I feel the only reason people are mad about ""calarts style"" when really not that many shows are in that style is because the 3 most popular kids show in recent years are in that style and theyre tired of theses 3 shows and their fandom being so prevalent online.
If people actually paid attention to other shows in western animation and not thoses few popular ones they wouldnt complain. But theses shows are the most popular because the writing and general quality is better than other shows. Im not even fan of them and I recognise that.
The calarts meme conspiracy is really laughable. Of course students get inspired by people they work with. And there always has been a prevalent style at different periods of animation history. A few decades ago you either had disney or tex avery/chuck jones with maybe a rare King and the Mockingbird once a decade, and thats it. In the 80s, every single show looked like eachother.
Now there's unique shit everywhere and obscure indie stuff can blow up online. Blaming that one school and its students for ruining everything ever is really short sighted when we're in the best time yet for diversity of animation styles.
who cares
It's not diverse.
Diversity isn't localized to one team, it's an industry thing. When compared to the industry of animation, yes this team is diverse. Is it locally diverse? No, but it could be with time. I talked with the COO of Titmouse about this since he came to my university this past April and this is pretty much what he told me.
This is nonsense, you can never be more diverse by comparison" if your team is completely homogeneous. If idea you're trying to convey is that, because there are fewer women in the industry having an all women team is positive, that works, but the team is not "more diverse", it's the objective opposite.
It is localized to one team. The reason it can be good to have a diverse (actually diverse, not this macro redefinition or even the "skin color is the only criteria" shit) staff is that it can bring together varied, unusual perspecties in a creative process. If all of your people are exactly the same both physically and ideologically and you're trying to push the idea that you're "diverse" in a promo well, speaks for itself doesnt it? If nobody on your staff said "wait a minute, this makes no sense" maybe you need to diversify your creatives a bit, so you have at least one person who can stop you before you make this kind of misstep.
I mean, that's probably the most Japanese part
Throwing together random English words that "sound cool"
Honestly I'm sick and tired of seeing that face template when someone tries to compare something to the "Calarts style, same for the gif that spawned it.
The only time they mention diversity is in regards to the characters and cast, not the writing team. Also, the staff isn't specifically one gender, they only said the writing rooms are all female but the rest of the creative roles are 50/50.
Look, I'm all for progressivism and more (actual) diversity among creative teams, but this is so stereotypical it's not even funny. An all-white, all-middle/upperclass, all-women team spending more time talking about social/identity-politics than presenting the actual product. Not to mention the "generic anime inspired magical girl tumblr webcomic" vibes from what we're even shown of the cartoon.
Things just aren't the same unless you have morbidly obese women with the thickest and most obnoxious frames for glasses, and a hairstyle that can signal aliens from inside a black hole.
I watched the trailer again and Kate Leth caught my attention, as I remembered that name from somewhere. After a search I remembered she did comics on ComicsAlliance, including the one below, among others.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/129/2775615b-f43c-4d9d-b1b4-6119253b8115/CAStrip28Site[1].png
I don't really give a damn that the show is in "Cal-Arts" style or whatever. My problems with the show more have to do with stuff going on behind the scenes (1. Crunchyroll using money they get to fund stuff like this instead of actually improving their service and supporting the anime industry. 2. No actual footage of the show is shown. Just staff talking about it . 3. The whole virtue signaling approach they have with it ["Look at how diverse our staff is!"]). Though it certainly doesn't help that the staff look like those caricatures that alt-right types make about Tumblr users.
Yeah having Kate Leth on board really puts the bullet in the brainpan for me.
It's design kind of reminds me of Wakfu, and I must dissagree with anyone here on the art style looking bad. The "Calarts art-style" complaint always confused me, for none of the designs remind me of those weird drawings put up by that one artist with the hots for Captain America. And people shitting on Flash animation need to stop, because you can create some great quality content with that program. Anyone remember El Tigre? Wakfu? Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends? Amazing World of Gumball? all made primarily with Flash animation.
I get that the premise sounds kind of generic, and I'll probably never watch it, since it is on crunchyrole.
