JSngry Posted July 14, 2003 Report Posted July 14, 2003 First noticed this "trend" back around 91-92 when I took my then preschool age son to see the then-new Jetsons movie. The cahracters still looked the sme, but they no longer "LOOKED" the same. Everybody was now being drawn with shadows and shadings and all other kinds of "improvements". Hell, I even saw a Ren & Stempy commercial last night and THEY had been drawn with the shadings. Well, I say stop it. STOP IT. STOP IT. STOP IT. STOP IT. Please. Draw the new stuff any way you want, but leave folks like the Jetsons and the Flintstones in good old flat Toodeeland. I'm sure that this new "improvement" is due to computerization, and that if you ask Jake Hanna or Yogi Barbarra, they'll say that this is the way they wanted to draw them back in the old days but it was time/cost prohibitive or som other kinda we're=so=glad=to=have=machines=to=do=the=work=of=people=so=we=can=pocket=the=savings=ourselves=sucking=of=the=digital=cocque, but whatever. Save it for the dummies. Just stop trying to make flypaper look like shag carpeting, ok? Quote
jazzbo Posted July 14, 2003 Report Posted July 14, 2003 (edited) Suckus Maximus. Leave well enough alone. We boomers should have SOMETHING that's sacred. Edited July 14, 2003 by jazzbo Quote
Noj Posted July 14, 2003 Report Posted July 14, 2003 Sucks horribly. Sort of like making a live action Flintstones or Scooby Doo, it kills all the charm. Oh wait, those morons DID do that. Quote
jazzbo Posted July 14, 2003 Report Posted July 14, 2003 (edited) Actually Joe, saw the preview on Saturday, THIS is NEXT: This has become this Edited July 14, 2003 by jazzbo Quote
JSngry Posted July 14, 2003 Author Report Posted July 14, 2003 HARVEY!!! Used to read his writing in Down Beat long before he became "famous" as a cartoonist. Gonna run the risk of throwing this thread off track, but you know who else used to write for Down Beat in the early 70s Leonard Maltin. Yes, THAT Leonard Maltin. In fact, he wrote a profile of the Duke Pearson Big Band that I've got lying around somewhere. Quote
catesta Posted July 14, 2003 Report Posted July 14, 2003 (edited) If you ask me, it's a crime. Suckus Maximus! Edited July 14, 2003 by catesta Quote
BFrank Posted July 15, 2003 Report Posted July 15, 2003 I had the misfortune of actually watching some of "Rocky & Bullwinkle" (the movie) on cable and was appalled at the "shading" - not to mention how bad the film was, anyway. Suckus Maximus - inDEED! Quote
BruceH Posted July 16, 2003 Report Posted July 16, 2003 It's like they want to make the characters look as UN-cartoonlike as possible. Bizarre. Quote
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