04-20-2010, 02:53 AM
LET ME RANT ABOUT CARTOONS. (also serious post in spamhaul)
The thing wrong with a lot of cartoons now is that they're ripping off the geometric style that was pretty big a long time ago (and had a bit of a renaissance with Genddy Tartakovsky, who is a fucking boss) without actually understanding where those styles have come from.
Which leads to lazy construction and bland, awkward looking characters.
There's also a lot of lazy animation using an over-reliance on tweening.
Sometimes it can work out; Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends has a lot of tweening, and I bet unless you were really looking for it you probably didn't notice it as much as you do in Jonny Test. Because in Foster's it's done subtly and there's still a lot of frame-by-frame stuff, lots of secondary motion, and the characters still have, y'know, character, rather than feeling like mannequins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsVsIRXwibk
Here is a really awesome video that has a lot of tweening but it still works, because the motion tweens are a tool rather than a crutch. THIS IS HOW TWEENING SHOULD BE USED (also the song is pretty nice).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAFXayH1bpY
This might be by the same guy, and again, tweening as a tool rather than a crutch (and this song totally rules).
The thing wrong with a lot of cartoons now is that they're ripping off the geometric style that was pretty big a long time ago (and had a bit of a renaissance with Genddy Tartakovsky, who is a fucking boss) without actually understanding where those styles have come from.
Which leads to lazy construction and bland, awkward looking characters.
There's also a lot of lazy animation using an over-reliance on tweening.
Sometimes it can work out; Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends has a lot of tweening, and I bet unless you were really looking for it you probably didn't notice it as much as you do in Jonny Test. Because in Foster's it's done subtly and there's still a lot of frame-by-frame stuff, lots of secondary motion, and the characters still have, y'know, character, rather than feeling like mannequins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsVsIRXwibk
Here is a really awesome video that has a lot of tweening but it still works, because the motion tweens are a tool rather than a crutch. THIS IS HOW TWEENING SHOULD BE USED (also the song is pretty nice).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAFXayH1bpY
This might be by the same guy, and again, tweening as a tool rather than a crutch (and this song totally rules).