Topic: Horrible Round Eye Animation (Read 60334 times)

Royal☭ · « **Reply #280 on:** March 18, 2011, 04:43:28 PM »

I gotta admit

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Officially announced last April, Ultimate Spider-Man boasts an impressive creative team that includes Brian Michael Bendis, Paul Dini, Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey, Joe Kelly and Steven T. Seagle.

That's a pretty legit creative team though. I think the thing that stings the most was that Spectacular was pretty much Ultimate Spider-man already. If they'd just renamed it, you might not have noticed a difference.

That said, I wavered between Amazing Spider-Man as a film for a while, with some things looking good, some things not as exciting, but man, when they talked about JJJ in the film...

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The character apparently doesn’t appear in The Amazing Spider-Man

It's like they just intentionally shot themselves in the leg. It's like a Superman film without Jimmy Olsen for some reason.

Thad · « **Reply #281 on:** March 19, 2011, 10:38:57 AM »

Quote from: Constantmean on March 18, 2011, 04:43:28 PM

That's a pretty legit creative team though. I think the thing that stings the most was that Spectacular was pretty much Ultimate Spider-man already. If they'd just renamed it, you might not have noticed a difference.

It's just a name; this isn't going to be a straight-up adaptation of the USM comic, it sounds more like Spider-Man: The Brave and the Bold.

But your point stands: they could have rebranded it and continued the series with a new high concept, JLU-style.

More than anything it sounds like it was a rights SNAFU between Sony and Disney, most likely exacerbated by the cancellation of the 4kids Saturday morning block.

teg · « **Reply #282 on:** March 23, 2011, 06:16:23 AM »

Rango is pretty fantastic you guys.

Someone walked out of the theater during it. Who does that?

Niku · « **Reply #283 on:** March 25, 2011, 06:03:37 AM »

Sym-bionic Titan cancelled, Tartakovsky leaves Cartoon Network for Sony Pictures Animation.

Büge · « **Reply #284 on:** March 25, 2011, 06:44:51 AM »

So they never produced any toys... and then cancelled the show because it wasn't selling toys.

Classic · « **Reply #285 on:** March 25, 2011, 07:18:11 AM »

Truly a bleak day for us all.

Thad · « **Reply #286 on:** March 25, 2011, 08:16:06 PM »

Quote from: Büge on March 25, 2011, 06:44:51 AM

So they never produced any toys... and then cancelled the show because it wasn't selling toys.

Remember how JLU was cancelled after 5 years because that's the maximum period of time a cartoon can be expected to sell toys?

And how they're still making and selling new JLU toys 5 years later?

Brentai · « **Reply #287 on:** March 25, 2011, 09:51:09 PM »

Quote from: Niku on March 25, 2011, 06:03:37 AM

Tartakovsky leaves Cartoon Network for Sony Pictures Animation.

Mongrel · « **Reply #288 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:44:59 AM »

Soooo... it really IS still the 80's.

teg · « **Reply #289 on:** March 26, 2011, 12:12:47 PM »

Oh man the new Titan.

Mothra · « **Reply #290 on:** March 26, 2011, 01:52:43 PM »

Quote from: Niku on March 25, 2011, 06:03:37 AM

Sym-bionic Titan cancelled, Tartakovsky leaves Cartoon Network for Sony Pictures Animation.

Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Animation#Filmography

Feature films
Open Season
Surf's Up
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Short films
The ChubbChubbs!
Early Bloomer
Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run
The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas

Direct-to-video
Open Season 2
Open Season 3

Upcoming films
The Smurfs
Arthur Christmas
Hotel Transylvania
Popeye
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Rollercoaster Tycoon

OKAY I think we're done here.

Niku · « **Reply #291 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:58:18 PM »

oh fuck right off cloudy with a chance of meatballs is FANTASTIC

teg · « **Reply #292 on:** March 26, 2011, 06:50:11 PM »

Highest of fives, Niku.

