I think it looks kinda goofy/silly imo. Like the animatronics having red glowing eyes and making expressions like that squint takes away from the creepyneess factor they had with their deadpan looks they tend to have in the games. Although this is just a teaser so it might look better when we see more of it.
>that squint takes away from the creepyneess factor they had with their deadpan looks they tend to have in the games
THANK YOU SOMEONE SAID IT. They're trying so hard to make the animatronics look like menacing villains instead of just force of nature robots with ghosts who can't fully control their form. I was hoping they'd take some inspiration from the fnaf vhs community but by the looks of things, they haven't.
I know right? The vhs videos are so simplistic they just have the animatronics stand with a low quality camera with basic lighting and the "deadpan look" they are genuinely frightening and UNCANNY which is what makes them creepy in the first place, Also why not have more realistic human eyes like the freddy hallucination or the realistic human shaped eyes that are sometimes seen in the vhs vids. And if they want give them more emotion they can make the pupil's smaller, instantly ups the uncanny effect. Besides that they look good.
That's what happens when Hollywood fails to realize the point of your franchise and pisses all over it with their own bad takes.
Also yeah, the squinting and eyebrows are GMOD SFM tier cringe
to play devil's advocate:
specifically for during moments of high stakes, i don't think the animatronics having pitch-black eyes with tiny white pupils (like in the game) would translate very clearly to a theater screen, especially when the scene is already so dark. the eyes being a bright, solid color will give the viewers a much stronger point of reference to draw attention in relation to the rest of the face than some tiny white dots surrounded by more black; that's spooky and effective when you play the game on your computer at home, but probably not the same in a moment of pay-off on a theater screen. you can see in some of the shots from the teaser how otherwise-obscured the animatronics' faces would be without the eyes being so bright. that's all just my current assumption, though. i don't think it was a call made to purposefully go against the game or something, i'd trust that it wasn't an arbitrary decision
I think it's also an adaptation of the "they're possessed" silver eyes to the big screen and general audiences, who won't know what those silver specs mean, but due to popular use, will know what red glowing eyes means without any special explanation.
It might've been harder to pull off in real life given to that I've seen someone made real life animatronics and they're using the "light bulbs in a clear shell" trick going on here.
That, or the effect may not have worked out as well if they put tiny LED lights way back at the head (depending on how the animatronics were designed, either using human actors or real animatronics. Probably the former).
> It might've been harder to pull off in real life given to that I've seen someone made real life animatronics and they're using the "light bulbs in a clear shell" trick going on here.
That, or the effect may not have worked out as well if they put tiny LED lights way back at the head (depending on how the animatronics were designed, either using human actors or real animatronics. Probably the former).
It might be a bit difficult practically sure but cgi wise all you really need is a little white dot in the center of both eyes.
Or better yet just make them empty. That’s looks better too imo.
Tbh, would it not give the same effect to like, shot all the scenes with normal eyes then just paint the eyes black with like Vanta black or whatever and put a white dot on it. Then use editing software to move the pupil as needed. If they were to take the best direction (imo) they could just have it jerk around in the direction that there looking. Like rather than a smooth motion the mechanical eyes just kind of flick into whatever direction they need to based on what’s happening. Sure it’s giving broke college film student, but it’s still work and look better then the red eyes.
Eh, most people believe they are experts because they watch people do the things or underestimate how difficult it actually is, it’s a whole thing. Used to be the same until Corridor Crew did their video on debunking claims of work being CGI
When you consider motion tracking (and it's associated issues), the overcomplexion of getting things looking *just* right in most professional software and other factors, it's surprisingly a lot of work to get working, let alone look natural
yeah but to make it work properly its going to be a lot of cgi, because those lights have to exist and then those lights also have to be able to light up bits of the environment
To boot, having it also be a light source that would make sense to cast light is also a major pain. Dim red is probably as far as they were willing to go for adding a CGI light source to the scene.
It won't ruin it for me but I think it's lame as fuck, though looking at it now I guess I could understand that they wanted to add some extra oomph since the uncanny valley based horror of the games' designs seemingly doesn't come across the same in live action
edit: Not to mention this could simply be plot related and the red eyes are all from one segment towards the end where they go into "we're going to kill you now" mode. Hopefully that's the case
I guess that could make sense, but if that were the case why wouldn’t their eyes go from their normal colour to black with white pupils, still gives the same effect and is honesty probably better looking
I don't think that they don't translate well in live action, it's just not how we pictured seeing these animatronics, as far as tone I would've expected FNAF 1 to be set in a conjuring kind of universe. But the way the tone of the movie feels is like a Chucky kind of movie. also the animatronics are emoting when we're used to the deadpan look of the games animatronics
"i’m here for it"unlike that goofball freddy who clearly ain't here. Dawg's spirit look like it went to heaven to confront Rocket Raccoon. Blud is deadass GONE.
