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I'm surprise Klasky-Csupo is still around. I thought they closed down years ago.
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They just produced the new Rugrats reboot. But they've always been around... they just haven't been doing anything new for years, even though the company is still active.

True story - several years back I was in L.A. when I spotted the Klasky-Csupo building. I was shocked to see it was still up even though it was pretty much still as it was in the 90s - the building has drawings of characters from Rugrats on one side and Real Monsters on the other.

Even though the building was still up, there wasn't a single car in the parking lot. I had my suspicions about what was going on in there...

 
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The 2022 Annie Awards just wrapped up, here's the winners.

Best Production Design for TV/Media: Arcane
Best Production Design for a Feature Production: The Mitchells VS The Machines
Best Music in TV/Media: Maya and the Three
Best Music in an Animated Feature: Encanto
Best Character Design in TV/Media: Arcane
Best Character Design in a Feature Film: The Mitchells VS The Machines
Best Character Animation in a Video Game: Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart
Best Character Animation in a Feature Film: Encanto
Best Character Animation in TV/Media: Arcane
Best Animated Effects in TV/Media: Arcane
Best Animated Effects in a Feature Film: The Mitchells VS The Machines
Best Editing in TV/Media: Marvel's What If?
Best Editing in a Feature Film: The Mitchells VS The Machines
Winner of the Winsor McCay Award: Toshio "No Cuts" Suzuki
Best Voice Acting in TV/Media: Ella Purnell as Jinx in Arcane
Best Voice Acting in a Feature Film: Abbi Jacobson as Katie in The Mitchells VS The Machines
Best Writing in TV/Media: Arcane
Best Writing in a Feature Film: The Mitchells VS The Machines
Best TV/Media for Children: Maya and the Three ("The Sun and the Moon")
Best TV/Media for a General Audience: Arcane ("When These Walls Come Tumbling Down")
Best Storyboarding for TV/Media: Arcane ("When These Walls Come Tumbling Down")
Best Storyboarding for a Feature Film: Encato
Best Direction in a TV/Media Production: Arcane
Best Direction in a a Feature Film: The Mitchells VS The Machines
Best Indie Feature: Flee
Best Feature Film: The Mitchells VS The Machines
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Big wins for Arcane and The Mitchells VS The Machine tonight. (Source: https://twitter.com/RiseFallNickBck)
 
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starborn427614 said:
The 2022 Annie Awards just wrapped up, here's the winners.

Best Production Design for TV/Media: Arcane
Best Production Design for a Feature Production: The Mitchells VS The Machines
Best Music in TV/Media: Maya and the Three
Best Music in an Animated Feature: Encanto
Best Character Design in TV/Media: Arcane
Best Character Design in a Feature Film: The Mitchells VS The Machines
Best Character Animation in a Video Game: Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart
Best Character Animation in a Feature Film: Encanto
Best Character Animation in TV/Media: Arcane
Best Animated Effects in TV/Media: Arcane
Best Animated Effects in a Feature Film: The Mitchells VS The Machines
Best Editing in TV/Media: Marvel's What If?
Best Editing in a Feature Film: The Mitchells VS The Machines
Winner of the Winsor McCay Award: Toshio "No Cuts" Suzuki
Best Voice Acting in TV/Media: Ella Purnell as Jinx in Arcane
Best Voice Acting in a Feature Film: Abbi Jacobson as Katie in The Mitchells VS The Machines
Best Writing in TV/Media: Arcane
Best Writing in a Feature Film: The Mitchells VS The Machines
Best TV/Media for Children: Maya and the Three ("The Sun and the Moon")
Best TV/Media for a General Audience: Arcane ("When These Walls Come Tumbling Down")
Best Storyboarding for TV/Media: Arcane ("When These Walls Come Tumbling Down")
Best Storyboarding for a Feature Film: Encato
Best Direction in a TV/Media Production: Arcane
Best Direction in a a Feature Film: The Mitchells VS The Machines
Best Indie Feature: Flee
Best Feature Film: The Mitchells VS The Machines

Big wins for Arcane and The Mitchells VS The Machine tonight. (Source: https://twitter.com/RiseFallNickBck)
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Arcane deserves it. It's one of the few things I've seen in the last decade that managed to fully live up to the hype, as well as a healthy way of conveying actual diversity without being malicious.
 
