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Utterly pointless when bad sales ultimately did it in.

All this just confirms that "Bean Mouth" should be the name used.

ANYWAY, I do wonder if there's any merit to the argument of "we have to aim younger, because the 7+ audience is abandoning us for On Demand networks like Netflix!"

Not really. My brother and sister are 6 and 5 respectively, and they seem to prefer watching shows and movies on On Demand Services as well. They do still watch on regular televisions, but for the most part they just go streaming their shows On Demand.

Also, still prefer calling it “Flapjack” for the new name. I really like that show.

edited 5th Jun '18 8:47:59 PM by BigK1337

Huh.

I think the idea is that irreverent, short comedies will hold attention spans for a limited time, but anyone wanting something substantial has probably abandoned the old "wait till it airs once a week" format for On Demand and "watch when you want."

Of course, several CN executives, in particular, Jason De Marco, still espouse the benefits of waiting till something airs and watching it live, which to me seems like espousing the benefits of a Blockbuster store.

edited 5th Jun '18 9:11:01 PM by Beatman1

So should we expect a South Park episode that parodies the horror movie In The Mouth of Madness as a reflection to the state of televisions today . . . wait scratch that, they already mock tv with that episode starring Pewdiepie in a parody to that one Johnny Deep movie.

Some interesting videos on the whole "Cal Arts Style" debacle. The second also goes into how animation has changed over the decades.

According to the wiki it's apparently called Thin-Line Animation.

edited 8th Jun '18 10:28:16 PM by lalalei2001

Know what was also thin-line animation? .... classic traditional animation. -_-

Also, knowing John K coined the term, I hate people throwing it around more and more.

Funnily enough Robyn Byrd explained in some tweet no one ever knew what the fuck he meant by it and he just used it as a term for everything he didn’t like.

Figures. He’s a grumpy old man, essentially the Jim Cornette of animation.

It’s why I prefer “bean mouth.”

I prefer saying the "2010's round squares" style because a lot of characters (or at least their heads) are made up of squares with round edges. I even tried imitating the style to some degree.

https://colortheoryberry.deviantart.com/art/Square-Berries-That-Look-Round-746067484

Good try, but it is a bit too blocky and stiff to look at. The key to the style, at least how I define it from all the other shows I watched, is to be fluid and noodly as possible. I say give the character a dynamic pose to give him more energy and maybe scale down the height, and you got yourself a good recreation of the Flapjack style.

. . . Fuck, now I’m going to attempt at this style to give off an example for fun.

Looking at the thumbnail for the first vid, I'm thinking 'Beanhead' is a more appropriate title.

John K is a beanhead.

I've been calling the style "Thin Noodles".

I would hope to bury that man's legacy but sadly not going to happen.

Looky, looky. I just did a thing!

Sorry about the bluriness of the pictures, I have to take photos of my drawings through my phone instead of just transfering the files to my computer (I draw from my 3DS via Comic Workshops). But all things consider, my character Big K when drawn in that style wouldn't be out of place in the show OK KO! Let's Be Heroes. Especially seeing how the game I intend to include him in is pretty much a tribute to both 90s fighting games (specifically SNK ones like Fatal Fury) and super hero comics.

Neat!

The arms look a bit off in the OK K.O. style, though.

Really? I thought I messed up more on the normal style arms than the OK KO style.

It's how the right arm looks like it's sprouting from the back, more than anything.

You are right about that for both the pictures as I notice how off they look in regards to the right arm. I will fix that by adding some kind of curve that indicates the arm is connected to a shoulder (at least for the main one since that is how I intended the character will look in the games).

Thanks for the feedback!

You're welcome!

Apparently, CN is gonna do a two-DAY marathon of the new show Summer Camp Island in observance of its premiere in July for 48 hours! ... this falls on a weekend, meaning it will go OVER both Adult Swim AND Toonami for that week!

The article this report comes from is incredibly vague, and even mentions how CN's spin-off app Boomerang will do the same, causing tons of people to think up mass guesses and conspiracy theories of what is actually happening, like Boomerang only being the place that will host the 48-hour-long line-up, OR that Toonami's ratings have gotten so bad that CN is quietly and indirectly canceling it again (June 9th saw Toonami's second-poorest ratings in 2018 so far) at a time when Toonami head Jason Demarco is coincidentally off social media in order to mourn the death of his mom!

edited 13th Jun '18 10:09:47 AM by kyun

Ratings on all of Adult Swim are down, not just Toonami. It’s the problem of Netflix seemingly having a monopoly on adult animation while all of their bigger hits have aired elsewhere, save Dragon Ball, which is still one of the most viewed shows in that time slot. Not to mention the money they spent on an FLCL sequel to counter the increasing amounts of Netflix original anime, ignoring that no one really wanted an FLCL sequel.

Netflix has original anime?

GLITTER FORCE!