Western Animation - Discuss American, Canadian, and European cartoons here (or just bitch about wokeshit, I guess)

[Max Doof]

As far as I know, it's still going. All the original creators are involved. I have no idea when it'll be out, but it'll probably be next year at the earliest.

Yeah, it's moved to 2021

 

[Private Pyle]

I remember hearing about a Rugrats reboot. What happened to it?

I’m pretty much piling on at this point but it did in fact get delayed from it’s 2020 release to 2021. From what I’ve heard, the original creators are back on board and I think Nancy Cartwright is reprising her role as Chuckie.
The proposed live action/CGI movie seems to have been canned however.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

I’m pretty much piling on at this point but it did in fact get delayed from it’s 2020 release to 2021. From what I’ve heard, the original creators are back on board and I think Nancy Cartwright is reprising her role as Chuckie.
The proposed live action/CGI movie seems to have been canned however.

I assume everyone else is back as well, but I don't know who's going to replace Jack Riley and Joe Alaskey.

 

[A Grey Cat]

I know we have a movie and tv recommendation thread but around this time of the year In addition to the hard R slasher and monster movies I like watching I like to endulge my inner child with hits like Scooby doo and the ghoul school and Daffy ducks quackbusters. I remember cartoon network would always air those two as part of their cartoon theater every October Along with their Halloween special eps of their cartoon cartoons and other gems like Scooby doo on zombie island. Man thinking of all those takes me back...as fall is known to do

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Here's an interesting article about the What-a-Cartoon project:

https://www.vulture.com/article/what-a-cartoon-animation-history-remembered.html

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I can see why Duckman is a Kiwi Farms favorite here.

Having not seen the cartoon in years, it still magically holds up in this day and age. It’s a great, unique cartoon.

 

[Dark Emporer Dood]

For anyone curious about the upcoming Animaniacs, the brew just released an article detailing how the new crews gone about updating it:

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/streaming/how-the-creators-of-hulus-animaniacs-reboot-subtly-updated-the-look-of-the-series-197301.html

Not exactly the method that I'd choose tbh.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

For anyone curious about the upcoming Animaniacs, the brew just released an article detailing how the new crews gone about updating it:

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/streaming/how-the-creators-of-hulus-animaniacs-reboot-subtly-updated-the-look-of-the-series-197301.html

Not exactly the method that I'd choose tbh.

I think it actually looks pretty good for a reboot. There’s episodes of the original show that looked worse.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

For anyone curious about the upcoming Animaniacs, the brew just released an article detailing how the new crews gone about updating it:

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/streaming/how-the-creators-of-hulus-animaniacs-reboot-subtly-updated-the-look-of-the-series-197301.html

Not exactly the method that I'd choose tbh.

I didn’t know they were that bold enough to make an Animaniacs reboot in this current day. Though, it will probably end up like the Ren & Stimpy reboot that’s coming soon.

 

[Life is Hell...]

Has anyone here seen the previews for The Ghost & Molly McGee, it looks like a pretty okay show from the looks of it

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

I didn’t know they were that bold enough to make an Animaniacs reboot in this current day. Though, it will probably end up like the Ren & Stimpy reboot that’s coming soon.

There's a date. It's supposed to be out around Thanksgiving.

 

[Dark Emporer Dood]

I didn’t know they were that bold enough to make an Animaniacs reboot in this current day. Though, it will probably end up like the Ren & Stimpy reboot that’s coming soon.

I'm more or less just going to "wait and see", but given that I dont have HBOMax+ I probably wont ever watch it.

I think it actually looks pretty good for a reboot. There’s episodes of the original show that looked worse.

It less how they're drawn and more so the amount of research and designs that they went through only to wind up with "eh forget it, just update the originals". Still, good excuse to binge the old show I guess.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

I'm more or less just going to "wait and see", but given that I dont have HBOMax+ I probably wont ever watch it.

It less how they're drawn and more so the amount of research and designs that they went through only to wind up with "eh forget it, just update the originals". Still, good excuse to binge the old show I guess.

I'm not gonna watch it, myself, but really, some of those designs looked godawful. They did the right thing - you can't beat the original ideas.

 

[Dark Emporer Dood]

I'm not gonna watch it, myself, but really, some of those designs looked godawful. They did the right thing - you can't beat the original ideas.

Which ones in particular?

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Which ones in particular?

The ones that looked like the stereotypical CalArts style.

 

[Dark Emporer Dood]

The ones that looked like the stereotypical CalArts style.

So basically all of them? /sneed

The only one that stood out to me was the Cuphead sheet, the rest just looked like other contemporary shows.

 

[Private Pyle]

The ones that looked like the stereotypical CalArts style.

That first one in particular, yeesh; there would have been a shit storm on par with Roar had they gone with that one. The fact that they passed over those styles in favor of a modern update of the old artstyle shows at least shows the CalArts style is falling out of mainstream use. Or that could just be me hoping.

So basically all of them? /sneed

The only one that stood out to me was the Cuphead sheet, the rest just looked like other contemporary shows.

On the other hand, the Cuphead sheet was a loss. In addition to the novelty of being by Studio MDHR themselves, it’s a nice nod to how the Warners come from 30s era animation in universe.
A runner up would be the French comic style because god I would love French comic influences in western cartoons.

 

[Dark Emporer Dood]

the Cuphead sheet was a loss. In addition to the novelty of being by Studio MDHR themselves, it’s a nice nod to how the Warners come from 30s era animation in universe.

It'd need to move like a 30's cartoon for that style to really work, which means actually animating by hand.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Well, they finally released an actual clip.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

The design, like I said, isn't bad, and considering it's in Flash, it moves well enough. It's still obvious it's a Flash cartoon, but it's pretty well-animated.

I'm not going to judge the content on one clip alone, but I think, at the very least, it won't look bad.