one of the coolest things about song of the sea is that it's got that characteristic medieval celtic art style which cartoon saloon loves to use, but it's set in the modern day. it is so cool to get to see a take on modern cities but done in a medieval-inspired style and i would LOVE to see more of that in the world, medieval irish art style evolved and extended to exciting other places. imagine rendering a cool neon city in cartoon saloon style celtic swirls and trippy perspective where everything is very deliberately in flat layers and full of horror vacuui. imagine rendering spaceships or ponies or some other cool thing that the originators of this art style hundreds of years ago never even imagined. i want that so bad.
i just think it's cool because so many people make fun of medieval art and treat it like it was a weird obsolete non-artistic dead end, which was obsoleted by the renaissance, as though it's a "degenerate dark ages" phenomenon, as though the characteristic perspective warp in medieval art is a "mistake" by people who were simply not "sophisticated" enough to draw "correctly", rather than a stylistic convention with its own unique avenues for expression.
but the irish folklore trilogy is like taking a peek into a alternate world were this cool art style was not just thrown to the side and treated as a mistake, but rather embraced as something wonderful enough to build upon and experiment with and mingle with other art styles and even use it to make animation! that's so cool!! wowow!!