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Marge Simpson saying
@spumdonor
Feb 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Notice how there are no smear frames because Lou Scheimer literally thought those were animation errors
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Look at that fucking jump at 12 seconds. There isn't even any anticipation, the guy just kind of flies up and away. I can imagine being impressed by this if you were a 6 year old in 1988 who'd never seen anime before but what excuse does someone have today
Listen to me going on like she was making some point about animation instead of just wanting to fuck the horse guy

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Marge Simpson saying
Feb 25
It really puts American animation history in perspective to realize the action scenes in something like Dexter's Laboratory, a cartoony comedy series with limited animation, were immeasurably more dynamic & exciting for having cartoonists & animators in charge of them, & not this
"Animators made this! It's animated! What do you meaaaaan!!" This scene was created from a script written by 2 non-artist, non-cartoonists & if you think the storyboard artist or even the director had any say about altering the content that was not how the business ran in the 80s
Plus you've got a producer who, right at the start of his animation producing career, thought this was an acceptable-looking adaption of Archie Comics Image
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Marge Simpson saying
Feb 10
Japanese & American animation began to diverge drastically in the 50s-60s because transitioning to the limited animation of TV, Hanna-Barbera prioritized their frames for "smoothness" to be more like Disney's standard of "quality animation" - but Japan prioritized them for action
This is why boomer American animators used to make fun of anime - "It's herky-jerky, the mouths just flap around, it's fast-paced, it's spastic" - meanwhile they're prioritizing smooth walk cycles on teenagers walking from one room to the next in the latest Scooby-Doo knockoff
There were exceptions like Bob Clampett's Beany & Cecil where you can see limited animation / # of frames still being used for maximum expressiveness but for the most part Disney had brainwashed the industry into thinking Limited Animation had to be stiff & boring by definition.
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Marge Simpson saying
Jan 24
The absolute state of Disney fans' imaginations
"I'd pay to see full-length interactions and team-ups with the characters" don't worry, they know
It's actually really important not to let your kids' childhood sense of wonder & creative possibility be primarily rented to them by the Walt Disney Company
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Marge Simpson saying
Jan 20
"puritanism" is a catchy term for this behavior ("puriteens") but it's really a generational projection of anger over being groomed online. Hence some recent self-awareness; "Of course we're sensitive about sex, millennial perverts harassed us as kids" - but w/o further analysis
Real puritanism would mean a rejection of all the weird sex shit & young people getting upset about anime boobs, sexualized teens, etc, obviously aren't doing that. Their anger only gets redirected at normal sexuality, whereas aberration is always authenticity
Loli stuff isn't "normal sexuality" but you can see the effort to pathologize basic straight heterosexual desire by association to it, when people comment "Why does this adult character have a child's face??" Image
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Marge Simpson saying
Dec 27, 2023
Out of the way, you swine, it's time for a thread about the cartoonist behind the Out of the Way, You Swine! A Cartoonist is Coming! cartoon: Bernard "Hap" Kliban, better known as B. Kliban (1935-1990) 🧵 Image
Kliban’s early cartooning career was accomplished, but essentially "normal": in 1962, he became one of the early Playboy regulars, delivering competent, workmanlike "adult" gags for the magazine. He married another "adult" cartoonist, National Lampoon regular M.K. Brown. Then...
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In 1975 Kliban had his biggest mainstream success, an all-ages book of quirky cat cartoons simply entitled "Cat," & it quickly spawned a merchandising empire that continues selling to this day. In 1978, Jim Davis created Garfield🤔

This commercial success enabled B. to get WEIRD


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Marge Simpson saying
Dec 19, 2023
In 2011, Simpsons layout artist Mark Colangelo, who worked during its early golden age (seasons 3-5) made a series of posts on the No Homers fansite indicating how the show's producers always considered expressive, funny animation to be a problem - one to be "fixed" over time 🧵


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Like a 70s or 80s Saturday Morning Cartoon producer, Matt Groening was fixated on not letting artists deviate from model sheets & their pre-approved acting poses / expressions. Or likewise, away from the minutiae of approved Character Design, like maintaining "correct" pupil size


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What does it tell us about the Cartoon Sitcom that all this stuff was baked into the cake of the Cartoon Sitcom which is considered the gold standard? This is why animation artists should regard the format with contempt, at least until they put actual cartoonists in charge of one


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