Did A.I. Create This Little Mermaid RIPOFF? 

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Just to clarify, in the original book, the sisters of the little mermaid actually give their hair to the sea witch in order to save their sister.

Ok, as bad as the movie is... The twist of having the human prince turn into a mermaid so he and the little mermaid can be together is actually a pretty interesting idea. It's clearly not utilized well, but if written into a better ver. of this story, this might've been decent-

"She's bald! She's bald, and she's torturing people with hair!"

Ngl the woman who voices the sea witch did a great job. Her voice has a nice raspiness I'm addicted to listening to. I hope she gets more villian roles from actually good companies

Fun fact: "Sereia" is actually the Portuguese word for mermaid. So she's basically "Princess Mermaid", really love the creativity.

This animation is so fucking uncanny, I still can't get over it. Horror game makers only wish they could create something this horrific.

I like how the sisters’ “ugly” hair cuts are just pixie cuts and other pretty common short hairstyles

The fact there are no water effects when they move (like bubbles or those water trails) and that their hair sits perfectly still despite being fully underwater just makes it look like they're all flying on the air... it looks so weird and uncanny.

I find it amazing how the asylum has never been sued

This is exactly what I'd imagine a CGI Big Mouth movie would look like.

"Jerma Anakin" I'm fucking dead. Also, the main character looks uncannily like a Sim I made in sims 4 once, with a massive amount of og mods. Probably one of my proudest creations

16:06 “She’s BALD! She’s bald and she’s torturing people with hair!”

It’s called The Asylum because everyone who works there is criminally insane.

It’s funny how the models aren’t even that bad for the humans/mermaids. They ALMOST look good.

19:29 love how her eyeballs aren't animated to follow her head.

18:37 Her flopping on the ground like that absolutely sent me

I've animated 3-4 minute music videos before and let me tell you, doing an entire production on your own is not easy. This is actually quite impressive to me even if it isn't good. Props to him for doing all this on his own. He's definitely found a niche with these low-quality films, and it works. Those facial expressions are gold.

The worst part is the end result is better to me. The prince becoming a mermaid because he wanted a life of adventure and can do so with the princess seems like a great ending. It’s too bad it was brought to the table by asylum

Many of these underwater scenes look like they're not actually in any water, but levitating in the air.

Geez, the animation style looks suspiciously like 18+ ads that you hear about 💀

What's crazy is, the models aren't bad, and the animation (for being done solely by *ONE* man) isn't entirely awful. Imagine if this dude had more funds, more time to hone his craft... he 100% can go _way_ further than bargain bin Mockbusters! EDIT: i ALSO LOOKED A MIKE'S PORTFOLIO! Dude he's talented for a solo animator/artist. Which tells me The Asylum just didn't give him a reasonable amount of time to truly show what he's capable of.

"Anakin hated sand so much, he jumped on a boat, and never looked back" Never will get over the Anakin hates sand jokes, they all are funny

“Oh my gosh! She’s bald! She’s bald and she’s torturing people who have hair!” (15:49)

I think this is completely rendered in Unreal Engine. The run she does at the end even looks like the base mannequins running animation.

Dude animated a whole movie by himself. Imagine if he had a budget of 2 or 3 million even and had a small team. Imagine if he had 20 million. The animator is actually quite impressive especially doing it all by himself in 3-5 months. I have to give props knowing the process.

They really mixed in EVERY Disney franchise. The villain looks like Mother Gothel AND has a similar motive and off-brand Marinette goes to school + is a fashion designer. They are literally them oh my god.

I knew I’d recognize who worked on this movie from that distinct “mouth wide open showing both rows of teeth when talking”!

At this point, the inmates are running The Asylum.

Something so funny to me that the mermaids are almost always shot above the waist, so you can’t even tell they’re mermaids

So, about the hair thing. In the original fairy tale, the Sea-Witch is more of a literal bargainer. She warns the mermaid that not only will her human feet hurt as if she was walking on needles the entire time, but if she can't make the prince fall in love with her her heart will literally break and her body will dissolve into sea foam. When the prince starts falling in love with another woman, her sisters go to the sea witch and beg her for an out, giving their hair as compensation. In return the sea witch gives them a cursed dagger that will free the little mermaid from the spell if she kills the prince with it. However at the last moment she finds she can't go through with it, throws herself back into the ocean and dies. Yeah, fairy tales.

the fact that Sereia literally means "mermaid" in portuguese makes this 10x funnier

Imagibe being a soulless cash grab of a soulless cash grab

The girl pretending to have saved the prince is definitely based off of Marinette from Miraculous Ladybug. Literally has the same color palette and is a fashion designer.

