#Mister 9

[goldenvulpine]

Mister 9 & Miss Monday? Good for them.

[nicktoonsunite]

Random but have you ever seen that one nicktoons game on the didj? It had El Tigre, Danny and SpongeBob as playable, you could meet both Timmy, and Jimmy and Zim was the main Villan. It was a math game so educational but you could still battle and you fought two giant robots of Zim's. Thought I may mention. It's pretty obscure though.

I actually love Android Invasion I just wished it wasn't limited to being a kids' math game on LeapFrog it would've gone so hard as a proper tie-in to the main series LMAO

also this is just one of my fav spongebob and danny interactions from it

[inpursuitofnunchi]

there are very few dramas that burrow their way so deep into my heart that they become a part of my soul, my conscience - don't get me wrong, i like/love A LOT of dramas (im a serial liker/lover you can say) - but with some dramas, it's like I have a perpetual hangover. Kinda like "the one - kdrama version" (assume the one to be a group with a small number of elements) (sorry my stem ass is showing) (also sorry for the endless brackets, my adhd is also showing)

Anyway, the point is i am pretty sure that Love Next Door is on the verge of joining this set already inhabited by Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, Misaeng and My Mister.

[puppppppppy]

Was nobody gonna warn me that I would fall a little bit in love with every character in Stardew

[s1ck-pupp3t]

ok

[fathercharlesoffdensen]

Ngl as a veteran Cherik shipper, Charles Xavier apologist, and someone who watched the '92 X-Men animated series, I kind of assumed going into the '97 series that Charles' death/'death' was a known 'ruse,' borne not just from the Shi'ar having the technology to keep him alive following Gyrich's assassination attempt, but also from the logic of keeping him safe/protected going forward. If some of the veteran X-Men didn't 'know' (although I question how that's possible at least with Jean) that he survived, then I figured Magneto surely did, hence Charles willing his legacy to his mutant husband. Charles seemed fully aware while still living amongst the Shi'ar of the ongoing developments regarding Genosha, almost certainly, I assumed, because it was his and Magneto's passion project. I didn't NOT expect Magneto to be jelly of Lilandra - that's part of the fun/'fun' of Cherik's dynamic, after all - but I did assume/hope that their reunion would be more of a reunion and less essentially blaming Charles for all of mutantdom's past and/or current woes.

Some choice bits from the "Graduation Day" series finale of the original X-Men animated series to 'prove' my point(s). Context: Magneto's magnetism is the only way to give the dying Xavier the energy to contact Lilandra using their "unique, personal, telepathic bond" so that he can be saved using "the superior technology of the Shi'ar," though Magneto is busy gathering mutants on Genosha.

"Don't you get it? Xavier was about as normal as we mutants get. He was famous, rich, and human-looking, and someone went after him in front of the whole world."

"Xavier ... dying? [...] A sad ending to a great life. Out of respect for Charles Xavier, I will let you all live."

A huffy Magneto, after Jean asks him, "How much do you love Charles Xavier?": "How dare you ask me such a question? He was my only equal. I owe him my life."

Jean, redux: "What would you do if you knew you were the only one on Earth who could save his life?" [Magneto: "Do not play games with me!"] Jean: "LIsten to me: A telepathic message to Lilandra is Xavier's only hope. You may be able to supercharge his mind just like you did mine. His brain waves are electromagnetic." [Magneto: "You lie to torture me."]

Scott has to weigh in, of course: "You know what you should do." [Magneto: My greatest enemy, and perhaps my only friend. But I have waited all my life for this moment!"] Scott: "Wouldn't he do it for you?"

Instructions given to Magneto when he arrives at the school: "Focus your magnetic powers on his brain waves and increase them in gradual increments. Though beware: If he should pass away while connected to you, the psychic stress may destroy you as well."

Charles (in bed [heh heh]): "Hello, Magnus. Surely you have more pressing business to attend to than nursing an old friend." [Magneto: "Nothing more important."]

Xavier's students are told that Charles "will survive," but "only under Shi'ar care": "I know you cannot bear to see him go, but it is the only way." Then, when asked whether Charles can "ever come back": "Perhaps not in body, my children, but my spirit shall remain among you where it was always meant to be."

