Soapbox Killer
Grand Nagus
I'm almost with you. Such an outstanding film.
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Western Animation |OT| Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon
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I'm almost with you. Such an outstanding film.
Monkeylord
Member
You're in luck. I got an email from Netflix about 30mins ago letting me know they just added Season 2 today!
DICKS AHOY
Banned
Oh man I fucking ADORED Moral Orel, and like yourself originally gave it a pass since I just figured it'd be a generic parody of Davey and Goliath with LOL RELIGION IS FOR IDIOTS message. Wound up loving it, though I'm not sure I'd rank it as my favorite [adult swim] show. Still easily up there at least.
In particular, seeing them delve into what initially seemed to be a generic hypocritical Christan father-figure with Clay got legitimately unsettling for me at times, something even some of my favorite animated series can't really attest to.
Lightning_Roller
Banned
We need some Popeye love in this thread. The craziness of those shows are wonderful, as well as the absurdity of Popeye's feats!!!
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Nice!
Lightning_Roller
Banned
I really love the rubber-like animation of classic cartoons
Yep, I love it so much. It's so funny and full vigor and energy that just flies off the screen. Classic cartoons were wonderful.
Early Clone Wars is worse than Rebels, later Clone Wars is better.
You should watch Clone Wars if only to watch Ahsoka Tano grow as a character, if you liked her in Rebels.
Adam_Vania
Banned
YES the multiplane camera. i love the experimental 2.5D/3D technique they used back in the 30s. you really don't see this used much anymore.
Re-watched Tangled recently, it's so good.
Its animation is the closest that 3D has come to replicating the life of Disney's best 2D animation imo.
They did an amazing job with Rapunzel in particular.
The man is incredible, a huge inspiration.
For those that haven't seen them, here are two animation shorts he has worked on since leaving Disney:
Duet
Nephtali
He is just on another level.
Its animation is the closest that 3D has come to replicating the life of Disney's best 2D animation imo.
They did an amazing job with Rapunzel in particular.
The man is incredible, a huge inspiration.
For those that haven't seen them, here are two animation shorts he has worked on since leaving Disney:
Duet
Nephtali
He is just on another level.
You had to remind me they stopped this show after only 2 season....
I loved this show soo much
I just disliked most of the songs.
The creators wanted to stop there, right? I remember looking it up after I didn't see a season 3 and the only info I could seem to get was that the team just liked ending at 52 episodes.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Present.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I really love the rubber-like animation of classic cartoons
Never forget. It'd be great if studios stop screwing this guy over man. :/YES the multiplane camera. i love the experimental 2.5D/3D technique they used back in the 30s. you really don't see this used much anymore.
meltingparappa
Member
Several. Ask me anything (that I can't answer due to NDAs).
When's Megas XLR coming back on air
meltingparappa
Member
It's coming back this fall, in the same block as Metalocalypse, Motorcity and Superjail!
(Also by coincidence, that's a Titmouse Inc. show, which is where I work!)
Woah, I didn't know that this existed. For those in Europe, it's available on Amazon UK. Just ordered it.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
The one in New York?
Armoured Priest
Member
Re-airing the old stuff, or new stuff [Megas]?
meltingparappa
Member
Yeah! Titmouse has a home in LA, then a NY and Vancouver branch.
NY's current announced projects are Son of Zorn, Niko and the Sword of Light, Goldie and Bear, and Hasbro's Hanazuki. It's a pretty exciting variety to see on screens while walking around.
Ah sorry, that was just a joke about long dead shows that keep getting fan requests for new shows episodes. I'd personally love to see what direction a new Megas XLR season would have gone in.
You beat me to it.Lets get some pencil test in this thread.
Milt Kahl
Milt Kahl along with the rest of the Nine Old Men were phenomenal.
I always found it interesting to look at pencil tests for computer animated movies.
(Frozen)
Urgh! It's so wonderful. Wish the whole movie was like this. Granted, 3D animation has come a long way and looks fantastic, but there is just no match for the hand drawn look.
Armoured Priest
Member
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I visited that studio like six months ago. We may have met.
Paperman and Feast would disagree.
meltingparappa
Member
Whoah! What group were you with? And what desks did you stop at? If you were seeing a Hanazuki demo, there's a pretty high chance!
Nocturnowl
Member
This thread, I can dig it!
Cpt Conifer
Member
Wow, so that iconic Clayface scene wasn't even animated in Murica? Figures.
It also blew my mind that early 90s X-Men was all Korean, apparently. For later series like Evolution I thought, "Sure, that just has the look of having been outsourced", but again, not X-Men '93.
