Would you like to continue to live in the Pixar-style Karzahni-scape we were living in prior?
I mean some aspects of it (the style introduced in Tangled and which has dominated ever since) were nice but I think it’s time cartoons actually brought back the exaggerated and artistic elements possible in such a medium rather than striving solely for realism.
But hey each to their own I suppose.
Some stuff was partially rendered I believe, it was done to make it look “painted” and personally I could still see the textures, in fact better than usual, I could imagine how coarse the bears fur was for one.
To be fair that gif has been crunched up.
It’s also been a hot minute since the last one. And as others said, it’s a spin-off.
When said like this, I am reminded of the flash animations of MNOG, snappy, simplified, exaggerated so on so forth. So to me the “Sony/Dreamworks new style” fits Bionicle in a nice throw back way. Although I still believe a show format would do it justice better… you know what…I think I know some clowns embarking on such a project 
