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- #1555936
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- Info: Recommended Editions of Disney Animated (and Partially Animated) Features
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1555936/action/topic#1555936
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The recent 4K Ultra HD remasters for Blue Sky’s Ice Age 1-4 and the first Rio movie are currently on Disney+ in most territories, and apparently, the color grading for all of them have been significantly altered to be not just brighter and vibrant than the older home media releases, but also being more accurate to both the promotional stills and original Blue Sky render files. The old HD masters used on DVD, Blu-Ray and certain TV airings looked grey, very muddy and desaturated, when compared to the color grading for WDAS and Pixar’s CG animated films from that same period.
For some reason, the 4K UHD remaster of Ice Age (2002) on Disney+ has removed two dissolve transitions in some sequences. At around 14:38, when Scrat gets struck by lightning in the rain, the film then cuts to the human hut attack sequence instead of doing a second-long dissolve transition to it, as seen on older home media releases. At 44:08, the dissolve transition from that small icicle sealing the glacier shut to the camera panning down to the main characters walking has also been replaced with a cut. Thankfully, none of the other Blue Sky films in 4K UHD (so far) have been affected by those minor oddities.
I hope we get a 4K remaster of Robots (2005) someday. Because, the color grading for it on all home media releases have this hideous brownish-grey tint, which ruins the intended bright, vibrant and natural look it originally had in the 35mm theatrical prints, as well as in the FMVs for the video game tie-in, and I would love to see that look be restored to its proper glory.