#chris houghton

[disneytva]

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[coolchevistianofficialsite]

What are your thoughts that The Book of Bill has references to Amphibia, The Owl House, Star Vs The Forces Of Evil, Wander Over Yonder but not Big City Greens despite that show being a Gravity Falls alumni show?

Personally it adds to my belief that Big City Greens is more of a Harvey Beaks/C.H. Greenblatt alumni driven series than a Alex Hirsch alumni series specially with the Big City Greens crew members taking the torch of the Gravity Falls crew for future Disney series.

Another proof for me is this cool merchandise crossover collaboration with Alex Hirsch, Dana Terrace and Matt Braly with Gravity Falls, Amphibia and The Owl House considered as "the big three"

BTW you should donate to this merchandise campaing since they are some cool figures.

[simpin-on-noodles]

Shout out to Chris Houghton for voicing some of my faves😭💕

[daystarvoyage]

POSITIVE BIG CITY GREEN Quick posting

Just want to congratulate ON BIG CITY GREENS

💚💚💚ON MAKING IT ONTO NEW YORK CITY TIME SQUARE 💚💚💚

As a frequent watcher myself or everything animation

this has been one of the most funniest shows alongside Kiff on Disney channel for a while and it feels refreshing to have a show not to episodic or story driven to jump in to enjoy.

Now I know the fandom of bgc is a very small one compared to high popular shows that we cosplay and watch, but we should all support all forms of an amazing no matter what new or old to preserve to show support.

Also I too should work on cosplay Tilly or remy since there outfits are so adorkable so all in it.

There outfits slay (and the voice acting is top peak comedy)

(Letting you know, still working on my previous post COMING UP)

So yeah, big city greens is absolutely a wonderful show that really brings a family oriented and lifelong lessons.

That will always be something that people can gravitate to.

Honestly, it’ll make you laugh and cry and just love to see her it’s even more for its dialogue and its characters you instantly fall in love with so having that being said, hope everyone watch big city greens space cation this weekend.

KEEP IT STARRY ON THE DAYSTAR VOYAGE WITH KYOKO CANE 🦋

[geekcavepodcast]

"Adventure Time" Returns to Comics

Oni Press, Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products, and Cartoon Network are partnering on new compendium collections of Adventure Time comics for 2024, followed by a new Adventure Time comic book series launching in 2025.

The compendium collections being with Adventure Time Compendium Vol. 1, collecting the first 35 issues led by Ryan North and containing artwork by Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb, Mike Holmes, Jim Rugg, T. Zysk, Kat Philbin, David Cutler, Ian McGinty, Jesse Tise, Carey Pietsch, Yumi Sakugawa, Liz Prince, Becca Tobin, Missy Peña, Jeffrey Brown, Jess Fink, and Dustin Nguyen.

Adventure Time Compendium Vol. 1, featuring a cover by Chris Houghton, goes on sale in October 2024.

Adventure Time: The Fionna and Cake Compendium collects Natasha Allegri's Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake #1–6 and Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake: Card Wars #1–6 from writer Jen Wang and artists Britt Wilson and Betty Liang, and shorts from creators N.D. Stevenson, Lucy Knisley, and Kate Leth.

Adventure Time: The Fionna and Cake Compendium goes on sale in November 2024.

New Adventure Time graphic novels and comic book series will begin publication in 2025.

(Images via Oni Press - Chris Houghton's Cover of Adventure Time Compendium Vol. 1 and Cover of Adventure Time: The Fionna and Cake Compendium)

[callandar36]

What is your favorite scene from Big City Greens

That is a very hard choice either when chip chips he's teeth even bigger from no escape or the meatwhich song

[d-glenn-computer-graphics]

This is my latest figure print of Cricket Green That I made! It now lives in a display window that everyone can see! No one has stolen it yet, so they must hate it! Thanks to the Show Runners and Disney for giving me permission to make this! I made this in ZBrush and Lightwave. I transferred it to Blender where it was rigged and I even used the 3D Print plugin to make it Manifold. Funny! They used to call that watertight. Oh the newspeak! Anyway, this was sliced using Bambu Studio and got printed on a Bambu P1S.