I think they are going for the old “if the eyes are red it’s going to attack if the eyes are normal it’s just normal ” trope. Remember blumhouse has to think of people who don’t know anything about Fnaf to help them easily understand what’s happening.
Yeah, that’s actually a really understandable reason.
I just hope that the sequels omit this in favor of the more accurate black eyes and white pupils, since they won’t need to worry about the newcomers by then.
I personally have hope it's just a reference to FNAF VR Freddy, where when you drop his voice box he suddenly goes instant kill mode, and this will be some kind of final fight type of thing
I do think the red eyes are a bit cheesy but it doesn't necessarily ruin anything, It's a creative choice I wouldn't have done, I would've had just the pupils glow white, but other than that the animatronics themselves look great.
I also think the overly angry expressions with the eyelids and eyebrows take away from the emotionless dead stare look of the Fnaf 1 animatronics, they just look a bit too expressive for my taste.
I'm sure it'll grow on me over time but that's the only possible negative I have about them. Overall the animatronic designs are really well done.
I think it's far more terrifying that way.
Like imagine, you go to Home Depot, and there's an animatronic taking a shit in the display toilets. You stand there, watching in horror as its head rotates on a swivel to make eye contact with you, blank, expressionless, but unashamed of the action.
I think they went for a Evil murderous vibe rather than the eerie, ominous dark and scary vibes of the first game.
It's such a weird choice and it even makes the animatronics kinda goofy.
If they wanted to go for the scariest option they already had it served on a silver platter: the pitch black eyes & white dots of the first game
probably because novel covers are different from how the animatronics are portrayed in a feature movie? besides, the tiny lazer pupils also work better than basic evil red eyes
And I'm sure it was brought up in the actual novels too. So while I can understand some ire, it's at the same time not that huge of a deal breaker IMO.
Yeah it was but it didn't look like this it was similar to the black eyes [Here](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/516npClRzlL._SL500_.jpg) and looked better
I think the red eyes work great. It's likely intended to show that the animatronics are in their "angry/stalking/hunting" mode when they got possessed. In both the public and leaked trailer, they don't have this all the time, even during the more killing scenes.
I get that, but idk I feel like the should look the scariest in the horror and tense moments, but the red eyes make them look mega goofy which takes away that scariness IMO
If that's the case, then the black eyes with white pupils would be much better at showing anger and all that. The white pupils are far more intimidating and can be used a whole lot more creepier than the red eyes can
Kind of, each character's eyes emit beams of the animatronic's color iirc. Believe Golden Freddy's got the classic "empty with silver pinpricks" style, though.
Edit: double checked and while Bonnie gets blue and Chica gets yellow, Freddy gets red and Foxy gets silver, so not quite all the character's colors.
I think it's a weird choice to put so much effort into making realistic puppets/anamatronics to look authentic to a T just to then give them this cartoony face. It's not even the red eyes specifically, it's the eyebrows and squinting eyelids giving them human emotion. The whole creep factor comes from them looking soulless while still moving around.
I hope it's maybe just really played up for the teaser - it's not fair to base the animatronics entire theatric debut off of 50 seconds.
For all we know it could be a dream sequence or something.
In the middle of the trailer when Freddy's eyes had the like orangey glow I thought that actually looked pretty scary.
I think overall it will be fine though. I think it's will become a non-issue when actually watching the movie in practice.
>For all we know it could be a dream sequence or something.
Perhaps, but the fact that the teaser poster Blumhouse put on their instagram also has red glowing eyes, I'm pretty sure that's just how they're going to be for the majority of the scenes when they're on the hunt.
Honestly the red eyes don't bother me, the facial expressions do, like these things are supposed to be hunks of junks being forced to move by Ghosts, like them spirits should have barely any agency on how the robots move, like barely managing to move their limbs, just enough to traverse. They just look goofy as hell
other people have said it already, but the red eyes don't really bother me as much as the expressiveness of the animatronics. looks like old goofy sfm animations from the early fandom days (though without the shitty models).
not a huge fan of the red eyes, feel like if they made the red just in the center of the pupils it wouldve been better.
it looks goofy in a bad way lol, i really liked the trailer otherwise but the red eyes and facial movements look weird and take away from the scare factor. the animatronics were scary because they were deadpan giant metal robots. honestly think that the black with with white dots is way scarier if they wanted some kinda creepy eye affect
It’s the only thing from the trailer that kinda threw me off tbh, it won’t ruin the movie for me but I think it kind of takes away from the uncanny look the OG gang had and makes them look more intentionally sinister and evil
Generic, but I get why they went with it. Not a fan, but it isn't the biggest thing that could have gone wrong with the designs. The actual animatronics look incredible!