TL;DR: I'm not saying Charles and Erik/Magnus becoming Chancellors of Genosha together after probably using Bastion / Mister Sinister / Jean / Madelyne / etc. to 'fix' / reverse the damage from the recent staged terrorist attack and then Marvel allowing them to get married (extremely belatedly) just in time for Pride Month is the only appropriate way to end season one of X-Men 97, but ... we're so close to an extremely gay Cherik reconciliation and validation since the '60s, and yet still so far away.

[seoul-bros]

Run Jin Ep.9 Blood, Sweat & Peppers

Looking good there Jin!

Post Date: 08/10/2024

[tetsuskei]

i’m so bored fighting the oceanid i’ve started changing up the team comps i use

[bewitchedmold]

Say what y'all want but I'm thankful for stand localization bc ain't no way I'd get away w watching a show where someone's repeatedly yelling "sticky fingers" or "sex pistols" in my house😭🙏

[spaciebabie]

whats spacie fluster event? its the thing monnie meant when she said "oh good they getting your ass again"?

so like in august last year one of my friends made a post about drawing springtrap and dmed me about it but what they didnt tell me was that they were gonna draw me x springtrap. and then lily got a hold of that post and reblogged it. and it was like a sleeper agent awoke in everybody's brains b/c for like 3 weeks people would come in my inbox and constantly fluster me w/springtrap stuff. it was insane. so many of my mutuals got in on it. for a while i couldnt yearn on main w/out someone writing or drawing something

[deadnatura11]

Eddie’s gonna end the season with 0 girlfriends.

If Kim and Marisol finding out about each other won't do it the second Eddie calls Kim Shannon it'll be over.

[dalt20]

Tooning In. 20 Greg Bailey part 7 of 10

DL:So, I guess after Cookie Jar got attacked and shanghai-ed by DHX media, you made a little escape boat to 9 Story Entertainment.

GB:I was already gone before DHX took over Cookie Jar. I thought it was just a sale to DHX after some unsuccessful business moves. I never thought that CJ was attacked. It was quite small by the time I left to 9 Story.

DL:So, I learned that DHX media doesn't own the CiNAR/Cookie Jar episodes of Arthur but they own the spinoff series Postcards from Buster. Why was that? Did Cookie Jar sell the distribution rights to WGBH in boston?

GB:I have no idea. They just sold off everything they possibly could over the few years that CJ existed. They did that with everything else. It was a long way from the start of Arthur when Cinar owned a good part of the rights of Arthur and we had the distribution in 110 countries. Cinar had distribution everywhere in the world except the US. They may have sold off the Arthur rights to WGBH just before they gave up the show. That would be in the period after they bought DIC and the Strawberry Shortcake fiasco. So any cash would have been welcome at CJ.Postcards from Buster was a dumb move for Cinar (pre CJ era) to get involved with. It was a good enough series but there was no market for a show that was so specifically about the US . WGBH had the rights for US distribution and Cinar had the rest of the world. But the series was not able to sell anywhere other than the US> It was made in the post 9/11 and Iraq war period. There must have been a dozen scenes in each episode that featured American flags and with the war in Iraq we entered a strong period of anti American sentiment around the world. The show only sold in the US and Israel. All the other customers passed on it. It was referred to as the series that could not be sold by the sales teams that tried pushing it.

DL:So, how was the move to 9 Story?

GB:That was very fast. CJ gave up the show in August and 9 Story was starting production by October. We had been doing the pre-production at Oasis in Montreal the years that Cookie Jar existed. So all the digitized models and files we had were destroyed by Oasis when they found out that the show wouldn't be done at Oasis anymore. They should have turned over those models because CJ owned them, not Oasis. At the same time Cookie Jar had destroyed the well organized vault of the old paper material in Montreal . The storage building was being abandoned and all the material that was catalogued and filed properly by the librarian was lying in a huge jumble of boxes just thrown into the room awaiting the shredding of the paper. The pile of boxes was over 10 feet high and 100 feet long and everything there was a horrible jumble. It was literally heaved up into a big pile of boxes that were spilled open. I had to go through the boxes and try to find some old paper model sheets in order to base our new models at 9 Story on. So we had a lot of work to do at 9Story to get up and running in the short time we had. We also started doing the animation in Flash that year so it was a big conversion job at the same time we were trying to organize the files of reuse. Which is like all the backgrounds designs and the character and prop designs from episode 1 to around 125. 9 Story did a great job and people were enthusiastic about doing the show but it was a big undertaking considering the time we had to do it.