[nerds-yearbook]

The pilot for Harsh Realm premiered on October 8, 1999. Fox, happy with the success of the X-Files, granted the green light for the Chris Carter created show, but then pulled the plug after only 9 episodes. The show centered around a virtual reality world called Harsh Realm. Creators of the comic Harsh Realm (James D Hudnall and Andrew Paquette) sued Fox for not receiving any credit. ("Pilot" Harsh Realm, TV Event)

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 290

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick - Portfolio Edition

Chris Van Allsburg

Houghton Mifflin Company 1996

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick is one of my favorite children’s books, although I think it’s probably best described as a book for all ages. The portfolio edition includes the original 14 illustrations from the book, plus an additional 15th drawing, in loose sheets enclosed in a cardboard folio. Each print measures 12”x16”. While a bit cumbersome, the portfolio edition is a fantastic way to experience this most creatively inspirational book.

[dorothy16]

darrencriss oh yes we CANberra 🇦🇺 🤪

📸 @meggie.houghto 🎞️ @daramunnis

[cheeto-forest]

[disneytva]

The Walt Disney Company had a Prime Time Emmys Party where they invited Disney TVA creators in honor of the studio's upcoming 40th anniversary.

Alongside The Walt Disney Company revealed the most prolific creators who currently are stewarding the future of the studio:

Dan Povenmire ("Phineas And Ferb", "Milo Murphy's Law", "Hamster & Gretel")

Jeff Swampy Marsh ("Phineas And Ferb", "Milo Murphy's Law", "Hey A.J.")

Bruce W Smith ("The Proud Family Movie", "The Proud Family: Louder And Prouder", "La Familia Avenúñez")

Ralph Farqhuar ("The Proud Family Movie", "The Proud Family: Louder And Prouder", "La Familia Avenúñez")

Noah Z. Jones ("Fish Hooks", "The 7D", "Pickle and Peanut", "NDA-Disney Channel Series")

Craig Gerber ("Sofia The First", "Elena Of Avalor", "Firebuds", "Sofia The First: Royal Magic")

Rob LaDuca ("The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, "TaleSpin", "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse", "Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures", "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+")

Kim Duran ("Kim Possible", "Minnie's Bow Toons", "Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures", "Mickey Mouse Funhouse", "Mickey and Minnie's Once Upon A Christmas", "Mickey Saves Christmas", "Mickey and Friends: Trick or Treats", "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+")

Aliki Theofilopoulos ("Phineas And Ferb", "Descendants: Wicked World", "Zombies : The Re-Animated Series")

Rachel McNevin ("Big City Greens", "Zombies : The Re-Animated Series")

Chris Houghton ("Gravity Falls", "Mickey Mouse (2013)", "Wander Over Yonder", "Big City Greens")

Shane Houghton ("Big City Greens")

Stevie Wermers-Skelton ("Monsters At Work", "Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol")

Kevin Denters ("Monsters At Work", "Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol")

Nic Smal ("Kiff", "NDA-Disney Channel Series")

Lucy Heavens ("Kiff", "NDA-Disney Channel Series")

Natasha Kline ("Star Vs. The Forces of Evil", "Big City Greens", "Primos")

Ryan Gillis ("Pickle And Peanut", "The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse", "StuGo")

[coolchevistianofficialsite]

Welcome to the new age 😌 🎶🎶

Both of these song has been playing all week long leading up to this, Hirsch-driven era at Disney is done now time for the Greenblatt - Houghton Brothers driven era at Disney to start... 

Also this one, cannot wait this one to release on HD.... noticed is "More For Us" than "More Than Us" which fits more perfectly in this new era of Disney Channel cartoons. :D

[blaintologist]

i love this and i love him

you are my favorite millennial

oh good

[rmfantasysetpieces1]

chris houghton, i know his career, honest coach, no nonsense, wants to win everything, challenges every player to be ready to perform @MimosaFawaz thanks

https://twitter.com/MimosaFawaz/status/1624857486313357321

#RMSoccer

[a34trgv2]

The Problem With Animated Shows Today

I shouldn't have to make a post like this because I know there's so much more animated content now than there was when I was a kid. Yet for the better part of a year, I've sat through one abysmal failure of a cartoon after the other, and I just can't stand it anymore. I'm aware the title might come off as pretentious, but rest assured I'm not a pretentious person nor to I view this post as objective fact. I'm just here expressing the common problems I have with cartoons recently and what I feel are the best steps to avoid them.

