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[Western Animation] Max? More like Min
RMS Oceanic
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Animation is rapidly displaying sequential images to produce the illusion of movement.
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My mind is blown!
There used to be many different kinds of animation: Hand Drawn, CGI, Stop Motion/Claymation, Mechanical, but Worthikids is working way too hard to merge them into a gestalt entity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJBCuRsrqUU
Who Makes It?
Disney and Warner Brothers. And (Disney) Fox and (Disney) Pixar and (Warner Brothers) Cartoon Network and ((Warner Brothers) Cartoon Network) Adult Swim and Nickelodeon. Huh. Newcomers are Netflix and Amazon Prime. Also Youtube sometimes, when the Algorithm decides to make it profitable.
What to Watch?
This place is showing its age and needs an update, but still solid. Into the Spider-Verse for sure tho.
And remember, you don't need your "baka"s and "nani"s to get some top tier sack-coo-guh moments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76-8xyGf7w0
-> My mind is blown!
There used to be many different kinds of animation: Hand Drawn, CGI, Stop Motion/Claymation, Mechanical, but Worthikids is working way too hard to merge them into a gestalt entity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJBCuRsrqUUWho Makes It?
Disney and Warner Brothers. And (Disney) Fox and (Disney) Pixar and (Warner Brothers) Cartoon Network and ((Warner Brothers) Cartoon Network) Adult Swim and Nickelodeon. Huh. Newcomers are Netflix and Amazon Prime. Also Youtube sometimes, when the Algorithm decides to make it profitable.
What to Watch?
This place is showing its age and needs an update, but still solid. Into the Spider-Verse for sure tho.
And remember, you don't need your "baka"s and "nani"s to get some top tier sack-coo-guh moments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76-8xyGf7w0 RMS Oceanic on
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It's French! It's on Netflix! It originally used Flash for rendering! It's really good!
Here, have a taste!
Also, do words mean anything anymore?
To answer your second question: Yes!
To answer your first: I don't fukken know.
The production staff, head writer, animation studio and primary financing all seem to be western.
so, I'd say, it's not an anime. Though It's heavily anime inspired and based on a Japanese property.
Note: I had to go look, because I had no idea.
Whatever; they did manage to stick the landing with season 4, though the Hector/Isaac/Carmilla plot ended up not being super important to the main story.
Isaac's the man, though, and Striga/Morana had great scenes, so I'll allow it.
Edit: now on S2E3 of Love, Death, and Robots. Not really pulling me in the same way as season 1 yet.
Halfway through, but I'm kinda grossed out by Blade Runner
And there's a new season in the works!
It's funny you say this, because the original Toonami programming block on Cartoon Network did a lot to influence Western Animation. The creator of Infinity Train said as much recently:
A certain YouTuber also got a lot of flack recently for misattributing the changes in Western Animation to Avatar: The Last Airbender instead of the shows that inspired Avatar.
At least for what most Americans would recognize as anime. Americans have been reproducing things from anime and manga since the 60s.
Hell, the Gold Digger movie came out in 2001, it's just very obscure.
A good portion of the animation for Batman: The Animated Series was done by legendary anime studio Sunrise, and that work would later inform the design of The Big O. Over in Europe, a number of anime series became cultural touchstones - most notably Saint Seiya, with its stories wrapped in Western myth making it a favorite in countries where that mythos was part of the national history - and that in turn informed European animation like the aforementioned Wakfu and Oban: Star-Racers, the latter being a fusion of Western and Eastern animation.
Crosstalk in animation has been going on for decades, and has only accelerated in the past few - that's why the take that modern Western animation traces its lineage through Avatar really stuck in my craw, as it shows a deep unawareness of the actual history of Western animation.
The bigger thing that Avatar did was open the door for a lot of creators - many of whom weren't from the usual paths in Western animation - to get their work out there.
Also outside of anime itself, it showed that a kids show can have really, really good writing and it would pay off.
Too bad about sexism in the toys industry.
I mean cripes a Melon Lord Battle Playset would have been incredible.
I might be kinda compared to most people at actually recognizing actual people, due to some neurodivergent stuff, but I was kinda impressed a bit.
otherwise, I keep wanting to love this show, and ehh... I do like some of it, but most of it misses, and nothing this season really landed for me.
If nothing else it made me deeply conflicted about my roomba.
I'm still pretty sure Snow in the Desert is real people.
I also felt like this season didn't have anything that matched last season. I liked the train in the tall-grass episode most I think, and I kind've want to know more about that world - is that just some place on Earth, or is this a world where trains frequently pass through eldritch terrain?
Spoilering for animated butt
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There's no Genndy Tartakovsky either, so don't expect that saving grace this time.
spoilered for invincible episode 8 stuff
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How are there not five of these for Emperor's New Groove yet?
I've seen at least two.
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Fuck Joe Manchin
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More animated Batman? Yay! I hope it's good.
I hope they didn't learn the wrong lessons from Harley Quinn (which I love, mind), or this is going to be real bad. Edgy Batman, I'm looking at you Killing Joke, can be pretty awful,
...and "diving deeper into the psychology of these iconic characters"... hmm...
These not unplumbed depths. These are dark pits which have been quite thoroughly wallowed around in.
I do hope they take a light hand at things, make the characters human and relatable, despite the trauma that defines them. I mean, trauma is the thing that defines every single fucking character in Batman. There's more to people than that.
And there’s the tell that this will probably be crap.
https://www.ign.com/articles/injustice-gods-among-us-animated-movie-officially-announced-by-dc-warner-bros-animation
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The actual game plot, or the comics which went into the backstory of the Injustice universe and how things ended up that way? The latter would be more preferable, and I heard the comic series is fairly all right
I'd look up
We don't need anything new, now we get to see it all again, from different angles, again and again!
And again again and again~!
Still so many ways we can see the exact same seen.
I don't think the show is rebooting the animated show, they're just using that as an inspiration. They did this in the underrated Beware the Batman. There's always new stories to tell with Batman, and it's not like Batman TAS wasn't adapting Batman's greatest hits.
Wow, I find that particular CG off-putting. Not sad I missed that series completely.
That's more upsetting than the Joker in... The Batman.
They dropped the intro for the upcoming 3rd and final season, and it's super heavy on spoilers, so definitely watch the show first, but if you're caught up, watch it and scream with me.