#worthikids animated music video

[metroids-dyke]

i noticed a severe lack of big j gifs, so here

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

i know it's been several days but in case anyone else missed it: new bigtop burger dropped

[steven-cartoons]

22 Years Old

Trans Man

White

Bisexual & Demiromantic

Butch Bear Cub

Artist/Writer/Musician

New Orleans born & raised ⚜

DNI

Right-Wingers (obviously)

ZIONISTS (fuck off)

Pro-Shippers/Anti-Antis/etc.

Pedos, Zoophiles, etc.

TERFs/SWERFs/FARTs

Truscum/Transmedicalists/Gender Essentialists

AI Art Supporters

Scabs/Non-Union-Supporters

DSMP/MCYT fans, SWIFTIES, and MHA/BNHA fans (ignore if we're mutuals)

Main Interests

Animation: Steven Universe, The Owl House, Adventure Time, My Little Pony: FiM, Gravity Falls, Rick and Morty, She Ra: PoP, The Moomins Series, FMA:B, Yuri!! On Ice, Bigtop Burger, Futurama, Disenchantment, Tangled Series, Nimona, Dungeon Meshi, Scott Pilgrim, Clone High, DCU, & more

Live Action: Doctor Who, Good Omens, What We Do in the Shadows (2014 & 2019), Star Trek: TOS, Star Wars (until TFA), House MD, Heartstopper, Bones, SOME Marvel films, and dozens of fantasy, sci-fi, and comedy movies

Music: Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Jack Stauber, My Chemical Romance, Janelle Monae, Bo Burnham, Halsey, Panic! at the Disco (pre DOAB lol), ABBA, Talking Heads, The Cure, Tears for Fears, System of a Down, David Bowie, Frank Ocean, Lil Nas X, & more

Video Games: Genshin Impact, Legend of Zelda Series, Animal Crossing Series, Undertale/Deltarune, Danganronpa Series, Infamous Series, & more

Online Creators: Markiplier, Dan & Phil, Rhett & Link, Jenna & Julien, Hank Green, The McElroys, Game Grumps, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Jerma985, Snapcube, Worthikids, & more

Sideblogs

Vent: @lifthisheadachehead

Art: @stevenartsblog

Aesthetic: @luminescentaesthetic

Witchcraft: @copperinsidesgold

Kin/Therian: @steven-kiin

Activism/Politics: @stevenftm

Kpop: @jisungbri

NSFT/18+: dm me!

Misc

My DMs are always open! I love making friends so feel free to chat with me any time! :3

Feel free to message me if anything I say or post comes across as unkind or offensive and I'd be happy to have a dialogue about the situation and try to make up for it 💗

My (18+) Rick Sanchez discord server is here

[transgender-catboy]

Taking the Ask function literally and the first thing that came to mind was

Favorite youtube video? :)

Or maybe top 5 or 10 if you can't choose One

IN LOVE WITH THIS QUESTION!!

I got a list, and it's gonna be an odd one

Okay. So. Everything in my life has a purpose or has meaning, that goes for my fav videos too

Favorite video to fall asleep to

For when I need to cry (one of many. But I won't list em all here for your sanity)

Maw

A video I always seem to go back to... For some reason. (I think it's because of the sound the imp makes at the start 🧍‍♂️, plus I just love worthikids' stuff)

Something to zone to

Music I play when I'm out shopping

An animation I just adore

Spider stuff that I'm always thinkin about

A video that gave me a funny silly vocal stim

The good stuff

A video I watched recently that I sorta kinda posted about (uh. Sorry if you understand what I mean by that I guess?)

And a song that I will always sing along to no matter where I'm at

[muzzable]

Got tagged by @graythegreyt for a get to know you game where you answer these questions then tag 9 other people you'd like to know a bit better, and it seemed fun, so here we are.

Last song listened to: I did have a different answer but now have to go back and change it since while typing this up I listened to Billy's Bones - Set On You (Live In Toronto) by Worthikids. Normally I guess I listen to video game music, musical soundtracks, or some country songs (some of my favorites are probably I'm In a Hurry by Alabama, and Live it Up by, uh...Jasper T. Jowls. The Chuck E. Cheese character. It has a similar theme to I'm In a Hurry, lol.)

Currently watching: The Percy Jackson and the Olympians Disney+ adaptation. So currently, in fact, that was planning on watching the finale right after I post this (except I put in too much overthinking and now probably won't have time tonight, whoops).

Currently reading: I've read a few chapters of the first volume of Dungeon Meshi, after seeing a ton of posts cropping up about it (I assume the anime just started recently or something, so it's gaining traction, but I'd never read it before). I also recently read both Seconds and Lost at Sea by Brian Lee O'Malley, and have checked out a copy of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew to read from the library, though I haven't started it yet.

Currently obsessed with: Ah, the carousel of obsession. Round and round it goes, where it stops, nobody knows. And then where it lands on can last anywhere from a day to a few months. After playing through Undertale Yellow within the past few weeks, I've sort of been re-entering an Undertale phase (though I think I may be on the tail end of it). My current longer-term obsession is Sly Cooper, which has been stretched to close to two months so far because my progress with the games is slow (I'm maybe 3/4ths of the way through the second game right now I think). As for a really short-term obsession, I suddenly felt the urge like yesterday to get back into Spyro again, and have begun watching a playlist of one Spyro 3 prototype because the placeholder dialogue is gold. Creatively, I'm currently obsessed with trying to draw more animal characters I guess, lol (as well as getting ideas to develop OCs I'm trying to PUT ON HOLD to develop other things instead of for the time being).

