'Toons for Instagram

Made animation is very hard to do it, let alone to master it. It do took a pretty good amount of knowledge of timing, pacing, movement and keeping the characters' proportions in perfect shape. Anyone who have seen TV cartoons in decades knows that actual results of animations depends of which overseas studios it was done. The same aftermath can sour and ruin the result of most full-lenght features if the animation is too flat or uneven.

Looking of this shot of Brandy with shiny sunglass from The Babysitter's Flub, it's perhaps a good thing that she didn't wearing these in the show most of time. Looking of how most of the 2024s people have stop to differs the issues of social media vs. real life by wear these ugly things anywhere, it's exactly what you get when Reality TV, social medias and the culture of Netflix made normal people as "uneducated zombies", unable to spell and articulate anything right without moaning. (How young girls would react at that?) You need to own a real personality for "getting" these without to be like a kind of smug. It's perhaps a good thing that I have quit with it, if at a legit artist myself, I still protest for three years against this evil nature to sells sunglass to public where around 96% of people don't know how to pull it and their "real" use.

But let's change the subject, shall we? Do you watch one of those weirdly-shaped cartoons like Kiff or the newer Nickelodeon ones like Rock, Paper, Scissors or the upcoming newer Fairly Oddparents CGI show that doesn't feature Timmy Turner? It's a little grating where creators brag themselves to working in cartoons like these by based them from their own life-experience when most of time, they tent to lying us right in the face. I remember be fooled while watching a couple of Gravity Falls back it was new. It was a very ambitious project for Disney animated shows at that time. The first one that would enter their TV animated outlet to a much creative era, but aside of some untangible depictions of gays and queers, the show feels like trying hard to ripped The Simpsons' jokes but without known why the latter does work. The show tried to embody it as it was The Alex Hirch Show than everything seen from Gravity Falls. Nowadays, the show exists only for a very small elite-audience who pretending to known better in cartoons than those who wrote about people working in these or those who restored the older shorts from various labels as a paid-job. Nobody wins in this kind of clique.

The same tedious thing have apply to Kiff, which looking to it, is a rapid deterioration of what makes the Disney legacy as inspiring for both, its hardcore fans and its detractors. These kind of cartoons looks to be created for a very Instagram-audience with lots of Tiktok and selfies jokes from people who don't know to properly use a smartphone. We get the same ordeal with their movies like Inside Out, Moana or Zootopia where there is more talking-heads than actual storytelling. In the old Walt's days, his proceedings of Technicolor weren't one that consisting to be a fad, by given edges and moods in every scenes. It's why these guys never took color for granted in their earlier Silly Symphonies. Now, a lot of "artists" just utilize black-and-white for still pictures but ignore anything about the mood concept. Instead, it seems too flat by offering no value to what was seen on mainstream medias now and then.

This is why an animated series like Brandy & Mr. Whiskers still works well to me almost twenty years later. It was the work of producers who only wanted a job by accepted it nonthenless and without just bragging themselves in the press on which kind of way they have found their inspirations like does a lot of authors and novellists today. By only wrote about how they ate their Vegan Ketchup chips while watching crappy subbed Anime on Netflix and playing videogames all night. Creators need to figure the distance between fiction and reality by let their creations made their own paces without just hammering your life with lousy hashtag sentences. This is why on my art, I prefer to do the old mold. It helps them to be more real to me than just mary-sues of something done better before.

Seems that made a cartoon based of literally anything seen on Instagram is the "hippiest" thing in town. But sadly, even the little grace of fun like the 2021s CGI Smurfs series was destroyed to me by lots of creepy Deviant fans who think to known better to these characters than those who was there while it was created first... in 1958!

Pfft, what those fans would says about THIS??