Chatterbox - Western Animation

Everyone's gotta start somewhere. Illustrator Thomas Kincaide (the "painter of light") was a layout artist on Ralph Bakshi's Fire and Ice.

Edited by Robbery on Apr 13th 2024 at 9:22:57 AM

I mean, I don't see much reason that they would be opposed to the idea.

But more to the point, I don't think that the article indicates that the show will necessarily be aired on their own channel(s); perhaps they're making it for sale to or on commission from other channels/services.

I mean, they might? It seems like it might fit with such a cartoon.

Edited by ArsThaumaturgis on Apr 14th 2024 at 10:35:12 AM

I utterly adore the art style used to make “Ernest And Celestine”. Was it also done to make “Burrow”?

I have a feeling that the movie Sausage Party may be Condemned by History.

Is it just me or does it feel like Hollywood doesn't care much for animation these days?

On the previous page, I posted this awhile back:

So, John Krasinski (The Office, A Quiet Place, Jack Ryan) has written and directed a film called IF, starring Ryan Reynolds. The plot:

A young girl named Bea gains the ability to see people's imaginary friends, referred to as "I.F.s" for short, who have been abandoned by the kids they helped. Bea then discovers that her neighbor, The Man Upstairs, has the same ability.

—Now, as I noted there, this sounds a great deal like Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. It's not 1-to-1, but it does sound very similar. Now I discover that the principal imaginary friend we meet is a giant furry blue fellow named Blue.

Obviously, WB must be okay with this as otherwise they would have raised an issue long before now, but this is an awful lot of similarities

Probably just a coincidence...plus didn't the trailer imply that only a select few people can still see imaginary friends, while in the cartoon EVERY SINGLE HUMAN can see and interact with them?

Certainly there’s a struggle… I dunno if it’s that bad, but we will need to support animation as much as we can.

Yeah, it just feels like that most of the programs that streaming services are cancelling lately are mostly animated projects like Inside Job and some of the Looney Tunes shorts being taken off from HBO Max.

The fact that people are praising the racial caricatures in the past today is starting to unnerve me.

Yeah, I've been seeing that a lot lately...

I haven't who tf is praising 20th century racial caricatures?

I assume it's animated racial caricatures, or else you wouldn't have mentioned it in this thread?

There was a TikTok of what I assume was a Tom and Jerry cartoon, where a symphony composer throws a cymbal at the opera singer, and it inexplicably turns the singer into a Chinese caricature (as the cymbal resembles the hats they wear) complete with the usual exaggerated accent. Comments were praising it, saying that people today are “too sensitive” to make these kind of cartoons anymore.

Edited by wooden-ladybug93 on Apr 24th 2024 at 11:59:50 AM

I mean, there are still racist people about, so it's not all that surprising that they might appear in comment sections.

Conversely, it may well be that those who don't like this sort of thing just closed the video in disgust, and thus didn't comment.

Remember that comments sections don't necessarily give a representative sample of the society from which they draw!

Yeah, that's just people who are butthurt over social pressure to be culturally sensitive. Over and above the transformation of the character into a Chinese caricature, there's not even anything that could be called a joke there. Even if you didn't think it was offensive, I can't see what about it would be considered funny.

But yeah, you're more likely to only see responses to people who either do still find it funny, or consider it an opportunity to "own the libs" or otherwise take pleasure in being culturally contrary.

Edited by Robbery on Apr 25th 2024 at 12:58:53 PM