A common problem I have with cartoons recently is the awful writing on display. Shows like Samurai Rabbit, Hamster & Gretel, Ollie's Pack, and Mech Cadets all have writing that at best very underwhelming and at worst inexcusably amateurish. Scenes would go on for minutes at a time delivering boring exposition, unfunny gags, and very unnatural dialogue. It very much feels like the creators don't understand the value of basic writing principles such as "show, don't tell" "less is more" or "do much, speak little." Rather, they often go through the motions of a typical show so they can meet the given runtine and stay underbudget. For example, an episode of Centaurworld is around 26 minutes, which should be more than enough time to develop the characters, explore the world, have a good amount of funny moments and intense action scenes. What they choose to spend that runtime on instead is one note characters standing around arguing with one another, exposition dump upon exposition dump, unfunny gags, and underwhelming at best action scenes. This in turn makes the premise of the show feel wasted, like the creators only gave a successful pitch just to make something digestible to put bread on the table.

It really does feel like characters in cartoons these days are one of 2 archetypes: the annoying chatterbox and the moronic dirtbag. Let's compare 2 characters that have the same idea but vastly different executions: Eddy from Ed, Edd, n Eddy, and Ollie from Ollie's Pack. Both are outcasts who aren't good role models, but we're supposed to find them entertaining and funny. Despite those similarities, Eddy is clearly the superior character in this scenario because he often gets his comeuppance for almost immediately, and he actually does care for his friends. Ollie, in contrast, is just a selfish brat who sees his friends as expendable and doesn't get his comeuppance as quickly. Not only are the main characters detestable and annoying, but the supporting cast isn't much better as often they're either underdeveloped and unfunny or they're just parrots that always share the same thoughts as the main character. And don't even get me started on how incompetent, pathetic, and annoying the show's villains can get. Seriously, I defy anyone to make a good case for characters like Lloyd Garmadon, Jamack, the Yokai from Samurai Rabbit, or any of the villains from Hamster & Gretel.

An important aspect of animation that not many people bring up in conversation is voice acting. Voice actors are essential in giving life to characters in animation as they're able to make them sound believable and authentic. Or at least, that's what good voice acting should be. So many of the animated shows I've watched have such underwhelming or otherwise terrible voice acting that make the characters sound fake and kill my suspension of disbelief. Some of the worst vocal performances I've heard in recent memory come from Chris Houghton as Cricket Green, Meli Povenmire as Gretel Gomez, Allyn Rachel as Bee, and Danny Pudi as Tiny. They all have very terrible range, no sense of urgency in their tones, and don't sound the least bit believable as their characters. It's also frustrating to hear veteran actors give lackluster performances such as Aulil'i Carvalho as Hailey Banks, Chris Diantamopoulos as Thunder, and Karen Fukahara as Kipo. It's not entirely the fault of the actors for giving lackluster performances, as often they're at the mercy of bad voice direction who doesn't do a good job bringing out the best in their actors.

It's a given that animation on television has more limitations than big budget animated films. The best animated TV shows ever made, though, are able to work around those limitations and provide some excellent visuals that make the world feel alive. Recently though, I've notice a common problem when it comes to the animation in shows like Mech Cadets, Super Giant Robot Brothers, Daniel Spellbound, Hailey's On It, Bee and PuppyCat and My Dad The Bounty Hunter. All of them look good from a design standpoint, but in actual animation, they look choppy and stiff. This is because these shows have bad animation direction. Most people don't think about animation direction when watching a cartoon, but we can definitely tell when animation looks good versus when it looks bad. Bad animation is not just what's being shown on screen but also how it's being presented. In Mech Cadets, a character is giving a backstory to another character in a dark control room, and the camera moves around the room, showing the walls while the character talks. This is beyond inexcusable as it showcases the lack of appreciation for visual storytelling and is a complete waste of resources. Other aspects of bad animation include choppy character movements, a lack of mass on the character models, disorienting cinematography, and poor use of lighting and shading.

What can be done to avoid these shortcomings? Well, it starts by having good scripts that value showing over telling. I can't recommend Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling enough for aspiring writers who want to make the best scrips they can. I also think having your characters be likable and well-rounded will help a ton, especially if they're in a show about good triumphing evil. Having good actors is one thing, but it's equally important to have a very good voice director with years of experience bringing out the best in voice actors. Finally, collaborating with a skilled animation director or a very well established animation studio would do wonders. And don't be afraid to speak up and communicate with the producers on how to make the show bettee while staying within the budget. Animation is a collaborative medium and animated series today should do a better job reflecting that.