The trailer was bad though. It gives only a small premise of the story and the rest was self praise. Good on them for believing in their project, but tone down the "holier than thou"-thing.
I'd like to know more about the show before I pass judgement on it. However, the only time they actually said anything about the show was an incredibly basic premise, so right now, I really couldn't care less about it.
Why would crunchyroll invest in this? They have to compete with Netflix originals which are insanely high production quality.
How does buying Bad Dragon stuff support anime, anyway?
BD=Blu-ray
I hate to be that guy, but goddamn it I have to be that guy. That one on the top right is the. Exact. Stereotype. THE stereotype. She might even be a completely sweet person and I feel horrible for saying this, but dear god I feel like someone reached into the exact concept of "typical Tumblr user" and plucked her right out of it. It's like that seeing that top-knot hipster guy who's working on that Thundercats reboot. They could be entirely decent folk and that's just the latest trend, but it's so easy to ridicule them and I hate myself for doing so.
And Jesus Christ, it's not even a good-looking haircut. I'm not one to mock people for having unnatural hair colors like it's become popular to do - my mom has purple hair, for god's sake - but at least have a hairdo like the girl on the bottom.
AND THEY ALL HAVE GODDAMN HORN-RIMMED GLASSES. What's next, an owl on each of their shoulders?! Goddamn, I've been spending too much time around judgmental people lately, ignore me. Two different parts of my brain are fighting for control of the keyboard.
This is just straight up contradictory semantics
You agree its not diverse but... it's diverse!
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132767/666cbdac-0af2-46c8-a135-38d73e8b0d82/image.png
Its just too early to judge this. but this looked far more interesting, desing wise.
Even that looks like generic and uninspired tumblr-magical-girl shit.
She also said the only reason to read Marvel's (terrible) Squirrel Girl series is because they draw her with a big ass (since she hides her tail in her pants when she's dressed as her secret identity).
Also tweeting shit like this all the fucking time:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/241798/694f2fc0-6e6f-40b4-ba83-366a29620f22/image.png
Yeah this is definitely a name that inspires faith in a creative venture. Hard pass.
sort of yes, but i kinda like it more than what we got now, wichfeels like it came straight out of one of those "how to draw manga" books.
They're a story revisionist. That means they clean up, refine, and greenlight storyboards before the boards go to the animation stage. They have no influence on character design. Yelling "CalArts" like you're a dog who spotted a squirrel doesn't constitute any kind of argument.
The actual character designer is an NYU grad with a BFA in Film & TV.
Please stop parroting this. It doesn't make any sense. It was coined by the Ren & Stimpy creator when for some reason he got mad at Brad Bird for The Iron Giant, an absolute classic of modern animation of which I've heard literally nobody yell about:
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/webdr03/2013/4/18/17/enhanced-buzz-6385-1366321583-7.jpg
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HFK0PHSyN-Q/VwR9aAg2nvI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/oD93t1ooHUs9XxNgzD-YtuCxXsTWpU97Q/s1600/Hogarth.jpg
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/villainstournament/images/c/ce/Annie_Hughes.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160319220428
You're not a very good cherry picker, once in five years is hardly "all the time" and judging an entire project based on two tweets made by one of its team members before they were involved in said project is pretty dumb.
I eagerly await the social justice remake of dorian gray.
I mean okay, here's something more recent:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/241798/e38836c6-bb53-4d48-8fd0-7aef58a7ac97/image.png
If you like her content then that's all well and good, but she's a sexist creep and that doesn't exactly get me excited to watch anything she's involved in. If it turns out to be good, then good for them, but you can't be shocked that people would be hesitant to embrace a project when someone like Leth is involved; it's like when you hear about a project involving Lena Dunham or Ted Nugent, you start to wonder about the whole thing if the people in charge are okay with bringing someone like that on-board.
I feel like "kill all women" "i hate women" "women are trash" would have crossed the line for you in any other situation, and you just don't care because it's someone whose media you enjoy, or something. Feel free to correct me if i have an incorrect read on the general posting patterns of asteroidrules/asparkle.
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