From: klein@kira.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Re: Yet more StarToons comments
Date: 12 Apr 92 14:24:46 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University Young Isolationist Buchananites

In article <kufl2tINNmoi@aludra.usc.edu> rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung) writes:
>In article <1992Apr12.025151.2166@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> klein@kira.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein) writes:
>
>  I want a Warner Bros./TINY TOON ADVENTURES production staff leather jacket
>myself. Total leather, with your name over the breast pocket in red, and a
>large Buster-and-Babs-and-Tiny-Toons logo on the back...

Like some of us could afford one! :)

>  I agree with you that Warners redesigned Hamton for the second season (tho
>I liked the first-season look a little more), but I still get a nagging
>sense that Startoons' Hamton was "off" a bit. Something about the mouth, I
>suspect, but nothing I can pin down specifically right off...

All I can say is, when I watched the video, I went "Ak! What similarity!"
But I suppose any two studios mouthings are completely different.
Oh yeah, I do like that his body is now at least as big as his head :)

>  I'll continue to defend Wang to a degree. Their style fluctuates a lot,
>but when their form is right, it's fun to watch. Yes, they're off-model, like
>everyone else (except Tokyo, apparently  B-), but when their style clicks,
>I find the "stuffed cottonball" approach fun. Tokyo makes the 'toons look
>alive; Wang makes the 'toons look "cartoony". Personal preference, I guess.
>Some favorite bits of Wang animation include FAIRY TALES FOR THE '90s, THE
>ACME ACRES ZONE, and LOOKING OUT FOR THE LITTLE GUY.

Somehow I mentally block out all the really good Wang cartoons, and
remember ROCK N ROAR and NO TOON IS AN ISLAND.  Thanks for reminding
me!  STARTING FROM SCRATCH is good too.  

>>And finally, the big reason why I like StarToons so much:
>>
>>If all American cartoons get done in Japan, I'll never get a job!
>>(Ok, so it's a pipe dream - my art skills are a bit below par, and
>> it takes me a while to get one dinky drawing done.  I still support
>> American animation, tho :^) )
>
>#define SOAPBOX 1
>
>  This scares me the same way "Buy American" scares me. Blind patriotism is
>a dangerous thing, as it makes people ignore quality (or lack thereof) for
>a false sense of pride. It's not politically correct, but I feel that if the
>Japanese/Germans/British/whoever is making a better product, then support it.
>"Settling for" inferior American animation (or cars) will not motivate
>Startoons (or Detroit) to work better -- it's only by threatening them with
>loss of revenue will they change their ways and deliver a product that the
>consumer wants.
>
>#define SOAPBOX 0

AHHH, YA GOT ME!!!   Ok, let me say that I LIKE StarToons animation.  I'd
like it if they were BELGIAN, INDONESIAN, or KAZAKHSTANIAN!  (Isn't it
great how the Collapse of Communism gives us countries with such cool
names?)  I think they animate with more feeling than Wang or Tokyo.  I
like them because they're good!  And I'm NOT voting for Buchanan! :)

Oh yeah, I thought global villagism _was_ PC. >:)


>  Besides, I'd rather support Warner Bros. getting their own animation studio
>and drawing the 'toons 100% correctly (or, in other words, almost totally
>identical to the way Tokyo Movie Shinsa does it now  B-).

Right on!
>
>P.S. Hey, what if Warner Bros. buys out TMS?  B-)  Put all their animators to
>work drawing TINY TOONS, and turn over Akom's contract to Disney...  B-)

But then TINY TOONS ratings will be so far above everything else that
everyone else will just give up on cartoons!  President Quayle will 
veto the proposed Quality Animation Antitrust Bill!  Animation will 
enter the Second Dark Age!

Then Disney will gear up its studios, which will blow TMS out of the water.

(PS: They do.)
-- 
Jeff Klein                  | "One of you is a Charlie Brown mutant,
                            |  and the other has a hand growing out  
klein@kira.egr.msu.edu      |  of his(?) head!" - Blue Bunny