Prometheus
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Danger Mouse was one of theirs, too, as was Victor & Hugo: Bunglers in Crime.
Does anyone remember Toucan Tecs? That was another British cartoon of the early 1990s.
Danger Mouse was one of theirs, too, as was Victor & Hugo: Bunglers in Crime.
dont remember the movie but i vaguely recall donkey kong country tv show http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_Country_(TV_series)Does anyone remember the CGI Donkey Kong Country cartoon made by Nelvana? I seem to recall it earned some accolades for its motion-capture technology, as well as some awards on its merits as a programme.
It was pretty neat (though I know that some found the inclusion of musical numbers to be an acquired taste). I wonder if it ever got a full DVD release?
EDIT: Short trailer for a VHS compilation;
https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Gy3BQbC37A?feature=oembed
Oh i see.i didnt watch it as such but i remember it being on alright.the cgi was quite nice though.^ That is from the TV show. It's just that they abridged a few episodes for a VHS release.It was the only decent trailer I could find.
Sadly not! The outright stated aim of the programme is, and I quote, "Redemption, not retribution", and this is how they choose to fluffily word the obviously bad morals it's espousing.Anyway, surely this example you showed was an isolated incident?
Ugh, no. No no no. They must not be allowed to do this. Bagpuss Extreeeeeeeeeeeeme. Ick.I'm sure 'they' will bring Bagpuss back eventually but he'll be all cool or 'badass' and it wil be CGI and the music will be rapping or some crap (nothing against rapping though but not for my Bagpuss!).
I can't understand why everything must be CGI... Not a lot of people seem to know this, but traditional animation is actually still a great deal cheaper than CGI is......even Bob the builder is CGI now, instantly losing the small amount of charm it once had...actually Thomas The Tank Engine is too - CGI is not as good in these cases (I love good CGI animation though....anything by Pixar)
Agreed, agreed... You will find that kids these days will be equally engaged by the old stuff, so those excuses really don't hold water.Oh yes, when I said "bring back Bagpuss" - I meant, re-show it for the younger generation. This won't happen though (unless it's revamped) and I've thought about it quite a lot. It seems that all kids shows nowadays have to extremely bright, fast-paced and with loud thumping highly-compressed audio. Why? Well, 'they' will say it's to engage the kids (hmmm, I was _very_ engaged with the likes of Bagpuss, Fingerbobs etc. when I was a wee-one - so no, that doesn't wash).
It's not rose-tinted-glasses, it's really not. A lot of apologists for low-quality modern stuff will claim "It's just nostalgia", but generally you can often see the higher quality of the older shows (and games, and films, and so on), and, indeed, of high-quality modern productions as well, when placed alongside low-quality modern productions.I think it's basically to compete with what has become the 'norm'. I find this so very sad as it's not relaxing viewing. The thing about many kids shows from the Bagpuss era is that they were extremely relaxing. From the colours/hues chosen (pastel shades, not really bright - almost black and white!) to the lovely relaxing acoustic guitar, folk sound. It was the stuff of dreams - row row row your boat. Truly beautiful. Now is it THUMP THUMP THUMP BANG BANG horrible horrible horrible.
Meh, I could be doing the 'Rose tinted glasses' things or the "things were better back then" cliches. Please, I would love to be convinced otherwise. Heck, even the 'newer' 'old' stuff was better IMO - Pigeon Street is lovely too, relaxing sounds and some lovely music.
I'm obviously getting too old...
To cite a very recent example (I'm using Disney ones because they're very easy to findEDIT: oh, regarding CGI being more expensive - is that really true? I had always thought that was the reason for it's recent over-use.
Really? Good for them, seriously!The creators of Bagpuss (and so much else) always had a very tight grip on their stuff, I think they may well have turned down numerous approaches from companies looking to 'rejuvenate' their classics, but no dice.
There's something that's notably missing from animation these days. I won't say it should be in all animation, as I always appreciated the wide variety of styles* that were broadcast (and often released on VHS, as well) when I was a young'un, but it doesn't really seem to be well-represented these days...There was a very good BBC documentary a couple of years ago "a life in small films" (easily found) well worth a look. Some funny anecdotes, and a look at the (literal) garden shed where most of their stuff was made.
I have all their stuff on DVD! Just too much nostalgia, the muzak, the pacifying voiceover, the dreamlike atmosphere - magic.
I must confess that I never liked Noggin the Nog! :lol:It is, however, criminal that a point n click adventure was never made of Noggin The Nog!
I will admit to liking some of the punny names, like Wensley's.I watched a fair bit of Rastamouse, at first for the jokes, then its just on and i leave it playing while im on my phone browsing or whatever - Cpt Wensleydale and the easy cru, its pretty funny.
Oh, wow. How refreshing to see something that's not blatantly animated in Adobe Flash, that isn't unprofessionally drawn and isn't aping the style of every other badly-drawn programme out there, and that clearly isn't using dumbed-down speech (or, worse, just gibberish at an age when kids need to be picking up as many new words as possible!).The accent soon wore off though and now its all about TINGA TINGA TALES.
Watch an episode of that if you got HD and embrace the beautiful artwork, the detail of patterns on the animals coats is really good i thought
can see here, but the detail is lost seriously, unless you got an HD computer maybe..
http://www.tingating....com/watch.aspx