Mutuals I'm tagging: @101flavoursofweird, @call-me-rucy, @hedgehominoid, @pastaarx, @dragonsruby, @chaosverse-mainblog, @ozzo-the-wozzo, @trope-a-dope, @adrian-laytonerd

Feel free to answer the same questions if you want, and if you don't want to and are mad I tagged you, feel free to come yell at me, haha.

[californiadry]

the monster mash! i listen to this song and i get so much serotonin- what a party to be at. dreams include me making an entire animated music video to this in the style of the old fashioned stop motion puppets… but don’t want to cramp worthikids style. might just make my own thing ;•)

[coll2mitts]

Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2022

I was asked to provide TV/movie recommendations from 2022, and honestly, I don't have a whole lot to say on traditional media this year. Instead, let's dive into something I'm trying to cut back on in 2023 - my YouTube obsession.

I am subscribed to over 500 creators, and I used to try to keep up with all of them. In the past few years I've realized that was a losing battle, especially with the gradual transition from short-form skit content to hour and a half long think pieces. Doesn't prevent me from trying, however, which has been to the detriment of my sanity and my sleep schedule. But now my debilitating addiction can benefit you! Here's a list of the top 10 videos that were released this year.

#10 SethEverman - metal drummer listens to ABBA for the first time

Starting off easy, here's Seth Everman playing drums to "Mamma Mia". I've listened to this dozens of times, it hits so hard.

#9 Scene Queen - Pink Hotel

Scene Queen is the perfect intersection of my musical tastes, blending pop and metal while embodying the antithesis of every pick-me girl. I wish she were around back when I was in college and that asshat Perez Hilton was drawing dicks on Lindsay Lohan's face, then maybe I would have processed my internalized misogyny wayyyy earlier. Also she's unapologetically gay as fuck, which we love to see.

#8 Ted Nivison - I Drove to Every Rainforest Café in North America

I haven't been subscribed to Ted long, but this was my gateway drug. This video is exactly as advertised, and it is a literal ride. As someone who didn't go to a Rainforest Café until I was well into my teenage years, I don't really have the nostalgia Ted clearly rode on for 10k miles in a Toyota Tacoma. But honestly, the Rainforest Cafes are the least interesting part of this masterpiece . Instead tune in for a tale of perseverance that tested a friendship to complete a truly innocuous quest.

#7 Pinely - The MrBeast-ification of Youtube

Onma island is buried a treasure chest.

Orr focuses on how click bait-y spectacle charity videos have overrun the platform, and in the creator's effort to keep high view retention, how they exploit the people they intend to help for internet clout. Its a subject I personally find fascinating as I struggle with consuming true crime content for the same reason - it's hard to shine light on a corrupt organization or violent perpetrator without exploiting the victims in some way.

His follow-up video, The MrBeast-ification of Money, analyzes the influence of these videos on how people perceive wealth and how MrBeast-esque content affects how children consider the value of a dollar. Awesome duo, check out both to get the full picture of Jimmy's influence.

#6 Worthikids - BIGTOP BURGER: DOWN

Back in 2019 before The Rise of Skywalker killed all the goodwill Star Wars had earned in my mind, I stumbled upon this video on twitter and lost my shit. "I will use the force to heal my broken body" is my inner monologue every time I drink coffee. I immediately found them on YouTube and subscribed.

Worthikids is so unbelievably talented, not only animating in their own art style, but recreating the old school stop motion Rankin/Bass aesthetic. Bigtop Burger is an ongoing series about a clown-themed food truck beefing with a zombie themed food truck, featuring the vocal talents of some of my other favorite creators like Chris Fleming and ProZD. It's completely chaotic and about the best thing I've ever seen. It was this video, however, that had me literally crying with laughter. I'm not going to spoil it because I want you to experience it fresh, but Chris' unhinged voice paired with the elastic animation style just fucking kills me.

#5 Todd in the Shadows - The Top Ten '90s Buses

Todd in the Shadows is no stranger to top 10 lists - I look forward to his annual Top 10 Worst and Top 10 Best Songs of the Year videos. When I saw this video show up in my subscriptions feed, I, for sure, thought it was a troll. I should have known better. This is legitimately a top 10 list of '90s busses. The Spice World bus makes an appearance. It's a gem.

Todd is one of my comfort youtubers. Sometimes when I'm working on stuff I'll boot up a Trainwreckords, One Hit Wonderland, or Cinemadonna playlist and just let it ride. His disgruntled analysis, while sometimes I don't always agree with cause musical tastes are unique and varied, is strangely soothing. It comes with side effects like knowing more about Cher and Gregg Allman than I ever wanted to know, like that they were married at all, but you take the good with the bad.