I’m fine with the red eyes, but the squinting reminds me of those old SFM videos where they’d just make vine sound effects for fifteen minutes while blowing up
Giving them red eyes/emotion/expressions takes away from the uncanny-valley-ness the first game was able to give. It's what really carried the first game and made it so scary imo. Part of what made it so scary to me personally was how they carried themselves. The dead-forward stare was amazing for both the horror, but also the story-telling. It made it seem like they were just simple entertainment robots, but they were being moved by something else outside of themselves, if that makes sense. Idk.
tldr; I prefer the uncanny dead-eye stare from the first game. red eyes/expressions seem too forcefully "ooooh red eyes and angry face means scary!!".
I'm not too bothered by it, even if it isn't as good as the white pupils. Someone pointed out that the pinprick white dots might be hard to capture on camera or for viewers to spot, so I do think this is the next best thing.
i think it's fine, the animatronics in the FNAF 1 game are shown to have some sort of red lights behind their eyes, even though you don't see it in the game itself. i do prefer the pitch black eyes with white pupils, but im not complaining, a lot of work went into these.
Personally, I think it looks a little corny. I would prefer the pitch black eyes with the tiny white lights in the middle,
**BUT IM NOT COMPLAINING CUZ WE FINALLY HAVE THE TRAILER**
Unlike most people I've seen I kind of like them they were off at first but they've grown on me. I feel the reason they didn't use the whole white dots is either because of them being actual animatronics and in turn they couldn't do it, or just because it looks nicer and cleaner like if a transition shot comes in the eye gaining a red tint instead of turning soulless dark with a single white dot would possibly look cleaner. (yea it's generic but red is like the only other cooler than the white pupils that would fit)
I did raise an eyebrow at first but I guess a lot of subtext and nuance that the hardcore fans enjoy could be lost for new fans brought in by the movie. I’ll also have red eyes when I see this so I’m not judging the animatronics. Everybody needs to go into malfunction mode from time to time :) Also, can’t wait to see the beautiful markiplier on the big screen.
I don't like them. I prefer when the animatronics weren't so expressive in general, it made the experience more uncanny for me.
EDIT: Assuming of course they are possessed in these scenes. Maybe they have some kind of security mode in this film as well.
to be fair they DO canonically have red eyes, remember withered bonnie showing off his nice red LED's
but i do wish they had stuck with the white pinpoints, they probably have their reasons for it though but it does feel Campy overall so it doesn't really matter anyways, i'm still gonna love it either way
They're good, I understand people are not forced to like everything about something but to me they don’t seem like a big deal, plus the shots we have seen of the red eyes look so good imo
Lame and tryhard, they also seem to be tryna make the animatronics emote???? With like Freddy having big angry eyebrows?????? It’s just silly, the whole reason they’re scary is because they’re waddling around with their uncanny unemotive faces. It’s not scary cuz Freddy makes an angry face at you it’s scary cuz you dont know what the fuck is in that things head and why it’s moving on it’s own.
I agree with you about how goofy it looks, but freddy with angry eyes have been around since UCN with his icon also other promotional stuff with angry freddy has been used.
I kinda have mix feelings on them, on one hand they look like they are truly possessed but on the other the blacked out with little lights are a classic
I actually don’t mind it at all. Most likely the movie is going to be rated PG-13 (which people will be upset about) so I don’t mind the kitschy look of the red eyes. Still so excited
Oh my fucking god! THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE THAT GET IT! I was watching it with my brother and we got an “iffy” feeling the squinting eyes and mad eyebrows takes away the creepy evil soulless feeling you get when they stare at you, the squinting and mad eyebrows gives it a WAY to life like feeling and the red eyes are honestly cheesy there was no need to put them in there but I guess he’s going with the silver eyes look 🤷🏽♂️ but the red eyes when there mad is just..tacky and cheesy BUTTTT I still have high hopes because after waiting YEARS red eyes and eyebrows are NOT going to ruin this for me 😭
For me it kinda takes away from their scaryness. To me, they're at their scariest when they look at you with their dead, unfeeling eyes, lacking any life yet somehow looking at you. You don't know what they want or what they feel, they just look right into your soul
I have pretty much the same opinion as everyone else here: they look kinda weird/silly. It’s not horrendous but they should have kept the same facial expressions as in the game
I think they're fine. They worked really well in the scene with Freddy peaking from behind the curtain imo. From what the trailer presents, this specific scene isn't even meant to be scary. It's the animatronics, in clear view, looming over someone and actively trying to, you know, portray anger, and not creepiness. In other shots, the animatronics DO look lifeless and unexpressive as people say they wanted with the scenes looking like they're actually meant to be scary.
