Wild that somebody thought this was an improvement.
What the actual FUCK is that???
I think they cheaped out and re-filmed a bunch of action figures. :-)
The "enhanced" image looks a lot like those retouched Russian photos from the Stalinist era
Exactly. It looks airbrushed as hell.
It's aggressively de-noised. Very much like modern phone cameras do these days: almost looks like a watercolour painting in some cases.
I really hate the result, they apply something like some gaussian filter followed by deconvolution which makes people's faces very uncanny: super soft skin with super sharp wrinkles