#4 Drew Gooden - I took Ninja's Masterclass and it ruined my life

Drew Gooden is one of the members of the conglomerate of media commentary youtubers that I follow (there are so many, legitimately, I have a problem, so much content, make it stop, I'm sure I'm going to forget some, it's inevitable, I watch too much YouTube, how do I get anything done?), but his analytical nature and sarcastic tone really resonates with me. I particularly enjoyed his retrospective on Lily Singh's talk show that addressed the struggle YouTube creators face when adjusting themselves to fit within the confines of traditional media and expand their audience while trying to keeping their existing fan base. He also has a knack of finding the weirdest movies.

This is one in a series of videos where Drew reviews educational scams provided by content creators. He had previously covered the pains some creators face with maintaining their relatability, and offering online courses seem to be the natural progression of how to transition that online success into corporate dolla dolla billz. It's depressingly hilarious how low-effort these endeavors are, which is only proven when Drew ultimately tries to follow Ninja's expert advice to become a Twitch superstar.

As someone who spent like 450 hours streaming on Twitch this year, Drew's attempt is a great encapsulation of how isolating that experience can be. If you are also a Twitch streamer, this is a must-watch.

#3 münecat - Web3.0: A Libertarian Dystopia

I found münecat a few years ago through other anti-MLM creators because of her thorough coverage of the LuLaRoe shit show. Her videos have only gotten more detailed since then, culminating in this mammoth summary on Web3.0. I have stayed willfully ignorant of all things blockchain since I was forced to listen to some dude talk about mining bitcoin at a party back in like 2017. Münecat has done all the heavy lifting here to get me up to speed on cryptobros pyramid scheme of their very own. Plus, her work always comes with a bonus music video at the end. Score!

Also, because of this gem of a video on Russell Hartley, I now own a "Gaslight me daddy" t-shirt.

#2 Jenny Nicholson - Evermore: The Theme Park That Wasn't

Jenny Nicholson has been one of my favorite creators on YouTube since I found a video of her roasting discount Halloween costumes. What her brand has evolved into is truly remarkable, providing commentary on books, movies, theme parks, fanfiction, and random finds like church Easter plays and whatever the fuck the Hallmark channel was doing on YouTube back in 2016. I now know more about The Vampire Diaries and Bronycon than any adult should. "My horny drawing of Twilight Sparkle is presented upon this long pillow with complete neutrality," lives in my head rent-free. Any topic she covers, whether I have any familiarity with it or not, is well-researched and presented in such a captivating manner that it makes you forget how long you've been watching the video. This one is almost 4 hours long and I've watched it in its entirety more than once.

Evermore is a "theme park" located in Utah that has undergone several changes since its initial announcement back in 2014. This video, which has a longer runtime than The Irishman, goes into acute detail about the man who cooked up the concept, the development process, its lackluster implementation, and the park's current operationally neutered state that leaves it with an extremely unstable future.

I don't know if YouTube is Jenny's main gig or not, but she should 100% be a script doctor or creative consultant. Her feedback is thoughtful and presented with purpose, not just for the sake of roasting (although she's also great at that). I'd want her to be my editor if my writing wasn't garbage lmao.

#1 Defunctland - Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery

If you're looking for exceptional quality YouTube content, look no farther than Defunctland. Starting out with videos focused on deprecated theme park rides, over the years they've expanded their repertoire to cover retro television shows, fast-food restaurants, and theme park management. Their series about Jim Henson is legitimately one of my favorite deep-dives on a creative. This documentary, however, may be their best work.

Defunctland has always done a phenomenal job balancing humor, history, and sentimentality in their videos. "Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery" is no exception, functioning as a love letter to unsung creatives whose impact is immense, but their identity hidden. By the end of this masterpiece I was crying for the legacy of a person I had no awareness of an hour and a half before. Kevin should be proud of his videos, because in the act of immortalizing the media and experiences that have influenced us the most, what truly stands out is their ability to tell the story in a way that is both effective and emotional.

Keep doing what you're doing, Defunctland. You're the best of the internet.

Also, for shits and giggles, my top-rated traditional media of 2022:

Movie: RRR

Music: Scene Queen - Bimbocore Vol. 1 and 2

Television: Shoresy

Game: The Frog Detective series and Psychonauts 2

Podcast: Ear Hustle

Book: If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe by Jason Pargin

Disclaimer: I follow a lot of excellent creators that did not make this list. If I posted every single video I liked this year we'd be here forever. If you want specific recommendations for creators in certain spaces, like crafting, beauty, animation, examining religious fundamentalism, etc, go ahead and ask me. But I think this is more than enough content to entertain you for the foreseeable future :)

[basuralindo]

lmao I appreciate that you aren't already sick of hearing about my song choices by now. (Thank you for tagging me!)

I have so many songs I love for a lot of different reasons and also the kind of pothole memory that can make me blank on things I listen to every day, sooo here's a random selection off the top of my head in no particular order!

1: Pools by Glass Animals

It was such a struggle to pick just one song from this band, the whole Zaba album gives me Ancient Dark Entity/Guy In Way Over His Head romance vibes and it's one of my favorite albums of all time. (revealing my monsterfucker manifesto rip)

2: Escape Artist by The Zolas

I found this song recently and it's one of those cases where I haven't paid much attention to the band itself but I'm completely obsessed with just the one song. I end up listening to this at least weekly and have it stuck in my head constantly. There's no deep reason, it has a pleasant beat and sounds queer.

