Stuck Pooh
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Oh god, I'm so sick of seeing Masha and the bear everywhere, holy fucking shit. Their marketing team is nuts!
Am more familiar with Western-balkan and Czezch animation scenes, but yeah, they're sorta stuck reliving their glory days.
I felt this especially strong with croatian animation, but essencially they're convinced that Zagreb School of Animation was a western powerhouse of animation, the likes of Disney - and their pride of their animation history isn't really derivitive of the quality of the films but rather their perception with how successful those films were.
I've hung out with a bunch of animation students there and they expressed lots of frustration over how animation was handled over there, mainly that animation was being pushed to be like the shorts of ZSoA (it's extra sucky bekause every film that get submitted for funding need to be aproved by ZSoA first, which is still in function, and most folks that works there are very much stuck in old ideals and aren't supportive of new approaches and new technologies).
Also, I think the shorts from Zagreb Film are great btw. But they are undoubtedly a product of their time, and times evolve...
Same goes for Hungarian, Polish or Czezch animation, bevause each have very interesting histories with influential animators.
They seem to push for recognition, and are more concerned with their films being sucessfful rather than good/interesting/unique/meaningfull.
And I get it, with the shit thise countries had to deal with, they've fallen out of time, and have trouble resuming where they've left of because the rest of the west had meanwhile moved on. But I really don't think their current approach is doing them any favors.
Am more familiar with Western-balkan and Czezch animation scenes, but yeah, they're sorta stuck reliving their glory days.
I felt this especially strong with croatian animation, but essencially they're convinced that Zagreb School of Animation was a western powerhouse of animation, the likes of Disney - and their pride of their animation history isn't really derivitive of the quality of the films but rather their perception with how successful those films were.
I've hung out with a bunch of animation students there and they expressed lots of frustration over how animation was handled over there, mainly that animation was being pushed to be like the shorts of ZSoA (it's extra sucky bekause every film that get submitted for funding need to be aproved by ZSoA first, which is still in function, and most folks that works there are very much stuck in old ideals and aren't supportive of new approaches and new technologies).
Also, I think the shorts from Zagreb Film are great btw. But they are undoubtedly a product of their time, and times evolve...
Same goes for Hungarian, Polish or Czezch animation, bevause each have very interesting histories with influential animators.
They seem to push for recognition, and are more concerned with their films being sucessfful rather than good/interesting/unique/meaningfull.
And I get it, with the shit thise countries had to deal with, they've fallen out of time, and have trouble resuming where they've left of because the rest of the west had meanwhile moved on. But I really don't think their current approach is doing them any favors.