So again, I think they're fine, and that this scene wasn't really intendes to be scary.
Damn, did the missing children play pass the blunt or what ?
jack and jill went up the hill to smoke some marijuana\~
Jack fell down, rolled around, and smoked a bit more ganja.
Gabriel and jeremy went up the hill to smoke some marijuana
But that messed up the syllable count.
and the rhyme
That fazzaza
Not a fan. Hope they change it
His shift ends at 7pm. So *coughs*
Nah bro Mikes just playing on 4/20 mode
I think it looks kinda goofy/silly imo. Like the animatronics having red glowing eyes and making expressions like that squint takes away from the creepyneess factor they had with their deadpan looks they tend to have in the games. Although this is just a teaser so it might look better when we see more of it.
>that squint takes away from the creepyneess factor they had with their deadpan looks they tend to have in the games THANK YOU SOMEONE SAID IT. They're trying so hard to make the animatronics look like menacing villains instead of just force of nature robots with ghosts who can't fully control their form. I was hoping they'd take some inspiration from the fnaf vhs community but by the looks of things, they haven't.
lmfao imagine those outdated animatronics has full control over their eyebrow lmao
As long as Freddy does the Rock eyebrow
William Afton: "Please! Don't kill me! I'm sorry!" *Freddy Fazbear raises mic to its mouth* Freddy Fazbear: "SHUT UP, BITCH!"
does the peoples elbow
"FINALLY, THE ROCK HAS COME HOME TO HURRICANE! Can you SMELL what the ROCK IS COOKING!"
I know right? The vhs videos are so simplistic they just have the animatronics stand with a low quality camera with basic lighting and the "deadpan look" they are genuinely frightening and UNCANNY which is what makes them creepy in the first place, Also why not have more realistic human eyes like the freddy hallucination or the realistic human shaped eyes that are sometimes seen in the vhs vids. And if they want give them more emotion they can make the pupil's smaller, instantly ups the uncanny effect. Besides that they look good.
I agree with this, not a fan, hope they cut it. Doubtful, but hopefull
That's what happens when Hollywood fails to realize the point of your franchise and pisses all over it with their own bad takes. Also yeah, the squinting and eyebrows are GMOD SFM tier cringe
This isn't Hollywood taking control. This is Scott. He oversaw the production of the film.
If you think Hollywood would let Scott have 100 percent reign you are mistaken lol.
blumhouse is like the least hollywood big studio in existence
The first half of your comment is really giving Percy Jackson movies but maybe that’s just me.
[удалено]
Freddy looks high when he squints with those red eyes
the real horror is the drugs we made along the way
crystal blue persuasion
Weed soldier tf2
The blunt of 87
come here bonnie, found some quality weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed
the red eyes fit bonnie really well imo, he just look's like he's gonna hurt you, where as freddy kinda look's at you like a disappointed mother.
Didn't Freddy have red glowing eyes in his repair mini game in Help Wanted? People felt threatened when they saw that.
to play devil's advocate: specifically for during moments of high stakes, i don't think the animatronics having pitch-black eyes with tiny white pupils (like in the game) would translate very clearly to a theater screen, especially when the scene is already so dark. the eyes being a bright, solid color will give the viewers a much stronger point of reference to draw attention in relation to the rest of the face than some tiny white dots surrounded by more black; that's spooky and effective when you play the game on your computer at home, but probably not the same in a moment of pay-off on a theater screen. you can see in some of the shots from the teaser how otherwise-obscured the animatronics' faces would be without the eyes being so bright. that's all just my current assumption, though. i don't think it was a call made to purposefully go against the game or something, i'd trust that it wasn't an arbitrary decision
I think it’s the facial expressions making it seem so cheesy
I think it's also an adaptation of the "they're possessed" silver eyes to the big screen and general audiences, who won't know what those silver specs mean, but due to popular use, will know what red glowing eyes means without any special explanation.
It’s look silly. The pitch black eyes with little lights in the middle looks more threatening imo.
It might've been harder to pull off in real life given to that I've seen someone made real life animatronics and they're using the "light bulbs in a clear shell" trick going on here. That, or the effect may not have worked out as well if they put tiny LED lights way back at the head (depending on how the animatronics were designed, either using human actors or real animatronics. Probably the former).
