#emation

[seeksstaronmewni]

What happened to Korean animation???

I can not stress this enough, but what is it with the Korean animation on most Burbank-made cartoons produced after 2015 looking so… slow and stiff???

There're LOTS more on 2s animation timing... and less inbetweening, while characters, props and effects are not as loosely drawn as they used to be before 2016.

Look at this example below of what a modern cartoon looks like when animated in Korea:

Bernard Williams ain't selling the acting well now; is he?

That episode of Craig of the Creek, "Creature Feature", was made in 2020; it was animated by Rough Draft Korea Co., Ltd. — an animation studio founded by Gregg Vanzo as a cheaper means for quality animation on none other than The Ren & Stimpy Show (Don't believe me? Thad Komorowski will tell you).

He's moving too slow. This shot is all on 2s. His arms move stiffly, and his head bobs up and down just a little bit. It doesn't sell the specific emotions he's expressing as richly as they could... compared to something like classic Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon shows of the past. The overseas animators should listen to the audio track, the recorded dialogue. That's what they did on on Ren & Stimpy!

Now let's go back 10 years before Rough Draft animated that episode of Craig of the Creek... to the Sym-Bionic Titan episode "The Phantom Ninja":

LOOK HOW LOOSE AND SMOOTH THIS LITTLE BIT OF ANIMATION IS!

This level of Korean animation quality was normal for TV cartoons back in the 2010s.

This one shot has a healthy balance of on 2s animation and on 1s animation.

It's just Ilana Lunis and Octus doing a bit of a... I don't know... a shrug... giving Lance a certain look. Not even talking in this shot, nor is it an action sequence, and this little bit of acting looks far better than Craig of the Creek ever animated in general.

Rough Draft also animates on Spongebob and they're struggling but usually excelling on the animation quality overseas.

This applies to cartoons made and aired before 2016 where post-2105 episode/content are the same quality as most post-2015 cartoons shows these days that're animated in Korea; examples are Uncle Grandpa, Samurai Jack Season 5, The Venture Bros. Season 6 onward, We Bare Bears Season 2 onward, and even later Disney TVA shows as Amphibia Season 3 and Hailey's On It!, though mostly it involves Warner Bros. Discovery-owned properties (Turner ones namely).

May be that Korean animators just need a break. The Phillippines can deliver better animation (a bit roughly but still better than Korea for the most part)! Perhaps the Korean overseas facilities need more money... more direction... more communication (as if we could actually afford that with today's gas prices?)

Why not animate domestically here in America? In Burbank? What about rigging (puppetry in 2 dimensions)?

The future of quality TV/non-theatrical 2D animation may be in the hands of Canada's and Ireland's finest riggers. Mercury Filmworks, Boulder Media, Lighthouse Studios, Snipple Animation, and Jam Filled Entertainment can deliver better animation through rigging than Korea can do for most hand-drawn shows!

That is unless it's the Spongebob Squarepants franchise of course... that and Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? and... pretty much anything animated by Yearim or Yeson (most of which are adult cartoon sitcoms with rather restricted animation so as not to distract from their comedic wordplay, since those shows are more script-driven anyway).

I asked some people about the current condition of Korean animation to see what they think about that. Maxwell Atoms had a good bit to say...

The What's in My Head? podcast interview with Randy Myers largely benefited from a question I suggested about the animation quality differences classic Powerpuff Girls and 2016-2019 PPG episodes.

Ariel Vracin-Harrell tweeted that overseas animators often follow the storyboards "religiously", and tiny little micro-poses in storyboards can result in the animation looking "laggy and odd". (Perhaps those Korean animators view the storyboard animatics as key animation?)

Lauren Faust says that you shouldn't animate you storyboards.

I'll expand more on this post later.

Tweet thread version here.

#korean animation #traditional animation #2d animation #hand-drawn animation #rough draft korea #rough draft studios #digital emation #emation #saerom animation #korea #animation #cartoon #cartoons

[slavhew]

Ive been rereading @thatsoneginger 's Machines Don't Bleed trilogy and have been getting hit by massive waves of nostalgia.

Its rly weird looking back on the fanart I made for it ages ago and comparing that to now, it makes me that more emotional sjdjkemf :') It really is a special thing to come back to a formative work and experiencing it with a brain that's (mostly) finished cooking.

Thank you for all the memories, Chaos. Your mercenaries will always have a very special place in my heart 🥹

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #scout #soldier #demoman #sniper #spy #blake porter #philippe vidal #phil vidal #lawrence mundy #jane doe #tavish degroot #machines don't bleed #mdb #hfh #I'll be home for the holidays #emat #eight mercenaries and a toddler #lawphil #sniperspy #admin draws #fanart #WOWZA THAT WAS A LOTTA TAGS #god its like 3:30 am here im all over the place but i feel like ive been unlocking shrimp emotions for the last week or so. rereading. #im having a fantastic time and i am so unwell about lawrence and phil and i teared up a little when drawinf blake ngl #i have so many more scenes and vibes i want to redraw but ive been accumulating notebook sketches and ideas for a week and finally #got it all down on the canvas tonight in almost entirely one sittimg (the lineart for the first done was made separatwly) #grrr i wannatalk more about how fucigng amazing this fic is. go read it go read all 3 go read them nowwwwww #well ive hit 30 tags! good night love you all love the mercs GO READ CHAOS'S STUFF RIGHT THE FUCKF NOW

[chiosblog]

Face please not like that

#the smugness hannibal is emating is over the roof here #face is not beating the allegations #templeton peck #hannibal smith #the a team

[krjpalmer]

MacAddict September 2001

Hits and misses (so far as the conventional wisdom went) cluster on the cover as MacAddict reached its fifth anniversary issue. "The best and worst of everything Mac" covered more than just the five years of the magazine's existence (with David Reynolds's editorial flashing back to being asked whether joining "a new Macintosh magazine" was a good idea in 1996 even as he declared he'd be leaving now); the news section happened to proclaim what the best and worst moments of the magazine itself had been.

