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SteelPlatedHeart said:
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Everyone and their grandma is talking about this show and how awesome it'll hopefully be. Seriously - at least it doesn't look and feel as overrated as Steven Universe; however, I'm not holding my breath on that one.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Can someone please tell me what the name of the song in this trailer is? It’s been driving me crazy.

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I kinda wish the art was different, the Gravity Falls-style is efficient to produce but not always fun to watch.

Having read this thread I miss the "scratchy" look of hand drawn stuff. It was more prevalent in the 60's-70's (likely since skipping clean up saved decent dough), but it has more life to it than todays perfect geometric shapes.

Shokew said:
Everyone and their grandma is talking about this show and how awesome it'll hopefully be. Seriously - at least it doesn't look and feel as overrated as Steven Universe; however, I'm not holding my breath on that one.
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TeamFourstar worked on that right? I'll be frank, the one time that I laughed at them was when they were explaining how they made their crossover videos, they explained that they'd take stillss from DVDs and move them a bit. Cue random tangent on how this is okay and copyright owners shouldnt complain about it etc etc.

I dunno if the videos still up, it just seemed very out of nowhere on what was an otherwise tame video.
 
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Dark Emporer Dood said:
I kinda wish the art was different, the Gravity Falls-style is efficient to produce but not always fun to watch.
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True. Seems like people just fall back on a certain look because they see that it works.

Having read this thread I miss the "scratchy" look of hand drawn stuff. It was more prevalent in the 60's-70's (likely since skipping clean up saved decent dough), but it has more life to it than todays perfect geometric shapes.
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That was due to the switch-over from inking cels by hand to using a xerox machine of sorts to transfer the animator's pencil lines to cels to be painted on. This is why the Disney films after 101 Dalmatians looked the way they did. Sometimes the use of colored lines are still applied like for the so-called "cel shading" details or invisible lines separating colors on an animal.
http://collider.com/how-101-dalmatians-saved-disney-animation/

This video might help!
 
Trilby said:
Sometimes the use of colored lines are still applied like for the so-called "cel shading" details or invisible lines separating colors on an animal.
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One recent example of that would be the Looney Tunes Show, which added small extra colored lines for that look.
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Man I recall the rage fests this show started, the faithful hated it, the insecure loved it, then you had the few that were just in between.
 
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Dark Emporer Dood said:
One recent example of that would be the Looney Tunes Show, which added small extra colored lines for that look.
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In the digital age, such techniques are obviously replicated digitally, even the slight appearance of shadows between the characters and meant to suggest they're still on cels being photographed underneath some lights when they're not. Shows like South Park and The Simpsons replicated the look when they switched over from traditional techniques to digital.

Man I recall the rage fests this show started, the faithful hated it, the insecure loved it, then you had the few that were just in between.
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I was one of the in-between people. It's fine, but not my type of show. Now the more recent Wabbit!/Looney Tunes thing has some amusing moments I liked.
 
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Trilby said:
I was one of the in-between people. It's fine, but not my type of show. Now the more recent Wabbit!/Looney Tunes thing has some amusing moments I liked.
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Neato, its always a pleasure to speak with some whos actually involved in the industry!

Imo, around Season 2 the Looney Tunes show was alright, Wabbit feels odd as I'm not used to genuine screw-ball type characters in modern work.
 
Dark Emporer Dood said:
Neato, its always a pleasure to speak with some whos actually involved in the industry!
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I'm not really, I'm just well-informed!

Imo, around Season 2 the Looney Tunes show was alright, Wabbit feels odd as I'm not used to genuine screw-ball type characters in modern work.
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I thought it worked for Daffy since that was what he used to be, at least in the very beginning, and I could accept a fatter Porky Pig since the earlier cartoons were like that too.
 
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Trilby said:
In the digital age, such techniques are obviously replicated digitally, even the slight appearance of shadows between the characters and meant to suggest they're still on cels being photographed underneath some lights when they're not. Shows like South Park and The Simpsons replicated the look when they switched over from traditional techniques to digital.


I was one of the in-between people. It's fine, but not my type of show. Now the more recent Wabbit!/Looney Tunes thing has some amusing moments I liked.
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I hear Wabbit!/New Looney Tunes is actually pretty above average to great, but I'd still rather watch the classics, with all due honesty. Also, not a fan of Looney Tunes Shows at all, even if it did improve in Season 2.

More importantly, what makes Wabbit stand out and make it worth a shot is, if nothing else, that Daffy is back to being a screwball (which is him at his absolute best, especially in the classic era, IMHO.), as well as Bugs not always winning, nor always being comfortable (i.e.: how to wqrite a protagonist proper and make them believable/relatable to your audience!).
 
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Trilby said:
I thought it worked for Daffy since that was what he used to be, at least in the very beginning, and I could accept a fatter Porky Pig since the earlier cartoons were like that too.
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It does yea, its just surprising that any recent cartoon decided to go that route with all the critics demanding "character developmental heros journeys" and what not.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
I'll just come clean and confess that Tech E. Coyote was my spirit animal as a young teen.
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By the time this show hit, I was already in my late 20's so it was out of my league anyway, but I wouldn't doubt there were kids that generally liked it.
 
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