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More recent shows. Steven Universe, Owl House, maybe Amphibia (though I'm unsure about that last one). It's not to say that every episode that could be considered filler is terrible per se, but a lot of the time they only serve to flesh out background characters and act as world building instead tying into the climax of each show.
Just the idea of modern animated kids shows that try to ape the anime-style writing, especially using filler episodes, is horribly redundant
Did we ever find out who those kids in the intro were, or did everyone assume it was the producers' kids?

I just love how you can hear the other kids coming through with the second kid's audio lol.
As with many things, it will be a mystery until some diehard SpongeBob fan ends up researching and confirming
 
Just the idea of modern animated kids shows that try to ape the anime-style writing, especially using filler episodes, is horribly redundant
Eh, 90's western cartoons like Gargoyles dabbled with that sort of thing too. Certain tropes though? Absolutely.
 
One of the kids did a Reddit AMA, her dad worked at Nick.

Not that she gives any hard proof, but her claim tracks in my opinion.
She claims that she is the daughter of the late Tuck Tucker, whose resume is very interesting. His notable works he's been involved with were SpongeBob, Looney Tunes, Simpsons, Family Guy, Fairly Oddparents, Jimmy Neutron, Ren & Stimpy and Hey Arnold. His latest work was his involvement on the Bob's Burgers movie, which was posthumously released a year and a half later
 
DreamWorks Animation’s ‘The Wild Robot’ To Bring Life To Early Fall 2024 Box Office

That...actually sounds like an interesting premise, if put in the right hands.

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LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO HE FINALLY GOT TO DO THE TYPE OF STORY HE'S BEEN WANTING TO TACKLE SINCE HIS DAYS AT DISNEY
First trailer for it dropped today:
>no dialogue for the animals OR the robot
>movie looks gorgeous
>head of story for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is on this one
>directed by Chris Sanders

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Guys.....throw out the rainbows....but The Prince of Egypt might finally be de-throned by this as Dreamworks' best animated film yet.
 
Regular Show is on Israeli Netflix and I'm trying really hard not to binge the everloving shit out of it
Is that show even good. I remember seeing like an episode or two and it didn't really do anything for me. I gave up on CN right around that point, Chowder and Flapjack were the last cartoons from that channel I binged watched
 
Is that show even good. I remember seeing like an episode or two and it didn't really do anything for me. I gave up on CN right around that point, Chowder and Flapjack were the last cartoons from that channel I binged watched
It's okay, gets old after a few seasons when the scenarios start blending in with each other and they wring out all the goodwill by totally mishandling their main romance plot. I only watched it because people kept bringing it up in conversations about where Adventure Time fucked up.
 
First trailer for it dropped today:
>no dialogue for the animals OR the robot
>movie looks gorgeous
>head of story for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is on this one
>directed by Chris Sanders

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Guys.....throw out the rainbows....but The Prince of Egypt might finally be de-throned by this as Dreamworks' best animated film yet.
My retarded brother (same one who doesn't know his Elmur Fudd facts) says it looks stupid despite having liked Puss in Boots 2 and everything else of Sanders'. I need to stop engaging with him about this.

Only connoisseurs of the art of animation will appreciate the beauty of this film—meaning it may become a cult classic at best. Which is fine by me tbh, but not when DreamWorks has been financially struggling.
 
Only connoisseurs of the art of animation will appreciate the beauty of this film—meaning it may become a cult classic at best. Which is fine by me tbh, but not when DreamWorks has been financially struggling.
Apparently, this is Dreamworks Animation's final movie to be fully animated in-house at Glendale before they lay off all their animators and get outsourced animation for their movies from Sony's ImageWorks Studio.

Also apparently Chris pitched the idea for the trailer himself:
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First trailer for it dropped today:
>no dialogue for the animals OR the robot
>movie looks gorgeous
>head of story for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is on this one
>directed by Chris Sanders

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Guys.....throw out the rainbows....but The Prince of Egypt might finally be de-throned by this as Dreamworks' best animated film yet.
The West’s Nier Automata has arrived.

In all seriousness it looks beautiful. The plot seems like it may be a nature vs machine with a machine forming the balance plot. Reminds me a lot of ABZU, except with a Wilderness setting rather than an ocean.

Is that show even good. I remember seeing like an episode or two and it didn't really do anything for me. I gave up on CN right around that point, Chowder and Flapjack were the last cartoons from that channel I binged watched
I gave up on it after Highway 9B. It is a fun romp, but I feel it lacks a lasting power in many areas. Shows like Adventure Time and Steven may be more fundamentally flawed, but they are far more memorable in the risks they took.

A good chunk of the show’s legacy will be in how much it got away with early on. It was far more vulgar in season 1, but got slowly more sanitized as it continued, killing off much of the appeal.
 
Opinions on Star Vs?
I didn’t like it or Gravity Falls. Tried watching them and couldn’t see the appeal. I cannot exactly point to why, but even in their time, they never caught my attention. If I had to guess, I probably just didn’t like the casts. Star/Mabel was probably too hyper active for me to want to follow and the rest just felt like they lacked something. I also feel like they were given less freedom due to Disney, so the CN duo came off more risky in humor and content.
 
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Apparently, this is Dreamworks Animation's final movie to be fully animated in-house at Glendale before they lay off all their animators and get outsourced animation for their movies from Sony's ImageWorks Studio.
The look and feel and sound is beautiful. No wonder it's on the chopping block.
 
Supposedly this is the plot of Coyote Vs. Acme, and it's just banal-sounding enough to probably be real.

https://pastebin.com/Gz1f3VsJ

They named the law firm that represents Coyote "Avery, Jones & Maltese" so you know this is a movie made by true fans of animation, and not just lazy IP rebooters consulting the internet for references they can jam in there.

After fleeing for their lives, they inspect the box and find a strange cartoon paint can inside, which Wile uses to paint a tunnel on the wall, which they enter. Inside the tunnel, they find an image of a man pushing a boulder up a hill and a secret message to Daffy mentioning something called "Project Sisyphus", but are forced to flee an oncoming train before they can read further. The Acme operative spying on them is revealed to be an older, bitter Tweety, who reports to someone that they know about Project Sisyphus.

That's what people want to see in Looney Toons animated projects, older bitter versions of characters and plot twists right out of a book on Screenwriting 101. It just screams "fun".
 
First trailer for it dropped today:
>no dialogue for the animals OR the robot
>movie looks gorgeous
>head of story for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is on this one
>directed by Chris Sanders

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Guys.....throw out the rainbows....but The Prince of Egypt might finally be de-throned by this as Dreamworks' best animated film yet.
Who would've thought the same studio that made Shark Tale, Turbo, that shitty Spirit sequel or the fucking Trolls movies can still make masterpieces like Megamind, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and both Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon movies, and this is looking like another masterpiece in the making from the studio
Remember when Spielberg and Tim Burton made Family Dog, which was adapted from an Amazing Stories episode
At 8:50, "Free show". Burton and Spielberg did that.
Had the show not been heavily marketed during the 1991 CBS airing of the Grammy awards despite its delay to the next year in 1992, then it would've been a moderate hit, but then again Brad Bird wouldn't write some good classic Simpsons episodes nor make The Iron Giant, Incredibles or Ratatouille
 
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