Disney/Pixar In General

Aside from his Disney work, which is probably what anyone who knows who he is knows him for, Reinert also did a lot of specials with ABC's O.G. Readmore, an anthropomorphic cat who tried to get kids to, well, read more. Technically Disney owns those now anyway, so it counts.

He also had a hand in perhaps the worst Halloween special of all time, The Great Bear Scare, which - in another Disney connection - was played every October on the Disney Channel for years.

Edited by Aldo930 on Nov 12th 2018 at 2:42:56 AM

I looked it up, and oh God does that look awful. Here it is in all of it’s unholy glory.

This is the depths of the animation dark age folks. I mean, even filmation looked more animated than this. It's actually hard to watch. (The Intro is actually animated for some reason though)

Edited by megaeliz on Feb 7th 2019 at 10:50:52 AM

No I'm pretty sure thats more animated then flimation ever got

Filmation's shows at least dissolved from pose to pose when they could. Not this.

The story behind it, incidentally, was apparently that the producer of the thing was indicted for fraud. It was taken away from Reinert's production company and completed by other people, who apparently didn't finish it on time and had to leave it without doing any of the inbetweens.

Some of the animators working on this at Reinert were later Disney veterans Glen Keane and Mark Dindal, but nothing they did is in the finished film.

the only thing that can rightly be considered “animated” here is their lips (Which may have been rotoscoped). It's not really animation, as much as a collection of painted storyboard style key frames, since there's no inbetweening or really any attempt to convey any sense of motion at all. (Like you can really see this on the way the Bat “moves”. It’s just two frames, one up, and one down.

The backgrounds and character designs are surprisingly decent, and even a bit Disney-esque.

Edited by megaeliz on Mar 23rd 2019 at 2:16:09 PM

A shame really, the key frames are good enough, it's like a polished animatic. It would be cool if someone came back to it and animated it properly.

> It would be cool if someone came back to it and animated it properly.

Way too much work involved I imagine

yeah, while the character designs and backgrounds do have a relatively good and actually somewhat Disney-esque look to them, I’m pretty sure you would have to redraw the whole thing from scratch, since I can’t imagine any of the actual frames survived.

I wonder why the opening sequence is the only thing that was actually completed.

Edited by megaeliz on Nov 14th 2018 at 11:34:04 AM

Ralph Breaks the Internet reviews are out.

I remember reading a fair amount of comments negatively comparing RBTI to The Emoji Movie when the first couple of trailers came out, due to the focus on internet references. I mean, it's WDAS, so most probably didn't expect Ralph to be received as badly as that film in the first place; but I find it still a bit chuckleworthy to look back on in hindsight that people were making strong critical connections between the two. :v

Edited by Yeow95 on Nov 15th 2018 at 9:39:51 AM

... hoooooooly cow.

Good news everyone! An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short that was thought lost was recently rediscovered in the collection of an anime historian. An important piece of animated history is still around for future generations to enjoy, so this great to hear.

This is an awesome find.

So here's a thought I had. There's been a keyboard-kvetching here on TVTropes and elsewhere about how, exactly, Disney will handle the R-rated properties it acquires from Fox. I think what they should do is create a nighttime block on either Disney Channel or Disney XD dedicated to adult-oriented TV series. FX's cancelled Deadpool series could air there, as could other Marvel Star Wars series too dark for children. They could also set up a Toonami-like block of dubbed anime, focusing on series aimed at more mature audiences than the ones they air during the day (i.e. Pokemon, Yo-Kai Watch).

In other words, I propose that Disney create an [adult swim] of its own.

Edited by ElSquibbonator on Nov 17th 2018 at 12:21:02 PM

Today is officially Mickey Mouse's 90th birthday!

And Minnie’s birthday too!

Think of that. 90 years since Mickey debuted. It's been so long since then people don't really get how popular he was when he first debuted, and for most of the 30s, actually. The fact that Disney treated him more like a mascot and less like a character kind of hurt him in the long run; in a lot of ways they made him blander.

Nowadays, however, things have changed. Compared to a decade ago, when Mickey only had a preschool show, things are much, much better. There are, of course, the new shorts, which have done a hell of a lot to bring him back to his roots. The comic side shouldn't be counted out, though. Not only are the classic Mickey comics being made available, so is a lot of newer, overseas-made stuff, where Mickey never stopped going on adventures.

We should be so lucky.

Micky is still my favourite of the three. I don't really like Goofy all that much because I don't think that stupidity is admirable (though I appreciate him being so good natured). And while I do understand Donald's appeal as a more flawed character, he also has a really bad temper. Mickey is the smart, heroic one, so I like him the best.

Wow. Kids these days will have SO much more history to learn!

Today's birthday cartoon, Mickey's Birthday Surprise.

Edited by kyun on Nov 18th 2018 at 6:56:54 AM

lol! Looks like Mickey is really popular. If even Pete's helps baking the cake...

I think people are taking to Mickey more again because in the past few years they've actually made attempts to rectify his bland personality and make him the star.

Mickey is kinda a subtle character really, a guy that has loads of moderated traits without ever quite being defined by only one like Donald's temper or Goofy's clumsiness, thus depending on writing quality, he can either have a bastion of traits compared to the others or barely any at all.

Edited by Psi001 on Nov 18th 2018 at 5:06:05 PM

@kyun: Wait a minute, wasn't that last week?

Micky is too often put in the straight man role when you have him with the other two. But I grew up on the classic Mickey cartoons (where he is either an adventurer or someone who messes up himself) and the European comics (in which he is a detective).

I think the best way you can summon up Mickey with is "he means well".

But there are always people who really dislike this kind of character. That's okay, though. That's what Goody and Donald are there for.

Only 5 years until he becomes public domain unless Disney can get Congress to act on it!

I think a primary trait is that he's idealistic. The thing is that there's far more to that if it's being challenged. If it's just Pluto or Donald that's being punished while he's in the background of course he'll look like a bland smiling corporate logo.

I think that's why, as Doug Walker pointed out, less people can despise Winnie the Pooh over Mickey, since while he has a similar well meaning almost sickly sweet niceness to him, he's still very flawed and accident prone and the universe he's in doesn't always go easy on him (hell the narrator downright insults his intellect). Even the way he succeeds in being idealistic and innocent can look humorous because of how prone he is to Comically Missing the Point (if thankfully not to the toxically inconsiderate level the likes of Spongebob Squarepants have become).

You can see that with a lot of modern Mickey efforts, he's either a bit of an Extreme Doormat, or idealistic to a fault. The new shorts Mickey is definitely much more of a clown in his innocence (eg. Three Legged Race).

Edited by Psi001 on Nov 18th 2018 at 7:51:45 PM