3: Friends in Low Places by Worthikids

Can't not include this. My bf showed me this batshit clown cartoon (Bigtop Burger) on youtube and the outro slapped so hard I had to look them up on spotify and it turns out they have some really good music.

4: Hide by Rainbow Kitten Surprise

The whole album hits hard, but I found this band through the music video for this song and genuinely cried over it. If you've never heard the band before, I have no idea how to describe it other than absolutely not what you think it's gonna sound like. If you like them then Brick + Mortar is also worth checking out.

5: Ima Read by Zebra Katz and Njena Reddd Foxxx

Idk I just really enjoy this dude and his music videos

10 people is offering me way too much power to nag lmao. Tagging @pixiestickie, @quartz-candles, @weilaverdui, @atcordare, @unpredictable-probabilities, @royal-pretzel, @chromiekins, @firapolemos05, @oddberryshortcake, @overly-niche-twst, (MoR I feel like I've bugged you about music too many times but consider this another invitation)

Music Tag Game!

Starting a new post for this because the other one looked a little crowded. Thanks @collisiondiscourse for the tag 💜💜💜

Rules: When you see this, post 5 songs you actually listen to and tag 10 of your followers/mutuals!

Product of My Own Design by Artio (link) Something about "Get on your knees and Worship me/the Problem Child becomes the Only God you'll ever see/You made me believe that I was never mine/I made my God-damn self, a Product of My Own Design" gives me such a cathartic feeling when I sing along to it.

2. God Complex by VIOLENT VIRA (link) If you want yandere inspiration listen to this one. "I wanna be your true love/Yes, I'm the only one you could cry to all the time/I could just be who you need/Darling, won't you just plead Or should I begin to bleed?"

3. Barbie & Ken by Scene Queen & Set It Off (link; warning for: violence, weapons, domestic violence, blood, injury) Honestly, there's not much to explain. Barbie and Ken go at each other with deadly weapons in the Pink Dream House. "Two go in, only one comes out"...reminds me of the barbie games I used to play as a child honestly, lol... (lots of screaming/loud sounds)

4. Call Me King by AmaLee (link) Love the vibe of "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" that is this entire album. Going from victim to villian. 10/10. 100%. This particular song gives me such catharsis. "Call me King/I don't need- need a thing from you now that I'm King".

5. Wrong Side of Heaven by Five Finger Death Punch (link) Can't get enough of this song. Love it so much. (heads up if you are not as into the rock or heavier music, there is some screaming in this one). I just love the idea of a "wrong side of heaven" and a "righteous side of hell"; the idea that there is more to it than just 'good' and 'bad', and that sometimes bad things are done for the good reasons, the question of if that still makes them bad, or does the intent change the entire meaning of the action...Plus it's just so catchy.

Tagging: @kimium, @azurexsnake, @backwardshirt, @moonlarked, @voxofthevoid, @thedevilsfamiliar, @iluvmilkchoco, @sailormew4, @grillantho, @kamikazequail, and anyone else who wants to participate. No pressure at all, just for fun if you want to! (you don't have to put links either, I just did because I love sharing music with others)

[clerichs-xi]

NOBODY MOVE, QBOMB JUST DROPPED THEIR FIRST ALBUM

[sillybitchdisorder]

super in my clownkin era rn

and. when i say clownkin. i mean creature, clown creature, not just a dude in a clown costume. i know ive said this a million times but like, have yall seen worthikids' clown characters?? their wire music video? (highly recommend both these things btw worthikids is an amazing creator) THATS the kind of clown i am. clown husbandry? thats the kind of clown i am, simply an animal. nonhuman clown.

[sketchdeath]

trying something out! a couple of my favorite things that ive discovered/want to recommend, month by month and me ranting and raving about it :]

music 

★ i may have recommended them on this blog before but i spent the last half of 2021 falling in love with the shanghai restoration project. 

my absolute favorite song by them is tactile sonic glide, which is the second video linked! yes it is 14 minutes long

★ in a similar vein to TSRP’s music, i just recently (like this week) started listening to eyeliner’s album buy now. 

★ getting very Very into dungeon synth(???) recently. or at least, a genre i think is called that since a lot of these songs are tagged with that. dark medieval-y sounding chiptune music. sometimes straight up lo-fi metal.  here is moorstepper, book of skelos, warduke, knife wrath, and mothra. 

★ if youve watched wwdits, you might be familiar with the one end credits song: no vampires (remain in romania) by king luan. im happy to share that the rest of his songs keep that energy. 

and apparently you can only have so many videos in a tumblr post :/ so here's an embedded link to king luan’s plastic bat 

★ i think most people hopefully know worthikids as an animator (big top burger, captain yajima, that one final pam video...) but i am so so fucking into his music. particularly the song dullahan. like.... a Lot. like very much a lot. id write a perfumed letter to worthikids about how much i like this song if that weren't so creepy. 

