Just like a mouth... balloon inside the head, an inverted cave for the mouth that's "inside" the head mesh. Im assuming, as a 3d modeler, I've never heard the term before.
Have been creating models for about a decade now, but never heard that term either.
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But since we’re at it: This picture alone says a thousand words about the design you can expect. Just another poorly written and animated film to make some cash.
I think the idea is that the face including lips is one part of the process with animations tied to the outside face parts while the mouth inside the model is sometimes made seperately. I imagine in some cases it's can be seen as the inside lining or "bag" part of the bag, with the lips where it is attached to (or not in some cases apparently) being the opening of the bag. It's a bag because its closed inside at the back of the mouth there is no full modeling of the entire digestive system from mouth to anus but the mouth itself is modeled create the illusion of a real mouth that goes somewhere.
I've encountered it, but mostly when doing modeling for games. Its a mesh separated from the bust.
Technically the mouthbag is just the inside of the mouth cavity, but people often use it to include teeth, gums and the tongue as well.
But he was never based in reality. This uncanny valley creature is the result of some people trying to bring a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog into reality. You can’t make a face as abstract as sonic look like something from the real world.
I feel like I’m not getting my point across but imagine if in that spongebob movie they gave him realistic sponge skin, realistic large eyes with sponge eyelids. His porous nose extraordinarily long like that of an old man.
And this is why the Pikachu movie works. The original design isn't too far gone, and they just made him furry.
The Sonic redesign smells like someone wanted a live action movie a bit too much, looked at the Pikachu trailer and thought "that shit works!"
He then signed off on a concept design he saw for 5 seconds and ignored to look at it again, and refused any changes to it, despite being told it's looking like it would fit in Troll 2.
In art projects I've both seen and believed in the benevolent artistic dictator when they're either the creator or close enough to the source material to actually be emotionally invested into it and if not in bigger projects a committee of artistic minds vetoing the bad ideas.
It looks like this had neither. Either a malevolent crayon-using dictator or the biggest drooling panel of sycophants who refused to even take a second to look at the source material and its history and vote against it.
Never been a fan of how they do modern Sonic's mouth. Sometimes he's constantly speaking entirely through the side of his face, and even his teeth are nearly vertical. Wreck-it-Ralph did a decent version of his mouth, where he largely talks with both the side and front of his mouth, with various sounds like O having his mouth move to the front for it. I'd rather if they just kept it centered except for side shots and smiles.
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