DL:So, how did you adapt to flash? Was it an easy process to adjust

GB:It was really difficult. If it was a new series it wouldn't have been a problem but in this case we had to get something that sort of matched what we had already done as traditional animation for 125 episodes. We had established a style of show that used a lot of dramatic angles and exaggeration of drawings and also we would often break off into new styles of drawing for a fantasy sequence or even a whole show. Like we did on Tale Spins or The Contest. In digital it is really slow to rig a new character and only using it for one sequence is not efficient. There were also some things like the jiggly line broken line style and the thin line that was problematic in Flash. And just so many things that just kept coming as they started rigging that became a problem that I never anticipated. Just small things like they first the pupils in the eyes were too large. So those large pupils got used in a bunch of main models and by the time we started getting animation those big eyes were put into many versions of the character rigs like Muffy in Winter clothes and Muffy in baseball uniform. So we started calling revisions on the first episode for the eyes then we had 5 more episodes already in production with those crazy eyes. That sounds picky and insignificant now but it seemed like it would never end for a while. It was nice that the animation was back in Canada so it was something I could see before the shows were completed and shipped from overseas. It was more hands on.Many of our background designs that we used since episode one were upshot or downshot angles and that isn't very good for digital animation because the rig is only one angle, eye level. So that made for some hard scenes in animation.

DL:Many people have commented on the designs of the animation as they said that it's robotic, stiff and lifeless. As the characters have this floaty like feel to them whenever they walk or run.Your comment on that?

GB:It was my feeling a few years earlier when tested a bunch of companies with the idea of changing to digital. I found that when we did tests one company Animation Services did the test traditionally and even though they weren't the strongest animation company around the characters looked like they breathed or were alive. Digital animation is very still when it stops and the face is exactly the same drawing in every scene. When it is hand drawn there is some mild nuance to the drawing because each scene and each inbetween is a different original drawing. I think it has some subconscious effect on the viewer even if the animators in digital animation would put more bounce in the walk . Even in a walk the traditional walks are all drawing each time they have a walk. So even if it is off model like you said some people thought Akom was like, then at least each walk was new and unique. When you draw you can squash things a little and when a hand turns over there are a bunch of inbetweens that are all different. In digital it basically pops from one hand to another hand when it turns over. A good animator can kind of distort or bend the hand but basically it just pops. There was a lot of the art of animation lost in the sort of digital cutout style of animation . For me the worst thing is that a 3/4 head of Arthur in one scene is exactly the same drawing as a 3/4 head in every other scene. Wgbh was very happy with it because everything was on model all the time. Or at least it was the same model. But they were never able to notice that the animation was stiff or the walk was exactly the same each time.I always felt that 3D animation was the worst for floaty movements though. The feet never seem to actually touch the ground. I think a good 2 D digital animator does a pretty good job with that if they have time and budget.

DL:So, did you move to Toronto to work with 9 story?

GB:No, I commuted once a week and I worked online the rest of the week. I guess I was in training for Covid.

DL:Ha! So, I wanted to talk about the Guest Star designs because I remember someone saying that the designs like Art Garfunkel, Mr. Rogers and Backstreet Boys designs look good but the Matt Damon or John Lewis ones.....

Matt Damon guest stars in the season 11, sixth episode, The Making of Arthur.

John Lewis guests stars in critically acclaimed episode, Arthur Takes a Stand from season 21, episode 4

What was up with those? It's like the character designer gave up and just traced a photo for these people. Compared to these!

Art Garfunkel guests stars as the narrator of the first episode of season 3, the ballad of Buster Bunny which marks the return of Buster Baxter and his voice actor, Daniel Bronchu. Who had took a sabbatical to Australia in 1997 during season two.

Mr Rogers makes an appearance as himself in the epic crossover, Arthur meets Mr.Rogers (season 2, episode 1)

The Backstreet Boys starred as themselves in the Arthur special, It’s Only Rock N’ Roll. Arthur in the center.

GB:I did the initial sketch on Matt during the live recording we did in Florida when he came in in his sweats after coming in off his run. He is even wearing the same shirt with some political message on it with the Congress. I remember him being hard to design because everyone had a different movie in mind for what he should look like. He is also a bit hard to do because he's so handsome. Marc Brown did a nice sketch of Art Garfunkel and Mr. Rogers models. The BSB’s were kind of a mix of a few artists. John was done by a designer in Oasis. It's a little touchy doing visible minorities if you have a room full of white designers and a director. But we had a great character designer who is black so he knew that design would be coming his way. Over time we probably made the characters less like animals and more like human faces. It might be a mistake but political correctness was starting to weigh in over the years. So we had to be more cautious on some characters like John Lewis.

