Cartoon Industry thread - Showcasing the Spergery of the Animation Industry

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KissMyTaint said:
Recently a cancelled Disney pilot had been leaked online called Neon Galaxy and it looks just as bland as any cartoon out nowadays.

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The only thing interesting to me about this is that there are four different versions of this pilot, each one outsourced to a different animation studio as the watermarks on each one suggest. I wonder why this was necessary as this doesn't seem common in the industry to me.
 
New indie pilot has arrived: They call it "Planetronika", another Y2K styled, nostalgic experience.

I didn't really love this animation. Neither of the characters had me hooked and we don't even know what they usually do for a living. The video description said that the main character Butterfly is a "space explorer" but they don't go to space, nor do anything of interest. All that happens is that slime dude, Freestyle throws a really bouncy basketball and it goes crazy and starts destroying the city; Butterfly uses a ray gun to slow it down but falls in the sewers, as a replacement the two characters use one of their pets as the ball (someone call PETA), which look suspiciously like the aliens from the flash game Run. Butterfly NBA dunks on the slime, which for some reason removed his clothes.
We weren't given a whole lot to work out with this. A quarter of the runtime was dedicated to the bouncy ball with some sight gags that lost their charm really quickly. The pilot only had one location and two characters, which would definitely warrant some interesting character interaction but we got none of that either.
The worst part of this pilot is the fact that nearly all of Butterfly's scenes had something to do with her ass.
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I'm of the opinion that having your characters showing a bit of ass is okay when done IN MODERATION. You designed the characters, so make them beautiful, but if it happens more than 5 times for your 7 minute pilot, it starts to get a little suspiscous. I feel like I have to call you out if your characters have more ass shots than a Nicki Minaj music video or a 7 minute section of a Dreamworks/Illumination movie.
But the animation is nice I guess, but could that be a plus if that is to be expected of web animation? And knowing that it is only a pilot implies that there's more to it than this. Perhaps I'm being too harsh on this one but the overreliance on ass shots is a real problem.
"But kids media have ass shots all the time!"
While this is true, is it right to have 50% of the shots be the character's ass? NO!
Even then, I didn't get a real picture of what an episode would look like. If Butterfly's a space explorer why not have the pilot consist of two characters pack up for a mission? Or have them playing basketball while in a ship?
Final verdict: 4.5/10. These indie creators really need to stop relying on Y2K vibes to carry their shows. This animation has the same issue as Wastelandia and LokiIRL: Reminding me that Y2K was a good decade isn't enough to make me want your show. We loved Y2K because the stories in those gemmy shows knew how to make silly antics work.
Oh yeah and The author of this pilot allegedly blocks anyone who even points out Butterfly's ass problem on X.
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Fuck this tweet in particular
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I'm not getting hopes for this project if the creator isn't interested in the one thing that could make his product better. Once again, another pilot which could've been great but thanks to circumstances falls short. Oh well, I guess I'm watching Space King and Mammal Squad again.
 
HektorInspektor said:
New indie pilot has arrived: They call it "Planetronika", another Y2K styled, nostalgic experience.
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I look at the description, and it links to some merch. The pinned comment links to some "free" pack, which just sends you an email that links to a zip full of coloring pages and a thank you image, but more importantly, it also links to some merch. Anyways, the pacing drags for too long and ultimately does the exact opposite of what a pilot should do. It makes me want to see less of it.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
What a fucking pussy-ass faggot. Just draw porn of your OC instead of pretending there's something deeper than your penis inside a fleshlight.
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Or better yet, get someone else to run your twitter account so you don't have to deal with faggy libtards using buzzword after buzzword criticing your art.
 
Senior Frogmin said:
Or better yet, get someone else to run your twitter account so you don't have to deal with faggy libtards using buzzword after buzzword criticing your art.
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The buzzword barrage is annoying and all, however, as a creator, you are not immune to criticism of any kind. If you don't want to hear what other people have to say about your creation, then stay off the Internet to avoid interaction (because it's not just Twitter), or just don't release your creation to the public. You can't live in a bubble forever.

Creators who immediately ban people over the slightest criticism deserve to be mocked.
 
HektorInspektor said:
I'm not getting hopes for this project if the creator isn't interested in the one thing that could make his product better. Once again, another pilot which could've been great but thanks to circumstances falls short. Oh well, I guess I'm watching Space King and Mammal Squad again.
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Main chick looks like if ash from pokemon and bloom from winx club had an annoying skanky child
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I know people are all over these “pilots” these days, but does every single independent animation really have to be a “pilot?” It’s like they slap that label on anything as if their 5 minute short animations are going to be a big show one day.
 
Dumbchan said:
People have been incredibly horny over the protagonist of Planet Ronika, when I'm here questioning what's even going on.
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I'm just relieved I'm not the only one who watched the pilot and thought there was nothing going on except for how obviously designed-for-porn the girl is. I'M not the retarded gooner, Rafael Andaya is!
 
I thought PlanetRonika was one of the better indie pilots I’ve seen in a while, tbh. It actually looks like it’s trying to be a real thing.

I mean at this point I’m just appreciative of anything that seems like it was inspired by anything pre-Owl House/Steven Universe, so the Super Milk Chan vibes don’t irritate me as much as they might otherwise. It’s just a few minutes of What-A-Cartoon type dumb gags in a five minute Looney Tunes length container. No, the main characters weren’t especially likable or memorable, but they vibe with that Milk Chan/Tamala 2010 archetype of walking talking skateboard stickers doing silly things and being mean to each other. It’s kinda quaint. I can’t be mean to it.

Except the voice acting, though. Dang it’s awful in the current era of indie. Better they all should have made Pokémon noises or something. Oof.
 
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There’s this thing I keep noticing that pretty much a large percentage of black female characters pander to specific group of black nerdy unpopular girls. That’s why you get so many of the ‘quirky fat lesbian super genius activists’. However, I see so many black women carry around merch from from Powerpuff girls and have pfps of characters like Aisha from Winx club or blackwashed characters that are hyper feminine. And boyyyy do these girls love romances such as Halle Bailey’s Ariel and white bois.

So please cartoon industry, they need more ‘girly pop’ black female characters to balance it out. Unfortunately they are either afraid of being racist or the industry is concentrated with the same nerdy black women (and others) who have to live vicariously through their self-inserts and are threatened by feminine characters they think are sexualized (but they aren’t and black women love these characters).
 
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