Charles Kenny
Industry observer at The Animation Anomaly with a focus on the intersection of art and industry.
Producer of Space Base 8.
Admin of Socel.net and the #animation room on Matrix too!
Industry observer at The Animation Anomaly with a focus on the intersection of art and industry.
Producer of Space Base 8.
Admin of Socel.net and the #animation room on Matrix too!
In related news, Is #Pixar in Crisis?
https://news.yahoo.com/mediocrity-beyond-does-lightyear-speak-053050044.html
A few choice quotes from the New York Times' review of #Lightyear.
"...Buzz is square-jawed, stoic and shadowed by a hint of melancholy — a soulful soldier in an endless corporate campaign."
"At the same time, their marginality to the main plot makes it feel as if the filmmakers were content to check a diversity box, pat themselves on the back and move on."
"Its purpose is to extend brand awareness, and to close a loop between the stuff we see and the stuff we buy.
Next week for #LGBTQ :flagProgress: #animation, the theme will be films, but after that, it's characters!
So if there's a character (or characters) that YOU like or think deserves to be included, reply and let me know!
Please boost for awareness :boost_ok:
For #pridemonth we're celebrating #LGBTQ :flagProgress: #animation and this week, it's #TV shows.
The Simpsons: Homer's Phobia
Not the show itself, but this particular episode which featured guest star John Waters. With the bulk of the humour being at Homer's expense, the episode was a rare instance at the time of LGBT characters NOT being the butt of jokes. It also satirized homophobia in a way that only The Simpsons could.
The Sweatbox Documentary
This has been on my must-watch list for a looooong time. It's a documentary that just so happens to capture the implosion of a Disney film at the tail end of the Renaissance period of the studio.
https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-sweatbox-documentary/
#Disney #animation #documentary #Sting #music #TheEmperorsNewGroove #KingdomOfTheSun #film
Caroline Renard, a writer for streaming, implores streamers to really, actually, truely promote their shows/movies. A thread.
https://twitter.com/sankofa_bird/status/1535381659301818368
"I need them to stop relying on word of mouth and hoping that a show 'maybe' trends on social media. We need real marketing and promoting back cause lots of Creators of Color are being paid dust. Shows are getting cancelled cause no one can find them in the haystack of streaming."
For #pridemonth we're celebrating #LGBTQ :flagProgress: #animation and this week, it's #TV shows.
The inclusion of She-Ra should come as no surprise. Creator ND Stevenson achieved the impossible & brought a toyetic show from the 1980s into the modern day while being original AND retaining the positive essence of the original. The crew infused the show with LGBTQ themes & characters without using them as a crutch but not without overcoming some initial hesitation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She-Ra_and_the_Princesses_of_Power
To piggy back on yesterday's #LGBTQ #PrideMonth :flagProgress: post: here is a piece by #NormanMcLaren called A Phantasy in Colors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Wp96uG-N8
This was really interesting. You could say it's a visualization. But I'd call it play. Like a piano and an animation got together on the playground and made up a game. And a fun one. The tune is fantastic & pepy. And the animation dances around with it. It can be hard for animators to sync with music. But I dont think that was an issue here.
There's a lot of talk about a new #Ghostbusters cartoon and every article is neglecting the OG Filmation version the others blatantly ripped off.
Cartoon Network on ramping up live-action content: "Girls often graduate out of animation"
:blobfacepalm:
Do they? Or is it because CN's own research says as much?
Perhaps CN forgot that they purposefully chased the male demographic so hard that girls couldn't be bothered with their older offerings like [Adult Swim] :blobthinkingglare:
We're having a yard sale this weekend and I've sooo many animation DVDs that gotta go. 😢
Just got word that Ferngully: The Last Rainforest is finally getting a Blu-Ray release!