tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post1996600744392259549..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: DCAU #190: SubZeroSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-90826899196369411902016-07-25T18:49:12.552-03:002016-07-25T18:49:12.552-03:00In our household this film holds the distinction o...In our household this film holds the distinction of being the first DC 'toon we could find on disc. The time had come to introduce my boys to DC animated, so it got watched a bit until better stuff could be found. VCR recordings off telly just couldn't fulfil our inbuilt hunger for crisp images.<br /><br />Again, we thought the CGI stuff was weird, but some Warner DC stuff was better than none. <br />We can STILL only get the first few discs of Justice League over here. <br />For that matter we NEVER got "Teen Titans GO" on disc here even when the stores were full of TTG plush toys! What are the sales and marketing guys in NZ thinking?<br />Hurrah for direct imports.<br /><br />I'm doing a short animation for a client at the moment and I'm wondering if perhaps it's not so much the straight lines that were hard to animate, but those perspective shots involving vehicles zooming past the camera - Also action pans which showed a vehicle from one side, then the front and the other side. All for the sake of drama, I guess. <br />I know that in my own work I prefer to use the Scooby-doo/Flintstones style where Vehicles move from left to right across the screen, it's so much less sophisticated, but so much easier and quicker.<br />Also in those days I think CGI was still at the stage where solid polygonal objects were easier to create than organic, squishy objects. It was about as far as they could take it and "get away" with it. Not that they really pulled it off! I remember hearing how CGI would save animators so much time and work that they'd be able to spend more time playing console games. <br />We know THAT never happened! CGI is still da*ned time consuming, even bad CGI. <br />I long for that lazy, utopian future our parents were promised in sci-fi...Brendoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10913031340103600964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-30756402849058778452016-07-25T18:07:47.000-03:002016-07-25T18:07:47.000-03:00I can understand why they'd want to use CGI fo...I can understand why they'd want to use CGI for vehicles... straight mechanical things were always the hardest to animate. I don't think they ever perfected the CGI cartoon vehicle look until Futurama (and even there the overall look of the show probably helped in a way that BTAS's style would have hindered.)LiamKavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996095233681105682noreply@blogger.com