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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
Apparently the animation "company" was a German husband and wife who make knockoff animations in the 90s. Weirdly enough a lot of their films were originally only officially released in English on Playstation with the animations packaged with lovely minigames.
http://mockbuster.wikia.com/wiki/Dingo_Pictures


You can find a lot of the English dubs on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4sMwSWoSJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brLqiYj5lQw


Edit: they're probably best known for this these days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EoRBvdVPQ
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yee

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Dec 10, 2017

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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Duke Igthorn posted:

I understand why things are the way they are: non English speakers reading phonetically , cheap reused cells the usual "budget saving" mess but the question is how are these so uniquely BAD. The animation is missing parts of the story and the story is missing animation How do you take the footage and edit in the voices without realizing that there are scenes of characters talking that they don't have voices for, or that the story makes no sense. Basically it takes such a Herculean sequence of just not caring that I can't even believe these exist. The final editor had to care enough to get the words in the right place but only, like, 79% of the time? Like every single part of the production only had one draft.

There's a whole bunch of different ways it can happen:
- Someone focused way too hard on the dream of making an animated film and ignored the reality
- Someone vastly overestimated their own talent / never realised how little talent they actually had
- Someone cut way too many corners to meet a deadline/budget
- Someone was way better at business than they were at creating art
- Someone got way more hung up on the effort they put in than the result that came out (AKA "I gave it everything I had therefore I deserve to win")

Often it's a combination of several of those factors, sometimes by an individual and sometimes as a group effort, sometimes by an 'ideas person' who doesn't attract sufficiently talented artists to realise their dream.


I knew one guy back in the 90s who was making his own smallpress comics and they were really loving terrible. He was in his 30s but the comics looked like they were written and drawn by a 12 year old and it was absolutely obvious to everyone but him. Most of the other local smallpress comicbook creators just ignored him but a few took pity and tried to encourage him so he was always turning up to meets and trying to set up collaborative projects and he even had big plans on running his own comicbook publishing label. I lost track of him but spotted him again a decade later where he was still creating the same absolutely awful comics and he'd even hired a table at the local Comic-con convention and was trying to compete with professional artists. I later learned that he had dyslexia and I think some kind of autism and he really genuinely couldn't see any difference between his comics and the stuff that was being published by Marvel and DC and he never understood why he couldn't break into the big time.


I know another guy through a friend of a friend who's a middleaged Dad and his teenaged kids had started a band with some friends and he went absolutely apeshit crazy managing them. He spent tens of thousands of dollars turning his garage into a recording studio and bought new instruments for all the band members and he booked them a whole series of gigs at actual venues and weddings and entered them into a whole bunch of 'battle of the bands' competitions and went totally overboard promoting them on Facebook and other social media even though the kids could barely play their way through an entire song. If I was being really really generous I'd say that they were somewhat average but this guy thought he was going to be the next Colonel Tom Parker and he actually made his children sign a contract agreeing that he had exclusive managerial rights over them.


For every successful artist that you've heard of there's a ton of struggling failed artists who never had what it takes to make it. Sometimes they don't realise that they were doomed to fail and they just keep going and somehow get an entire film completed and out into the public sphere and the results are hilariously awful.


Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Dec 10, 2017

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