I lost it when she hit the beach like a wet sack of potatoes. That alone gets the movie a 10/10, that and the 400% mouth animations

“King anchor arms and whey protein.” *WHEEZEEEEEE* 😭😂😂😂

Why she doesn't like to eat fish? Mermaid eats fishes 😂

At this point im convinced the asylum is made purely from people in actually insane asylums

The worst thing is that this movie had potential. The twist of the prince becoming a mermaid is nice change and the voice acting is actually pretty decent. The only problem with the film is the writing and the animation. If someone got the idea to remake this move with a better budget and good writers, it could be really good. Edit: Thanks for making this my most liked comment lol

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4:52 “You can throw me in a dungeon if you want, But it won’t change the out come of the spell!” *turns into seagull*

Love how bootleg Moana just looks pissed off 100% of the time. If you were to watch the whole movie without any sound you'd think every single character in the movie killed her whole bloodline and that she's seeking for revenge.

Why is the mermaid king pretty good looking and well-animated while everyone else looks like a genuine deep sea nightmare creature

Tbh I love a lot of these designs and can see them working with some more work put into them

9:39 head is moving way too much.

Honestly I’m not mad at the art style. The animation is what’s really bringing it down aesthetically for the most part

I'm sorry, but throughout these clips from the movie, I felt so triggered by the fact that the mermaids didn't look like they were underwater- I can understand if animating things underwater is hard, but even SpongeBob was able to pull this off. There are MANY flaws when it comes to this one movie, but the water thing I cannot ignore. The mermaids and sea creatures look like they're just floating midair BAHA Edit: Alright, maybe spongebob isn't a great comparison since it's a 2D show with a higher budget, BAHA, I apologize- But still, I just really hate it how they look like they're just- Flying mermaids- At least add some bubbles or somethin 💔 AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE LIKES AND COOL "BRINE POOL" FACTS?? (Never gonna see the Goo Lagoon the same again-) I REALLY APPRECIATE IT!

The sea witch’s eyebrows during the whole film: _- _-

“Its Chris Pratt” ‘It’s Clefairy’ “Fuuuuuuu-” 5:17

Anakin x Moana is something nobody needed but now we have, thanks to this cursed film

There's something so uncanny in the way the witch delivers her lines, she literally SCREAMS every word 😭😭😭

Was having a bad day, so i opened youtube and this is the first thing that came out, omg thank you for making my day ❤❤

God, the hands look they they just slapped a jpeg of a palm and fingers onto the models

Anyone who has read the original Little Mermaid story will not be surprised by the hair plot twist. SPOILER FOR THE ORIGINAL H. C. ANDERSON STORY: In the original story, the little mermaid sacrifices her tongue (yes, tongue), to the seawitch to gain legs. However each step she takes will feel like being cut by a 100 or 1000 knives (depends on the version). On the third day, if she fails to kiss the prince, she will turn to foam on the waves of the sea. Her sisters gives up their hair to the seawitch to save their sister, an the seawhitch gives them a shell-knife that the little mermaid must use to kill the prince an she will turn back into a mermaid (and once again, depending on the version, regain or not regain her voice) and not turn into foam. The seawitch is not an antagonist, she is just a trader/dealer in the original story. Also the reason for why bodyparts are so important to mermaids: They don't have souls. Mermaids live forever, but have no soul to enter the afterlife (atleast in the versions I've read) So a tongue or hair is not something small. For all the mermaids truly have is their bodies. Also the sisters became fully bald. Like, no hair. And I think they could not grow anymore hair either. Also they, all of the sisters, had the most beautiful hair of all mermaids, and it was a big part of their self-identity.

I love the fact that due to the weird animation everyone's constantly smiling somewhat sinisterly, so whenever a character moves closer to the camera it looks like they're threatening someone

It’s concerning behavior that you put yourself through this but you are one of the boys in my opinion me and my fellow nerd peoples love you so much and it brought a smile to myself even though I just submitted an assignment at 11 pm

I'm pretty sure the mouths look so weird cause their tongues don't move with words making it uncanny

The animation is like in some kind of limbo of it being horrendous, yet with some things looking unreasonably good for what it is. Like, some of the lip syncing and part of the expressions are just so fluid, but only in small parts. And while exaggerated, the body language isn’t too bad either.

I actually like that the guy becomes a merman rather than the girl becoming a human. It’s a good twist on the original trope. I’d really like a higher quality movie with that sort of ending

4:45 The witch looks like Mother Gothel

15:50 "Oh my gosh! She's bald! She's bald and she's torturing people who have hair!"