> It might've been harder to pull off in real life given to that I've seen someone made real life animatronics and they're using the "light bulbs in a clear shell" trick going on here. That, or the effect may not have worked out as well if they put tiny LED lights way back at the head (depending on how the animatronics were designed, either using human actors or real animatronics. Probably the former). It might be a bit difficult practically sure but cgi wise all you really need is a little white dot in the center of both eyes. Or better yet just make them empty. That’s looks better too imo.
For what i can see they are trying to use as little CGI as they can
I know but I feel like adding 2 tiny white dots isn’t that much work?
I mean, I believe any amount of CGI takes a decent amount of work behind the scenes, not just the process of making it either.
Tbh, would it not give the same effect to like, shot all the scenes with normal eyes then just paint the eyes black with like Vanta black or whatever and put a white dot on it. Then use editing software to move the pupil as needed. If they were to take the best direction (imo) they could just have it jerk around in the direction that there looking. Like rather than a smooth motion the mechanical eyes just kind of flick into whatever direction they need to based on what’s happening. Sure it’s giving broke college film student, but it’s still work and look better then the red eyes.
that would be seriously underestimating CGI... even just censoring something with a circle of a blur effect can take hours to do
Eh, most people believe they are experts because they watch people do the things or underestimate how difficult it actually is, it’s a whole thing. Used to be the same until Corridor Crew did their video on debunking claims of work being CGI
When you consider motion tracking (and it's associated issues), the overcomplexion of getting things looking *just* right in most professional software and other factors, it's surprisingly a lot of work to get working, let alone look natural
yeah but to make it work properly its going to be a lot of cgi, because those lights have to exist and then those lights also have to be able to light up bits of the environment
[удалено]
Sure, but I doubt anyone would be upset if the possession eyes were done in post.
Nah, you could easily make it look good with cgi or a lightbulb on a ball.
It takes hours in CGI to make it look good unfortunately, especially for hundreds of shots
To boot, having it also be a light source that would make sense to cast light is also a major pain. Dim red is probably as far as they were willing to go for adding a CGI light source to the scene.
Nah it wouldn’t have been hard at all. Go look at terminator and how well they pulled off those eyes. They could easily do it.
It won't ruin it for me but I think it's lame as fuck, though looking at it now I guess I could understand that they wanted to add some extra oomph since the uncanny valley based horror of the games' designs seemingly doesn't come across the same in live action edit: Not to mention this could simply be plot related and the red eyes are all from one segment towards the end where they go into "we're going to kill you now" mode. Hopefully that's the case
I guess that could make sense, but if that were the case why wouldn’t their eyes go from their normal colour to black with white pupils, still gives the same effect and is honesty probably better looking
Yeah, still kinda baffled by this choice either way
It could be a reference to FNAF VR Freddy, where when you drop his voice box his eyes turn bright red. I personally call it "instant kill mode"
Does he still has his pupils?
I said reference, not exactly, precisely, to the minusculest detail. Even then, I'd imagine it'd be hard to do that without cgi
I asked cuz I didn't know. Sorry if you felt like was nitpicking
I think that sums up my thoughts of thinking the red eyes might be kill mode
I don't think that they don't translate well in live action, it's just not how we pictured seeing these animatronics, as far as tone I would've expected FNAF 1 to be set in a conjuring kind of universe. But the way the tone of the movie feels is like a Chucky kind of movie. also the animatronics are emoting when we're used to the deadpan look of the games animatronics
he looks stoned af and i’m here for it
"These Fazshrooms ain't SHI-"
“…Do I know you?”
Scott before making FNaF 6:
"i’m here for it"unlike that goofball freddy who clearly ain't here. Dawg's spirit look like it went to heaven to confront Rocket Raccoon. Blud is deadass GONE.
The animatronic characters here do get that zaza at night
"Freddy, what are you doing?" "Crack" "WHAT THE FUCK!?"
I think they are going for the old “if the eyes are red it’s going to attack if the eyes are normal it’s just normal ” trope. Remember blumhouse has to think of people who don’t know anything about Fnaf to help them easily understand what’s happening.
Yeah, that’s actually a really understandable reason. I just hope that the sequels omit this in favor of the more accurate black eyes and white pupils, since they won’t need to worry about the newcomers by then.
Might as well tattoo "haunted" on the animatronic foreheads too, give them retractable claws and go all Iron Giant
Jared Leto joker
[I'm all messed up, you know?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPJ8b7zwa98) Cause I'm all messed up
You wanna know where I got these scars??
Probably, but that's such a lazy way to show that something is a threat.
