On its own Cel Shading looks kind of ugly (though some video games have gotten away with it), lacking in the human touch it tries to evoke.

What recent films, since 2018's Into The Spiderverse, have found is that to make it work for a feature film we need to find ways to inject that human touch back into it.

Spiderverse used machine learning so artists could teach it how better to "ink" various video frames. I presume they trained a convolutional neuralnet on their own renders.

2/2 Fin!

Then Arcane took this to its logical conclusion by spending a quarter billion dollars to make every frame look like a renaissance painting. Definitely worth it.

"How do you texture it to look like a painting"
"We paint"
(quote from their making of documentary, "Arcane: Bridging the Rift")

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A short clip from the animated series Arcane (2021–2024), season 2, episode 6, The Message Hidden Within the Pattern. Isha, a young girl around 6 years old with brown hair partially dyed blue, is facing the camera and holding a gun in her left hand. The gun is shaking and crackling with bluish white lightning streaks. With her right hand, Isha makes a finger gun gesture towards the camera. Behind her, something is moving that looks like a giant monster that glows like lava.
A short clip from the animated series Arcane (2021–2024), season 2, episode 6, The Message Hidden Within the Pattern. Isha, a young girl around 6 years old with brown hair partially dyed blue, is facing the camera and holding a gun in her left hand. The gun is shaking and crackling with bluish white lightning streaks. With her right hand, Isha makes a finger gun gesture towards the camera. Behind her, something is moving that looks like a giant monster that glows like lava.