Comments on: Even YOU Can Animate

By: Bran Dougherty-Johnson

Bran Dougherty-Johnson — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:49:00 +0000

Agh. My eyes! My ears! I couldn’t last through that whole thing …

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:48:31 +0000

ed: Everyone is a quality barometer. It’s called having an opinion. In fact, you did exactly what you say Amid and Jerry do by criticising their post. What are you? Some kind of “King of All Blogosphere” who decides which posts are ‘good’?

About “awesomebad”. He broke it down for you.

Seems like most critics of CB accuse it of being elitist or full of bitter animators, but then they go on vicious insulting rants, telling the posters that their opinions don’t count because they aren’t positive (even if they are). Who’s really the bitter, elitist animator?

By: ed

ed — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:27:07 +0000

I don’t understand this post at all. In fact I don’t really understand Catoon Brew’s overall aim in posting about animation related news. Seriously – is this site a place for celebration of all things animated or a place to deride and pour misplaced scorn over what Amid and Jerry consider to be tosh? Amid’s narrowminded post, IMHO, clearly has a dig at the hard work of another person. Warren – We all know what the phrase ‘awesomebad’ means, and it doesn’t mean something is good, regardless of the use of the word ‘awesome’! Clearly this programme is not going to deliver the type of animation people currently consider to be ’sophisticated’, be it in whatever format. But its potential to introduce people to animation is perfect – when I was in my teens I used a similar programme called ‘The Complete Animator’ on the PC which allowed you to manipulate sprites and draw and animate very badly. It ran in VGA. It only allowed 256 colours. It was low-tech, but it was so much FUN and I learnt LOADS from it. I’m glad to see other Brew readers have spoken out about this piece and have spoken up in GoAnimate’s favour, since I’m am becoming fed up with this type of post being featured here; this is not the first time Amid and Jerry have reported on something PURELY to say how bad it is, as if they are some sort of quality barometer, almost tittering behind their hands as they laugh at some poor sod’s lack of vision or ability to know when something is good or not. In the future guys, please don’t post scornful articles like this – celebrate all things animation, don’t deride them.

By: Baron Lego

Baron Lego — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:23:27 +0000

Tools of mediocrity for the masses! Yee-haw!
It’s really only a matter of time before most television animation looks like this (some of it now isn’t too far off) .

By: warren

warren — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:31:21 +0000

I’m surprised at how many people took this post as a knock on the site. I’m the guy who passed it on to Amid, saying it is awesomebad. Note that ‘awesome’ is the first part of the description! It’s awkardly positioned (bad) by the delivery of the demo (the music, the ‘wwwhhhoaaas’ and all that), bUt I think this is awesome! Think about it – for all those who say they could make a tv show with their eyes closed – here you go! Do it!

If I was a kid or someone thinking of animation as a career, I’d start with this, then go through the exercises in Eric Goldberg’s excellent book, then Nancy Bieman’s excellent book – and bring those lessons back to this site! Bust the machine! Then go to college and push the instructors’ curriculum.

Listen – this is the start of what Ralph Bakshi was talking about in that oft-linked speech in San Diego Comic Con. Honestly! It’s all in this box you’re staring at. There are fewer and fewer excuses for not improving one’s abilities, or developing some. So the animation is stock, who cares if you’re just starting out and trying to tell a story – the story content is all wide open. This is a rudimentary version of that game Spielberg came out with, where you can edit your own film from stock stuff.

It’s only bad if some exec takes this seriously as a viable option to producing a show properly. Which they won’t. OR WILL THEY? But it’s too funny (and fun!) not to point out. It can be taken so many ways – and it has…cartoons are fun, hey?

By: Celia

Celia — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:17:34 +0000

where are the four fingered glove animal characters? Human cartoons are boring.

By: Karl Marx

Karl Marx — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:59:19 +0000

If Hitler had this tool, he could’ve invaded Poland for much less money, and on schedule.

By: Rudy Agresta

Rudy Agresta — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:18:39 +0000

Nothing more than a moving version of COLORFORMS! Maybe good for the kiddies, but unfortunately the brainless, unartistic execs will see it as a way to save money and eliminate jobs!!