★ apparently crystal castles was fairly popular in the early 10s indie scene (which is a reductive sentence i know) but i just discovered them and fell in love. my favorite song is cry babies. which is only available on youtube as far as im aware :(

★ i think shes fairly popular but i have to include her bc i listened to rina sawayama’s album SAWAYAMA on repeat 10x while working in the lab this year

★ kishi bashi! i think philosophize with it! chemicalize with it! will forever define this past summer living at my dads house. 

you tube

★ cj the x makes good videos. mostly pop culture video essays 

★  beryl shereshewsky is so fucking adorable :] she makes and tries different foods from around the world and passes around viewer recipes 

★  2 hours of squid to relax/study/work to 🦑

★ rantasmo. most of his channel is his “needs more gay” series, which is him talking about genres, movies, books, and concepts that have explicit gay history, subtext, or culture surrounding them. 

etc

★ queer serial! so far, ive only listened to the first 2 seasons, which mostly talk about the mattachine society. its an episodic telling of LGBT american history, from some of the first documented gay rights groups, up to stone wall. it is so informative and has given me such a broader idea of the world at large. i would highly recommend it. 

i think thats enough post for now :] let me know if you have any suggestions for Stuff if you think i might like it based off anything on this post. ended up being mostly music, which is fine. i think next month ill include a lot more artists and animators >:}

[wondergeem]

The J siblings from @worthikids awesome animated music video “WIRE”! GO WATCH IT! it’s full of action and attractive badass clowns! 

 :D

[franki-lew-yo]

I really hate 2d purists. No, not 2d animation. Not 2d animators.

2d purists.

The sad thing is it’s gotten to the point that I really cringe hearing any pro-2D sentiment at all. I hate the arguments I agree with because how often they're misused and weaponized by idiots.

Let me make my stance here clear - 2d is NOT appreciated and 3d is used for everything! The layman Karen-mom who doesn’t have an artistic bone in her body looks at stupidsmooth 3D Grubhub ads and assumes quality cause it “looks more real” (aka ‘rendered’). I know as much is true because I literally have a member of my family who told my sister and I that she thinks 3d is better (and also that she “tolerated THOSE movies for us kids”. Touching words. My sister was taking an animation course by the way). Combined that with the studios either using 2D for cheap stuff or finding good 2d animation too “costly���, I get it and I’m not even any animator. I'm just a worm an illustrator.

but holy HELL -

There’s a backlash from the artistic community that's it's own kind of insufferable and deserve to be addressed.

“(insert2Danimatedfilm) is better BECAUSE it's 2D!”

followed by: "Animation is a visual medium and the quality of the art affects how much the story means !!!!”  

Yes. Totally. Animation is a visual medium and the look and style is important. Sadly, people use this excuse to really obnoxious ends, insisting that design being pretty is '' everything ''. When you treat a movie more as a special effects demo I get why you talk about the artistry at hand; but I’m sorry, visuals are not the only thing important and it’s why I’m also getting sick of the sameElsafacesyndrome rants too! There’s this attitude that's reads as "but it LOOKS better fromaproductionimage/teasertrailerwhichapparentlyisindicativeof all themovieactuallyis so it MUST BE better".

-“3D should only be used to make things look realistic!”

I think I know the logic this criticism is made in response to, and that’s the Sony + Illumination films which look just as good in 2D as they do in three dimensions. I know it feels like people are twisting this medium to try and make it like a classic cartoon when by all means people can and would love a classic cartoon being a classic cartoon. That I get- From the unsung 2D animator’s perspective, that’s more than valid !

But it’s a huuuuuuge slap in the face to 3d in saying it should only be used for "realistic animation" because

1: It’s not like realistic animation could age badly or look uncanny in the next few years. It's almost like technology is constantly improving, which I guess 2d animation never did and it was always the same technique and quality as every film that came after it.

2: The industry does treat 3d as a magic-moneymaker for this reason. Just listen to these people call the 2019 LION KING “live action” as if they’re embarrassed to call it animation. It IS animation! It would be impressive if you acknowledged that what it is, but like the CATS, you basically are treating it as just a neato tool to better your live action and not it's own artform - which it is!

3: By this “three-deeonly gud when real liek in da toystories” non-logic I guess 2d should ONLY be for flowyflowy SPACE JAM cartoons and maybe some Disney*. Just that though. You can’t do anything more with 2d. It’s never supposed to be realistic I guess. Good thing Richard Williams only did 'toons' and just toons that’s why we need 3d in the world I guess.

Wait no - that’s stupid.

"I HAVE to see the “Land Before Time 14″ when it comes out! I mean it’s a 2D animated film!"

Lost in the aether that is Youtube comment chains removed from kid's videos is a stream of this very VERY stupid argument supporting the buying of the 14th LAND BEFORE TIME film because it’s supporting 2D. My sister and I can be found on that chain arguing against this stupidity. All you have is my word, but trust me: it really did happen.

I’m sorry but...no.

Unless you have a friend or a family member who worked on these movies there’s no reason to see this and ESPECIALLY no reason to insist it’s a win for the 2D community if you buy up this crap - and I'm not judging if you do like it, but come on! LAND BEFORE TIME 14 isn't where your money should go if you really like this medium.

What’s so infuriating about this argument is you can tell it’s made by nonanimators. Real animators will tell you to support their movies cause they want some respect for their artform which is why there’s such a push from the PRINCESS AND THE FROGcrowd that you SEE and LOVE every 2d thing out there, regardless of how good it is because any recognition for it is k i n d o f what they're after!