DL:Most of the characters were bears. It's like Bears was your default character model when drawing characters.

GB:I would say that it was actually mostly rabbits. The WGBH people thought it was their duty to ask the guest stars which animal they wanted to be. They would always say rabbit. Who wants to be a dog or a monkey right? I would say most guest stars were rabbits. Yo Yo Ma, Lance Armstrong if I recall correctly were rabbits. One show that featured a music troupe named Bang on a Can there was a woman whose last name is Wolfe. When they were asked which animal they wanted to be she said rabbit. It was the one time I had to convince someone that she should really not be a rabbit. funny that she would have chosen anything other than a wolf. Maybe it isn't her maiden name though. I don't think anyone ever picked monkey.

DL:And when I saw her I thought that she was the only good looking Arthur Guest star in the later seasons.

GB:Ha ha! Yeah, she was more extremely animal looking. She was brave for a woman to imagine herself with a big long nose though. Neil Gamon was the lone cat character that I recall. I wonder if he chose cat when he did that show.

DL:Also Michelle Kwan was a bear even though I was hoping because of her last name she would be a swan.

GB:We didn't have a bird option though. We never did many birds in the series. She was a bear I saw and so was Marc's friend Jack Prelutsky. So maybe you are right that most are bears. It seemed like everyone picked rabbit when we would ask so I was pretty sure they were mostly rabbits. People that wore hats were problematic if they wanted to be a rabbit. Bears are the most generic looking of the choices.

DL:And also my statement on guest stars weirdly goes to pets too because Alan Cumming played a poodle who was Killer's rival in one episode and

Alan Cummings guest stars as Sebastian, Killer’s rival in the first episode of season 17,Show off

Someone got a picture again but then again " they wouldn't know if it was Alan Cumming! We gotta make it look like him!"

GB:That's right I forgot that show with Alan. It was amazing that he went along with us on that. What a strange ideal to make a male character a poodle now that I think about it. Andy Warhol was a warthog but that was because the script writer wanted the name and he was a guest star either. We didn’t do many warthogs or reptiles or birds in the show. Joan Rivers was a monkey but she was related to Francine and she had a brutal sense of humor and would not have protested about being a monkey I'm sure. BJ Novaks was a rabbit.

DL:Also It's a popular accusation in the Black community of people saying characters like Arthur were black even though Brain was confirmed to be black.Comment on that?

GB:That is true. There was always a strong suspicion of that. Which is fine. There is no reason Arthur had to be a white kid. That got played up more in the last special we made where they go to the ancestral farm in Ohio. Arthur's relatives were black in that show. When we started Francine was supposed to be a black character. It changed over the years once they made her Polish in one show and then Jewish on the Christmas special. We were even casting for a black actress for Francine when we did season one . Jodie Resther has been with the show as Francine's voice since she was a kid.Brain didn't start off as being black or not black. It was only the Christmas show that we had to define some nationalities or ethnic qualities on the characters. We added a Martin Luther King poster in his room. In the special Brain would celebrate Kwanzaa and Francine became Jewish. Arthur was some kind of Christian Protestant , George became Swedish, and Buster remained non aligned to any ethnic group or religion.

DL:Also Brain in that special was played by a young right wing commentator Steven Crowder.This guy.

Steven Crowder for those who don’t know was the voice of Brain in the fourth season of Arthur but more baffling, Arthur’s Perfect Christmas

GB:Wow he got bigger. Does he have issues with minorities as a right wing commentator or is he just politically right wing? I haven't heard his commentator stuff.

DL:Yes he has said racist and Homophobic stuff on his YouTube channel.

GB:Ok well that is kind of a nasty thing about S Crowder in that case. I guess the Arthur show didn't have any lasting impression on him.For a while everyone was saying John Legend looks like Arthur but he wouldn't come on the show unfortunately.

DL:Yeah, surprisingly.So back on track. The Arthur show then moved to Oasis Animation back in Montreal in 2016.What was the reason behind that?