The rest is utter shit, though.

Thad · « **Reply #293 on:** March 31, 2011, 10:31:21 PM »

I mentioned earlier that the complete '02 He-Man was only about $8 at Amazon; I finally bought a copy for myself.

First of all, it's fairly clear where they passed the savings on to you: open up the clamshell case and there's just a stack of DVD's in sleeves in it. Nothing else. Looks like it was done at Kinko's.

According to the packaging, though, the discs DO have extras, including a dozen commentaries, some artist interviews, and a comic book adaptation of the script that would have kicked off the next season if there had been one. (Haven't checked it out yet but I suspect it was already published by MV Creations when they did the comic adaptation of the show; I doubt they put together a comic just for this release, but it's possible they DID give it a budget and decided to skimp on the packaging at the last minute.)

The episodes look decent enough; there are some jaggies here and there but the picture's pretty good quality. They've cut the opening titles and scene-change graphics from season 2(? Whatever the episodes were that were after the original ones but before Rise of the Snake Men) into the earlier episodes, and there are also morals at the end of the episodes like in the original series, which I don't remember seeing on the CN run. (I also don't remember them being 16:9; were they, or did they cut the top and bottom off the picture?)

Also, they have chapter breaks, which Batman: TAS never fucking bothered to give us.

Mothra · « **Reply #294 on:** April 01, 2011, 06:23:40 AM »

What th

Skeletor has a full backstory now? Complete with ironic tragedy and a sanity-shattering Joker moment?

Thad · « **Reply #295 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:59:20 AM »

I gathered that he was already insane (and actually "he used to be called Keldor" was addressed at some point in the original He-Man materials, possibly in the minicomics that came with the toys -- by the by, Bruce Timm did some of those), but yeah, the acid-in-the-face disfigurement was pure Batman.

Talking of comics and origins, the highlight of the modern MotU comic was a series of one-shots under the Icons of Evil banner, each of which told one of the villains' origin stories. I appreciated them as great comics at the time but it wasn't until years later that I recognized Robert Kirkman's name on the covers.

teg · « **Reply #296 on:** April 20, 2011, 01:30:36 PM »

Also although this is pretty late but I'd just like to say that Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is what happened the last time somebody creative got screwed by a network and left for Sony.

BUT ENOUGH OF THAT.

Wakfu is on a roll after the shaky start the season had.

I love that the current approach to monster design is "the MMO can go fuck itself".

These two in particular are pretty much the best thing.

I also re-watched Cats Don't Dance for the first time in years. It's pretty much as good as I remember it! I did notice for the first time, however, the use of colour throughout the film. Every character literally gets brighter when they're happy (that is, when they're singing and dancing) and becomes more desaturated when they're not. It's pretty clever and subtle for a kids' movie. Also, it has this:

As well as the implication that either animals never age or that Casablanca, Grumpy Old Men, and Batman and Robin were made within a few years of one another.

Classic · « **Reply #297 on:** April 20, 2011, 09:39:14 PM »

I thought it was that stars never age? Simply being iconic imbues you with youth.

Thad · « **Reply #298 on:** May 03, 2011, 08:50:00 PM »

Caught the first ep of the new Looney Tunes Show tonight. It was about what I expected: I really like the new character models, and the animation is good for being done on the cheap, but the writing leaves a lot to be desired. The pace was too slow, the plot was too sitcom-y, not one single person got shot in the face, and while I admire going into the archives and digging up some lesser-known characters rather than just hit us with all the A-listers out the gate, did anybody, anywhere want to see the obnoxious goddamn gophers ever again?

Could still be good -- I remember Tiny Toons and Animaniacs didn't exactly nail it right out the gate either. And it IS pretty.

LaserBeing · « **Reply #299 on:** May 03, 2011, 08:57:22 PM »

Haven't seen any of it but I imagine it still suffers from the same problem they've had since Tiny Toons: cartoon gags scripted by TV writers rather than by animators.

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