“Donald Duck laughs in the face of death! Didn’t you know?”
“The Quest for Kalevala” (1999)
Gay Purr-ee
Director: Abe Levitow | Studio: UPA | USA, 1962
how the FUCK did they make that penguin from wallace and gromit look so evil like it’s literally just a plasticine penguin but it somehow radiates Pure Malice look at it
truly character design at its finest
Part of the reason that Wallace and Gromit is so successful is that every single character is just so expressive. The people’s lips move like half a foot every frame. Gromit has basically only his eyebrows, and he has more personality than two average real people. The Moon Machine was up there with the rest of them, and it didn’t even have a face.
The penguin, on the other hand, never expressed anything at all. It’s designed almost explicitly with purpose of not expressing anything. It’s practically featureless, with only the bare minimum of detail necessary to tell you it’s a penguin. It has a face, but it never uses it. It has no sclera, meaning it stares straight ahead at all times. It actively repels most attempts to ascribe any emotion to it – at best, you can feel that it is coldly satisfied, perhaps detachedly frustrated. I’d say it’s like a robot wearing the skin of an animal, but that’s literally the villain of A Close Shave, and he was pretty expressive.
It’s like Aardman found a tiny crack in the likability curve, far away from the uncanny valley but a hell of a lot deeper, and decided to build a penguin there.
‘It’s like Aardman found
a tiny crack in the likability curve, far away from the uncanny valley but a hell of a lot deeper, and decided to build a penguin there.’
This is my new favourite sentence in the English language.
Rare vintage Goku Artwork by Minoru Maeda ( Akira Toriyama’s staff)
From Dragon Ball Z calendar 1991
published by Toei Animation / Akira Toriyama staff / Shueisha / Bird Studio / Fuji tv
Will Eisner addresses accusations that Ebony White is a racist character, from a 1972 Spirit strip (as published in a 1970s Kitchen Sink collection). Worth noting, of course, that the 1970s Ebony doesn’t talk anything like the one from the 1940s. No “Yussuh, Mista Spirit Boss!” here, thankfully.
Sonic the Hedgehog, Ken Penders, Bioware, Electronic Arts, Archie Comics, Creator Rights, etc. - A review
Since I’ve seen some requests for one, here’s a review/summary of the situation between Archie Comics Publications, Ken Penders, SEGA, and Bioware/Electronic Arts, with a little look at the effects upon Archie’s Sonic the Hedgehog comics.
I’ve tried to go in chronological order and stick to the facts, although I added a few details not directly related to the legal proceedings for anyone not very familiar with the people involved. This was compiled with the information in interviews and information made publicly available through the court filing system (although a great deal of information is sealed and not available to the public). Keep in mind that none of the cases described here actually went to trial. Everything discussed is pre-trial.
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