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I always prefer these type of mostly hand-drawn animation than the CG fare we get all the time now.

It's one the select few animated movies I revisit every now and then outside of Ghibli Studios.

I love that it is done frame-by-frame the same. Comparison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryJuJuW_1Zo

I also love that it's a fantastic example of why hand drawn animation looks better than CGI for realistic-ish humans. I don't think it's possible to make a CGI version of Cheetaras sequence look better than the original hand drawn.

I'm also slightly skeptical that this is fully hand drawn too, but benefit of the doubt....

Wow, this really is the greatest spreadsheet in the world. This is not a tribute.

I've always wondered how they figured out who got paid what on international mail.

And sometimes those mailmen really do work hard to get the mail where it's supposed to go:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/iceland/articles/letter-no-address-hand-drawn-map-delivered-remote-iceland/

I love that this game is getting a remake, but I can't say I like how it looks. The new graphics are too smooth; the roughness of the low-resolution graphics gave the original a warm and hand-drawn appearance. Meanwhile, this new one looks like a cheaply made Shockwave/Flash game.

Interesting, but I quite prefer the hand drawn look of the original.

Truth is today's feminists don't even know what objectification is. Mainstream POP music literally advocates rape. It encourages and teaches millions of young boys how to con a "bitches's" trust, sleep with her under false pretenses and and then break off any future contact.

So pop/rap culture celebrating/teaching boys how to rape women isn't considered by marxist feminists as objectification but some nerd rubbing one out to a softcore hand-drawn picture of a woman is "hardcore sexism". It's no wonder most women don't take feminism seriously.

you never know.. the I-PAC encoder I used for a MAME machine was like 40 bucks (http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.html) and is somewhat similar. I backed them largely since it seems like they are doing a lot of community stuff with it Time to build a hand-drawn control panel on the wall to activate things in my office.

>> ^spoco2:

Great idea. I went to their kickstarter page (Really should have had a link in this), with the intention of backing and getting one, but as a non-US person, it'd cost $45 for me to get one.
That seems like a lot considering once production ramps up it's going to cost them VERY little per board to make these.
And seeing as it'd be something I'd muck around with for a week or so with the kids and then probably tire of.

>> ^ForgedReality:

Looks like Flash, not hand drawing...


"by hand" doesn't mean "on paper". You can draw by hand in Flash using a tablet. Most Flash animation is crap but, to me, it's greatest use is as a digital tool for traditional cel animation (much of this looks like basic frame-by-frame rotoscope drawing animation AKA hand-drawn cel animation traced over live footage.)

>> ^ForgedReality:

Looks like Flash, not hand drawing...


Well, according to the creator... "It is frame by frame hand drawn vector art with a few animated tweaks here and there. About 400 hours worth of rotoscoping total. LOL"

>> ^probie:

I'm as anti-remake as they come, but I also support the re-imagining of a story in a different medium (a la The Watchmen). Seeing something like this sets my mind a fire about what a live action remake of Heavy Metal would look like with today's CGI, etc. They'd have my money, but only if they kept the initial story intact, like they attempted to do with this homage.


Why in the hell would you want a live action Heavy Metal? And the same story, remade? Are you a Hollywood executive? Jesus fucking christ!

The whole point of Heavy Metal is to make it look exactly like the magazine. How about an all-new Heavy Metal using state of the art hand-drawn animation? ... with tasteful CGI assist or maybe one CGI short like Animatrix. That is what the *real* fans of Heavy Metal (and not marketing victim consumoid bots) want to see.

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Very nifty profile pic. :


Thanks, it's actually a hand drawn picture from a WoW player who was selling pics of characters for gold in game.

I forgot I had submitted it. It might have not shown up because I hadn't done the tags very well originally. Sorry about that. >> ^Gabe_b:

Bah, sry. My title is almost exactly the same, don't know why the dupecheck didn't throw that one up.

>> ^MaxWilder:

>> ^spoco2:
It's cool, but I'm pretty darn sure it's not done just as shown in that video, those pictures SCREAM rotoscoped (even if hand rotoscoped), and there's no way he drew a picture, threw it onto the pile then drew another one with no onion skinning at all, there's no way the pages would always be in the same spot, or the lines be perfectly attuned to each other frame to frame.
So, yes, awesome animation, but a little dishonest in how it's 'actually' done.

I think the reason his hand is on a mouse is because it is advancing the film by one frame in a monitor or lightbox built into the desk or projecting down onto it. Looking at it again, I think the projector is above the desk, probably in the same box as a camera that takes a pic of the page when each is done.
For me, that does not at all diminish how impressive this video is. He not only made every one of those sketches by hand, but somebody also moved the camera all over the place, millimeter by millimeter between frames.
And the music is awesome, too. From an old video game? Anybody know what it is?


Song is "Anatoliy Shishkov" by Rymdreglage & Ninjamoped (http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ninja-chips/id429181592?i=429181610&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 ), from the youtube description.