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Prophetic Spirit said:
That's peak Disney TVA.
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Whenever I see a contrived superhero origin story in media, I think back to the Ned Frischman episode:

"Yes, Ned's depressing little life seems pointless, indeed. Until one fateful day, when a firey comet hits Ned's zipper! Seconds later, a secret experimental laser bombards the zipper with hyper-violet mercury rays! Then, it is doused with mysterious chemicals, stuck by the mystical powers of the Norse gods, bitten by a radioactive grasshopper, and taught the arcane ability to cloud men's mind by an inscrutable monk!"

Ned: "Wow! That hardly ever happens!"
 
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Magic Sun Daddy said:
Whenever I see a contrived superhero origin story in media, I think back to the Ned Frischman episode:

"Yes, Ned's depressing little life seems pointless, indeed. Until one fateful day, when a firey comet hits Ned's zipper! Seconds later, a secret experimental laser bombards the zipper with hyper-violet mercury rays! Then, it is doused with mysterious chemicals, stuck by the mystical powers of the Norse gods, bitten by a radioactive grasshopper, and taught the arcane ability to cloud men's mind by an inscrutable monk!"

Ned: "Wow! That hardly ever happens!"
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SpongeBob did something similar in the Season 8 episode "Mermaid Man Begins":
  • Johnny: The story of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy all started here. [The TV zooms in on a series of red apartment buildings]
  • Tim: [Barnacle Boy is now a young adult dressed in a white t-shirt and jeans, in front of the television sitting on a couch] Come on, Ernie! The movie's about to start... Where's the popcorn?
  • Ernie: [Mermaid Man is now a young adult dressed in a striped shirt and khakis. He is waiting next to the microwave in the kitchen] It's in the microwave, Tim.
  • Johnny: [talking very rapidly as the scene he is describing unfolds as he is talking] At that very moment in the apartment directly above, a rogue scientist doing tests on radioactive ants knocks over a jar of his infected specimens, one of which, without any hesitation, crawls down one floor and miraculously lands undetected. It viciously bites our soon-to-be superhero. He screams in pain, ...
  • Ernie: Ahh!
  • Johnny: ...stumbling backwards.
  • Tim: What on earth?
  • Johnny: In a split-second, both men find themselves in a freefall that sends them squarely through the roof of a vats of acid factory, and into a vat of acid that is tipped over by an errant alien spaceship, carrying the two blindly on a wave of acid during a solar eclipse on a leap year, precariously careening onto a bomb-testing site, where a cataclysmic explosion exposes our heroes in waiting to highly toxic radium gases. Then, as fate would have it, magical storm clouds move in, zapping both men with a neon-plaid lightning bolt and raining radioactive ooze, which, through centrifugal and electromagnetic turbulence, causes a powerful earthquake deep in the jungle two-thousand miles away, consequently unearthing a magical crystal with wings that flies to Ernie and Tim's exact location, and, powered by super gamma energy currents, pilots them to open skies until, not paying attention, the crystal clips the top of a billboard, flinging the two back to their apartment miraculously unharmed, when... [microwave beeps]
  • Ernie: Hey, the popcorn's ready!
  • Johnny: ...they proceed with movie night and eat slightly overcooked popcorn.
  • Tim: Mmmm... I think you overcooked this a little.
  • Johnny: Suddenly, an amazing reaction to the overcooked popcorn hits them with a jolt of cosmic super energy, metamorphosing Ernie into an incredibly strong, seastar-wearing superhero and Tim into a slightly less strong, but also super sailor-looking guy.
  • Tim: I have the sudden and incredibly urge to breathe water instead of air.
  • Ernie: As do I.
  • Johnny: And that is how they became the superheroes we have come to know as... [the heroes dive into the ocean from a dock and pose] Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy: Defenders of the Deep! [The End graphic appears on the TV]
 
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Shidoen said:
Could be, but I just like how it changes things up every few seconds as it’s a bit more unique compared to other adult swim shows.

Well it doesn’t have a curse word or lewd joke every few seconds so it has potential.
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Animator responsible appears to be Sarah Mae Schmidt if you want to see whatever smaller projects they're putting on Youtube.

Only found out cause the above got randomly recommended after watching the gas station thing ages ago.
 
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Mr. Nobodyguy 202 said:
>mfw FOP or other nicktoons doesn’t get asset leaks similar to Spongbob has now.
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Computer Guardian said:
There was that one time when models and assets from the original Jimmy Neutron movie was leaked alongside source code for an unrelated tie in game to the series almost two years ago.
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Funny thing is this, neither asset leaks for Avatar TLA, Fairly Oddparents, Jimmy Neutron, Back at the Barnyard, Invader Zim and Ren & Stimpy, while also objectively big name Nicktoons, were as huge as SpongeBob and its leaks
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
The first Ice Age movie is already ~22 years old.
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Oh Lordy, where has the time gone?
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*sigh*
 
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Recently saw the first Ice Age movie again after not seeing it since it first came out (IIRC). The 3DCG in it looked like "a hybrid of '80s and current 3DCG" (like the effect of ice or ground cracking looked kinda unrealistic), which I didn't see first seeing it.

Deadwaste said:
matt damon turning into an old man gif
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Kari Kamiya said:
where has the time gone?
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TVB said:
22 years old this year
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And while the first Toy Story movie coming out may seem quite awhile ago, it was out less than a decade before the first Ice Age, Jimmy Neutron, and Jonah (VeggieTales) movies. Looks like it could be that odd "2010s were a blur" phenomenon striking yet again.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Recently saw the first Ice Age movie again after not seeing it since it first came out (IIRC). The 3DCG in it looked like "a hybrid of '80s and current 3DCG" (like the effect of ice or ground cracking looked kinda unrealistic), which I didn't see first seeing it.
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Both Jimmy Neutron and Ice Age have very dated CG animation, especially during the time they both came out. That said, these were excusable as they are both comedy gold, even to this day
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Early SB (the first few seasons) looks much better than Zombie Simpsons SpongeBob, like it emphasizing that the characters are sea creatures living underwater.

With what little I've seen of newer SB, it seems the show "kind of forgets" the characters are sea creatures living underwater. The pace and action seems overly hyperactive. And SpongeBob has a more irritating voice,
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It's right around after the 1st movie aired in theaters that the show decided to go down south, and i firmly believe it decided to just copy "Ren & Stimpy" (which is a bit ironic since I think a few people from Spumco/Games went to work on Spongebob) but completely forgets what made R&S popular in the first place. Instead you have Spongebob and Patrick being the "Stimpy" (loveable retards that get constantly mocked for being retarded), while Squidward is totally the Ren (prick who get's the shit kicked out of him constantly, hence the "Squidward Torture Porn").

The show went from "sea creatures having cooky adventures in the sea" to "sitcom #83278323 in which we can try to push the envlope as much as possible without getting canceled"
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
(so was Hoodwinked)
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I thought for a while that it was done by using Softimage, but no it actually was done in Maya.
TheAmbiguousLurker said:
Wasn't Hoodwink's animators legit newbies who had to learn how to animate all throughout the film's production?
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Yes. A majority of animation as done by would-be animators who knew almost nothing about animation going in was done in a small shed in Hungary. I'm not kidding.
 
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