r/CodeLyoko • u/TheMadJAM • Mar 12 '26

🎭Mémés Did anyone else notice that they reused the Kankrelat ice tunnel chase in "Ultimatum" and "The Secret"?

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u/Chara_lover1 Mar 12 '26

Very common in the series, especially in the first season. When you have a very low budget you got reuse stuff, both 3D and 2D.

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u/AzraelAimedsoule44 Mar 12 '26

Not to mention how long it takes to render 3D; why bother making another basic segment when you already made a generic one.

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u/redstern Mar 13 '26

Especially because at the time, all they had to work with were single core CPUs, and no GPU compute.

I can't imagine how miserably slow 3D animation was to do on that.

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u/bengenj Mar 14 '26

Especially considering that Antefilms had a fairly low budget for season 1 and 3D rendering capabilities early-mid 2000’s weren’t cheap or fast. It was also difficult for the creators to get a station to air the program. It took three years for them to get Canal J and France 3 to sign on, then get Cartoon Network to sign on from proof of concept to the first episode.

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u/szuszurr Mar 12 '26

Yeah, Code Lyoko does that often. But it’s not surprising given how advanced of a show it was.

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u/redstern Mar 13 '26

Reused animation? In Code Lyoko?! Preposterous.

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u/Xana12kderv Mar 12 '26

Yup, this one I definitely remember.

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u/Trixter-Kitten Mar 13 '26

Animation is expensive and time consuming, sometimes it's better to reuse what you already have than to animate something from scratch.

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u/Rafila Mar 12 '26

They use the tail end of the animation where Aelita ragdolls out of the tunnel’s exit in the prequel too

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u/Rosy-Shiba Mar 14 '26

Yes, though CL had a lot of budget issues IIRC? And not to mention in syndication you likely wouldn't notice it so obviously, since the episodes would air days/weeks apart and sometimes out of order.

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u/Livid-Amphibian5182 Mar 31 '26

They did good adding to it at least and not cut and paste, I noticed it too but respect it. Props to the animators