I miss classically animated movies

[Fajita Jim]

Watched Secret of NIMH and All Dogs go to Heaven with the nieces and nephews, and man I really miss hand-drawn animation. It just looks so much warmer and tangible than the Flash stuff we see today.

And point besides Don Bluth is just a brilliant animator.

[Jonathan Sensei]

Well here's a modern film that has some of the old animated charm:

YouTube™ Video: The Illusionist | Official Trailer (2010) 

Views: 720,987

A script for THE ILLUSIONIST was originally written by French comedy genius and cinema legend Jacques Tati as a love letter from a father to his daughter, but never produced.

Enjoyable film; easy to forget it was made in 2010.

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by ROATER:

anime /thread

Not really into the antihero/androgynous/moody teens and sexualized kids thing.

[Trickster]

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Originally posted by ROATER:

anime /thread

Not really into the antihero/androgynous/moody teens and sexualized kids thing.

lol wat

[nextgengranny]

Originally posted by Jonathan:

Well here's a modern film that has some of the old animated charm:

YouTube™ Video: The Illusionist | Official Trailer (2010) 

Views: 720,987

A script for THE ILLUSIONIST was originally written by French comedy genius and cinema legend Jacques Tati as a love letter from a father to his daughter, but never produced.

Enjoyable film; easy to forget it was made in 2010.

Looks pretty good, thanks for that.

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by Trickster:

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Not really into the antihero/androgynous/moody teens and sexualized kids thing.

lol wat

People have been trying to push anime on me since the 90's. I gave it a shot. A few things that stand out:

Watched Vampire Hunter D and not a damn thing made sense. Guess there's a body of work like a comic of something you've gotta be familiar with.

Weathergirl. No.

Some anime that had some little ninja guy in it that's always whacking off to two girls who eventually get the tentacle treatment. Ninja Scroll I think. No.

Some girl who stopped aging in elementary school. No.

What the ♥♥♥♥ was Akira even about?

And some space ship anime all I remember is they shrunk the planet Jupiter to power a spaceship.

Pass.

[gugnihr]

I agree, I love traditional animation

[Jonathan Sensei]

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Originally posted by Trickster:

lol wat

People have been trying to push anime on me since the 90's. I gave it a shot. A few things that stand out:

Watched Vampire Hunter D and not a damn thing made sense. Guess there's a body of work like a comic of something you've gotta be familiar with.

Weathergirl. No.

Some anime that had some little ninja guy in it that's always whacking off to two girls who eventually get the tentacle treatment. Ninja Scroll I think. No.

Some girl who stopped aging in elementary school. No.

What the ♥♥♥♥ was Akira even about?

And some space ship anime all I remember is they shrunk the planet Jupiter to power a spaceship.

Pass.

Both Vampire Hunter D and Akira have source material (comic books essentially) that help make understanding the animated films a lot easier. Suffers from the same problem as western films that're based on books. Not enough screen-time to make a completely coherent story that's also true to the source.

[it's love]

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Originally posted by Trickster:

lol wat

People have been trying to push anime on me since the 90's. I gave it a shot. A few things that stand out:

Watched Vampire Hunter D and not a damn thing made sense. Guess there's a body of work like a comic of something you've gotta be familiar with.

Weathergirl. No.

Some anime that had some little ninja guy in it that's always whacking off to two girls who eventually get the tentacle treatment. Ninja Scroll I think. No.

Some girl who stopped aging in elementary school. No.

What the ♥♥♥♥ was Akira even about?

And some space ship anime all I remember is they shrunk the planet Jupiter to power a spaceship.

Pass.

why do u watch crap and then judge the medium on it, I don't even know what any of that is aside from akira

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

I definitely agree. You get a good director with clear focus and a talented team of artists and it's always going to be better than the stuff for getting nowadays with all the CG.

Ghibli comes to mind. They are always so vibrant and creative.

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍:

I definitely agree. You get a good director with clear focus and a talented team of artists and it's always going to be better than the stuff for getting nowadays with all the CG.

Ghibli comes to mind. They are always so vibrant and creative.

That's what I liked about Bluth. He and his team were ex-Disney animators who left to start a studio because they felt the short-cuts Disney was taking in animation (like scrolling backgrounds, or re-using whole scenes with a paint-over ala Aristocats>Robin Hood) were ruining the artistic values of animation.

I especially appreciate the details Bluth placed in animating character faces. It may only be a few frames of animation, but the fine details really make a difference.

YouTube™ Video: THE SECRET OF NIMH Clip - "Dragon Attacks" (1982) 

Views: 145,743

Watch the official THE SECRET OF NIMH Clip - "Dragon Attacks" (1982). Let us know what you think in the comments below! THE SECRET OF NIMH is the animation movie by Don Bluth.

[TwisterCat]

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Originally posted by Trickster:

lol wat

People have been trying to push anime on me since the 90's. I gave it a shot. A few things that stand out:

Watched Vampire Hunter D and not a damn thing made sense. Guess there's a body of work like a comic of something you've gotta be familiar with.

Weathergirl. No.

Some anime that had some little ninja guy in it that's always whacking off to two girls who eventually get the tentacle treatment. Ninja Scroll I think. No.

Some girl who stopped aging in elementary school. No.

What the ♥♥♥♥ was Akira even about?

And some space ship anime all I remember is they shrunk the planet Jupiter to power a spaceship.

Pass.

Can't change your mind, but you're missing out. It's a different taste and style compared to anything animated in the Western world, and I feel it would be unfair to take my own culture and judge a foreign cartoon that incorporates bits of their own, at least in their average theme of storytelling

[RaccoonBiceps.♡]

ok boomer

[permanent name]

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

What the ♥♥♥♥ was Akira even about?

The price of progress.

Anyway, Ghost in the Shell 2's special features have a very interesting examination of how they used CGI models as a base for layering hand-made animation over.

Blood: The Last Vampire was the first movie to use this technique, and it's visually utterly amazing. Combines a lot of the extreme attention to detail of the late-80's era of anime that you see in Ghost in the Shell with the production efficiency enabled by the technique to layer on even more detail.

Unfortunately as the technique has expanded it has lead to an outpouring of even-lower-quality stuff than what just hand-drawn laziness could provide.

In an Akira-esque twist, this has lead to what was once a unified medium of animation being dissected and scattered into discrete sub-genres which cannot form a unified whole for fear of destroying the industry.

[Rio]

YouTube™ Video: Oliver And Company - Why Should I Worry (English) 

Views: 34,710,690

All characters, soundtrack and video are by rightly owned property and copyright of 1988 Walt Disney Studio Productions. Greets to Marcel & Mirka! :) Sung by the incredible Billy Joel.

YouTube™ Video: The Chipmunks VS The Chipettes - Girls/Boys Of Rock N' Roll 

Views: 1,367,020

This owned by Ross Bagdasarian Jr, no copyrights intended. Sang by The Chipmunks, and The Chipettes from "The Chipmunk Adventure" Who will win???

YouTube™ Video: In the Dark of the Night - Anastasia 1080p 

Views: 16,811,704

Anastasia music video, in the dark of the night ** ALL rights belong to their respective copyright holders ** NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.

YouTube™ Video: (Original Cut HD) Treasure Planet - I'm Still Here 

Views: 2,952,168

I don't own the movie or song, just trimmed the song by Goo Goo Dolls called "I'm Still Here". Original cut from the movie, just wanted to share something I haven't found in good resolution.

Shame new stuff doesn't look like this anymore.

[Yzal]

Dude, i'm still mad at Disney for cancelling the Treasure Planet sequel.