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Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

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Clever Betty

Alhazred posted:

Oh, god. The puke scene in TMNT: Mutant Mayhem.
it's a bit much

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Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
there's a trailer for the new Magic: The Gathering set, a "western, but fantasy" set called Outlaws of Thunder Junction, and it's pretty rad. they've been kinda hit or miss lately but this one is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2McuaOFVvuE&hd=1

their take on "1920s mobsters, but fantasy" with Streets of New Capenna was great, too. really love their reimaginings of other genres but in the MTG universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sukHfctT9L4&hd=1

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
There's a youtube animator I follow named Alex Henderson, and he's one of the most impressive one-man animation studios(or close to it) I have seen in a long, long time. He has become more prominent in recent years, but it wasn't until his Donkey Kong Country tributes that I feel like he really became more known. but even then, not a lot of folks have heard of him.

here is his most recent work, an ABSOLUTELY ABSURD music video for Gloryhammer's Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abernethy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeROS92-BsM&hd=1

I get Don Bluth animation style vibes from his more recent stuff, especially the above music video and Donkey Kong Country - Return to Krocodile Isle. For RtKI, he managed to get a bunch of the voice actors from the original DKC CGI cartoon from the 90s back, including Benedict Campbell as King K Rool. It's magnificent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eggzBAzCZg&hd=1

and the previous DKC video, Curse of the Crystal Coconut is a remake of one of the many old DKC show songs, Pirate's Scorn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5-X58Tw6RQ&hd=1

He's got incredible skills, and I do hope he eventually gets to work on a bigger project, because while these are masterworks all, I want to see what he could do with something bigger.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty

Ccs posted:

I went to school with this guy and we worked at the same studio for about a year, but he got sick of the grind of managed productions and had the technical skills in all departments in order to forge his own way. Meanwhile I continued in the "studio" track which meant I've been able to work on big shows but have no real creative control, and my skills increased only in animation which means pulling off a short film by myself is out of reach.

I think these type of artists will be much more future proof than all the artists who became cogs in the machine for a steady paycheck, as the former basically know how to do it all and have a certain amount of control over their own destiny. Whereas my own strategy has just been to save as much of the studio paychecks as possible so I can live for a while between jobs if it comes to that.
very cool! well, not your whole "I acknowledge I am the grist in the mill" part, but that he recognized he could create his own path and took it, and seems to be decently successful at it. Still wish his stuff got the same level of views as Spooky Month type videos.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

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Clever Betty
holy loving poo poo
https://twitter.com/kiyandrew/status/1777498195297497118

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

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Clever Betty
:yeshaha:

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
The transformers one trailer is terrible but the movie behind it looks like an excellent all ages sort of movie.

I mentioned it elsewhere but people really need to remember that the original transformers series was absolutely ridiculous a lot of the time, even ignoring the constant horrible animation and scale errors:

quote:

I haven't watched any of G1 since I was a kid, but that poo poo was g-o-o-f-y. like, I saw this shitpost animation recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB0BlIA-9y0&hd=1&t=32s

and was like "heh that's a pretty funny little animation cobbling together an altercation with a bunch of decepticons's voice lines" but then saw the original and no that's a reanimated version of one single scene of the decepticons slapfighting in the middle of a flooded stadium while the autobots watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HiRkwPYgt8

G1 transformers was silly as poo poo

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

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Clever Betty
I genuinely think the trailer is making TF:ONE look worse than the movie probably actually is, it's just a really bad trailer overall

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Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

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Clever Betty

ImpAtom posted:

Halo's early lore (which, I admit, is the only stuff I know because I never got into the Halo plot) is unironic ra-ra fash bullshit and if you asked me to make a Halo movie I'd want to write about how hosed up and awful it is that the Spartan program is this glorified heroic necessary evil thing despite the fact it literally involved horrifyingly maiming children and was basically doing a "the Spartans were so COOL and AWESOME and MANLY" thing but sci-fi.

If you don't want to deal with the actual Halo lore and just have a cool dude in armor fighting aliens, I'd rather make a Doom movie.
admittedly it has been a long time(since the original release) since I read the first halo books, but I feel like it was very up front about how awful and inhumane the spartan program was and how terrible the human government was. I mean, it literally starts off with kidnapping children and replacing them with clones, and talks about how the Spartans were designed as supercops to crush dissent. At least until the covenant showed up and suddenly all of that interhuman conflict became irrelevant in a fight against eradication, and the Spartans purpose was rewritten on the fly as things got more and more dire.

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