You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I would like to do something other than sit in front of the computer all day, but I'm not sure what
The Dark Knight Rises looks like being one of the films of 2012, and it transpires that VST synth fans will be able to celebrate the completion of Chris Nolan's Batman trilogy with the launch of a special version of its Zebra synth.
It turns out that soundtrack guru Hans Zimmer used a custom-built version of Zebra - one with Diva filters and some prototype features planned for Zebra 3 - when he was scoring The Dark Knight movies. This is now set to be made available to existing Zebra users, as are the presets that were used in the films' soundtracks
u-he's Urs Heckman confirmed the upcoming launch of ZebraHZ on the KVR forum. He admits it's not perfect - the 'Diva' filters are mono, there's no multicore support and you can expect significant CPU drain if the 'extras' are used - but it sounds like an interesting concept.
More details soon. For now, we know that ZebraHZ will cost $99. Although it runs as a separate plug-in, it requires an existing Zebra license to run.
Wow. The ending the newest Nostalgia Critic had me dying laughing. I never thought that I would ever find seven grown men reading Fifty Shades of Grey so freaking hilarious.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Anonus and I should start an animation studio called Ctrl+Freak Studios.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I find it hilarious that they put the Dic logo on there as if it's a selling point.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I wonder what color background a real version would have had. On most shows, the background would have been red or orange, though there were exceptions.
Okay, I went and checked. Ben 10's wasn't green, it was grey, though the Omnitrix did glow green.
Filmation tried, they really did, but they were held back by Lou Scheimer's insistence on doing everything in the US (at a time when even H-B was starting to farm things out to Wang), among other things I can't remember presently.
Filmation tried, they really did, but they were held back by Lou Scheimer's insistence on doing everything in the US (at a time when even H-B was starting to farm things out to Wang), among other things I can't remember presently.
That's not so bad. It kept animators stateside in work whenever cartoons were at their worst. And cartoons hit their lowest, most depressing point in the 70's and 80's. Say what you want about John K, but he almost singlehandedly (gotta give a shoutout to Ralph Bakshi here) saved American cartoons as we know it. Ren and Stimpy was the highest rated show on cable at the time and if it wasn't for that single influence, the cartoon world would be a very, very different place.
Also, Filmation wasn't so bad. Star Trek Animated was absolutely brilliant. Hell, there was one episode where Kirk, Spock and McCoy had to defend Satan in a court trial at Salem.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I find Hanna-Barbera rather tragic...in just a few decades William Hanna and Joseph Barbera went from Tom and Jerry to making clones of Scooby-Doo and a bunch of no-fun pap to keep the concerned parents groups satisfied.
I'm watching an episode of Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures now. I can't believe that actually aired on Saturday mornings back then...it's way different from most of the stuff that surrounded it!
I wonder what it was that made later stuff like Filmation'stake on Tom and Jerry fail so hard, then. It seems like they went kind of bonkers between Star Trek and He-Man.
I find Hanna-Barbera rather tragic...in just a few decades William Hanna and Joseph Barbera went from Tom and Jerry to making clones of Scooby-Doo and a bunch of no-fun pap to keep the concerned parents groups satisfied.
I'm watching an episode of Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures now. I can't believe that actually aired on Saturday mornings back then...it's way different from most of the stuff that surrounded it!
You should catch the episode where they parody the rest of Saturday morning. At that time, that was unheard of. I won't spoil it for you, especially who shows up at the end and how they're drawn.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Also, it wasn't concerned parents that turned cartoons into drivel. It was the concerned idiots who staffed Standards and Practices at the major networks. Some years ago I read a book where a guy published the notes from S+P for several 80's cartoons (and I think that got posted on John's blog) where even the secretary for the section -- who had no business stick her nose into things -- would find something she didn't like and send it back to the studio. They'd censor stuff for the most ridiculous of reasons, and for the most part they couldn't see the forest for the trees and other stuff slipped past that we can't believe made it onto the TV. In fact, studios turned this into an artform to bypass S+P, a fine example is that episode of ST:TAS I mentioned where Kirk is defending Satan at a trial.
The writer wanted to put God on trial in this show (in a Saturday morning cartoon) and the network was all NO and he was all okay how about the devil? Nobody would get offended at THAT and they were all oh okay (mind you, this was 1972 or thereabout.)
Considering how Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs turned out, I get the feeling ABC was one of the worst in that respect; particularly in A!, they made fun of ABC every chance they got.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
TTA and A! had a 900-pound gorilla backing them up: Steven Spielberg. Every time S+P for fox got all mad they'd call up Steve and he'd go to bat for them. Which was a lot, from what I understand.
That said, back in the 1990s, it seemed like S+P was asleep at the switch. Especially at Nick, where a lot of crap got past the radar before they started noticing...choice parts of R&S, and pretty much all of Rocko's Modern Life come to mind.
I always assumed the concerned idiots were worried about upsetting the concerned parents/watchdogs.
^Didn't ReBoot have a song that made fun of them too?
Nope, just a department concerned about what these concerned parents might think. These "concerned parents" and other such groups were phantoms. The only time there was an uproar about Saturday morning was some televangelist or angry Christian group (which the 80's had no short supply of) saw something on Mighty Mouse that looked like dust going up a character's nose which of course simply had to be cocaine; and only because the producer was Ralph Bakshi who made the X-rated "Fritz the Cat" movie in the 70's (which would simply be slapped with an R today, a PG-13 if there was no cartoon nudity of which there was actually little.)
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This is a cool interview.
Classic shit.
Its hard to believe that Harley Quinn is a recent addition to Batman's rogue gallery.
Do what I do and sit in front of my phone all day.
I never thought that I would ever find seven grown men reading Fifty Shades of Grey so freaking hilarious.
I can't stand most of John Krickythingie's work.
Hi there, I just woke up at 7 at night. Ain't that awesome?
My favorite Tom & Jerry episodes were the weird ones made by that eastern european guy.
Yeah, I know.