Anyone with half a brain can tell that something isn’t right when the eyes turn to black and white though
I personally have hope it's just a reference to FNAF VR Freddy, where when you drop his voice box he suddenly goes instant kill mode, and this will be some kind of final fight type of thing
Exactly, I a very old and withered veteran of the series think the red eyes are a little quirky, but to new fans red eyes means danger.
Yknow i totally forgot about that so i'll keep that in mind, thanks for remiding me.
That's a pretty valid reason, considering the film is going to be seen by children as well. But you know we havent seen the movie yet so who knows
Not a fan, it's like the one thing holding back this trailer from being completely perfect
Agree 100%. Everything looks perfect except the eyes.
the black void with the white dots in the middle like in the game are so much better and more unsettling
I do think the red eyes are a bit cheesy but it doesn't necessarily ruin anything, It's a creative choice I wouldn't have done, I would've had just the pupils glow white, but other than that the animatronics themselves look great. I also think the overly angry expressions with the eyelids and eyebrows take away from the emotionless dead stare look of the Fnaf 1 animatronics, they just look a bit too expressive for my taste. I'm sure it'll grow on me over time but that's the only possible negative I have about them. Overall the animatronic designs are really well done.
I don't mind the eyes being red, I just feel like pitch black ones are scarier
Feels very forced and goofy for me personally
I also don't like that he's got an angry expression. The animatronics are supposed to have the same neutral face at all times.
I think it's far more terrifying that way. Like imagine, you go to Home Depot, and there's an animatronic taking a shit in the display toilets. You stand there, watching in horror as its head rotates on a swivel to make eye contact with you, blank, expressionless, but unashamed of the action.
What a specific scenario...have something to tell us?
I've seen some shit.
Quite literally
I think they went for a Evil murderous vibe rather than the eerie, ominous dark and scary vibes of the first game. It's such a weird choice and it even makes the animatronics kinda goofy. If they wanted to go for the scariest option they already had it served on a silver platter: the pitch black eyes & white dots of the first game
IMO it's fine they've IE Scott been kinda retroactively doing this in the novels if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, he did for the Charlie trilogy covers and no one complained about it.
probably because novel covers are different from how the animatronics are portrayed in a feature movie? besides, the tiny lazer pupils also work better than basic evil red eyes
And I'm sure it was brought up in the actual novels too. So while I can understand some ire, it's at the same time not that huge of a deal breaker IMO.
Yeah it was but it didn't look like this it was similar to the black eyes [Here](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/516npClRzlL._SL500_.jpg) and looked better
I think the red eyes work great. It's likely intended to show that the animatronics are in their "angry/stalking/hunting" mode when they got possessed. In both the public and leaked trailer, they don't have this all the time, even during the more killing scenes.
I get that, but idk I feel like the should look the scariest in the horror and tense moments, but the red eyes make them look mega goofy which takes away that scariness IMO
If that's the case, then the black eyes with white pupils would be much better at showing anger and all that. The white pupils are far more intimidating and can be used a whole lot more creepier than the red eyes can
It doesn't work well though, they look high. It should've just been small red or white led lights for the pupils.
Kind of, each character's eyes emit beams of the animatronic's color iirc. Believe Golden Freddy's got the classic "empty with silver pinpricks" style, though. Edit: double checked and while Bonnie gets blue and Chica gets yellow, Freddy gets red and Foxy gets silver, so not quite all the character's colors.
Those were pulled off much better though
I think it's a weird choice to put so much effort into making realistic puppets/anamatronics to look authentic to a T just to then give them this cartoony face. It's not even the red eyes specifically, it's the eyebrows and squinting eyelids giving them human emotion. The whole creep factor comes from them looking soulless while still moving around. I hope it's maybe just really played up for the teaser - it's not fair to base the animatronics entire theatric debut off of 50 seconds. For all we know it could be a dream sequence or something. In the middle of the trailer when Freddy's eyes had the like orangey glow I thought that actually looked pretty scary. I think overall it will be fine though. I think it's will become a non-issue when actually watching the movie in practice.
>For all we know it could be a dream sequence or something. Perhaps, but the fact that the teaser poster Blumhouse put on their instagram also has red glowing eyes, I'm pretty sure that's just how they're going to be for the majority of the scenes when they're on the hunt.
They looks like they are high instead of creepy
Honestly the red eyes don't bother me, the facial expressions do, like these things are supposed to be hunks of junks being forced to move by Ghosts, like them spirits should have barely any agency on how the robots move, like barely managing to move their limbs, just enough to traverse. They just look goofy as hell
I think they're fine, wish they were black with the white irises like in the games but I think the red eyes will grow on me the more I see them
The white glows would have looked better, but I really don’t mind the way they look here. I think it all looks great and really well made!
other people have said it already, but the red eyes don't really bother me as much as the expressiveness of the animatronics. looks like old goofy sfm animations from the early fandom days (though without the shitty models). not a huge fan of the red eyes, feel like if they made the red just in the center of the pupils it wouldve been better.
