Inactive Andrew Dobson / Tom Preston / CattyN - STOP DOING SEXIST CRAP

RazorBackBacon said:
In general, yes. But would anyone really watch a Dobson animation at his current degraded skill level?
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Even at his best, his animations were rather amateurish. I mean, not entirely horrible, but also far from being impressive. His demo-reel contains a few pieces of decent animation tbh. Like, it's not Dingo-Pictures levels of incompetence, but it's a far cry from even stuff like Bevanfield.

Much like his regular art it would have been good enough as a starting point, if he had churned out works while busting his ass to improve his skills over time. He could have made quite good animations, but he slacked off and never improved his skills in art and he never really used his skills as an animator.

He can't draw hands, he can't draw general anatomy, he can't compose an image, he can't use lineweight to his advantage, he can't ink, he can't shade, he can't make backgrounds, he can't draw characters interacting with each other or with objects (it always looks disjointed in a spatial sense)... that's the stuff that he can't do for still images.

There's a really amazing webcomic called "Unsounded" (check it out), the artist does panels with animated bits every now and then and that's exactly the kind of thing that Dobson could have done, make a regular webcomic with some tiny animations in it here and there and he would have been using his skills in a way that would have made his comic stand out from everyone else in a way not many can match.
For an example from Unsounded, check out this page and click to the next two. Both feature some form of moving bits, the last features a gif. Check out how the background changes and the little animations, it's pretty cool.
Not only does this stand out against regular webcomics, it also uses the very format to do something, printed stuff can't do. The artist doesn't do this often, but when she does, it's usually something really cool.
 
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Given Dobson's dislike of Halloween, I wonder what other holidays he reacts badly to. He's not into Hanukkah, we know that. Maybe he dreads Valentine's Day because the only valentine he gets are from Momson? She has to make sure he gets at least one. Does he hide under the bed on the Fourth of July? Or just grumble at how annoying the noise of fireworks are? I could see him going either way. On the one hand, he'd be annoyed at the noise and/or the idea of people having fun watching the show, and on the other he could complain to social media about his "PSTD"
 
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UtopiaGuy said:
Given Dobson's dislike of Halloween, I wonder what other holidays he reacts badly to. He's not into Hanukkah, we know that. Maybe he dreads Valentine's Day because the only valentine he gets are from Momson? She has to make sure he gets at least one. Does he hide under the bed on the Fourth of July? Or just grumble at how annoying the noise of fireworks are? I could see him going either way. On the one hand, he'd be annoyed at the noise and/or the idea of people having fun watching the show, and on the other he could complain to social media about his "PSTD"
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I'd wager his favorite is thanksgiving because it's not only a chance to engage in gluttony, but also lust while he watches the Macy's parade.
 
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I have to wonder what Dobson thought of a throwaway Lucky Charm on his most favorited lesbuns show, Miraculous Ladybug, (specifically the New York special) which happened to be a bicycle pump. Makes one wonder if two years ago Thomas Astruc looked at Dobson's tumblr or instagram page because of all the Ladybug fan art Dobson was cranking out. (Astruc claims it's 2 years from when a script first goes in, until the finished product of an episode)

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The tired cat said:
Nah, he hates Christmas and actually does like Thanksgiving
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It's another excuse to make him fat.
That's my reasoning behind it, anyway.


Koby_Fish said:
I have to wonder what Dobson thought of a throwaway Lucky Charm on his most favorited lesbuns show, Miraculous Ladybug, (specifically the New York special) which happened to be a bicycle pump. Makes one wonder if two years ago Thomas Astruc looked at Dobson's tumblr or instagram page because of all the Ladybug fan art Dobson was cranking out. (Astruc claims it's 2 years from when a script first goes in, until the finished product of an episode)

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He probably saw this and popped a huge boner the size of a Macy's Thanksgiving Day float. Which is quite the accomplishment since by default, his coconuts have yet to be uncovered under his copious rolls of fat.



On a side note, I am curious. Did Dobson ever draw himself holding a bicycle pump?
 