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Apparently it’s not very good, it’s such a shame because from the trailers it was such a bizarre premise I thought thud pulloff some really amazing stuff with it but no, Mucz this ain’t. The film is funny and has very high quality animation and cute characters but that’s about it. A way more slight offering from the studio.

Also fucking kudos to him pointing out all the bitching about the character designs on Twitter, remember people!! this whole ‘Calarts’ style all cartoon nerds bitch about nowadays is a misleading non-term popularised by the king hack motherfucking John K himself. It was made simply out of spite because he was jealous at the stuff that CN we’re putting out these days getting more success than he ever had and wanted to coin a revenge phrase to get back at those he didn’t like. Don’t be sheep to friggin John K internet, all this misinformation about current western animation terms and speculations needs to stop.
 
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thegooddoctor said:
remember people!! this whole ‘Calarts’ style all cartoon nerds bitch about nowadays is a misleading non-term popularised by the king hack motherfucking John K himself. It was made simply out of spite because he was jealous at the stuff that CN we’re putting out these days getting more success than he ever had and wanted to coin a revenge phrase to get back at those he didn’t like. Don’t be sheep to friggin John K internet, all this misinformation about current western animation terms and speculations needs to stop.
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It's called "CalArts Style" by people who dislike it and "Thin-Line Animation" by people who are more positive towards it, neither of which is at all accurate; I tend to think of it as "that Cartoon Network bean-mouth thing that looks fucking horrible".
 
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thegooddoctor said:
Also fucking kudos to him pointing out all the bitching about the character designs on Twitter, remember people!! this whole ‘Calarts’ style all cartoon nerds bitch about nowadays is a misleading non-term popularised by the king hack motherfucking John K himself. It was made simply out of spite because he was jealous at the stuff that CN we’re putting out these days getting more success than he ever had and wanted to coin a revenge phrase to get back at those he didn’t like. Don’t be sheep to friggin John K internet, all this misinformation about current western animation terms and speculations needs to stop.
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It never meant anything but "anything I don't like" when John used it, even in the 80s.
 
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Vyse Inglebard said:
It's called "CalArts Style" by people who dislike it and "Thin-Line Animation" by people who are more positive towards it, neither of which is at all accurate; I tend to think of it as "that Cartoon Network bean-mouth thing that looks fucking horrible".
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Steamboat_Bill said:
It never meant anything but "anything I don't like" when John used it, even in the 80s.
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I would at least call it "Wardesque" because everyone started copying his style after Adventure Time got big.
 
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elzaw said:
watch As Told By Ginger you cowards

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It was OK, not my favourite Nicktoon. Also that bitch in the middle is a genuinely awful person and Ginger and the chick on the right deserve way better.

SteelPlatedHeart said:
I can’t get past the clash of art style with Turning Red. The expressions are way too cartoony and over-the top compared to what the rest of the show looks like.
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That's fair, you don't need to force yourself to enjoy something if the general aesthetic is bugging you. Personally I think it looks really good, easily one of Pixar's best looking movies.
 
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Sam Sung said:
I would at least call it "Wardesque" because everyone started copying his style after Adventure Time got big.
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though wasn't Ward contemporaries with Alex Hirsch and a couple of other 'CalArts' style users?

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Arcane deserves it. It's one of the few things I've seen in the last decade that managed to fully live up to the hype, as well as a healthy way of conveying actual diversity without being malicious.
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Arcane nailed the tackling of politics and didn't go the coward's route that certain pozzed corpos whose HQs are located in a certain American state keep doing like a broken record
 
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LOS ANGELES and PARIS — Mar. 14, 2022 — Riot Games, the developer and publisher known for League of Legends and the breakout animated series Arcane, and Fortiche Production, the animation studio behind Arcane and many League videos, today announced a new equity investment by Riot in Fortiche. Under the terms of the investment, which closed earlier this year, Riot now holds a significant non-controlling stake in Fortiche. Brian Wright (Chief Content Officer at Riot) and Brendan Mulligan (Director of Corporate Development at Riot) have also joined Fortiche’s board of directors.
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