecy 2025 animation festival, the public had an overview of the development of this 2027 functionality. Although there are not yet ended sequences and the look can change very well before the film reaches theaters, we hope that this is not the case, because “Gatto” is the most visually exciting project on which Pixar has worked for more than a decade. This is a daring gap in the style of Pixar’s house, and which seems clearly inspired by the trend popularized on the big screen by “in the payment of Spider”.

“Gatto” follows a black cat named Nero living in the streets of Venice, Italy. Rejected by superstitious residents of the city and suffering from severe loneliness, he is forced to align himself with the “most sesember side of the CAT company”, as the director of the creation of Pixar Pete Docter said, in particular by being liable to a boss of the crowd of cats. Things change for Nero when he ties up an improbable friendship with a human street musician named Maya.

In the concept art shown to Annecy’s public, as well as an approximate animation test, it is obvious that “Gatto” looks like nothing other than the studio has done. He shares this brushstroke look that we saw in programs like “Arcane” and films like “Spider-Ver”. According to Doctor, their objective was to capture the pictorial texture of Venice, “while preserving the depth and dimension you expect from Pixar.”

It is not intended to say that the “Spider-Verse” style is always the way to follow. It is rather a recognition than the reason for the reason for the enormous success of this film, and part of the reason why the films that followed it worked, is not that they used the same style, but that that They dared to break with the same style as each 3D animated film uses. The more we see the unique art styles in animation, the better these films will be. The crews can bounce back, take inspiration from each other and overall improve the quality of the medium. The last thing the public wants or needs is that each great studio animated film looks exactly alike.

That even Pixar, the pioneers of 3D CG animation envisage different ways to use 3D animation which is not only photorealism is the best thing that could happen to the studio and the medium.