#finally someone rational

[hecknojohnkstuff]

This blog should be renamed, John K Burning Bridges and stuff. I swear any chance of getting a new series is probably thrown down the pooper with this blog. You can't call the man a hack or an idiot executive and then expect them to fund your project... And while the peanut gallery here is very vocal I highly doubt the actual professionalism of half of them. Aspiring doesn't exactly count. While I have not seen the movie and it doesn't look the greatest to me, I can look at it and know what it's strengths will be. But more importantly I don't think anyone here actually understands the limitations of the medium and just how far it's coming. The industry is only 15 years old as far as filmaking goes. As compared to the 80-90 Traditional has had (more when you take into consideration the actual art world and it's impact on the animation world). And there will be others who say the art world impacts CG as well, but computers haven't been around that long either, while the pencil has been around for hundreds. Basically what I'm saying is make it better. If you guys know whats wrong. Make it better. Start a new show and make it better. But from what I understand the George Liquor show has been pitched longer than the CG industry has been alive. Maybe "other" people need to realise what does and does not work. Simply making a play on words and then drawing a funny picture doesn't count as a pitch. IE. He hog instead of He haw, or two dirty pussies and the catch is it's two cats. If you are going to demand substance, show a little yourselves.

Chickenandbeandip, John K. Stuff, Smart

[hecknojohnkstuff]

As a ren and stimpy fan, i'm glad that this blog exists so i can say, without restraint: my relationship with john k's blog is very mixed. granted, i don't necessarily hate him as much as you do (keep in mind i discovered him AFTER the Buzzfeed article) i still read his blog from time to time.

his opinions are very mixed. Sometimes i agree with him (like the difference between a animation and a cartoon) and sometimes i disagree (like criticizing animaniacs when he hasnt FUCKING SEEN IT). Unfortunately i agree with him 20 percent of the time and disagree with him 80 percent of the time.

One thing that geniunly pisses me off about him though, is how he's a douchey hypocrite. He talks the talk but doesnt walk the walk. He always talks about "good animation!!!" and "good construction" but In many of his post 2005 works (ESPECIALLY cans without labels) they look exceptionally flat and are NOT well animated.

Not to mention how he's a self absorbed windbag with a persecution complex! For FUCK'S sake, John! Everybody is SICK and TIRED of your "executives are evil villains who want to replace wacky cartoonists with WRITERS" bullshit!! ESPECIALLY when you pretentiously claim that you're the Man Who Singlehandedly Created Animation!

Plus, i've read Sick Little Monkeys. John Dickfalusi didn't contribute as much as he wants you to believe he did!

This is why i started up an animation blog (@mrblitzsanimationtakes) in hopes to try and spread my own beliefs instead of relying on a washed up, bipolar, senile, psychotic pedophile!

Exactly! Thank you so much for your blog! Good job there!

[hecknojohnkstuff]

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Assorted observations from the Kiwi Farms

[hecknojohnkstuff]

There have been hundreds of lazy pixel-art titles released in the past few years. When you get flooded with lazy examples, you create a generalized negative response. The problem is that this punishes games which AREN'T lazy. Games that use these techniques have something extra to prove, because the abundance of low-quality games that resemble them at a glance.

Think of it this way : if you were in a room filled with hundreds of rotten eggs, you wouldn't want an omelette, even if Jacques Pepin was making it for you.

I don't think it's about age, because voxels, while not new, are younger than pixel art, and voxels elicit the same "ugh, not again" response from many players, simply because they've been inundated with a ton of shitty, ugly voxel games.

Before audiences got tired of lazy pixel art and lazy voxels, they were tired of lazy flash animation. Tomorrow they will be tired of that lazy lowpoly/facetted look. This is not to say you can't make beautiful games using any or all of these things, it's just that they will be harder to sell until audiences are less sick of them.

adarias

[hecknojohnkstuff]

That's the sad part about modern games that feature "retro graphics" as a celebration of old games' style, because plenty of those old games actually manage to look better.

Palculator, Neogaf.

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I know, but according to John, Animaniacs is “fake” and Samurai Jack has a bland, flat art style

[dover boi], Twitter discussion about John K.

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Apparently Star Wars is a Sitcom as hollow as Care Bears and Barney

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/bygone-golden-age-of-kids.html

John Kricfalusi posts about old-school realistic toy guns (no G1 Megatron in there?) and that when they vanished, there was MORE violence. He was complaining that the generations who had Barney and Care Bears are more violent than those who had Zorro and Dick Tracy and whatnot. This doesn’t quite stand:

* He puts Star Wars in the same category as Barney, by showing a lightsaber as a dim featureless weapon.

* Didn’t those kids also have Shadow the Hedgehog, Mortal Kombat, Doom, Power Rangers, Dragon Ball Z, Digimon, Beast Wars, plenty of fresh and classic zany cartoons, Killer Instinct, Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer 40,000, pro wrestling, Evangelion, Gargoyles, etc? There was plenty of violent entertainment during that era, but they don’t count because they were both after he was born and don’t meet his tastes. (Seriously, Roger Ramjet was around the time in his opinion cartoons started to fall apart, but it fits his tastes, so he likes it even though it DOESN’T fit his standards, yet he disses films that do fit his standards and sometimes even tastes for being too recent!)

* And in the comments I had a bit of a laugh, but not before I ran into someone rational: “ So for once, screw you John. And yes, Star Wars was awesome and you’re just nostalgia raging because you never got to experience it as a kid. “

* And now for the laugh: “ I never thought that Barney, My Little Pony, nor the Care Bears were hip toys in the first place anyway, even as a kid. “ And a few MONTHS after that, MLP became hip.

* “ I was 20 when I saw Star Wars and thought I was watching Happy Days in space. Everything was brown, soft and without any design. Like someone’s home movie. So it’s not old-man grumpiness. I didn’t like the 70s because it was so bland compared to what came just a few years before. I watched it change overnight and was dumbfounded - when I was a wee lad. I wasn’t grumpy until 1969. “

Star Wars is a hybrid between Happy Days and Barney? WTF? Planets blowing up, skimpy outfits, death by childbirth, gruesome executions, and a side movie where EVERYONE DIED.

* And a second rational person: “When I was a kid, I wanted and received an actual air rifle that shot actual pellets into actual soda cans and targets. Luke Skywalker, his lightsaber and his adventures were what we watched at night, and then we woke up and watched Ren and Stimpy in the morning, and they were both all we talked about (my brother and I). Sometimes there’s just too much Old-man Kricfalusi grumpiness. Now Star Wars is ANOTHER reason why Bob Clampett is forgotten and the Director-based system is gone? Why everything is colored purple and pink? Why you can’t show a Hotdog man and a Bun woman meld together on TV? It’s another thorn in your side that the Star Wars toys didn’t look like Dream Pets? Who’s next on the John K. chopping block of “Things That Are Not Officially Fun”?   Ray Harryhausen? The Matrix? Wheel Of Fortune? This place needs to lighten up. “

* Funny that after he stopped actively posting about his gripes, he started to become even more bitter. It seems he likes NOTHING after 2010. Literally nothing! At least decades prior had stuff for him like Madame Medusa, Beavis and Butt-Head, and his own work… And he’s also even harsher on things he already pointed out. Like in 2012, he replied “Is that a Filmation cartoon?” concerning HELLFIRE! HELLFIRE! He literally confused it for a Filmation cartoon and didn’t bring up any good points or reasonings.

* And then an argument about Power Rangers starts…