NOT ANOTHER FURRY MOVIE!!

What have all in common the newers Ellie and the Ghostly Train, Zoopocalypse or A Sloth Story?

Not only they've been hurry to be shown on theaters in same time for Spring Break, but it features all a batch of animals characters, such as Furries or Anthropomorphic characters. Since the 2001s Shrek first movie become a monster hit, the animated features industry have slowly thinking that movies with the voices of big stars or the ones with Furry characters are what that may sells in merchandising for appeal the younger kids.

But to any longtime animation fan, the fact that animated features keep to working this way are likely an insult to any people, who took seriously the artform. 

When UPA was launched, back in the late-1940s, it's for make it at an "alternative" to the barrage of talking-animals, chasing and hunting pictures that went borderline by the end of World War Two. And indeed, they were able to developped such unique artstyle with a sense of graphism that went never explored before. But when Mr. Magoo become the "hot" studio's icon and when John Hubley has left, UPA been already a shadow of its former self and went overshadowed by its rivals who keep producing appealing and fun cartoons... somehow. MGM shorts been more and more flat and cheap in its stylized approach, Terrytoons embarked on a new era with Gene Deitch in hand. Warner Bros. having veterans like Freleng or Jones who producing several of the greatest animated forms of their career while others like Lantz been typically Lantz, years late of what the industry ask for and Famous been forced to working with more "mature" themes with budgets been cut.

But enough of rambling, there is a reason why I never seen the Zootopia movie. (And to known if a sequel movie is going to be relased remains unconfirmed... and we hope that never do!) The movie is like a massive package of every Furry characters that spread on the likes of FurAffinity, DeviantArt et all, with the same kind of cynical and bitching attitude than the likes of Miraculous or the 2018s series of Rocky & Bullwinkle. Most animation acolyts keep praising it while I am resigned to seen it at a constant deterioration to keep matured the artform. Because elsewhere in the world, animated features weren't made like TV cartoons, but auteur films that have tough and delicate topical contents that known firmly that this is not entirely made for a youth audience. And when most of the characters are normal human people like you and me. Meanwhile in the America, it turns at business as usual.

That can't justify why these three newer movies with among the same kinds of characters designs have to be released in theaters this same weekend is beyond questionnable or incidental. It took me two-three years to quit with furries, from the tiring tropes to seen horny losers took advantage of it for molest sexually underages online. The Looney Tunes gang work because most of them came out from their natural habitat-- Bugs Bunny came up on a hole. Tweety on a cage. Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner chasing in the Arizona desert. Or Foghorn Leghorn live up on a barn. Actually, several of the best animals characters are done with sense of purpose that tell you why they're animals in first place. The same part why the Tom & Jerry legacy do work while others (Itchy & Scratchy, Herman & Catnip, the nefarious Oggy and the Cockroaches among them) bombed by their orgy of sadistic violence and mayhem that even the Warner Bros.-Discovery's version of the cat-and-mouse pair have took a page from it in their own adaptations.

And you know what? It have to do with "trying". Because make my OCs at humans was a dream to me for many years, but I was unable to handling it without they looks weird. In the end, the addition of AI in my drawing board and the creation of Lydia Goulet speaks to me that this is the perfect time to abandonned Anthros and then, grow my artstyle with better approach on execution and pacing. I was able to knocked down my old Photoshop that date of over eighteen (!) years to Krita. A much easier and practical way to work than it was with Photoshop.

But looking of the way the American animation film continue to denatured the art with the same repetitious Anthros characters seems to be a sign that they never learning from their mistakes. Even Pixar seems to be a little redundant with their penchant for sequels. Fortunately, their TV animated outlet are rightfully better than in most mainstream animated movies. Television didn't kills the cinema like the way they did for radio. It only forced the Hollywood movies mold to focusing on newer talents and themes by looking away of the same Hollywood area and Boulevards.

But for animated features done by their studios, that stays a wasted opportunity. No need to ask why several serious animations fans like me have letting go with the medium for many years. If only UPA wasn't stuck with Jim Backus' Magoo and its high snubbery towards the more conventional 1950s cartoons audiences wanted more that worked out better than what they doing up at that time.