I fail to see how someone can see this admittedly nerve-racking scene and have their first thought be, "Fuck, I want to see my sexy cat monster bounce around and slap her belly to this."
I think its even more kinda fucked up when you think about it with how he goes on to say that this Song and dancer number INSPIRED Lucy Lacemaker
Hell, her hat and Bib thing being "Made up of Dead prostitutes" and him being inspired by this song, could show that he is fully well aware of how dark it actually is, and made Lucy to follow just that.
I think its even more kinda fucked up when you think about it with how he goes on to say that this Song and dancer number INSPIRED Lucy Lacemaker
Hell, her hat and Bib thing being "Made up of Dead prostitutes" and him being inspired by this song, could show that he is fully well aware of how dark it actually is, and made Lucy to follow just that.
I think the charachter design came into his mind when he though of Lucy listening to the song, not the lore. Made the charachter, then inserted his fetishes and whacky back story and powers later.
I think its even more kinda fucked up when you think about it with how he goes on to say that this Song and dancer number INSPIRED Lucy Lacemaker
Hell, her hat and Bib thing being "Made up of Dead prostitutes" and him being inspired by this song, could show that he is fully well aware of how dark it actually is, and made Lucy to follow just that.
His favorite Decapitation and Humiliation pose is based off a real life murder where a womans head was lobbed off and contorted into a "subby" position
I’m at episode 20 of Satellite City. Here’s some tips I have for Fennah:
Don’t have a bunch of characters at once, slowly introduce them, and what they mean to the story
Make the main plot make sense, it is all over the place
Have all episodes be seven minutes long. It lacks consistency otherwise, and confuses the viewers
Make the movements of the characters be more fluid, and less static
Study actual animal movements at a zoo to get an idea of how the creatures should move
Hint: cats don’t have their tails moving all the time
Have fewer characters overall
Fewer characters can make for an easier story
Have someone proofread your work
Don’t make the dialogue sound overly smart all the time
Learn to use simplicity
Please stop having characters curse all the time
The dialogue is hard enough to understand as it is, inserting a bunch of curse words makes it more difficult
Give more distinct personalities to every character
Hint: making most of the characters a variety of edge lord is annoying
Please work on sound mixing with animation more
The slaps, hits, and claps are all off
Match the mouths more to the sounds they make. Different mouth shapes make different sounds
If people have to look at other material to understand THE MAIN STORY, your story sucks
Make the character designs simpler
There’s a reason why people remember what Mickey Mouse looks like
Over complicated designs look messy and are unappealing
Spend more time between releases of episodes to work on quality
Be more creative and come up with cool settings for characters
Having a new world for characters to interact makes all the difference
It can also lead to more creative stuff like a world completely separate from humans (hence fear of humans)
The house/outside is boring
You are not Don Bluth, so don’t try mixing live action with animation until you know more about shadows and real life interaction
If you need references of what good animation mixed with live action looks like, watch these movies: Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Pete’s Dragon, Mary Poppins
Please work on the scale of the characters
Make the characters look cuter to at least be more sympathetic
All the characters so far are butt ugly and have atrocious personalities, so if they all died in a fire, I wouldn’t care a bit
You don’t need Pixar eyes for this, just make them look friendlier
This is one of the best explanations about why everyone here had the biggest feels when bob was killed. Oh and that fish was Bob, I don't think that episode (#24) even said what the fishes name was thinking back at it.
This is one of the best explanations about why everyone here had the biggest feels when bob was killed. Oh and that fish was Bob, I don't think that episode (#24) even said what the fishes name was thinking back at it.
This right here. The characters who get the spotlight the majority of the time are utterly unsympathetic, to the point where it's basically a story full of antagonists with no real protagonist.
Fleischer is grumpy but good-hearted (comparatively anyway), which makes him endearing. Hyzenthlay's concept is interesting. Bob deserved better. Main characters need to have some sort of redeemable or sympathetic quality, or at the very least an interesting arc.
