minimar‘ELEMENTAL’ earns $11.8M in the film’s domestic opening day, the lowest in Pixar’s history
wrath-sedanOk I might be totally wrong here but Pixar’s animated character designs just seem shockingly recycled lately. Inside Out, Soul, and now Elemental all feature largely monochrome, vaguely bulbous/geometric cutesy figures that all have that shimmery effect (which I read was incredibly expensive to develop and maybe why it’s being used constantly) and are abstractions of some kind or another (emotions, elements, souls). Am I the only one who finds them weirdly similar and (with the exception of their first use in Inside Out) kind of dull?
Yes, we have noticed it also. It's either as you said because they were expensive to develop or due to lack of talent.
Manga artist each have their own style, which is recognizable from book to book. Pixar is basically one artist doing many books.