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I mean, this is a far more sketch-heavy and weird, low-detail way of drawing the Eva characters, close to Episodes 25 and 26 of the original NGE but still not quite the same, and the ones further in the background are particularly hard to recognize. And we did get a brief glimpse of something similar to that in the piano sequence between Shinji and Kaworu in 3.0, the bizarre fairy-tale like imagery of white stallions prancing against a sky-like background. That and the general feeling that this is meant to represent some kind of ending makes me wonder if the art style later in the movie is going to be deliberately reminiscent of Episodes 25 and 26.
Those two TV episodes were completed in a mad rush while incorporating that deep character analysis into the story, hence their rather unique appearance, but it appears that Anno may be invoking that for deliberate artistic purposes this time.