Poor Saber sounds so defeated in this video. Interestingly enough, it also includes some of his best quips. “Nothing is sacred and life is meaningless,” as well as, “I am simultaneously impressed and disgusted.” 😂

I think I know the reason Sereia has tattoos and various inconsistencies in fashion, and it's hilarious. Apparently, to prevent theft, some creators of human vrchat models often put tattoos on the base skin as an identifier. Often, they're overtly elaborate sleeve and chest tattoos. If one were good at texturing, it'd be fairly easy to replace. in fact, I'm almost too sure that much of this movie's assets are very likely purchased assets from various 3D stores, just animated in-house. While ordinarily this wouldn't be a huge problem, they aren't animated very well, which makes it all very obvious they aren't using their own assets.

Start of the video: Your Baldur's Gate 3 character when you finally decide to make a weapon strike after 15 minutes of struggling to decide

5:39 why was the turtle manning while she thrusted😂😂

11:40 "Anakin takes Moana to his family and to the castle" Brand new sentence moment

12:42 WE MAKING IT OUT OF ATLANTIS WITH THIS ONE🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊

As soon as I saw the intro I knew this would be an epic ride.

11:50 Their arms clipped through each other😭😭

I actually really like the designs of Jerma Skywalker and the Dad. The voice acting is also decent for some of the characters. Those are my only compliments.

cannot fucking get over the villain's driving motivation is literally that her wig got snatched

13:43 That "papa" character looks exactly like RTgame

The models actually looks so good i think theyre missing on lighting and shading

I find it ironic that the prince's fiance is dressed like a modern girl and yet the setting is pretty clearly a time where he is expected to marry a princess by arrangement. Like, it feels like such a clash of ideals and time periods. lol

2023 is the year I would like to call the Mermaid Year! The live action remake of the 1989 Disney film was released, Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken has evil mermaids (including an Ariel clone) in it, and now we have A.I generated movies. And you can see why everything shouldn't be made in A.I software...

I just can't get over how often the pupils end up pointing into their skulls because the head motions are so over the top.

16:08 reminds me of the scene from Totally Spies where Alex says "she's bald! she's bald and she's torchering people who have hair!"

I'm honestly shocked that The Asylum still exists. I'm very curious on how well these films do to keep the lights on.

If anyone would use AI to make an animated film, it would be the Asylum. So yes I can believe it.

The mermaid sisters after seeing ravina’s motives: “*gasp* oh my gosh she’s bald. She bald and she’s torturing people who have hair”

saw that tear away dress and suddenly i was watching the entirety of barbie and the three musketeers from start to finish in my head

"I don't like sand. It's rough, and coarse, and irritating, and it gets everywhere. That's why I love you, Sereia. You live in the water, not on the sand. I want to be part of _your_ world." -This movie's Prince Anakin, probably

If AI really did make this movie, it shows why making AI generated movies is a bad idea.

exploring new nooks and crannies in the uncanny valley with this one

I have to give them props for trying to incorporate the original Hans Christian Andersen story instead of remaking the Disney version. I always enjoyed the fact that in the original the princes fiance really does save him from the beach and is a nice person as opposed to Ursula transforming herself to a woman and mind controlling Eric. I even enjoy that they tried to incorporate the scene where the sisters go to the sea witch for help and give their hair as payment. That said it doesn't seem like they were incorporated well or in a well written movie which makes me sad because it h0ad potential

13:35 Off brand Miraculous ladybug had me laughing! The fact she's a fashion designer like in the actual show is hilarious!

15:49 she looks like she's about to try to conquer the skylands with this one

The AI voice sounds like Phone guy from fnaf and the Prince face looks like Dream and i cannot unsee it

18:02 "What an incredible coincidence!" needs to be a meme

JERMA ANAKIN HELPPPPPP WHY DOES HE MAKE JERMA EXPRESSIONS FHJBDSNKJDFKNGKD

13:17 The handbag strap clips through her.🤣👜

I guess I'm in the minority of thinking that with actual time and decent money, this could look and sound SO much better. I like how they look, I like their designs. I think with a more professional approach to it all, things would actually look better; less rubberbanding, less ridiculous facial movement, smoother animation, etc etc. I really think it has a chance with investments or a proper studio.

The fact Saber says "tailcoats" instead of "coattails" is something I can never get over.

“Jerma Anakin” Genuinely when he first appeared at around 2:20 I audibly said “Jerma?”

7:05 as a human I cannot see turtles

This movie, if it was made by AI, is honestly a perfect example as to why using actual artists is more beneficial for a project than using a computer to save money. Problem with AI is that there no passion or heart. A computer has no love for what it’s making. It just creates. And I can promise you that when you’re making an animated movie, tv show, or whatever, it will show. No one will watch a show if it’s just robotic and soulless.

"She's bald and shes torturing people with hair!"

Michel Johnson seams like a default name for a pokemon rival

Dee Wallace isn't just the mom in E.T.- she's actually a pretty prominent figure in the horror community, starring in movies like Critters, Cujo, The Hills Have Eyes, etc. Seeing her in this is... wild. She ate though

That mouth movement man, I can’t ever get enough of it.