If you guys don't mind a change in subject, comedian Danny McBride that he will be partnering with Spire Animation Studios to develop a movie titled Trouble
.
It revolves around a 13-year-old boy who gets in trouble with his family, and is then transported to another dimension called the World of Trouble. He must then reflect on his character and learn the value of self-forgiveness, all while trying to figure out how to get. . . out of Trouble.
Edited by ElSquibbonator on Apr 1st 2021 at 12:30:57 PM
Woof, anyone saw this?
(I'd embed it like usual, but it's mildly NSFW. Heck, the image preview alone might raise a red flag or two.)
It's a trailer for a new French animated series project called Nymphopolis.
In a weird fusion cocktail between Greek mythology, Christian lore, and cyberpunk, a nymph named Ingenue is separated from her beau Zeus and their floating Adam & Eve-like utopia called Olympus and plunged literally headfirst into a bustling cyberpunkian city aptly called Nymphopolis (called so because it's literally shaped like a lady), where women are confined to "a very special fate." Of course, Ingenue isn't going to take this sitting down, so she quests an epic quest against the totalitarianism and a Pantheon of Gods (thus leading into a revolution) to get back to Olympus...if not to get back to the birds and bees with Zeus, then to get some answers regarding that last thing he said to her.
In any case, I want to see where this goes!
(Seriously, they say "a bit NSFW", but steel yourself regardless.)
That does at least explain some of their kids' cartoons . . .
In all seriousness, though, France has lower binding legal age restrictions regarding nudity in children's media, provided that said nudity is not of a sexual nature. That's why, for example, The Triplets of Belleville got the equivalent of a PG rating in France, but was slapped with a PG-13 in the States because of a brief nude scene.
Edited by ElSquibbonator on Apr 1st 2021 at 4:00:48 AM
I think they might be the ones doing the punking, actually.
![]()
BTW, referring to them as "PUSA" is a dead giveaway.
So..Everyone here remember the Hell Scene from All Dogs Go to Heaven?
Not sure if anyone talked about it before, but here's the scene with the cut out segments from the test screening. the Cut scenes are poor quality, but what is there is, well..
Its only about 20-30 extra seconds, but man, they make an already terrifying scene genuinely unnerving (The close ups on both the Charon gargoyle and the hellhound's faces are especailly creepy)
All thats left is the cut footage of Charlie's emaciated body shown after Carface runs him over with a car flying in the air somewhere.
Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Apr 18th 2021 at 5:33:41 AM
Watch SymphogearBluth films could have some genuinely frightening moments. I recall being scared by the scene where Mrs. Brisby meets Brutus in the rats' rosebush when I saw The Secret of NIHM for the first time as a little kid; the scene is a bit of mood whiplash. In the book, we're given to understand that, in her anxiety about going to see the rats, Mrs. Brisby has blown her encounter with Brutus a bit out of proportion; this is emphasized when we meet Brutus shortly thereafter in the company of Justin and we learn he's essentially an oversized kid. In the film, we never see Brutus again (though he's namechecked during the moving of the Brisby home), so we never get the punctuation for the scene, and are so left with a truly frightening scene that serves no real narrative purpose.
I can't say all of Bluth's films are great, but they're all interesting and worth seeing. I love the essential story of Rock-a-Doodle for instance, while the faux-Elvis window dressing left me a bit "meh." The basic mythopoetic-ness of a owl trying to get rid of a rooster so the rooster won't call the sun appeals to me.
Edited by Robbery on Apr 18th 2021 at 9:55:24 AM
I have very mixed feelings regarding Bluth. He's a great animator in the sense that he is a master of the visual craft of animation, but his talents as a storyteller seem to leave something to be desired. It's telling that his best movies were produced during his partnership with Steven Spielberg at Universal, who had a much more story-driven approach to filmmaking. Likewise, Anastasia was essentially Fox's attempt to replicate Disney's 1990s animated musical formula, with Bluth simply brought on to direct.
For some unexplained reason, Spider-Man: The Animated Series has been removed from Disney+ in some territories, namely US, Canada, UK and others.
Not sure if its due to a technical issue (like rearranging episodes in the correct order, maybe?), or if someone else has bought the streaming rights.
Edited by Mario1995 on Apr 26th 2021 at 5:09:33 AM
"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam Gallagher
Doubt it. The only Spider-Man shows Sony owns are the ones they themselves produces, like The New Animated Series (the short lived one on MTV) and Spectacular Spider-Man.
Disney has always owned the 90's series (and all the other Spider-Man cartoons outside the aforementioned) since '01, and the animated TV rights to Spider-Man went back to Marvel as part of Sony keeping the movie rights.
"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam GallagherNetflix just previewed
its first directly produced irreverent, R-Rated 2D revisionist history animated film called America: A Motion Picture. Footage starts around 1:25.
Callaham is producing and so is Thompson and his Floyd County partner Adam Reed, the duo behind the animated series Archer. Tatum is also producing with his Free Association partners Peter Kiernan and Reid Carolin, and The Lego Movie‘s Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Will Allegra at Lord Miller.
Edited by XMenMutant22 on Apr 27th 2021 at 6:43:14 AM
So Spider-Man TAS is now back on D+, and guess what? The episodes are now in the correct order.
Thank. God.
Edited by Mario1995 on May 3rd 2021 at 11:09:16 AM
"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam GallagherNetflix just rolled out the teaser trailer for Arcane, coming Fall 2021. The series, set as an origin for serveral characters within cities like Piltover and Zaun, is set in the world of the popular MOBA League of Legends.
Independently financed by Riot Games, the 3DCG animation studio will be Paris-based Fortiche Productions. They already do the cinematics, including the popular K/DA ones, for the game's.
Edited by XMenMutant22 on May 3rd 2021 at 12:57:44 PM
The Legend of Korra's Steve Ahn announced he's directing a new animated series
with Skydance and Apple called WONDLA, based on the series of books by Tony DiTerlizzi.
In a different timeline, I'd be all for this, but doesn't Skydance still have John Lasseter? Because that's why I mention a different timeline…
Ever heard of this movie before? Looks pretty neat: http://www.magpictures.com/cryptozoo/synopsis
It's called Cryptozoo.

I'd say it's a bit of both, partly fueled by frequently enormous success in the areas to which they limited themselves (nothing can kill experimentation and innovation quite so well as success). But as
says, perceptions are changing, albeit slowly.
It's important to remember, too, that animation and comics (manga, in this case) aren't that much better respected in Japan than they are in the US, they're just much, much more popular.
Not to pick on you, but you do keep asking the same question, and we keep giving the same answers. Ultimately, none of us really know if the changes in public and corporate attitude necessary to induce the American animation industry to widely embrace an anime model will ever happen. We can't possibly know definitively, we can all just keep giving our best reasoned guesses.
Edited by Robbery on Apr 1st 2021 at 7:51:32 AM