Kiddy sequel schlock isn’t even in the same ballpark as KLAUS or WOLFWALKERS; these films DID have very limited theatrical runs (Klaus so it could be nominated; Wolfwalkers in places where theaters opened up after Covid) and should have been supported because they were labors of love made by people who love animation.

As other people have already pointed out, one of the reasons for the lack of interest in 2000sera2D animation is that the only films released alongside critical+financial 3D hits were cheaper 2D films that either coincided with daytime tv shows or should have been just direct-to-video. It’s not to say art couldn’t come out of these flicks, but dayum if it wasn’t abused as much as the texture software that era's CG used... Point being, should the world ever go back to normal: If you hear about an out-of-town showing an acclaimed 2D animated film, make time to trek out and see THAT!

Don’t give your money to see yet another made-for-tv movie on the big screen because all that tells the studio is: “yeah 2d IS cheap and only good for cheap stuff let’s just keep it cheap. Only 3d is important 8D 8D 8D !!!"

“I don’t understand how it works. So it sucks.”

This text is from an ANIMATOR btw.

“I don’t understand how it works” and “it’s just some computer rendering” is the exact same wave of logic the people who prefer cgi use.

The plebian Karen I mentioned earlier? She understands the basics of 2D animation as much as you did from one of those cruddy flash classes you took in middle-school. She 'understands' the basics cuz she watched how it was made on the DVD features or maybe back on the WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY. To her, the illusion is broken and she’s not impressed by 'just some drawings on paper'. You, an animator, know the process is more complicated and is intrigued by knowing how it’s made - not bored or disinterested -

Neither you nor Aunt Karen have really good cg-animation software at your house and unless you ARE a 3D animator you probably DON’T know all the ins-and-outs of how these movies are modeled, rendered, and animated.

Aunt Karen is bedazzled by them cause she doesn’t know how it works and the technical aspect makes her brain hurt so it might as well be magic and she can feel like a cool kid sharing Minion-memes. Aunt Karen is the nonartistic type who just wants to feel safe. You're not. You want to feel challenged.

I get it: you’re pissed off cause you’re in a field no one, including Aunt Karen, appreciates; told to work in cg which it's an artform you didn’t devote your life to and told to learn it cause THIS style sells! 3D is everywhere and is starting to look like 'garbage' even if you don’t animate 3D models yourself you just KNOW, I guess. Besides, you know all there is to know about 2d!! You know all there is to possibly know about this artform and have to fight this 'war' against "r e a l" animation! And I mean even when 3d software is there to use, it's not like you can actually make anything worth while in it, especially not anything that transcends the medium. Right Worthikids?

TL;DR: This argument is basically just " BWAAAAH I’M NOT GONNA USE IT I HAVE STANDARDS (a chip on my shoulder cuz art should be what I deem it to be) "

“PRINCESS AND THE FROG is-”

There’s a reason I can’t say I truly like PRINCESS AND THE FROG even though it's not even a bad movie! Like, stop reading this and watch PATF if you haven't it's good. It's my 'FROZEN', in that; I see a lot of potential in it I just think it needs some serious rewriting and that bugs me. Always have felt that way, tbh.

I dislike this movie because the response from the animation community seems to be it was perfect and the Academy was just Pixar-crazy with UP ((ftr, the Academy IS Pixar’s bitch and I personally advocate a sequel be made to WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY about Mike Eisner’s sabotage of the 2D department at Disney which is still in place now!- but that’s a story for another day)). I’m sorry but UP was just a better story. So was CORALINE. So was FANTASTIC MR. FOX. Honest to god it feels like poor PATF is brought up as just a talking point and never for it's own worth as a labor of love - which it was! I'd like to honestly know: had PRINCESS AND THE FROG come out now and been cg if it would have even half the defenders for it because now it doesn't "look" like how a Disney movie "should" look...

If you like PatF more than the currant Disney lineup because of it's culture, it's music, it's feminism, it's black representation? Awesome. Great. Those things should be appreciated and I never want that taken away from you. But if you seriously think PatF is better just for how it was animated and looks - I lowkey may hate you.

“ALL OF DISNEY’S LATEST MOVIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN 2D! THEY ALL LOOK AWFUL IN 3D!! ALL OF THEM!”

TANGLED, FROZEN, and MOANA? Yeah. Sure. But um, e x c u s e y o u- WRECK IT RALPH sooooo doesn’t work in 2d! It could have used different between the various worlds but it’s about hopping through different video games. I’m also of the opinion that ZOOTOPIA and BIG HERO 6 are fine the way they are. Their 3d is awesome.

The latest fairy tale Disney films are really big on their place alongside the 2D canon esp in marketing. They keep trying to mimic 2D to varying results though I don't think it works as well as the movie's I'd previously mentioned. Me personally, I would love a mix of 3D and 2D technology, like if the backgrounds in FROZEN still got to be 3D but the characters were handdrawn and shaded ala KLAUS ((sweet sigh)). But even then are they truly unwatchable just based on how they're animated to you?

MOANA would have been incredible in 2D but for the record - I don't think it feels out of place in it's style. It reminds me more of a Pixar movie with the heart of a Disney classic which is it's own just as good.

“2D is the oldest form of animation and it’s being replaced.”

