A new animation is just out:
“Strange World,” the world may be super-weird, but those who populate it are some of the most realistic and well rounded that Walt Disney Animation Studios has ever presented. Ergo, it’s the characters as much as the environment that make this vibrant, “Journey to the Center of the Earth”-style adventure movie colorful and diverse in all the best ways.
‘Strange World’ Review: Disney Expands Its Horizons – Variety
And it’s being called ‘solarpunk’:
Perhaps the most surprising apparent influence on “Strange World” is the literary and artistic movement known as solarpunk. First defined in 2008, solarpunk is a movement with parallels to steampunk or cyberpunk, but in contrast to the historical focus of the former and the dystopian inclinations of the latter, it is focused on imagining more sustainable futures. While some may argue it’s questionable to describe a product of the Walt Disney Corporation as anything-“punk,” one of the most impressive features of “Strange World” is just how powerfully and poetically it expresses the ideals of such a movement.
Strange World Review: Disney Delivers A Solarpunk Spectacle
Visually, the movie is absolutely stunning. Strange World is a testament to why some movies should be animated — there’s no way that this gorgeously weird world, with its warm hues and constantly moving organic shapes, would look remotely this good in live action. And it’s not just the wacky world below the mountains. Avalonia itself is a fun solarpunk/steampunk sort of world, where people have coffee machines and personal airships, but not cellphones or video games. Their tech is familiar enough to ground the movie, but still unique enough to be engaging. The heart of the movie does come from the actual strange world, however, and every bit of it is a delight.
Strange World review: Disney’s epic sci-fi looks amazing but feels odd – Polygon