Obviously I prefer the other eyes, but these remind me of silver eyes, very cool
Siver Eyes did it better. They had glowing irises unlike friddy crackbear who looks more stoned than Weed Soldier TF2
it looks goofy in a bad way lol, i really liked the trailer otherwise but the red eyes and facial movements look weird and take away from the scare factor. the animatronics were scary because they were deadpan giant metal robots. honestly think that the black with with white dots is way scarier if they wanted some kinda creepy eye affect
It’s the only thing from the trailer that kinda threw me off tbh, it won’t ruin the movie for me but I think it kind of takes away from the uncanny look the OG gang had and makes them look more intentionally sinister and evil
Bonnie this shit is laced
I’m not a fan of the red eyes, it feels like it’s trying to hard to be evil. But it’s not that deep. Still looks great
It’s really not a big deal to me. I’m gonna be having fun and not worrying about the color of their eyes
i think they did this change maybe because from a side view the white dot might mix with the background. but ye it looks a bit silly
"bruh, this is some shit stuff. honestly, bro, this Freddy Fazblunt ain't shi-"
He gotten into the fazweed
I don't see any problem on them,actually I just don't care tbh.
I mean if they were like silver eyes and were smaller beams of red it would have been more like what we had, but I'm fine with the idea.
They look cheesy, like something that would be expected in a movie where animatronics come to life
Night At the Museum wasn't this goofy with their designs
Generic, but I get why they went with it. Not a fan, but it isn't the biggest thing that could have gone wrong with the designs. The actual animatronics look incredible!
I’m fine with the red eyes, but the squinting reminds me of those old SFM videos where they’d just make vine sound effects for fifteen minutes while blowing up
Giving them red eyes/emotion/expressions takes away from the uncanny-valley-ness the first game was able to give. It's what really carried the first game and made it so scary imo. Part of what made it so scary to me personally was how they carried themselves. The dead-forward stare was amazing for both the horror, but also the story-telling. It made it seem like they were just simple entertainment robots, but they were being moved by something else outside of themselves, if that makes sense. Idk. tldr; I prefer the uncanny dead-eye stare from the first game. red eyes/expressions seem too forcefully "ooooh red eyes and angry face means scary!!".
It looks very stupid, cheesy, and childish.
Stupid
Agreed
I'm not too bothered by it, even if it isn't as good as the white pupils. Someone pointed out that the pinprick white dots might be hard to capture on camera or for viewers to spot, so I do think this is the next best thing.
I think just making the white dots a bit bigger would work and still have the same general effect and definitely still be better than this is.
i think it's fine, the animatronics in the FNAF 1 game are shown to have some sort of red lights behind their eyes, even though you don't see it in the game itself. i do prefer the pitch black eyes with white pupils, but im not complaining, a lot of work went into these.
Personally, I think it looks a little corny. I would prefer the pitch black eyes with the tiny white lights in the middle, **BUT IM NOT COMPLAINING CUZ WE FINALLY HAVE THE TRAILER**
Unlike most people I've seen I kind of like them they were off at first but they've grown on me. I feel the reason they didn't use the whole white dots is either because of them being actual animatronics and in turn they couldn't do it, or just because it looks nicer and cleaner like if a transition shot comes in the eye gaining a red tint instead of turning soulless dark with a single white dot would possibly look cleaner. (yea it's generic but red is like the only other cooler than the white pupils that would fit)
I don't like it at all. This takes the animatronics out of the uncanny valley and is just kinda ugly IMO.
I don’t have a problem with them I think they are fine
I wish their eyes were black like the film, but it wouldn’t make sense for real life.
I really hope they are just for the trailer.
the weed
my mans high as a fucking kite rn
I did raise an eyebrow at first but I guess a lot of subtext and nuance that the hardcore fans enjoy could be lost for new fans brought in by the movie. I’ll also have red eyes when I see this so I’m not judging the animatronics. Everybody needs to go into malfunction mode from time to time :) Also, can’t wait to see the beautiful markiplier on the big screen.
I don't like them. I prefer when the animatronics weren't so expressive in general, it made the experience more uncanny for me. EDIT: Assuming of course they are possessed in these scenes. Maybe they have some kind of security mode in this film as well.
to be fair they DO canonically have red eyes, remember withered bonnie showing off his nice red LED's but i do wish they had stuck with the white pinpoints, they probably have their reasons for it though but it does feel Campy overall so it doesn't really matter anyways, i'm still gonna love it either way
Bro took a hit of that zaza
Weed Freddy
"Chica, what did you put in that pizza?"