Actually, if we’re talking animation in film, stop motion is the earliest form of animation. The stop motion animated THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED and TALE OF THE FOX predate Disney’s SNOW WHITE. And yes: stop-motion IS still a form of animation even if it’s a serious of pictures taken of real life things and not drawings, so don’t you dare come at me with the "but that's not animated"/"Technically it’s LIVE ACTION" crap or I’ll envoke the spirit of Sandman to get you at night.

“Every animated film would look better in 2D! Even PIXAR would look better in 2D!”

Again, Stop Motion.

No, I mean it.

Lemme ask: Would ISLE OF DOGS or FANTASTIC MR. FOX carry any of the same effect if they were generic 90s toons? I know NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS wouldn’t. Christ, don’t even get me started on Svankmajer!

Sometimes the problem is that a movie is envisioned with a specific artform in mind. Pixar started out with toys and bugs for a reason and that’s cuz they were always gonna be a 3d studio and they needed to first overcome the placisity of the models. Over the years they’ve gotten really good at effects and blending unrealistic proportions with real textures (and also not so much- ONWARD and THE GOOD DINOSAUR really needed some different character designs and yeah, I do think would have looked better with a 2d artstyle, but not the ones they had in their films. THE GOOD DINOSAUR needed more realistic-speculative looking dinos and ONWARD needed a grittier HEAVY METAL/BLACK CAULDRON appeal to its designs.) My point being that the problems with these movies aren’t even inherently the animation as much as it is a problem of style. As someone who runs a group speculating different styles and designs for movies and tv shows I’m all for envisioning a 2D ZOOTOPIA or Bluth-inspired FNAF. That’s amazing!

But that’s also the talk of fan artists and nerds and not the professional artists working on visualizing their stories!!

Since I ate, slept, and breathed NIGHTMARE in my youth I’ll use it as an example: All the concept art ever done for TNBC was on paper and 2D was used in the final film. However, even when Tim Burton was thinking of making it just a tv special it was always going to be stop-motion. NIGHTMARE’s puppet cast do work very well in two dimensions, believe me, but the film was made as a love letter to Rankin/Bass and the art form of stop-motion. Skipping to another Henry Selick-helmed project (haha), JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH was also always envisioned as a multimedia film to give it a truly dream-like atmosphere. If you know anything about Henry Selick you’ll know he’s 1) a perfectionist, and 2) loves mixed media and different types of animation and puppetry at once. That’s why he was the perfect pick to direct TNBC at the time, why JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and CORALINE are so beautiful and why MOONGIRL, his only fully 3d film, doesn’t have the same appeal.

As for what films I couldn’t imagine NOT being 3D? Probably; 9, Padak, Next Gen, Soul, Finding Nemo, the Toy Story films, Wreck-it-Ralph (as previously mentioned), Wall.E, Waltz with Bashir, Robots, Inside Out, Arthur Christmas, The Painting, Happy Feet, Shrek, Enter the Spiderverse, Megamind… just naming a few here.

“I want a traditionally animated film [and by that I mean a 90s-Disney/Don Bluth looking movie] of ‘x'-popular live action/stage thing!”

Okay I’m cheating a bit but it’s my blog and so I’m gonna stick this one in because it’s related.

When I see musings about wanting live-action or CGI shiz to be in 2d again a lot of the time this argument actually boils down to " I want this to look like a 90s Didney movie ". Or, if it’s about animals - " I want it to look like a Don Bluth film! "

Like...there ARE other styles of animation out there...you know that right?

Frack, Disney themselves tried different styles throughout the 90s it’s just that the peak of the Disney renaissance films (LITTLE MERMAID, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALADDIN, THE LION KING) and the many imitators that followed tended to have the same look to them where only film/animation nerds kept watching into the era that was TARZAN, HERCULES, and ATLANTIS along with the kids. Aunt Karen wasn't singing Part of your World in the carride with you every day.

The Don Bluth argument is especially irritating because...what exact feeling do you WANT from a movie if it looked Bluthish? Each of the four ‘quintessential’ Bluth movies (NIMH, AMERICAN TAIL, LBT, and ALL DOGS) have such a different feel to them that’s complimented by that style; SECRET OF NIMH is a drama about wild animals trying to understand humans; LAND BEFORE TIME is even more squarely about an animal’s perspective as there’s literally no humans around; AMERICAN TAIL uses animals stowing away on the ship to tell a story about refugees; and ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN is ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN.

What the frack are you even asking for with that because I think there’s a certain flavor to the Bluth-styled oeuvre as well as the 90s Disney catalogue that would clash too much stylistically with some films.

Also come on! Like some Bluthian-style 2d would really fix THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS or SCOOB!, bite me.

I think this fixation solely on these two hand drawn styles and nothing else is based on nostalgia goggles, refusing to step outside the norm and discover different films and feelings than Disney and Bluth, and just preference. Goin back to NIGHTMARE there will always be a special place in my heart for Henry Selick’s stop motion, but I couldn’t imagine CHICKEN RUN or ANOMALISA in it's unique style.

Also I’m tired of every time there’s a "lets make an animatic to ‘x’ musical theater song" it’s reliably just Disneyesque or realistic. WHY envision an animated version of the show at all if it doesn’t have A STYLE to it??!?! I’m sorry but 90s-Disney does NOT fit CABARET!