I’m at episode 20 of Satellite City. Here’s some tips I have for Fennah:
Don’t have a bunch of characters at once, slowly introduce them, and what they mean to the story
Make the main plot make sense, it is all over the place
Have all episodes be seven minutes long. It lacks consistency otherwise, and confuses the viewers
Make the movements of the characters be more fluid, and less static
Study actual animal movements at a zoo to get an idea of how the creatures should move
Hint: cats don’t have their tails moving all the time
Have fewer characters overall
Fewer characters can make for an easier story
Have someone proofread your work
Don’t make the dialogue sound overly smart all the time
Learn to use simplicity
Please stop having characters curse all the time
The dialogue is hard enough to understand as it is, inserting a bunch of curse words makes it more difficult
Give more distinct personalities to every character
Hint: making most of the characters a variety of edge lord is annoying
Please work on sound mixing with animation more
The slaps, hits, and claps are all off
Match the mouths more to the sounds they make. Different mouth shapes make different sounds
If people have to look at other material to understand THE MAIN STORY, your story sucks
Make the character designs simpler
There’s a reason why people remember what Mickey Mouse looks like
Over complicated designs look messy and are unappealing
Spend more time between releases of episodes to work on quality
Be more creative and come up with cool settings for characters
Having a new world for characters to interact makes all the difference
It can also lead to more creative stuff like a world completely separate from humans (hence fear of humans)
The house/outside is boring
You are not Don Bluth, so don’t try mixing live action with animation until you know more about shadows and real life interaction
If you need references of what good animation mixed with live action looks like, watch these movies: Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Pete’s Dragon, Mary Poppins
Please work on the scale of the characters
Make the characters look cuter to at least be more sympathetic
All the characters so far are butt ugly and have atrocious personalities, so if they all died in a fire, I wouldn’t care a bit
You don’t need Pixar eyes for this, just make them look friendlier
Everyone else is giving it their all to sit through this Satellite City nonsense, so I want to join in too!
... But 10 seconds in to Episode 1 and I'm already confused. Why is the trillion year old murderess Lucy Lacemaker taking orders from Sullivan? Why is Sullivan's opinion the only thing stopping her from fucking murdering Hyzenthlay?
Episode 3: Ludwig is 'too old for this shit' and doesn't like Christmas or something. (It also sounds odd to me that these creatures are talking of 'traditions' like Christmas when they'd be more 'fads' from their trillion-year perspective, but whatever.) Is Carmen an in-universe character or was that just an outro bit? And then is Sullivan actually Sam and not just his self-insert? Super cringey outro, by the way. Those long pauses did not need to be as long as they were. And don't call your girlfriend a hypocrite :(
Episode 5: Aww, cute! Fleischer got Winifred a Braille book so she has something to do. Maybe? Does even she know Braille? Like, am I supposed to believe that these literal monsters she hangs around with would have had the patience or disposition to tutor her to read Braille characters? (I dunno, maybe I'm just nitpicking at this point.)
Episodes 6 and 7: So Ludwig calls a meeting to scream at Wexle for enjoying Christmas and berate Shuck for not being a murderous jackass like the rest of them.
Episode 8: So this decapitation stuff Lucy does all the time is a sex thing!
Episode 9: And Ludwig calls Lucy in to drop some exposition reminisce about the past. I thought these meetings were important and that Ludwig being there was a big deal?
Episode 11: Ludwig goes full fedora-tipper in this one. And they really do just hang out with Sam Sullivan because he's an edgelord.
Episode 12: The Black Knight from The Life of Brian? Did Shuck fuck up that Monty Python reference, or did Sam?
And everyone seems really shocked that Lucy is an unstable bitch! So Lucy slashing up Hyzenthlay's face is a massive deal but full-on decapitating her wouldn't be? I guess I'm not clear on how that all works.
Also, Ludwig wasn't around so "It got out"? But hasn't it only been like a few of hours of in-universe time? And that dude at the end seemed super chill about seeing the alien thing. Runs low-effort jogs away from it for a minute or so, then comes to a complete stop to take a phone call. Then sees it coming at him again, and stands still and starts fucking texting?
Episode 13, 14 and 15: Helgan joins the party at Sullivan's house for whatever reason, and there seems to be some nonsense going down with betrayals and whatever back at 'the settlement' (for real, Ludwig leaves for a day and it all goes to shit? No wonder they don't get anything done). Lucy likes salt in her tea and we watch Sam Sullivan open mail at his desk (no joke). Everyone seems surprisingly chill. What happened to the "it" that "got out" in Episode 12? Is it coming to murder everyone or not?
Episode 17: Okay guys I confess, since everyone else has pointed out how wack the animation is in some parts and I didn't want to just pile on too much, I've been watching these episodes in blurred low-def so I could focus more on the story. That said, this dragon thing looks so out of place in the IRL backdrop that it's absolutely jarring no matter how much I fiddle with the video effects on my end.
And why do its ears look like they keep changing their size?
