Interesting—And the pills that Piglet gave him…?
Those don’t do anything at all.
I watched Disney’s Aladdin in the movie theater. Good animation. I then watched Return of Jafar on video. Bad animation. Repeat for all of Disney’s straight-to-video sequels. “Ah well, it’s going straight to video anyway, no reason to make the characters look as good as in the original… Who cares if the animators can’t draw [main character] to even remotely resemble the first movie? It’s close enough.”
I love Tom Goes to the Mayor… I bought a Pipe Camp shirt, and I’ve started using the phrase “my chippies”. Even made a “crickets!” reference today.
The animation style is clearly a deliberate choice - it’s not even animation, it’s a Photoshop effect applied to still photos. They mix in computer animation and live video all the time, and the creators’ prank call clips at www.timanderic.com have the same look, even though they’re unedited photographs.
Un-brrnzing is a one step process. First, the brrnz is removed from the object.
I detest “Rugrats” and anything that “looks” like it.
Those people can’t draw to save their lives.
“Fairly Odd-parents” is a close second.
Eccch!
I’m with you there. Weird, lumpy heads.
Dragonball Z must be fabulously cheap to produce. It’s ostensibly a show about combat, but mostly the characters just stand there and vibrate at one another (basically, you make two slightly-different drawings of the character and swap between them at half-second intervals). And the most actual conflict I’ve seen on the show consists of voiceovers. “Next week: Gohan begins to throw a punch! Will he complete it? Tune in and find out!”
Is this a serious entry? Most of these were light-years ahead of the others cited in this thread.
If it’s for real, you oughta know that the “Legends” tape/DVD is a compilation of pieces that appeared in Disney films and the TV show for years, and date from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. It’s not new stuff. Pencil markings? “modern”? Have another look.
Besides Clutch Cargo there was also Space Angel, which used the same cheapo “animation” technique of putting the actor’s lips into something that looked like a megaphone, shooting it, and imposing it on the drawn background. In fact, sometimes they were too cheap for even that, and hid the mouth behind a face mask or a microphone or something. I gotta go with this as the worst animation, because there’s hardly any actual animation, and the live-action mouth looks seriously creepy. I’m sure Quentin Tarantino used clips of Cluytch Cargo in Pulp Fiction for precisely that reason.
Next are the early Astro-Booy and Speede Racer cartoons, with their non-animation spliced in amonst the limited animation. Crusader Rabbit did this, too, especially the earliest ones, but I’ll cut them some slack because iof the writing and offbeat humor (even the later ones, that Jay Ward had nothing to do with.)
Good point. As bad as the worst adult anime are, they got nothing on DragonballZ, which I saw far too much of because my kid was hooked on it for awhile. They just float in air and stare at each other for seconds, maybe minutes at a time. What excitement!
The animated version of Lord of the Rings - it starts fairly well, but the animation quality, along with everything else in the movie, spirals rapidly downwards in quality as the movie progresses; they used rotoscoping of live footage, which looks pretty good at the start, but later on, just looks like poorly-developed, poorly-edited, non-rotoscoped live footage.
I came into this thread to nominate Weiss Kreuz, but you beat me to it. The only reason I watched that awful series was to be justified in saying it, rather than bashing it with never seeing it. My sole joy out of that series was Farfarello’s episode.
I bought the DVD for Wizards for 10 bucks, and it’s worth it just for the commentary by Bakshi. He is definitely off his rocker.
He said when he was making Wizards, he nearly ran out of budget when he got to the battle scenes, and the producers wouldn’t give him any more money. So he recycled old war footage and took it to IBM who then did the retroscoping effect for cheap. I guess he impressed himself enough to do the same thing with LotR.
In the commentary, he also said the movie was originally going to be called War Wizards. But, he shortened it to Wizards as a favor to George Lucas, so that people wouldn’t get the two movies confused. When I heard him say this, I yelled out “Otherwise his movie would have just been called ‘Star.’”
Of course, Wizards would have done a lot better at the box office if they hadn’t jerked it out early to show Star Wars. Bakshi is so full of BS but he’s fun to listen to.
Wizards is a truly bizarre film. At times the animation and story is excellent, but it frequently drifts and goes all over the place. Bakshi seems to lose focus on what his story is and who his audience is. At times it seems like it’s supposed to be for everyone, but the sexy elf and the satire on religion kill that. Sometimes the peter Falf Wizard is supposed to be the Good Guy, but his actions at the end are off the edge. They initially marketed this as a War stiory, but shortly after it was released they changed to it “A Story of Peace and Fantasy”, putting a “Peace” label on the back of the converted soldier’s saddle, as if that changed anything. Like most of Bakshi’s stuff, it didn’t seem to know where it was going.
when it wasn’t rotoscoping, the animation is actually quite good. The same for Bakshi’s awful Lord of the Rings. The problem is, too much of that movie is rotoscoping.