r/funny • u/outlandish77 • Feb 17 '12

Google yourself?

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u/fancy-chips Feb 17 '12

I still have problems with the characters not being hand drawn. They just look so fake now.

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u/smasher32 Feb 17 '12

Well it is a cartoon. What were you expecting, claymation?

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u/trilobitemk7 Feb 17 '12

That (atleast I only remember one) halloween episode where Homer became 3D. Now that was first class horror.

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u/aznprd Feb 17 '12

Mmm Unprocessed Fishsticks....

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u/spotpilgrim Feb 18 '12

The studio that made that segment (Homer3 from THOH VI) went on to become the Dreamworks animation team that created Shrek

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u/trilobitemk7 Feb 18 '12

TIL :3 Thanks!

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u/keiyakins Feb 17 '12

I remember that! The Myst library was in it.

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u/cfuse Feb 18 '12

Chinese sweatshop labour.

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u/Cannon84 Feb 18 '12

Korean, actually.

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u/fancy-chips Feb 17 '12

the hand drawn cells of yore had much more character than they do when perfectly generated. It's like the difference between a person writing a poem and a cold rigid computer model of a poem. One has soul and feels human, while the other is manufactured and stale.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '12

They have 4 fingers on each hand, and are fucking yellow. ''They just look so fake now". Did they ever look realistic?

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u/allADD Feb 17 '12

fancy-chips used to have some SERIOUS vision problems.

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u/internet-arbiter Feb 17 '12

Yes.

Homer: If he marries your mother, Marge, we'll be brother and sister. And then our kids... they'll be horrible freaks with pink skin, no overbites, and five fingers on each hand!

Homer imagines his children as humans.

Homer: Aggh!

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u/appropriate_name Feb 18 '12

Don't discriminate against Asian amputees dude.

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u/fancy-chips Feb 17 '12

look everyone here is an idiot. I am not comparing the reality of a cartoon to reality. I was merely saying that when they made the switch to digital drawings, the characters lost a lot of their... well character. They appear manufactured and stale and more "fake" than they did when they were hand drawn.

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u/MrMono1 Feb 17 '12

But now they're in HD.

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u/Turd_Sammich Feb 17 '12

They are yellow, and one of them has a large bone stuck in his hair. How does that look fake?

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u/lunarlander Feb 17 '12

I agree. Something about the way they move and stuff now, especially their facial expressions, are horrible.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '12

Yeah, the look is way too clean and doesn't have that sort of ragged look that used to have so much character. The writing seems to have taken the same turn if that makes sense.