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[Rome's rightful successor]

Bluey is starting to be mlp 2.0

I think it already has.

 

[thegooddoctor]

What's with the trend of soyjaks YouTubers watching a series and ranking every episode?

Seems like a huge-ass timewaster for the YouTuber and the viewer because to be honest (and very torturing for the YouTuber), nobody is going to care except about the ranking except the worst 10 and best 10 episodes. Just make a top 10 list, holy shit. This is like some MauLer-tier video of annoying smug behavior.

Ehh I genuinely like this guy, It's a somewhat impressive feat in of itself and the Youtube algorithm now rewards long essay like videos so It makes sense that they capitalise on it.

 

[Toolbox]

Bluey is starting to be mlp 2.0

I don't think it'll ever reach the bronies height of autism but it's certainly created some sort of niche fandom of manbabies. I have to wonder how many of them were just bronies waiting for another show to latch onto.

 

[Romeo]

Here are some white pill stuff from the globohomo culture that dominates Western animation.

Indie Western Animation (Action-based)​

Animation with a distinct anime art-style:​

Tie Fighter​

One of the best indie Western animations out there, Tie Fighter is a Star Wars Legends fan film by OtaKing, an admirer of 1980s Japanese cel-shaded animation and the Tie Fighter video game. Instead of the POV of the good guys, you get the Empire's POV instead. Without a single line of dialogue, you are introduced to three characters and their personalities in 7 minutes, with each riding a specific Imperial starfighter of the TIE series. With scenes including several Legends starships such as the Interdictor Star Destroyer, you can tell that OtaKing made Tie Fighter with love.

Starscream OVA​

87render combines the G1 Transformers, anime-style art, and 3D animation into an amazing short that has you ignore the dumpster fire that is the Transformers franchise. (Has this thread mentioned any Transformers animated series by any chance?)

Action-Thriller Animation​

Astartes​

I assume that most people in this thread has seen Astartes, but for the those who don't, you're in for a treat. Excellent CGI, Dredd music (the original one, not the one that Games Workshop fucked up), action, cinematography, and lore, all done by one person. It's one of the reasons why so many normies recently got into Warhammer 40k, before getting pulled out by GW's retarded antics. Unfortunately, the guy behind Astartes, Syama Peterson, was hired by GW to do animations for them, and had to pull down his channel, with his works now put into GW's trash streaming service Warhammer+.

Irradiation​

Influenced by STALKER and Chernobyl, this animated short is done in Unreal with a surreal and ominous vibe. Recommended watch.

Shadow of the Republic​

One of the most liked concepts of Star Wars was Delta Squad, a group of clone commandos made popular thanks to the video game Star Wars: Republic Commando. Here, they are sent to assassinate a senator. Good action, music, CGI, and cinematography, make it one of the best and mature Star Wars fan films.

Reticulon is a SFM-based animator who enjoys combining modern warfare, storytelling, and action. Though not with good graphics, there is a certain thrill in watching operators being tactically cool, and operators fighting each other in Castle of Thorns (caution: bad Russian translation). Currently, he is hired to do animation work for Void Interactive, a game studio that put out the spiritual successor to SWAT 4, Ready or Not.

Spall and Splinter (Black Powder Red Earth fan film)​

Castle of Thorns (Escape From Tarkov fan film)​

LEGO Stopmotion​

The Exterminator​

Keshen8 is one of the most prominent LEGO stopmotion animators, having created his channel back in 2006 in the beginning days of YouTube. He specializes in action and comedic stopmotions that have garnered a huge following, such as Black Ops and Minecraft in 20 seconds (non-LEGO). A recommended brickfilm (unlike most LEGO stop-motion, brickfilms emphasize cinematography and lighting) of his is The Exterminator, where a bounty hunter hunts down an AI robot, with the designs based on the movie Oblivion.

Battle for the Bismarck​

LEGOs has been used in building battle dioramas, so stopmotion animators thought it'll pretty cool to animate historical battles in LEGO. One of the most prominent animators is JD Brick Animations. Having started with making children-friendly stopmotions, he branched out to historical battle stopmotions, which resulted in him becoming popular. Most of his stopmotion animations are historically accurate, and epic too. Here's a recommended favorite, in which the British chase down the largest battleship in the Kriegsmarine, in LEGO.

 

[Ether Being]

Y'know, why hasn't Chris made an animated movie/show about that Rescue Sirens book series he and his wife made?

Maybe I'm feeling optimistic, I think Chris Sanders could innovate the experimental use of AI-assistance being implemented to do the grunt work what animators in the overseas are notorious for, while its preserving the original look and speeding up the process, since modern animators in the industry long ago abandoned understanding the needed skills to do full-time traditional animation professionally (unless you count the self-thought and one-worker-projects in the indie scene. May god help them nonetheless)

WHY!!!!!!

I knew there was something obscure going on when they did those crossover comics I saw months ago.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

Because longform YouTube video essays about shows/movie/ect can be really popular. Makes for good background noise/time killer.

It is not even that, the reason video essays are so popular is that YouTube’s algorithm promotes channels with extremely long watch times and consistent output. It also creates more room for ads. The system is built to favor this shit and is a huge reason as to why YT is how it is.

 

[Niggerphobe]

I had looked up bobs burgers outro to find some outros that where neat and found this https://youtu.be/yot6MUwwxbE

 

[Life is Hell...]