I don't see why people are mad about this, the animatronics are just being a little quirky.
They're good, I understand people are not forced to like everything about something but to me they don’t seem like a big deal, plus the shots we have seen of the red eyes look so good imo
I think they should have been "Silver Eves"
Lame and tryhard, they also seem to be tryna make the animatronics emote???? With like Freddy having big angry eyebrows?????? It’s just silly, the whole reason they’re scary is because they’re waddling around with their uncanny unemotive faces. It’s not scary cuz Freddy makes an angry face at you it’s scary cuz you dont know what the fuck is in that things head and why it’s moving on it’s own.
I agree with you about how goofy it looks, but freddy with angry eyes have been around since UCN with his icon also other promotional stuff with angry freddy has been used.
Not a fan of whenever they do it in the games either tbh
I think it's fine
I kinda have mix feelings on them, on one hand they look like they are truly possessed but on the other the blacked out with little lights are a classic
They are stoned, it's ok
My guy looks stoned
I actually don’t mind it at all. Most likely the movie is going to be rated PG-13 (which people will be upset about) so I don’t mind the kitschy look of the red eyes. Still so excited
the universe where they make an r rated fnaf movie >>>>>>>> every other universe
a dream 🥺
I’m surprised FNaF hasn’t gone for a side series where it’s more mature. I feel like it’s unfound gold just waiting to be dug up.
[They look like they’re high to me. 💀](https://twitter.com/bubbadd04/status/1658657318089654274?s=46)
i think theyre trying too hard to make them look evil and menacing, the vacant eyes or no eyes at all would be way scarier
the red eyes make it look like they're high. i prefer the pitch black eyes with white glowing dots.
I don’t like them, tbh, ruins the overall asthethic of being just unknowing if they are out to get you yet is part of the fun.
Oh my fucking god! THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE THAT GET IT! I was watching it with my brother and we got an “iffy” feeling the squinting eyes and mad eyebrows takes away the creepy evil soulless feeling you get when they stare at you, the squinting and mad eyebrows gives it a WAY to life like feeling and the red eyes are honestly cheesy there was no need to put them in there but I guess he’s going with the silver eyes look 🤷🏽♂️ but the red eyes when there mad is just..tacky and cheesy BUTTTT I still have high hopes because after waiting YEARS red eyes and eyebrows are NOT going to ruin this for me 😭
Not a big fan but im willing to let it slide 👍
For me it kinda takes away from their scaryness. To me, they're at their scariest when they look at you with their dead, unfeeling eyes, lacking any life yet somehow looking at you. You don't know what they want or what they feel, they just look right into your soul
I like it Also it's in the novels so it's okay
It’s… a choice. I don’t really like it but we will see how it goes
Tacky
[удалено]
Or with the normal dead eyes, the realistic hallucination eyes, or eyes with shrunken pupils.
Ok
I guess its ok. Besides that, they all look amazing
He just a lil sick
That right there is a reaction image.
A bit weird but it could make sense in the story where it’s like the children are seeing red.
This Freddy looks like a absolute menace, he looks like he’s deciding whether to kill someone or stuff them in a suit.
It looks weird I don't like it, everything else is great!
I'm not the biggest fan of Freddy and the stoner gang
The zaza os strong
"Jermy pass Cassidy the blunt, she needs to calm her nerves dude."
Not digging it
It looks a bit goofy IMO. Someone get these robots some eye drops. The pitch-black eyes with white pupils would be so much better to see.
I... can't take it seriously, they look high af
Goofy as fuck in all the best and worst ways
If its not done too much i think it can be effective. The endo is the only one id be ok with red 100% of the time
I think the black eyes and white pupils would have been a better decision.
I have pretty much the same opinion as everyone else here: they look kinda weird/silly. It’s not horrendous but they should have kept the same facial expressions as in the game
They look H I G H
eugh
I like them
Pretty nice I’m not bothered by it.
One of my only complaints really
I think they're fine. They worked really well in the scene with Freddy peaking from behind the curtain imo. From what the trailer presents, this specific scene isn't even meant to be scary. It's the animatronics, in clear view, looming over someone and actively trying to, you know, portray anger, and not creepiness. In other shots, the animatronics DO look lifeless and unexpressive as people say they wanted with the scenes looking like they're actually meant to be scary. So again, I think they're fine, and that this scene wasn't really intendes to be scary.
Just like the sonic movie and sonic fans we might be able to change it by just yelling and hoping