GB:The owner at WGBH pulled the show out of 9Story in a dispute. He felt he owned a piece of them because he had a show there, and when 9Story started pitching new series to PBS WGBH thought they should have a say in that since they would be competing with them. 9 Story understandably didn't want to stop producing their own shows that would own rights on, so the contract was cancelled. I would have been happy staying with 9 Story another season because we were starting to make some big headway in the production and they were always nice to me there. I never heard the story from 9Story point of view. 9 Story would have just seen me as part of the enemy in the dispute at that point. WGBH was always doing battle with the partners over the years. It was like that with Ron and Micheline and with Michael Hirsch and then with Vince at 9Story. They were always pushing for more and cutting the money being contributed to the show each season. It wasn't ever a warm and cuddly relationship between the co producers.

DL:So, How was the move to Oasis Animation?

GB:I was able to hire a few of my previous designers from years earlier. Not as many as I had hoped but we had a few people come back. We threw away all the material from 9 Story because they now wanted to do the show in Toon Boom Harmony. So the rigs needed to be rebuilt. They did trace them off or something to save some work but they didn't rig all the extra poses we had made in Flash. So it was again a new learning experience. The animation artists were all doing the show for the first time again so it starts off difficult and gradually improves over time. We set up the crew structure more like I was used to when we did the show at Cinar/Cookie Jar. With regular designing crews for characters and props and designers for background design and color design. So I was more used to that structure than the way 9Story operated.

DL:To tell you the truth I didn't see a difference when Oasis took over.I thought you used the same models!

GB:Since it ended up going on a few years it was probably better by the end than if we had stayed at 9 Story. Toonboom Harmony is just so much better and more versatile than Flash which was being phased out quickly at that time. The design on the shows improved a lot. We went from one designer doing a few rough characters and Background designs to a crew of 3 people doing characters and 3 doing background design.

DL:Also I found out that Glen Kennedy was doing the boards for Arthur while at Oasis! You got him to do boards?

Glen Kennedy infamous for his work on Tiny Toon Adventures was a storyboard artist on the three Arthur Specials, the Rhythm and Roots of Arthur, An Arthur Thanksgiving, and Arthur’s First Day.

GB:Yeah he was in Vancouver freelancing. I had people from Toronto, Ottawa , Vancouver and Montreal doing storyboards. My main people that were doing the storyboards over the years including at Oasis were Gerry Capelle, Al Jefferies and Jeremy O'Neil , Elie Klimos and Cilbur Rocha. Glen came in on the last season or 2.I had some of the same storyboard people since season 1. Specifically Gerry Capelle and Al Jeffries. It was one of the constants of the series. Gerry did most of the opening storyboard even.

DL: I talk about him because he is famous in the Youtube poop community, As his animation is way more off model than AKOM's ! As none of his animation has weight and would squash and stretch all the time! https://youtu.be/KCIFNCO1ic4?si=764AdwiJaViotfyX

Glen Kennedy’s Animation Reel.

GB:I've never seen that. Is that his animation reel or did he storyboard it? It's a lot of animation. Great animation for sure.

DL:His animation Reel.But it caused him a lot of jobs.

GB:Wow! great work.Kennedy Cartoons was an annoying company. It is probably not Glen personally doing all that animation, it would have been his company. He had that company with his brother in Toronto. I remember we tried sending layouts for R. Scarry or maybe even Arthur there at one point. It didn't last long.

DL:Wait, Kennedy Cartoons was going to be doing Richard scarry or Arthur!

GB:Yeah I recall sending out some freelance layouts at one time. I don't think it lasted more than a few shows. Ever since then I keep running into people that tell me they used to work on Arthur doing layouts in Toronto or Ottawa and I don't know them and wonder how they got layouts.

DL:What you just told me was extraordinary!

[myplussizebookshelf]

Need alternatives for Romancing Mr Bridgerton?

My top 3:

3. Flame and Ember by MA Nichols

2. How to start a scandal by Madeline Martin (18+)

1. Nine rules to break when romancing a rake by Sarah MacLean (18+)

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

If there's one thing I do and do well, it's write the slow mental decline of a man going through it 😎

Looking at you Misters Tommy Kinard and Carlos Reyes-Strand

[eyepatchdate]

ok. i read tom king's mister miracle run and tbh? i don't think i vibed with it. but it DOES read interestingly as a proto-strange adventures though.

[kushblazer666]