tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366424435846244753.post275980894361941033..comments2023-10-31T03:17:11.650-07:00Comments on Matt Animates: Why don't you come on back to the war? or CG vs Hand drawn, what the fuck happened to stop mo?Matt Animates!http://www.blogger.com/profile/18236046318384764700noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366424435846244753.post-48221004450046253882009-11-11T15:33:14.405-08:002009-11-11T15:33:14.405-08:00Yea, the notion of objectively judging animation i...Yea, the notion of objectively judging animation is a little shaky when you consider work that incorporates its crappiness into the aesthetic.Samuel Walker Christensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14591766542204402078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366424435846244753.post-2749392859179749192009-11-10T21:36:45.487-08:002009-11-10T21:36:45.487-08:00Those shows pretty much objectively have poor anim...Those shows pretty much objectively have poor animation. If I'm talking about animation I'm mainly talking about quality of movement, strength of poses, and expression. Home movies and Aqua Teen Hunger Force and other animation on adult swim has jumpy, or linear motion pathed animation. They are not realistic.<br /><br />This then, however, calls into question what is good for animation. Is realism good? Rotoscoping is as realistic as you can get, but that is rarely regarded as good animation. It looks off. Good animation, traditionally, is based on real movements and exaggerated to make poses and movements stronger, and it sells actions better. Of course, in the traditional sense of good animation, you can go too far with it. A Tex Avery style animation is very exaggerated, possibly too exaggerated. This now becomes a line of personal preference. This style is the result of knowing and bending the rules consciously. The question of what is good, obviously is not objective. I can't answer what is objectively good in animation. But I think I can say what is bad. Animation that is too jumpy to see the movement, or animation with linear keyframes without thought, that don't represent the thought and emotions of the character. Bad animation is similar to bad acting as well.<br /><br />So, would I say that the animation for Adult Swim shows like Home Movies or Aqua Teen is bad? I'll switch my original statement to no. I don't think it's bad. The movement is terrible, but the poses are good. In the end, you understand what the characters' intents are. You have just the information to accentuate a joke or a mood. But I would not say the animation is good. The movement is very poor.<br /><br />This all being said, in the end, I don't really care. Animation quality is really unimportant in comparison to story. Really unimportant. A similar analogy is graphics for video games. I still love playing Super Mario Brothers. The graphics are poor, just what is needed to play the game, but the game is well made. It's fun to play. Just like a story needs to be fun (in some respect) before it looks pretty. <br /><br />This is why Home Movies is possibly the best television show ever made. It's wonderfully written, the animation serves the story (unlike so many Disney films that I don't give a shit about, where the story serves the animation.) Ideally, you have beautiful animation and beautiful writing, of course. I just don't care about a film that has good animation but poor writing, but there are plenty of films that have poor animation and beautiful writing that I love.<br /><br /><br />Post Script: In my own work I want to have good animation. It's a really fun challenge. The harder challenge, however, is a good meaningful story. Animation is easy, writing isn't. Animation just takes work and thought, writing needs something else. I just need to be bffs with don hertzfeldt, bakshi, plympton, brendon small, h jon benjamin, todd barry, nick park, etcMatt Animates!https://www.blogger.com/profile/18236046318384764700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366424435846244753.post-89466825891901571032009-11-10T19:18:03.979-08:002009-11-10T19:18:03.979-08:00Interesting! I gotta ask you, what do you think of...Interesting! I gotta ask you, what do you think of the animation in Home Movies, or any of the other adult swim animated shows?Samuel Walker Christensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14591766542204402078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366424435846244753.post-46097906040995905222009-11-10T19:16:24.368-08:002009-11-10T19:16:24.368-08:00it was great having sex in your vagina last niteit was great having sex in your vagina last niteUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16790325276518747412noreply@blogger.com