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  1. adiwan adiwan

    Watching "Way of the House Husband". Its animation is as minimal as it gets. It's more motion comic than usual animation. I guess they are fixed on recreating the manga panels. There are a ton of static images with pans and simple mouth animations. Sometimes there is a ton of shaking implying intense action but it looks odd when everything shakes but nothing moves. It's fine I guess but I had different expectations. Also an episode is divided into several smaller episodes that also recreate each manga chapter as closely as it can get. The pacing feels a tad off as the story starts and stops every 3 minutes.

    Thursday, 08-Apr-21 19:12:47 UTC from web
    1. Scribus Scribus

      @adiwan Huh. Interesting. I wonder if they're broadcast like in between episodes of bigger shows? Almost in a commercial time slot? lol

      Thursday, 08-Apr-21 20:29:41 UTC from web
    2. Scribus Scribus

      @adiwan I'm having fun with the first episode, at least

      Saturday, 10-Apr-21 16:20:23 UTC from web
      1. adiwan adiwan

        @scribus It's fun for sure. Also the rest will not be far from your current experience. However the visuals get a bit less janky animated and learned how to work with the limitations.

        Saturday, 10-Apr-21 16:35:24 UTC from web
        1. Scribus Scribus

          @adiwan If I could draw worth a crap, I would have liked to do a similar "animatic" vibe for the podcast I narrated, but alas I never took the time to develop the skill

          Saturday, 10-Apr-21 16:56:12 UTC from web
          1. adiwan adiwan

            @scribus Take stock images, print them out, glue them on a stiff cardboard on a stick (each) and film them wiggling with a camera.

            Saturday, 10-Apr-21 17:07:17 UTC from web
            1. Scribus Scribus

              @adiwan Hmm....

              Saturday, 10-Apr-21 17:17:18 UTC from web
              1. adiwan adiwan

                @scribus EMBRACE THE JANK! SWEDE YOUR OWN FILM BEFORE IT HAS ANY OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE ANY SIGNIFICANT BUDGET!

                Saturday, 10-Apr-21 17:21:42 UTC from web
                1. Scribus Scribus

                  @adiwan If it's been good enough for Lloyd Kaufman for almost 40 years, why not?!

                  Saturday, 10-Apr-21 17:38:20 UTC from web
                  1. adiwan adiwan

                    @scribus I've never seen any movie he created (directed or produced). The closest would have been the Toxic Avenger cartoon. Maybe I've seen the first Toxic Avenger but I have seen so many clips of the movie my memory isn't sure about watching it at all. All assimilated by popculture osmosis.

                    Saturday, 10-Apr-21 17:50:49 UTC from web
                    1. Scribus Scribus

                      @adiwan It be that way, sometimes

                      Saturday, 10-Apr-21 18:11:49 UTC from web
                    2. Scribus Scribus

                      @adiwan But Troma have managed to make feature films for a half-million dollar budget pretty reliably all the while, not inflation adjusted - $500,000 in 80s money for 80s movies, and still $500k in 2010s money for 2010s movies. And that has included some endearing jank, like a car flip/explosion they've used constantly since 1991 or so.

                      Saturday, 10-Apr-21 18:13:45 UTC from web