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This is from Dreamworks. And it looks. Surprisingly promising? I dont think I've been excited for a Dreamworks cartoon since Kung Fu Panda.
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This is from Dreamworks. And it looks. Surprisingly promising? I dont think I've been excited for a Dreamworks cartoon since Kung Fu Panda.
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Any optimism I had for this show was tarnished the moment I saw these. They're completely incapable of accepting criticism and lash out at any dejectors. Do these people really think we're forcing them into a jail cell with nothing but a lead pencil and a few sheets of paper?
Got to love the guy cherrypicking various Netflex shows too, like "s-see? netflex has variety too!" when even those look pretty same-y and even then, most Netflix excluisve anime isn't even produced by Netflix.
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I was right when I said they delayed the show to release to hype up the game's DLC. This looks obnoxiously busy but it does fit with how old cartoons moved sometimes. At least the colors aren't assaulting all 5 of my senses with how bright they are. Good to see the designs are only slightly different from the game but still damn close.
This isn't TV though. It's Netflix. The budget varies from studio to studio based on their sponsers and producers. Most of the time Netflix comes off as just the distributor, not the production studio.
haha you dumbfucks failed to remember it's TWITTER. If you're not going from feeling happy about a thing to being absolutely butthurt about said thing, you're not twittering right.
Both arguments are retarded anyway.
Doing this completely traditional would be a huge sunk cost considering Cuphead isn't that hot anymore and it's FUCKING NETFLIX. This shit will be pirated within the hour of the premiere.
Defending this show's complete digital approach before the show hits is not promising. History has shown touting your labels as shields to criticism does more harm to your project than good. Shut your dicktraps and let the audience you crave to please decide. And whatever it is, fucking deal with it.
It's funny that Green Eggs & Ham is up there since that show was animated on paper and finished on computers, killing both arguments.
Animation fans aren't the mistake (sometimes). "social" media is.
Probably to teach kids never make the comic relief the main character unless you like a screeching mental patient being an awkward menace for a half hour. A lesson Nickelodeon ignored when making the Patrick Show.
I remember when Planet Sheen premiered the same day as Butch Hartman's Tuff Puppy. Tuff Puppy went on for more seasons while Planet Sheen was canned after one. Unlike when Hartman's FOP went up against Invader Zim and Zim became a cult classic in cancellation, Planet Sheen is not even memed about. It was that bad.
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The only ones I watch anymore are South Park and Rick & Morty. It's pretty stagnant, aside from R&M there's been nothing new and good since...idk, the 00's Adult Swim stuff.
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And it cost a helluva lot of money.
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A bit of a money question. How much did it a cost for the quality for both Green Eggs and Cuphead? I know it takes time for good animation to get produced.
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Or Yowza, who I see as the weakest of the LTC animation studios. That would have been worse as their work is even more obviously digitized than Mercury's.
I mean Mercury can do good animation when given the right circumstances, but this doesn't seem it. Stills are fine enough, but the motion betrays it almost instantly. Netflix is a different beast altogether, their budgets always vary and I'm convinced most of their recent stuff (both cartoons and anime alike) were given really lower than usual budgets as most of them look pretty bad outside of stills (or even in stills in some cases). And it could have been the same issue with Cuphead too.
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Green Eggs cost apparently into the millions for each episode. Cuphead probably had a more normal budget.
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Robert Valley has released his short film Pears Cider and Cigarettes for free on YouTube.
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Have everyone smoke cigars and chug whiskey and this is the kind of authenticity I can stand behind!
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Smash cut to Alex Hirsch in a hospital bed due to alcohol poisoning. "He only had one sip", they said.
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If Cuphead does get a second season, which they'll likely give it. Maybe we can get more of that 'edge' that was in the black and white cartoons on a PG level. I wouldn't mind that to be honest.
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What a buncha faggots.
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Very, very sad. So was Meat Loaf's death.
Do you think someone will realize that Life with Louie is still in the Disney vault and exhume it?... Nah...
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The cycle of giving the next generation fucked up fetishes.
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You kno, this guy got me thinking - wouldn't it be way cooler for Cuphead to be made into shorts rather than a standard TV series? Akin to Paul Rudish's Mickey Mouse shorts?
It would have served as a great homage to the era of animation that the game is based on, they could put more attention to the animation (I don't think ToonBoom is inherently bad, it can look quite amazing with the right budget and expertise, see: Mickey Mouse shorts)-
best of all, the writing wouldn't need to be forced to follow a standard three act story structure. Although this remains to be seen yet, the show hasn't aired yet and we don't know how the writing will be like. However I'm worried it might be very generic. The reason I love old era animation to death is for how unhinged and insane it is, and I feel as tho this kind of crazed creativity would feel much more natural in short format.
The stills and poses look gorgeous tho! There is some great talent visible there!
Only thing I'm not so keen about is how Cuphead's and Mugman's eyebrows are drawn. Doesn't really fit the style.
He's been recently releasing a workshop on Instagram - videos of his process while making a new short. It's very chill and informative - and long. They're good for background noise if nothing else.
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This is an autistic as fuck thing to notice, but why the yellow gloves? The new Looney Tunes did that too and I was curious what the reason was for that design choice.
I guess it also reminds me of Nu-Looney Tunes because it has the same "cheap attempt to emulate hand-drawn animation" look.
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Bugs had yellow gloves in a few early 40s cartoons, so that's why they're doing it in the new Looney Tunes stuff.
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