tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post2356040755450083527..comments2023-11-09T21:41:38.865+00:00Comments on My Medicated Cartoon Life: Killing scenes is tougher on the younger guysBitter Animatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06617537816971588380noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post-66465818863691263812008-09-03T23:12:00.000+01:002008-09-03T23:12:00.000+01:00Yeah I'd be interested to read a post about it all...Yeah I'd be interested to read a post about it all. I find the contrast between movies and TV quite odd. I would have thought, for instance, that by now there would have been some movies made entirely with Flash for a fraction of the cost of a traditional or 3D film.<BR/><BR/>I hate Flash. Yet I feel I need at some point to devote a fair bit of my valuable animation time to learning it. That's time that should be used learning to animate properly. It's a shame.Andy Lathamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04404988861331264759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post-86673405250604790792008-09-03T19:12:00.000+01:002008-09-03T19:12:00.000+01:00There are a lot of answers to that, Andy, and prob...There are a lot of answers to that, Andy, and probably a load more that I don't know of. Some animated shows make a ton of money. A huge amount of them make absolutely nothing and are left with debts.<BR/><BR/>A large part of the reason budgets are so low in television is that everybody tried to undercut everyone else. Korea and places like that could do animation much cheaper (not better but, hey, money is money). Then Flash came along and studios could compete with the outsourcing budgetwise but I just see that as more undercutting.<BR/><BR/>It all devalues the craft and makes it ultimately harder for animators to live. Flash is already being outsourced, just like staurday morning 2D was, and that will continue.<BR/><BR/>And, yes, a lot of kids don't care what certain things look like if it has ingredients they like. Part of the reason that it matters more at the movies is that parents do care and, for movies, parents have to take the kids and put up with the movie themselves. With television, the children usually end up watching on their own or with a parent who is doing something else.<BR/><BR/>But there are so many things you bring up here! Too many for one comment but maybe I'll throw my two cents in with a post on some of your points.Bitter Animatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06617537816971588380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post-60015579369987554132008-09-03T18:14:00.000+01:002008-09-03T18:14:00.000+01:00I was having a conversation with another animator ...I was having a conversation with another animator today about why movie studios like Pixar bother to make good animation when it's quite possible that kids don't care whether it's good or not. You only have to look back to the crap you used to like as a kid to know that.<BR/><BR/>The only reason we could think of is that the studios do it more out of competition with other studios. The "look at what we can do" idea.<BR/><BR/>If that is indeed the reason, why don't TV animation studios do it too? Is it purely a budget thing?<BR/><BR/>Also, why are the budgets so limited? Surely animation in TV shows is popular amongst viewers. Is it a case of the company getting a large amount of money for the show but keeping most of it in the pockets of the big cheeses so there's none left for any kind of budget? Or do animated TV shows just not generate much money?Andy Lathamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04404988861331264759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post-85460421319762553482008-09-03T15:18:00.000+01:002008-09-03T15:18:00.000+01:00looking forward to yr next post bitter.I am trying...looking forward to yr next post bitter.<BR/>I am trying to teach myself flash presently, and something is preventing me from wrapping my head around it. <BR/>-jxJeaux Janovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11235340656311042111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post-63906159315858319052008-09-03T08:37:00.000+01:002008-09-03T08:37:00.000+01:00On our current show, yes, we can draw symbols. But...On our current show, yes, we can draw symbols. But they have to fit perfectly of course. But because there is so little variation in the main animation, new symbols have an awful habit of standing out as being completely separate to everything else.<BR/><BR/>The director encourages new pieces and his main comment on almost every scene is that he wants to see the expressions pushed much more. Which is great.<BR/><BR/>But the unfortunate reality is that our expected quotas are so high that actually getting those new symbols right and approved can cause a serious production backlog.<BR/><BR/>So, in a way, I can understand it from a numbers point of view that some studios would ban new symbols from the animators. <BR/><BR/>It's all a bit messy with it and nobody, animators and director alike, is happy with the results.Bitter Animatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06617537816971588380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post-52036806715741003062008-09-03T08:25:00.000+01:002008-09-03T08:25:00.000+01:00Are you not allowed to draw new symbols? I heard t...Are you not allowed to draw new symbols? I heard that at a studio around here they are pretty much forbidden from drawing new symbols.Toolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719375194378704780noreply@blogger.com