Forum - View topicNEWS: Crunchyroll's Ellation Launches New Division for Original Animated Content
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MarshalBanana
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If someone really wants to create Anime, then they are going to have to follow in the footsteps of people like LeSean Thomas and Michael Arias, and move to Japan. |
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Lord Oink
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In other words, they want to be the next Netflix/Hulu/Amazon. |
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invalidname
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More likely they’ll be the next Crackle. |
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John Hayabusa
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Another thing. I saw an artist drawing in Photoshop. Photoshop is not recommended for making digital drawing and illustration. You can make ads and logos with it but it is not an ideal program for drawing figures, objects, and stuff.
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Kadmos1
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While I see the show as being as pathetic, there is a potential fan base for it. Also, CR will still have plenty of anime to be added each season. I don't know how much money they will use for it, but CR is likely to still use some of their earnings to give back to some Japanese animators.
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Chrono1000
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Beatdigga
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I get the idea of needing original content so as to not lose viewers, but well...the show looks awful.
Then again I’m a bitter man who thinks if they were going to go the original content route, they would be far better served adapting something that could appeal to adults like they say they want to in their press release instead of this awful Tumblr looking mess. |
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Zin5ki
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This is quite a risk for Crunchyroll. If there is any region-locking—be it in California or Kazakhstan—then they'll have to take the proverbial rap for it! The fact the production is entirely internal should at least reduce the risk of having to display that apology notification once more.
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LUNI_TUNZ
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I also remember a time when people would claim a studio (ADV/Sentai/Funimation) were licensing a bunch of shows, and complained that they were trying to snuff out the competition. Hell, they said the Crunchy/funi partnership would be bad, because then what about poor ol' Snbtai. Don't people want competition anymore? This should be a good thing.
I actually agree with this, that was a a ridiculous argument. I will say though, CN didn't help their cause by doing a bunch of bootleg reality shows (Othersiders, anyone?) If they started with more stuff like Tower Prep (a series people actually liked) they would have gotten farther.
Or if Nintendo only stuck to the thing they originated with, they'd still be producing hanafuda cards, and we'd never have Mario, Pokémon, and what have you. In everyone's haste to go "whah about mah subscriber money", they seem to also be missing a key detail in the announcement. The very first line of the article states that Crunchyroll's parent company is forming the studio to produce content for Crunchyroll, and everyone's just assuming this means Crunchyroll is taking all that money for anime and spending it on these projects INSTEAD of anime, when they don't know where the money is coming from. |
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Kai99
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Think of it this way. When it comes to cartoons in the US, it is usually a very limited market. Say you as an animator or artist want to work on a serious, adult animation production. What choices do you have? Vast majority of cartoons made in the US are for kids. The adult animation we do make are aimed at being funny with very cartoonish-looking characters. Than you have the cartoons made by DC who have their own characters that they are promoting. The Japanese animation industry is very unique in that animation that they make has a variety of different appeals. You can find action, romance, drama, LGBT, and more being produce. There really isn't any limit to what stories can be animated there. In the US, with more and more companies jumping into the animation business, the higher the potential for that variety that you see in Japan can be realize. What great about a western-back anime is that Japanese animation has been perfected and are doing things the US 2D animation companies aren't doing. Your not going to see a 2D animation made in the US similar to Attack on Titian or My Hero Academy( for a LOT of reasons). Western creators being given a chance to tell their stories in Japan just open up the doors for animated storytelling that would be almost impossible in the US.
Um, you wont find a lot of digital artists agreeing with that. While there are a lot of better programs for line art, Photoshop is hard to beat when it comes to digital coloring. |
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Chester McCool
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If we were talking about something like Castlevania then maybe, although that's still based on an established franchise, but the thing is this show looks no different than what you would see on Cartoon Network. They're purposely going for a kid-friendly and general audience with their streaming service. And correct me if I'm wrong but so far there's no Japanese connection to this show that's been revealed. So far the rise of streaming internet animation has been more of the same. 99% of the cartoons on Netflix are basic kids shows, generally based on Dreamworks or similar movies, with the remaining 1% being Castlevania. The idea that the internet has paved the way for more creative American animation has so far been unproven, in my opinion. |
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Beatdigga
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Yes, and they very specifically said "Americans often stereotype animation as either being kids shows or raunchy comedies" and their first original product is - A bad looking kids show.
A bad looking kids show that rips off the premise of Netflix's Little Witch Academia. There was nothing else? Absolutely no other scripts or manga that could be adapted? Maybe someone could finally do Cannon God Exaxxion? Just something besides this Tumblrized mess. All I know is that no one, NO ONE buys Crunchyroll subscriptions for things like that, and I expect the views to be nonexistent and the show quickly axed. |
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NGK
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Btw who is the parent company of Crunchyroll now ?
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ParaChomp
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Digibro uploaded an excellent video on the subject.
In other words, people are [expletive] PISSED and doing an excellent job at pointing fingers. Crunchyroll is an anime distributor, not a content creator and they still have to pick up a lot of slack. |
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JennLegacy
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I think you might've gotten your programs mixed up there. Adobe Illustrator is best recommended for logos and vector art. There are better alternatives to Photoshop, but it's still considered an industry standard for digital drawing/illustration. In the same way most people agree that Flash is a garbage program but is still used by the majority of the industry (though it is slowly shifting towards Toon Boom and it honestly can't happen any faster). Yes, I am sidestepping this dumpster fire of a thread just to make a correction about art programs. |
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