I have to propose that everything outsourced to Asia be excluded (if you have time to play detective). Which would mean, for starters, everything Avatar
On the other hand, I can entertain the argument that it shouldn't matter.meltingparappa
Member
The way outsourcing like that works is that a scene is typically storyboarded in the US, and then layout and animation is done with an overseas director. Korra for instance, is written, designed, and storyboarded in great detail in the US, but then the team has a close relationship with Studio Mir for getting a specific look out of the animation.
Fun fact about that Clayface sequence - TMS during the time of BTAS was fully staffed with vets from Akira.
Yoshinobu Michihata is the name of the animator on the transformation sequence, and he's done Akira, Ghibli, and everything inbetween.
There's a behind the scenes featurette somewhere, where Bruce Timm, Glen Murakami and the rest of them didn't realize the pedigree they were working with at first, and after they found out, it was a matter of giving them more freedom in certain moments to do what they do best.
WordAssassin
Member
Bravest Warriors and Bee & Puppycat got mentions on the first page (and a recent Bravest thread is why we have this OT now) and they're web based! I don't see any reason we should bar stuff like that from this thread if still falls under "Western Animation", unless people would prefer this to be "Wester Studio Animation" thread. Share some of your favorites!
Tizoc
Member
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I was with that Uarts group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02HmFPpYds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iaOlMcJvyU
The classic Mickey/Donald/Goofy cartoons are some of my favorite cartoons ever.
Also Tex Avery cartoons!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4hp7kd
https://vimeo.com/146014629
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3f26u0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iaOlMcJvyU
The classic Mickey/Donald/Goofy cartoons are some of my favorite cartoons ever.
Also Tex Avery cartoons!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4hp7kd
https://vimeo.com/146014629
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3f26u0
For some reason this thread is more expansive in time frame than I expected but then again all the Anime Os cover ALL anime and not just the current season so it makes sense.
The gif spam is going to be murder on browsing and posting in this thread though as sweet as they can be though
I still miss this show. One of the best cartoons in the past decade IMO
At least new Samurai Jack is upon us soon <3
The gif spam is going to be murder on browsing and posting in this thread though as sweet as they can be though
I still miss this show. One of the best cartoons in the past decade IMO
At least new Samurai Jack is upon us soon <3
First thread I've ever subscribed to!
I'll contribute by posting my favourite Looney Tunes short
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjw9ms_feed-the-kitty_tv
Chuck Jones was a master of acting and expressions. I can relate to Marc Anthony more in these 7 minutes than most characters you see in today's films.
I'll contribute by posting my favourite Looney Tunes short
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjw9ms_feed-the-kitty_tv
Chuck Jones was a master of acting and expressions. I can relate to Marc Anthony more in these 7 minutes than most characters you see in today's films.
PREACH!
meltingparappa
Member
Sorry to get your hopes up, it was just a cruel joke. It's buried deep inside a Disney vault, never to see the light of day again.They're continuing Motorcity?
Oh cool! I'm trying to remember my seat during that timeframe, but if you were shuffled into a dark pre-production room and shown some stuff about a little flower girl, I was the one giving the talk about character design and model sheets. If that doesn't sound familiar, then I think I was shuffled onto a different desk to do storyboards then.
But that's really cool! We've since moved into a MUCH nicer office. If you're still around next year, I hope your school gets to swoop through again.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Man, this medium really has too many cancelled great shows
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Oh, man. Feast hit me dead on. My buddy was having some relationship issues with his girlfriend, and I was pretty happy about it because he was around more. I realized I was the dog. I don't know if that's what they were going for, but damn did it work.
This thread is also reminding me how great Over the Garden Wall is. I need to watch that again before Halloween.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
I do miss variation in the... uh... lines in a lot of animated shows. While I do enjoy some current TV animated shows, all the line work seems to be the same.
To illustrate my point, here is the original Powerpuff Girls:
And the modern reboot:
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It's really thin.
I'm sure there's a good reason in the general shift to this style, but as a viewer I'm not a fan of how it looks.
To illustrate my point, here is the original Powerpuff Girls:
And the modern reboot:
It's really thin.
I'm sure there's a good reason in the general shift to this style, but as a viewer I'm not a fan of how it looks.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I remember seeing the storyboards, pretty sure I moved back to where James Sugrue was working. I looked around in an old sketchbook and found the two minute doodles I did.
Pretty sure they're going to Titmouse this year, that's always the most exciting studio for students since the other ones are typically Fox News and studios that specialize in making animations for an incredibly young audience.