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
Even at his best, his animations were rather amateurish. I mean, not entirely horrible, but also far from being impressive. His demo-reel contains a few pieces of decent animation tbh. Like, it's not Dingo-Pictures levels of incompetence, but it's a far cry from even stuff like Bevanfield.

Much like his regular art it would have been good enough as a starting point, if he had churned out works while busting his ass to improve his skills over time. He could have made quite good animations, but he slacked off and never improved his skills in art and he never really used his skills as an animator.
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It's actually worse than that. If you watch his old animations, a few things stand out:
  1. He does not use a character reference sheet. For example: in the bullying animation (can't find it on YouTube, but Ken Ashcorp put it in his rant about Dobbles; the timestamp should be right), the victim goes from having a sweater and a backpack to just a t-shirt. Additionally, the Bully magically lets go of the victim so he can flinch.
  2. To build on the point above, it may also be that he doesn't storyboard his animation, so he has no clue how the action is supposed to flow and gets scenes mixed up in his head.
  3. He does not use a timing sheet. In animation, a timing sheet is a special chart that allows animators to break down the flow of dialogue and action into a handy frame-by-frame reference. If Dobson's animations look stiff and jerky, this is why. He has no sense of timing, or how long an action is supposed to take place, and no reference to work from, so he's winging it.
As you said, he could have been great if he'd just knuckled down and worked his way up to Disney, but no, in his arrogance he expected the Mouse to accept him right away. If he had been born ten years later, it might've worked out that way (as it did for Alex Hirsch).

And props to Dobbles for keeping his head down for well over a year. Hopefully, the fact that nobody wants to go to the trouble of finding him hammers home how low a view people have of him (if he's still alive.)
 
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UtopiaGuy said:
Given Dobson's dislike of Halloween, I wonder what other holidays he reacts badly to. He's not into Hanukkah, we know that. Maybe he dreads Valentine's Day because the only valentine he gets are from Momson? She has to make sure he gets at least one. Does he hide under the bed on the Fourth of July? Or just grumble at how annoying the noise of fireworks are? I could see him going either way. On the one hand, he'd be annoyed at the noise and/or the idea of people having fun watching the show, and on the other he could complain to social media about his "PSTD"
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I'm almost positive that he's expressed that he hates the 4th of July because of "cook outs" and the "loud fireworks".

I'm sure the Hypocrisy tumblr has that DA journal saved where he basically shat on every holiday by finding one thing about it that he didn't like.
 
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El Rodrigo said:
If Dobson was pissed at cookouts, maybe he once tried to show off his Kermit/Spongebob impression at one and the neighbours ran him off for scaring the kids and making them cry.
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well that, and people are invariably at cookouts. Dobson is not a people-person. Also I remember he claimed he had agoraphobia.
 
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Sexy Senior Citizen said:
if he's still alive
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He's definitely out there but it's still funny that while he believes people are obsessed with him, they are so obsessed nobody cares much about actually trying to find him at all :story:
He will appear when he appears, will give himself away like with that Youtube account and so on. Just to know his """harassers""" know he's around and, even if he disappears, people won't shut up about him must piss him off. And that's hilarious.
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Dobbo, you read these threads so, hey, do anything you need for as long as you need to. Only time will prove that you will find your way into the farms again eventually. And nobody has to even try. It will be very low-effort, just like your art and animations. And life.
 
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Dobson's flaws could easily be overlooked if he wasn't such an outright ass to people.
At surface value, nothing seems really wrong with his art, and I have said in the past that there is a bit of a charm to it.

But because he decided to play holier-than-thou with his opinions, even at people who weren't at all asking to be spit roasted by him, onlookers are far less kind when it comes to critiquing his art and finding every single flaw in it, if only for the reason of putting him in his damn place.

It's like if you took it easy on somebody in a boxing match by tying pillows to your hands, only for said person to start calling you dogshit in front of everyone, prompting you to not only drop the pillows, but load your boxing gloves with horseshoes while you're at it.


So, in essence, Dobson getting trolled and 'obsessed over' is his own damn fault.
 
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