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Planktoon
March 24, 2008 8:40 am


I’m keeping my eye on Planktoon, a Paris based CG animation studio with a very cartoony aesthetic. Here’s their latest, RouDooDou, directed by Sun Michel Limet.

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Aleksandar Vujovic says:
03/24/08  9:12am

Do a lot of people prefer the cartoony aesthetic? It seems to be really popular….

They always teach overacting in animation classes and I feel like people just take it out of context.

 
CG artist says:
03/24/08  9:16am

Everything wrong with CG encapsulated in one short piece of animation. Poorly constructed characters, loud and unfunny animation, garish art direction and, oh yeah, fart gags.

 
red pill junkie says:
03/24/08  12:29pm

I liked it, and the rest of their shorts aswell :-)

 
classicparamountcartoons says:
03/24/08  1:01pm

Planktoon? Viacom would sue them for using a “Spongebob” character, although it is a real animal name.

 
Stephen A. Douglas says:
03/24/08  2:54pm

The short plays best without sound.

 
Barbara says:
03/24/08  7:50pm

that is really horrifying. I don’t want to see balloon tits and saggy buttcrack on a cg cartoon character…ever.

I need to go…just go.

 
Jon Garaizar says:
03/24/08  10:47pm

im a little unclear as to what was going on in the short, i didn’t like it.
it wasn’t funny, and it was ugly as hell. oh, but i loved the quasi-anime goofy surprise pose the non-breasted character took after getting hit with the pot. i haven’t at all been sick of that since i was 11.

props to Vujovic on the over acting thing.

 
Joe says:
03/24/08  11:27pm

I agree with the majority in that this wasn’t very good with some real ugly designs

However I found the other shorts–Do Penguins Fy?, Magik Circus, and Gotchi & Dootchi– to be much better. (Penguins was my favorite)

Also those concerned about “cartoony aesthetic” should look at the girl in the Magic Carpet short. She contrasts sharply with the more expressive “genie.”

 
markjsand says:
03/25/08  8:10am

We now have a new category of animation that I call GRUNTMATION. In GRUNTMATION the characters use sub linguistic grunts, coos, caws, and other gibberish to express emotion and intent.

 
The Gagaman says:
03/25/08  11:49am

You heard it here first folks, CGI animation invented fart jokes!

 
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