“3D is so CHEAP now! Why can’t they just do 2D again?”

I think - on the cusp of the 2020s and the Grubhub hatedom, there ARE changing times ahead for 3d and 2d. The general public are starting to get tired of the same looking 3d films and wanting some 2d back, but they don’t have the best resources or opinions on animation to know what it is they want. Meanwhile, the animation community + industry is trying to figure out what to do and you have a lot of turmoil between the monopoly that is the industry, the high standards of the artists, and the mixed wants of the animation fanbase deciding what art needs to be.

It’s a tough business. And in the spirit of that tough business - maybe DON’T act like the means of a film’s production is solely your control, that you know best, and know definitively what the artists should have done....cuz you don't. Sorry my fellow criticalfanomanalysist-folks we DON'T and in an age of standom where fans and critics think it's okay to hackle indie animation studios about not getting their pitched cartoon out fast enough - we need to reserve these discussions to our circles and not treat them as gospel.

3d animation and 2d animation have to share this world. Stop acting like they’re either interchangeable in terms of budget, means of production, or artistry or that one has to be superior to the other.

The industry already says one art form is better (spoiler: it’s always live-action), we don’t need anymore of this purist garbage. Just stick to what you like while trying new things on the side. Be critical while also being compassionate. And remember:

[thecoffeetroll]

Best animated videos

1.bad day by Zalinki is extremely good. The animation is crisp and the premise funny. Unfortunately Zalinki has not posted in Quit a while

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RHQ0lLtwzs

 2.Wire by Worthikids is another one of my favorites. Not only is the animation crisp AF the idea of ninja clowns attacking demons and vampire is very cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGj_HkKhhSE

3.Pop culture by Ginger Pale is a informational video is about sodas. It is very colorful and pretty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de8PRd_d7kg

4.Final waltz by sadist has her best animation yet paired with some phenomenal music makes for a amazing video.

5. Terraria is cool - A Terraria animation by mythical water is a video about an extremely good game with good animation and better jokes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yihBWDdQlU

6. Just my luck...is a very funny video and beautifully animated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GejRRmGaZV4

[lemonyscented]

Hehehe hi :) what are some of your favorite albums? Are any of them that r absolutely perfect n you wouldn't skip a single song on there?? Hope ur doing well <3

hehehe hi hello :) so im finally home from work so i can answer this the way i want to but basically the short answer is: 

-Forever and Ultra Rare Vol. 2 by Mystery Skulls

-Razzmatazz and the 1981 EP by IDKHow

-How To Be A Human Being by Glass Animals

-Adventure (Deluxe) by Madeon

-Be the Cowboy and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business by Mitski

But the LONG answer in which i completely overexplain everything in an essay that you literally didn’t ask for:

Lemme just clarify that my taste in music is crap and that i am AWARE of this ghsdghds but ANYWAYS

Forever is basically that perfect album, not a single bad track, oops all bangers. It’s electronic dance music and I will sing along and move and groove in my car and YES i love the animation videos that go with it, they’re so cool and my favorite part is that the fandom will just come alive in full force every two years when they release a new one, dude i’m DYING for the next one, they left it on such a cliffhanger AAAAA but Ultra Rare Vol. 2 doesn’t really count?? as an album really?? bc it’s mostly kinda like snippets and demos of old songs that he never released on an actual album but they’re GOOD i wish he finished them especially track 9 bc i hear it and i FEEL IT HEHEHE

Razzmatazz is a Good time and the 1981 EP is definitely smth i play when i have a lot of energy dhhdgh it lets me feel like a menace without having to commit a crime other than driving 5 over the speed limit lol

How to be a Human Being...... there is SO much here like literally i could listen to this album fifty times over and still not be able to tell you everything but specifically Agnes, the last song on the album...... like fuck, that song is so much to me. If I'm allowed to be a little cringe, that song takes my aches, my pains and my sore wounds and it presents them to me. It Makes me Look at them and it comforts me all the same. It's like a hand on my cheek and it tells me that I am deeply flawed and I am loved and it tells me that for tonight, I'm ok and I am ok for a little bit longer. Its literally NOT what the song is about like at all hhhddhjdk but its MY car ride home and I get to choose the interpretation. Also it's such a good one to sing to, I'll sing the instrumentals, the lyrics I'm pretty sure I know it beat by beat lol

The Adventure album is SO GOOD DUDE I know I'm biased bc of nostalgia but its GOOD. Lots of good memories of amvs and edits with this one lol but it's a banger album.

Both mitski albums, all mitski albums, just this image

BUT ALSO hdhdhdh (I know I keep talking but I promise I'm almost done) I know you said favorite albums but basically Everything that Saint Motel, Worthikids, and Lil Nas X puts out is a favorite. Saint Motel is GROOVY and specifically two songs, My Type and Sweet Talk make me go insane, I'll have a shitty day at work and if either of the two come on shuffle, it's like it never happened I'm just yelling in my car, they make me feel yellow 💛💛💛 and Worthikids is so fun bc a lot of the music that he makes is for the animations that he does and they're legit so good?? Finally some good fucking food hsjsjgh and lnx needs no explanation I'm sure. Stream Industry Baby. My final message. Goodbye.