Uhhhhh, not to disagree with your point or anything, but what in the farm-fresh fuck does that have to do with Planet Sheen? Maybe you were confused on Red Acres' direction. It was meant to be a completely CGI series, like Jimmy Neutron was, not a live-action/CGI hybrid.
Didn’t read that exact part, my bad on that. My brain must have stopped working when I only saw “CGI series” and I immediately thought of a live action/CGI movie for some reason.
Budget reasons. You can't animate a show like the game with a normal TV budget.
Exactly my point. "Hand-drawn" animation is almost always exclusively done for TV these days (at least, here in the US), because it's cheaper. But by going this route, you risk sacrificing what made the game so special in the first place. I was just pointing out the sad irony in how such a fluidly-animated game has to be simplified to regular-ass Toon Boom animation to have a chance at television. Sucks, but that's the world we live in, I guess.
I'm just as bothered by the way the characters talk and there mannerisms. They don't seem to act or talk at all like a cartoon character from the 30s and 40s would. They seem more like characters from a cartoon in the present day.
Funny you mention that, given that the original had several episodes animated in Flash. And the animation in this being in ToonBoom just feels like an evolution of those episodes.
I don't have the biggest nostalgia boner but yeah there's a certain weirdness seeing a modern cartoon trying to emulate the 30's.
This feels more like a successor to the Mickey Mouse shorts rather than being a 'tribute' to the black and white days.
I really was amazed by how well they replicated a 30s cartoon for the video game. To get that level of detail in a TV cartoon is, well, incredibly expensive.
The video game went through a lot of time and effort to make it work, and that's why it succeeded. It went through great lengths to make it 'feel' like you're witnessing something that was from the past. They even went for full water colored backgrounds rather then going for digital backgrounds. The cartoon from Netflix might be fun in its own way.
Speaking of which, seems this guy who worked on the show isn't taking criticism so lightly
>a non-binary bi person
"WHAT YOU MEAN THIS ANIMATION LOOKS GREAT OH I'M SORRY THEY CAN'T ANIMATE IN PENCIL AND INK WHILE BEING OVERWORKED, DRUNK, AND FALLING OUT OF A BUILDING! FROM ALL THE PAINT THEY HUFFED"
There could totally have been some kind of compromise here to make it look like the old style while not being strictly made in the exact way they used to make them. Would it require effort? Sure. Would it require nearly the same effort it took in the old days? Absolutely not, it’s been 100 years. You could probably make a pretty good digital approximation at this point, which this… isn’t.
The big problem seems to be the in-betweens. The stills look pretty good, the backgrounds are amazing, the character designs are okay enough for what's needed. In-motion though, because tweening is being handled by an algorithm in software, it gives off that "Toonboom" feel. The hope, if I had to take a guess, is since Mercury Filmworks is doing the animation that this is a case of them getting used to the new rigs and that by the 2nd season (if there IS a second season), they can get a much better budget and allow either Mercury or another animation studio to make it much more in-line with the games.