#computer magazine cover #macaddict #apple logo #steve jobs #tangerine imac #lime imac #strawberry imac #blueberry imac #grape imac #blue dalmatian imac #ibook #ibook g3 #twentieth anniversary macintosh #emate 300 #power mac g4 #mouse

[en-wheelz-me]

#david brown #db #mini #classic #classic mini #cars #car #eMatered #remastered #mini cooper #classic car #classic cars #mini cooper classic #ev #bev #electric

[questfortori]

I love browsing the web on devices which have no business doing so in 2024, bonus points if it’s over WiFi

#apple Newton #eMate 300

[adafruit]

The eMate 300

The eMate 300 📟, a personal digital assistant made by Apple 🍎, was a low-cost laptop specifically for the education sector. Launched on March 7, 1997, and discontinued in 1998, it was the only Newton device with a built-in keyboard ⌨️. It had a 6.8" grayscale display, stylus pen 🖊️, infrared port, and Macintosh serial/LocalTalk ports, and was powered by rechargeable batteries that lasted up to 28 hours 🔋. Although less advanced and memory-equipped than its contemporary, the MessagePad 2000, the eMate 300 was faster than the previous MessagePad 130. 🚀

#electronics #retro #apple #emate #emate300

[cynric]

listen to me. listen. off book the improvised musical podcast is ending after next episode. you most likely have not listened to it ever, so what youre going to do right now is go to any podcast app with a search feature. you're going to go to off book and youre going to type in marvel. youre going to listen to the 6 part musical set in the marvel universe. you will fall in love with clark and stargazer and britz and spitzz and team baby rattlesnake and also some ducks for some reason we dont really talk about episode 3. you are going to listen to spider-man go to couples therapy. it will be a good time i need you to do this for me ok? kissing you on the lips.

#off book #off book podcast #im so fucking normal #the marvel sing-ematic universe is so fucking silly and fun and i listen to it so often i forget that it is not known by almost anybody

[roguetoo]

#apple #newton #emate #retro #pda #computer

[rigil-kentauris]

also, and perhaps a bit more touchy and heavy, i am mad they took an openly suicidal character and ended his narrative by having him kill himself. i dont think about that a lot because its easier to just be sad that My Favorite Guy got killed off but way back when it the first time id seen a character getting to just admit that openly and clearly and without euphemism or anything. it just was. and certainly there were problems with the entire narrative at that point that i wont rehash because the feh part of my heart is full of craters, but, man it did not feel great that after four years of struggling with that they just wrote him killing himself off. like self sacrifice is still. uh. self.

#tw: suidice #not just that a character was allowed to just say ''ive tried to kill myself'' very simply but #like #it was also a Brown *guy* they let do this #that was a level of emational vulnerability i had never expected #*emotional #and frankly almost. six and a half years later? still.havent found in games #not really books either #im not looking at the Sad Depression Books geure so i suppose thats to be expected #and you dont want to jumpscare people with it in Non Heavy Books #but life doesnt work like that i think and sometimes the people you care about will come up to you and drop that on you and you WONT be #living in the Sad Depressiuo Genre youll be in the Mild Slice Of Life Genre and what do you do now? #idk thats beside the point #they let [redacted] be something rare and then they didnt let him outlive it #can't stand that #anyway it did change my philosophy on writing so i suppose that is another thing i got out of it #it doesnt matter how little a character matters to you. that charater could mean the world to someone. so treat them like they do.

[panthera-ephemera]

watching a video on old computers is a risk due to the plausible consiquences of

#wanted to watch a vid on the emate 300 but i ant risking it

[nick]

VHS & eMate

I finally got some free time today and I took some more photos. Check them out below.

#vhs #emate #photos #b&w

[frammentisullestrade]

vorrei che tutto questo normale

alle volte

avesse il sapore di straordinario

#emat

[sodapup-truedogs]

@huxleythegoldie this is so beautiful! We hope you enjoy your trip to Japan and that the fall foliage is in peak color when you are there! #jigsaw #emat #dogenrichment #enrichmentfordogs #madeinusa #canineenrichment https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck3TeOLuGl7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#jigsaw #emat #dogenrichment #enrichmentfordogs #madeinusa #canineenrichment

[krjpalmer]

MacUser January 1997

With the grand promises of “Copland” having collapsed into plans for incremental upgrades, attention was turning to the BeOS, which just happened to run on Power Macs as well as the “BeBox.” This issue’s feature article did admit there wasn’t a lot built on the core of the BeOS yet, but insisted that with such a promising foundation things would surely advance from there... One new bit of hardware from Apple, a relatively inexpensive and unusually packaged portable that used “Newton technology,” also appeared on the cover. I did once see an actual eMate 300 at an “Apple in education” presentation at my university.

#computer magazine cover #macuser #beos #emate 300

[elchaqueno]

Alcalde de Tarija solicita informe sobre presencia de jeringas en Parque Temático

El alcalde de Tarija, Johnny Torres, ha anunciado que solicitará un informe detallado a las instituciones pertinentes luego de recibir denuncias sobre la supuesta presencia de jeringas usadas en el Parque Temático tras la celebración de la serenata a Tarija. Torres enfatizó en la importancia de abordar este tema con seriedad y responsabilidad, evitando emitir juicios apresurados o sin fundamentos…

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#Alcalde #datos #decisión #Denuncias #EMAT #informe #jeringas #Parque Temático. #Responsabilidad #Serenata #Tarija #Transparencia.