I’m at episode 20 of Satellite City. Here’s some tips I have for Fennah:
Don’t have a bunch of characters at once, slowly introduce them, and what they mean to the story
Make the main plot make sense, it is all over the place
Have all episodes be seven minutes long. It lacks consistency otherwise, and confuses the viewers
Make the movements of the characters be more fluid, and less static
Study actual animal movements at a zoo to get an idea of how the creatures should move
Hint: cats don’t have their tails moving all the time
Have fewer characters overall
Fewer characters can make for an easier story
Have someone proofread your work
Don’t make the dialogue sound overly smart all the time
Learn to use simplicity
Please stop having characters curse all the time
The dialogue is hard enough to understand as it is, inserting a bunch of curse words makes it more difficult
Give more distinct personalities to every character
Hint: making most of the characters a variety of edge lord is annoying
Please work on sound mixing with animation more
The slaps, hits, and claps are all off
Match the mouths more to the sounds they make. Different mouth shapes make different sounds
If people have to look at other material to understand THE MAIN STORY, your story sucks
Make the character designs simpler
There’s a reason why people remember what Mickey Mouse looks like
Over complicated designs look messy and are unappealing
Spend more time between releases of episodes to work on quality
Be more creative and come up with cool settings for characters
Having a new world for characters to interact makes all the difference
It can also lead to more creative stuff like a world completely separate from humans (hence fear of humans)
The house/outside is boring
You are not Don Bluth, so don’t try mixing live action with animation until you know more about shadows and real life interaction
If you need references of what good animation mixed with live action looks like, watch these movies: Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Pete’s Dragon, Mary Poppins
Please work on the scale of the characters
Make the characters look cuter to at least be more sympathetic
All the characters so far are butt ugly and have atrocious personalities, so if they all died in a fire, I wouldn’t care a bit
You don’t need Pixar eyes for this, just make them look friendlier
The thing is that having too many characters isn't necessarily bad for a story, but it only works if you are a skilled writer and know to seperate them, Fennah fails to understand this and shoves them all in the same place.
The thing is that having too many characters isn't necessarily bad for a story, but it only works if you are a skilled writer and know to seperate them, Fennah fails to understand this and shoves them all in the same place.
I agree. Fennah isn’t a skilled enough writer to have 10+ characters going on at once though. He should maybe focus on 5, and slowly add to that, if needed. Surely he’s watched enough television to understand how characters are introduced?
This right here. The characters who get the spotlight the majority of the time are utterly unsympathetic, to the point where it's basically a story full of antagonists with no real protagonist.
Fleischer is grumpy but good-hearted (comparatively anyway), which makes him endearing. Hyzenthlay's concept is interesting. Bob deserved better. Main characters need to have some sort of redeemable or sympathetic quality, or at the very least an interesting arc.
Fleischer, Hyzenthlay, Bob, Fontaine, and Winifred are the only Kinda hearted characters that are important to the story, and even then they are constantly over shadowed by the more popular edgelords like Lucy or Shuck, and given all the spotlight
Fleischer, Hyzenthlay, Bob, Fontaine, and Winifred are the only Kinda hearted characters that are important to the story, and even then they are constantly over shadowed by the more popular edgelords like Lucy or Shuck, and given all the spotlight
I had forgotten about Fontaine and Winifred, that's the heehoo scarecrow and mute dragon thing right?
Ludwig is probably my least favorite. Arrogant pricks like that are only really enjoyable if they get comeuppance of some sort. When I stopped watching he was still going strong.
Also, why do all these otherworldly beings have posh Earth names? Lovecraftian entities these ain't.
There's nothing wrong with having a rowdy band of asshole characters but there needs to be enough nuance to them to make them relatable. Hell, they can be sociopathic as shit so long as they're compelling enough to follow. The problem I have with this weird alien society is how cold, heartless, and overall brutal it is without much in the way of allowing the audience to feel for the characters. Empathy is discouraged, violence and humiliation take center stage, there's no warmth or joy that doesn't involve beating down on innocent parties.
Let's look at an example of a bunch of fictional asshole characters--The Batman Rogues Gallery. Are they evil? Hell yeah. Do they inflict suffering on the masses? All the time. But we see how and why they are this way and they occasionally have their moments of empathy. Even sick fucks like the Joker have a rather sad and messed up origin story that stays with the audience. Plus we see them as massive forces of evil to the point that they're really cool at what they do. They don't just stand around all the time shooting each other down. They do that AND have moments of empathy, nuance and even sometimes an odd camaraderie, and all while getting shit done for their own selfish, awful ends.
The sad thing is that Sam only needs to tweak his characters JUST a little bit more to have this effect. The Slice of Life episode was one of the few times we got to see some emotion out of these edgelords before it went back to Hot Topic bullshit.
I'm actually concerned that Lucy is based off a woman who tried to escape only to get bludgeoned. I'm not against the idea of something horrible, just look at Ripper Jack from SMT, he manages to be a character based off Jack the Ripper.
Im watching his stream, and the reason why his characters have 3 bellybuttons is because they're parasitic. He's saying that the people who get turned off by his content need to see that it's just "fiction" and that it's not real. Yes they're fucked up and morally reprehensible, but he hopes that at the very least they're interesting to hear about.
He's trying to justify writing gore porn, and not even good gore porn. It's not Rule of Rose, not Silent Hill, fucking hell it's not even Parasite Eve.
Now he's saying that some people have said to him "you must be one fucked up to make up something like this". His response is "nuh uh, I'm noice, peple have interesting ideas, everyone does!" Fuck you Sam, the reason why some of the most fucked up things written are so fucked up, are because of the experiences of the writers. This is all from his stream, start around 27:00 or so.
