Cartoon Industry thread - Showcasing the Spergery of the Animation Industry

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Keep in mind this started because people were assuming Willow from The Owl House was Blasian because of her Gay Dads and her VA.
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So Dana Terrace herself made a tweet to clear things up.
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shatterspinel said:
“I Eat Poop follows dung beetle Dougie who starts at a new school in a new town. There he struggles to hide who he is—and what he eats. But when a series of mysterious disappearances plagues the town, Dougie and his whole community discover that what makes them different…might just be what makes them heroes.”
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When I red this, my first thought was about that one Spanish politician who was found to be eating his own excrement. "So... I guess that's what they're trying to pre-emptively normalize?"
 
Chromeo said:
Every film's visual language is part of its storytelling, that's why despite both being about dogs, Lady and the Tramp and 101 Dalmatians look so different. Beauty and the Beast doesn't look like Emperor's New Groove, Hercules doesn't look like Mulan, and 3D films like Elemental or Cars are both 3D but both look different too.
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Disney used to be amazing at emulating art styles in their movies. Sleeping Beauty looks like a medieval tapestry, for example, while Bambi had more expressionist moments blended with realism. In the 70s (Robin Hood and Aristocats being the best examples) they got more into a sketchy art style i always liked, but at the time it seen as cheap (that and reusing animation).
The 90s they got back to the varied stuff. Mulan looks like Chinese paintings. Hercules is stylized like Greek pottery. It was beautiful and, as you get older, more impressive than 3D in my eyes.

It bugs me the new art style looks so... samey when it comes to faces though.

2nd Disney Renaissance when?
 
Outer Space Traveller said:
It's the "citizen of the world", meaning, someone who doesn't have a defined background. It could be anyone from anywhere.
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Oh those cosmopolitan principles again; Should've figured it out right away. I think this idea is absurd in itself because people, even within one defined territory (A state), differ from region to region. A frenchman from Normandy and one from Gasconia will be different in their habits and temperament, most likely - and this applies to a more global scale. Even this Elio character is supposed to be Dominican, I think - so he couldn't be from anywhere.

There is one good thing about Utopian ideas - they provide us with great entertainment. That's why it's reserved for fantasies like animation and fiction.
 
Colon capital V said:
I mean just look at the type of shite tripe they're putting on Spongebob now:
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Spongebob Squarepants, Nickelodeon's biggest success, is also their biggest downfall. Thanks to the foolish decisions of the greedy network heads, Nickelodeon's overreliance on Spongebob Squarepants has caused their animation lineup to decline drastically. Whether it be rejecting Adventure Time only to be picked up by Cartoon Network and become one of, if not, the most popular and beloved animated shows of the 2010s or causing relationships with talented creators and other crew like CH Greenblatt to sour by axing their work off the air simply because it wasn't as financially profitable as Spongebob Squarepants, Nickelodeon has shot itself in the foot numerous times and has made Spongebob their cashcow and sole life support at this point. As a result, nobody else in the animation industry wants to work for them.


I still remember the diverse range of Nicktoons from 20 to 30 years ago, when I was a kid—not just SpongeBob Squarepants, but also The Wild Thornberries, The Fairly Odd Parents, Jimmy Neutron, Avatar, Hey Arnold, Danny Phantom, My Life as a Teenage Robot, As Told by Ginger, and, of course, the iconic Rugrats. While SpongeBob was the flagship show in the early to mid-2000s, it didn’t completely overshadow everything else. Even 15 to 16 years ago when the quality of animation on Nickelodeon started to dropped significantly, Nickelodeon still had some variety of original animation regardless of how crap those cartoons were. Compare that to now in the current year 2025 where there's only Spongebob Squarepants and its awful spinoffs disapproved by the creator, the Loud House, that Fairly Odd Parents reboot that's not actually half-bad, brand-licenced cartoons, other IP's that aren't even part of the Nicktoon trademark, and just two original works that will be cancelled in a year or two. Now that the SpongeBob Summer of F.U.N. marathon is running nonstop with only SpongeBob SquarePants airing all summer, if I were a kid growing up today and that was the only cartoon on the network, I probably wouldn’t watch Nickelodeon anymore. Most gen alpha kids these days aren't even watching TV anymore; they're more focused on YouTube streamers playing Fortnite and other brainrot content on that platform anyways. With the further decline of cable television and the rise of streaming platforms in this decade, Nickelodeon is likely to face even more challenges and will probably undergo a very swift death due to lack of views.


I'm still amazed that shell of a once witty and original cartoon is still running. It should've ended 17 years ago after season 5 but Nickelodeon and Viacom have found various ways to milk the hell out of that franchise while pissing on Hillenburg's grave.




Also ewwww modern freakbob


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I haven't watched Spongebob in years but I know damn well Hillenburg is rolling in his grave looking down from above in utter horror and disgust at what his lifelong work has become.
 
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I still won't forget what happened with Making Fiends, wasn't it cut short and they didn't even air like half the episodes after 1 season and leaving its creator in the dust since it was their IP now? Shit was brutal.
 
SoleniyKraut said:
Because only a queer latinx persxn could represent humanity
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This is off-topic, but it reminds me of a comic, The House By The Lake (iirc). An alien wants to preserve a selection of humans from the apocalypse and by some magical happenstance they're all gayer than a Seattle Starbucks. Insufferable faggotry.
 
RazorBackBacon said:
This is off-topic, but it reminds me of a comic, The House By The Lake (iirc). An alien wants to preserve a selection of humans from the apocalypse and by some magical happenstance they're all gayer than a Seattle Starbucks. Insufferable faggotry.
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I guess if you're trying to keep pets without the population getting out of control the best kind are self-neutering.
 
I'm late to this, but—
Life is Hell... said:
How many GoFundMe pages are these people making...
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Michael Bluth said:
why does this entitled shit think they deserve to have funds raised?

move to a cheaper city. get 2 jobs.
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Castoreum said:
What I wanna know is: Why do people give to these financially irresponsible adults? Are they stupid?
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At what point do you have to accept defeat and just switch careers?

In theory, working in animation sounds like a creative's dream: a medium that allows for endless possibilities to tell all sorts of stories with all sorts of characters.

But the reality is a lot less fun: there is a pipeline, and each part is highly specialized. Unless you are the showrunner,, there is very little room for individual expression. You have to adhere to the house style and the vision of the showrunner. So if you wanted to experiment with the look, or the expressions or even the direction of the story, you can't. You are beholden to someone else's dream. And I know the majority of these people fancy themselves showrunners too (they always seem to have half-baked ideas for shows or movies), so I imagine it irritates them working on someone else's project while "putting in their dues", unless they REALLY love the idea behind the project.

Frankly, I think a lot of these people would be happier and more well-adjusted if they got a well paying day job that allowed them to keep art and animation as a hobby. There are so many free and low-cost animation programs now, you could still noodle around on your spare time and create some cool stuff, exactly how you'd want it.
 
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