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That Uglydolls movie looks terrible. I thought it was Illumination for a minute because of how cheap it looks. I guess they need one big push to sell out all the inventory left in warehouses from 2008...but the movie looks completely different than the "feel" of the doll line. The dolls hardly even look like the dolls.
 
So this is only tangentially relatated, but the Dallas Stars(hockey team) played “Sweet Victory” from Spongebob during the game, completely with color-coding the outfits.

ShittyRecolor said:
Man, I love these, especially the psychedelic metarealism of U Spomen na Zlatka Boureka. You just don't see stuff like this anymore.

This might fit better in one of the YouTube video threads, but not so long ago Youtube animator extraordinaire Volta Bass made an incredible new intro for Maximilian Dood, one of my favorite fighting game personalities:


Love me some vibrant, hyperkinetic goodness full of blades, robots, lasers and boobs!
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There’s a Web Animations thread, though it’s not super used.
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/web-animation.33620/
 
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PolexiaAphrodisia said:
That Uglydolls movie looks terrible. I thought it was Illumination for a minute because of how cheap it looks. I guess they need one big push to sell out all the inventory left in warehouses from 2008...but the movie looks completely different than the "feel" of the doll line. The dolls hardly even look like the dolls.
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And what's sad about it is that the animation studio's the same as those CGI Looney Tunes shorts and The Book of Life. If I had to guess, most of the budget went to the voice cast, given how we got names like Pitbull.
 
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Jewelsmakerguy said:
And what's sad about it is that the animation studio's the same as those CGI Looney Tunes shorts and The Book of Life. If I had to guess, most of the budget went to the voice cast, given how we got names like Pitbull.
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Someone always prioritizes the celebs over anything else.
 
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Phallacies said:
Any Mr. Pickles fans? The show is a fucking clusterfuck but it's one of my favourite things to come out of [as] in some time.
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I remember liking the first two episodes, but I seem to recall that later in the show didn't give enough breathing room between all the absurdity, so it all became samey and the shocks got less effective. I never watched it from beginning to the end though, so maybe revisiting it would change my mind.

Found some Rudyard Kipling goodness:


Love the art style, the fluid, lively animation and the muted but mood setting coloring.
 
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ShittyRecolor said:
Found some Rudyard Kipling goodness:


Love the art style, the fluid, lively animation and the muted but mood setting coloring.
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Chuck Jones did a nice job on these specials. Though as a kid, I'm reminded of thinking how cheap it was that they obviously didn't paint the snake's color in when they relied on the background to shield it for most of it's action. UPA used to do cartoons that way.
 
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Trilby said:
Chuck Jones did a nice job on these specials. Though as a kid, I'm reminded if thinking how cheap it was that they obviously didn't paint the snake's color in when they relied on the background to shield it for most of it's action. UPA used to do cartoons that way.
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Surprisingly it works pretty well, as if their intention was to accentuate the snake's natural camouflage (and with it the everpresent danger it represents) rather than to spare on paint. Kinda shows how far your can go with the right skills, talent and some imagination even with budget restraints.
 
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Robin Hood in Soywood forest!
Modern CGI at it's finest. A Youtube Original!
All her life, teen-hacker Robin of Sherwood thought she was an orphan. But when a mysterious Gauntlet unlocks a secret that turns her world upside down, Robin joins forces with a group of renegades who teach her the true value of love, loyalty, and sacrifice. Through the flooded storm-lashed streets of 23rd century London, to the towering citadel of the floating Upper City, Robin and her new friends battle the elements and the odds to defeat the mad Sheriff of Nottingham.
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This is what western animation has become
 
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Shokew said:
And... Not interested in this obvious SJWBS. Call me when the counter-culture really takes off.
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To me, it's not so much that it's a woman (though it is a pretty big point of contentment), but the fact we needed another one of these Robin Hood media tie-ins to begin with. And in the future no less.

Which somehow reminds me of this show I caught growing up:
 
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Fagnacious D said:
Robin Hood in Soywood forest!
Modern CGI at it's finest. A Youtube Original!

This is what western animation has become
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Someone's got to do a modernized Robin Hood, after all. That's a department we've been sorely lacking in...
Jewelsmakerguy said:
To me, it's not so much that it's a woman (though it is a pretty big point of contentment), but the fact we needed another one of these Robin Hood media tie-ins to begin with. And in the future no less.

Which somehow reminds me of this show I caught growing up:
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A noted favorite of John Kricfalusi...
 
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