Cartoon Industry thread - Showcasing the Spergery of the Animation Industry

[The_Gam3]

Well, my fellow Cartoon Industry Thread bros, what's the verdict?

When you watch an animatic, you get a excited for the prospect of what it will look and feel like when's it's finished. I get that from none of these pilots.

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

Only a matter of time before Andrew Dickman's pilot leaks.

 

[Life is Hell...]

I don't think i would have watched any of them when i was a kid, I'll tell you what.

I think the only relatively decent ones were Scaredy Cat and All-nimal, mostly because of the surreal artstyle and Billy & Mandy-esque humor, the other two were just bland...

 

[KMFDM Sucks]

Say what you will about Cartoon Network these days but at least they had the sense to nix this junk, I would've been way more disappointed if they kicked real gems to the curb. All-nimal was the only one that crossed the threshold of "creative" but was still the kind of bland, directionless goo that parents 30 years ago would've been complaining was rotting their children's minds, without any of the soul or entertainment value.

 

[elonmaize]

Say what you will about Cartoon Network these days but at least they had the sense to nix this junk, I would've been way more disappointed if they kicked real gems to the curb

as much as people bitch at the networks for not taking new ideas, once they filter out everything to the "cream of the crop" you're left with shit like this usually.

think about the thousands of people pitching shows to the execs, think about how much money was given to the people to make a pilot, think about how much time was spent making these fucking shows and the jobs created and lost and after all of that this is what they were left with.

i wouldn't be surprised if the last 20 years of weren't 90% junk like this.

 

[lolcow yoghurt]

Don't live in California or New York, and you wouldn't have to e-beg.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Don't live in California or New York, and you wouldn't have to e-beg.

well thats where all the companies and work is so thats not happening

 

[NoCockatrice]

well thats where all the companies and work is so thats not happening

Naaah, there are a lot of job in big red states like Texas.

Or do you mean the animation industry specifically? In that case, yeah, I have to agree. But, perhaps, you can work for them online (without moving to the actual state)?

 

[gata]

Naaah, there are a lot of job in big red states like Texas.

Or do you mean the animation industry specifically? In that case, yeah, I have to agree. But, perhaps, you can work for them online (without moving to the actual state)?

Considering that majority of western animated shows is made by koreans or the japanese, I think it's plausible to work at home.
Take a look at smiling friends, many of their guest animators are people who don't live in california like Joel haver (cucknadian) or Harry Partridge (britbong). Animation now is all digital so you can just send your work via internet. Plus so many people are leaving Hollywood or LA to film/produce in cheaper places so continuing to live in an expensive place is not a valid excuse.

 

[Dr. Butt]

Naaah, there are a lot of job in big red states like Texas.

Or do you mean the animation industry specifically? In that case, yeah, I have to agree. But, perhaps, you can work for them online (without moving to the actual state)?

Georgia (the US state) is full of animation work.

 

[KissMyTaint]

Georgia (the US state) is full of animation work.

Where all the bisexual lightskins live?

 

[Dr. Butt]

Where all the bisexual lightskins live?

Username...checks out?

 

[RazorBackBacon]

well thats where all the companies and work is so thats not happening

This is cope, and the dumbest fucking cope in a world where $500 million movies and AAA video games are made by interrelated studios on different continents. This isn't the 1960's, you don't have to move to Orlando to scratch a pencil for Disney.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

This is cope, and the dumbest fucking cope in a world where $500 million movies and AAA video games are made by interrelated studios on different continents. This isn't the 1960's, you don't have to move to Orlando to scratch a pencil for Disney.

youre right, you could go to japan or south korea to animate instead and get paid 300 dollars a month to crank out aas much animation out the ass within the tightest deadlines and hope you dont kil yourself by the end of the year in the process

 

[RazorBackBacon]

youre right, you could go to japan or south korea to animate instead and get paid 300 dollars a month to crank out aas much animation out the ass within the tightest deadlines and hope you dont kil yourself by the end of the year in the process

Yeah, why do all that when you could just stay in NYC, have your animation job get outsourced to a gook, and be forced to beg for handouts from the internet?

You have got to be the dumbest nigger that ever niggered.

 

[Colon capital V]

Looking back it is interesting how the overall workforce of animators have shrunken, yet the need to push out episodes and shows faster are at an all time high; with a very noticeable degrade in quality. When AI proves to be a viable option for doing most of the heavy lifting, there will probably be no "animation renaissance" of 1930s-1990s quality Disney animation (at least at a mass scale), but just a means to push out more bean mouth slop at a lightspeed pace.

It makes me think of this one scene from Futurama where all of the backbreaking labor is done efficiently by one Australian man. That's kinda how I see the future of AI management will go for companies making cartoons; less workers, more workload.

But by the same token when AI does become viable, that just means the barrier to entry for making animated shows should be easier for anyone to make. Imagine how many capable artists are out there yet have no means of bringing their characters and world to life because animating takes so much fucking time out of their days for a profession that already takes meticulous work to get done (this is also not accounting for other skills or work that needs done like editing, sound design, music, voice work, etc.).

This is all to say is that cautiously I do think an animation renaissance is on the horizon for the individual artist but until that proves viable, AI is still just a funky little tool/toy that makes splotchy, watery imagery and video.

 

[I was a Teenage “JA”-man]

It feels so weird to see the de-evolution of pixar’s art style in real time

 

[Grand Duke Snowfall]

It feels so weird to see the de-evolution of pixar’s art style in real time

I’ve seen it described in many ways. Too soft, beanmouth/Steven Universe in 3D, Grubhub commercials…where the hell did things go wrong? Whose idea was this?

 

[I was a Teenage “JA”-man]

I’ve seen it described in many ways. Too soft, beanmouth/Steven Universe in 3D, Grubhub commercials…where the hell did things go wrong? Whose idea was this?

Same company that brought you this. I went to see elio with my daughter yesterday, cute movie but yeah they look like the grubhub guys. it won’t be remembered.

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

I’ve seen it described in many ways. Too soft, beanmouth/Steven Universe in 3D, Grubhub commercials…where the hell did things go wrong? Whose idea was this?