LEGO Stopmotion​

The Exterminator​

Keshen8 is one of the most prominent LEGO stopmotion animators, having created his channel back in 2006 in the beginning days of YouTube. He specializes in action and comedic stopmotions that have garnered a huge following, such as Black Ops and Minecraft in 20 seconds (non-LEGO). A recommended brickfilm (unlike most LEGO stop-motion, brickfilms emphasize cinematography and lighting) of his is The Exterminator, where a bounty hunter hunts down an AI robot, with the designs based on the movie Oblivion.

Battle for the Bismarck​

LEGOs has been used in building battle dioramas, so stopmotion animators thought it'll pretty cool to animate historical battles in LEGO. One of the most prominent animators is JD Brick Animations. Having started with making children-friendly stopmotions, he branched out to historical battle stopmotions, which resulted in him becoming popular. Most of his stopmotion animations are historically accurate, and epic too. Here's a recommended favorite, in which the British chase down the largest battleship in the Kriegsmarine, in LEGO.

Speaking of LEGO, there's a couple of neat videos discussing the history of Brickfilms, dating all the way back to the 70's.

 

[Nuns with guns]

I watched The Three Caballeros last night on Disney+, and it had a disclaimer before it began saying they're sorry about how awful and racist the movie is, but they decided to keep it uncut. I really don't know why they had to cancel it, I didn't see anything racist. The only things somewhat dated are Donald Duck chasing girls at the beach (but it's really done playfully and with slapstick comedy), Jose Carioca smoking, and Panchito Pistoles having guns (both of these things are treated as the devil by SJWs). Anyways, really good movie.

It made me fall into a Donald Duck rabbit hole late at night. I had heard good stuff about the new Ducktales, and while I would never watch things like Adventure Time or Gravity Falls, nostalgia won me over, and I decided to give it a try. It's surprisingly good and consistently funny. I wasn't the biggest fan of the original Ducktales while growing up, but I always liked Scrooge McDuck.

I've heard about the gay dads in the third season, hopefully, it doesn't get any more woke than that. I just want to watch something made recently that doesn't have any politics on it, why is it so hard to find such thing?

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

Anybody remember The Trap Door? Kino British claymation show.

Here's a playlist containing all of the episodes (upscaled) if you're interested: https://youtu.be/B9L3ftnrJVE?list=PLtVvHIP9olLzXyclJ0Cjmw8gtw_y-1NwE

 

[Papa stink]

I'm really confused by all the Bluey hype. Can someone explain to me what typical plots you'd see in an episode? What kind of themes do they handle? Is it teaching kids how to deal with existential crises or how to come to terms with severe trauma?

 

[thegooddoctor]

I'm really confused by all the Bluey hype. Can someone explain to me what typical plots you'd see in an episode? What kind of themes do they handle? Is it teaching kids how to deal with existential crises or how to come to terms with severe trauma?

Honestly it’s a very warm and charming show in its own right, but for some reason because it’s so down to earth and ‘slightly more mature’ with its portrayal of its adult parental figures and not treating its target audience of under 10s like complete morons the Soyjack and furry communities have propelled it into being some deep and meaningful piece of adult animation. Honestly the Breadtuber ‘sphere’ want adults to take animation seriously but if they are going to inflate the emotional significance of a toddler show equating it to adult animation then fuck no they don’t deserve it.

 

[AnOminous]

I watched The Three Caballeros last night on Disney+, and it had a disclaimer before it began saying they're sorry about how awful and racist the movie is, but they decided to keep it uncut.

I don't mind gay little disclaimers like this, so long as they don't vandalize the actual movie. At least, I only mind them as the first step on the slippery slope that led us to where we are now.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Anybody remember The Trap Door? Kino British claymation show.

Here's a playlist containing all of the episodes (upscaled) if you're interested: https://youtu.be/B9L3ftnrJVE?list=PLtVvHIP9olLzXyclJ0Cjmw8gtw_y-1NwE

As an american, I only know about this because Alvin Earthworm (the Super Mario Bros. Z guy)made a poop of it many years ago

 

[Super-Chevy454]

I don't mind gay little disclaimers like this, so long as they don't vandalize the actual movie. At least, I only mind them as the first step on the slippery slope that led us to where we are now.

If only "Song of the South" got a similar treatment who look better then the current situation.

 

[Slideshow Bill]

Amphibia could have been something really nice if it was written by anyone else. Three teenage girls get warped into this dark fantasy with talking frogs learning about family and true friendship and it's an action adventure/dark comedy? Sounds pretty neato. But unfortunately, it succumbed to the siren song (like most Western Animation these days) to become Shitty Western Pseudo Anime. Steven Universe is Patient Zero for SWPA because the animation industry is a Hapsburg like clusterfuck, full of weeaboos and hacks who don't understand why something works for anime but not when it is sloppily copied out of context.

 

[Life is Hell...]

If i had to choose Puppeteers who i really enjoy, Bil Baird would definitely the top one. He may not be as well known as Jim Henson, but his creations definitely had a really unique and somewhat charming quality to them.

That and his illustration work wasn't half that bad either.
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Here's a video of him giving a lecture explaining how some of his puppets work.

 

[Lone Star]

Amphibia could have been something really nice if it was written by anyone else. Three teenage girls get warped into this dark fantasy with talking frogs learning about family and true friendship and it's an action adventure/dark comedy? Sounds pretty neato. But unfortunately, it succumbed to the siren song (like most Western Animation these days) to become Shitty Western Pseudo Anime. Steven Universe is Patient Zero for SWPA because the animation industry is a Hapsburg like clusterfuck, full of weeaboos and hacks who don't understand why something works for anime but not when it is sloppily copied out of context.

I was really glad I decided to skip out on it when I saw a pic of one of them going Super Saiyan Blue.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Speaking of puppets

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Bluey is starting to be mlp 2.0

I think it already has.

For example;