Cartoon Industry thread - Showcasing the Spergery of the Animation Industry

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Adventure time is the best barometer for the decline of Cartoon Network into wokeshit at least imo. Early seasons are just fun adventures of a boy and his dog, with some weird shit and minimal connective tissue between them. But as it goes on, you get less and less Finn and Jake, and more "lore", more focus on secondary characters, more "serious" episodes, until you're left with something basically unrecognizable from its original form.

I can't levy too much blame on the creator given he basically handed the reins off after a few seasons to Rebecca Sugar and co, but ultimately, man let his show get mutated into the patient Zero of decline era CN.
 
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Colon capital V said:
But yes, taking the time to get the look and aesthetic of old cartoons down takes a lot of time and care, and companies aren't about "artistic quality", they just need something quick and easy sent out to the masses as fast as possible, no time for experimenting.
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There's this program called moho where you can have a 2d rig look like hand drawn animation and make clean up a lot easier from what I've seen in demo ads. There's this animated short called "a love letter to LA" that uses generative ink and color through this comfy ui thing they sat up. It's an intresting video one of the very few examples of gen ai not being used for either gooner spankbank, dystopia, or legitimizing the dead internet theory.


How the fuck is good looking 2d animation not any cheaper or quicker to make now? Then these morons wonder why the chinks are winning. I think implmeanting generative AI like they did in a love letter to la in a studio project might make the overworking problem even worse though. It happened with chinese concept game artists where they where more "productive" but it had them working to the bone. Instead of working on one or two projects they'd probably pile up 20 on your ass.
 
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𖦹Junkpop𖦹 said:
There's this program called moho where you can have a 2d rig look like hand drawn animation and make clean up a lot easier from what I've seen in demo ads. There's this animated short called "a love letter to LA" that uses generative ink and color through this comfy ui thing they sat up. It's an intresting video one of the very few examples of gen ai not being used for either gooner spankbank, dystopia, or legitimizing the dead internet theory.


How the fuck is good looking 2d animation not any cheaper or quicker to make now? Then these morons wonder why the chinks are winning. I think implmeanting generative AI like they did in a love letter to la in a studio project might make the overworking problem even worse though. It happened with chinese concept game artists where they where more "productive" but it had them working to the bone. Instead of working on one or two projects they'd probably pile up 20 on your ass.
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I saw a post on A&N positing that cheap labor actually ends up cramping innovation, citing the fact that Japan started using LIDAR strawberry pickers since they don't have a big immigrant population that they use to do it for them. I think it also applies to American animators. In reality they're too used to their version of chatgpt called korean animators.
 
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Reminmyster said:
New amazing world of gumball under the name of the wonderfully weird world of gumball. It seems like CN sold the rights to hulu.
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Gumball differs from other Cartoon Network productions in that it wasn't made by their internal studio, nor WB animation, but a 3rd studio in Europe,Cartoon Network Studios Europe. As it just so happens, in 2021, the studio was renamed to Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe.

This is funny when you take into account that Hanna-Barbera was one of the original studios acquired by Ted Turner when he was starting CN, and later on the studio would produce a lot of CN's early original shows like Dexter, Johnny Bravo, and PPG. Cartoon Network Studios would later become its own independent studio in the late 90s up until it was absorbed into WB after crap hit the fan. Hanna-Barbera, meanwhile, stuck around in name only once they went belly-up in 2001. After William Hanna died, WB absorbed them much like what happened to CN Studios a few years back.
 
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Apparently Nico Colaleo is low on money and has started a GoFundMe to help with his living costs.
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Edit: Nico has made a statement.
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Lone Star said:
So this is just a scam at this point, right? Are they even like, trying to do anything anymore?
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after they larped as advocates for animators and shitting on AI they started to fall off after the strikes and shit calmed down and deals were made. This is an attempt to make a profit after they collectively dumped too much time and money into making the studio or whatever you want to call it. IIRC they bought most of their tik tok views
 
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Battlefield2142EU said:
Breadtuber Anthony Gramuglia not only white knighting the Harley Quinn fart comic. He outright saying Harley Quinn original creator saying they never planned for her to be a dyke should be ignored.
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Not watching that brap - yet I will bite:
Did he had that revelation to him on a dream or is it the rambling of his schizophrenic head?
 
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