[Take It Sleazy]

the first episode of tron is up on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjbwVzJR8w4

probably US only i'm assuming

[Loki Laufeyson]

young justice has a conservative tv pundit named g. gordon godfrey!

looking forward to darkseid eventually revealing himself
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[Gorblax]

http://youngjustice.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Gargoyles_voice_actors_in_Young_Justice
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[Mikey]

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/acatinparis/

This seems cute (in a good way)

[Take It Sleazy]

after watching another episode tron sure is fortunately/unfortunately the perfect tron legacy cartoon :/

[Take It Sleazy]

new mystery incs have been airing in the uk so they are around if you dig that show

[Mikey]

[Take It Sleazy]

It is all around aesthetically beautiful and slick and the characters are just nothings and the fact that they are in a computer is mostly window dressing as opposed to mattering to the story

[Take It Sleazy]

still wish it looked like a shitty hanna barbera cartoon but i am still hyped

[notbov]

Just a heads up y'all, I don't know if they're doing all over, but my local (E Street in DC) Landmark Theater is doing a double bill of Black Dynamite and an episode of the show this Wednesday. So, if you've got one nearby and a free night, I'd bug them to see what's going on.
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[HarveyQ]

hey guys you should check out Gravity Falls. it's sort of like Twin Peaks for kids!



it's also the funniest and prettiest thing i've seen on Disney Channel in a long, long time.
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[Jujyfruits]

i guess everybody already talked about this but i've been watching a lot of Adventure Time from the first episode and i love every second of it.
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[Take It Sleazy]

Ninja Turtles looks weird. The foot soldiers are robots who are being controlled by Utroms who are known as The Kraang (ha) on this show. Also Rob Paulsen talks for Donatello which just throws me off balance completely. Also it looks weird.

The Intro
A clip from the show
Another Clip from the show

[Take It Sleazy]

God Black Dynamite is absolute best.

[Loki Laufeyson]

therre's an episode of arthur in which one of the characters wakes up one morning to find that he has become a giant cockroach
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[Ronnoc]

What!?
As someone who watched Arthur for over 10 years and thinks Metamorphosis is the best book ever written, I am going to have to see that

[Loki Laufeyson]

the episode is entitled "bugged"
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[Tulpa]

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

Man, kids really do have it good these days. Current cartoons make some of the stuff we grew up with look like Hannah Barbera circa 1965.

Nice to know that there is progress.

Thank you for raising our children, nerds (:_;)7
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[Tulpa]

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

Hrm? Howso? In the sense that Americans characterize Muslim terrorists as brainwashed footsoldiers?
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"Godzilla could be anyone."

[Tulpa]

That and the self characterization of America as a radical individualist nation that others hate because we're so 'free', all with a large dash of paternalism (as important to radical individualism as being an individual. Robin Hood still bowed to the king, etc)

I mean what you said kind of read like "It's good to know that Peanut Butter still outweighs Jelly in Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwiches. (I'm completely serious!)"
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[Ronnoc]

Oh, I have seen that one, ten years and whatnot

[HarveyQ]

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

[HarveyQ]

it's definitely true of Adventure Time. you can see the differences in style from episode to episode, based on who boarded it. it was the same with Flapjack: http://www.toonzone.net/2009/06/different-styles-in-the-marvelous-misadventures-of-flapjack/
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[Tulpa]

Yeah it's definitely true of Adventure Time. Probably the funnest thing to watch is when some AT regular does a Regular Show episode or vice versa

Does anyone know if Gravity Falls is getting boarded the same way? There's so much character in the animation that I would assume it to be true. (Without knowing anything about the show I actually assumed it was by the Regular Show guys in particular just because of the way people are cartooned)
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[This Machine Kills Fascis]

[Take It Sleazy]

Well they did it that way on a great deal of looney tunes even though they didn't use the word "storyboard" in the credits per se

John Kricfalusi kind of started a version of that model back up and then the early cartoon network shows like dexter and powerpuff girls were among the first in the modern era that specifically had the storyboarder as the writer without any "written by" credit at all

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

Huh. When I think of the expressive animation in certain Warner Bros. cartoons, I always picture it as one animator animating a chunk of the cartoon, so it takes on that artistically off-model quality.

And with stuff like Dexter, I've never thought of it as that expressive, but I didn't really grow up watching it, so I've never seen a full episode. It's just that 90's bold outline sharp angle proto-flash style always seemed like the product of Korean slave labor with minimal key-frame oversight.

Does anybody know what was and what wasn't animated in-house? For some reason, I assume that Regular show is done in-house, because it's so specific. But I always figured that Power Puff and Dexter were Korean.

[Tulpa]

uh they're all in-house
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[This Machine Kills Fascis]

Well, it looks like Rough Draft Korea has done work on all of them, but I can't tell how much: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_Draft_Studios

In Futurama the Korean animators are always in the credits (iirc), but I don't think the same goes for stuff like The Regular Show.

But I guess they're just doing the inbetweens in all those cases, right?
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[Tulpa]

inbetweens and a little bit of the tedious process of inking/painting cels.

You can't really judge whether a cartoon was more or less in-house based on its style, tbh. The angular upa style of Tartakovsky projects does not mean cheapness of production any more than rounded Adventure Time/Regular Show style mean lavishness.
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[cavefish]

i remember reading adventure time was completely animated in korea. and that first it was done by JM Media and then they changed it to another one, probably the one TMKF linked, during the second season

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

[Take It Sleazy]

Man that recent Venture Bros special that was all animated in the states looked even better than it usually does to me although I know some people disagree

[Tulpa]

That stereotype you have about korean studios seems to be almost entirely unfounded though.

All these shows just have a strong directorial hand. It's like the difference in appearance between the average Madhouse anime and something Yuasa directs, frex.
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[Tulpa]

[Tulpa]

I mean by contrast, even if the ink and paint was done in the states, Batman:TAS is a good example of a show that was significantly worked on overseas. Of the directorial portion of animation, only storyboards were local.
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