Sharing the pain...

[ebonlock]

scar_let forwarded me the link to the Dragonlance trailer, and I'm sharing the pain with you:

Watch on YouTube

He commented that it's nice that the Thundarr the Barbarian animators are still getting work, and one of the commenters on the YouTube page summed up my own reaction quite nicely:

The only good animation in this bullshitting trailer is the paramount logo!!

This is truly a mess of epic proportions. At least it's going straight to video, but Jesus...

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Wow, yeah, that's craptacular. And it seems to be multiple crappy animation styles.
Is it my imagination or is the Toonz logo a piece of flying crap?

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

I... oh, gods... the humanity. *sobs*

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Is it my imagination or is the Toonz logo a piece of flying crap?

It truly was, which I suppose helps to explain the mess that followed it.

[slian-martreb.livejournal.com]

The level of my pain cannot be textually rendered.

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

Whose idea was it to combine 80's after-school cartoons with footage from the portfolio reel of an out-of-work videogame animator? Because it was a bad idea.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Where's Ralph Bashki when you really need him?

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I can say that it made me look back far more fondly on Hannah Barbera. Hell, this thing makes the Herculoids look good.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I want that mental image bouncing around my brain either thank you very much. But there are some damn fine Korean animators out there who could've at least made this look decent...

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

And hey, apparently Margaret Weis got herself a YouTube account so she could tell us that she and Tracy love what they're doing with the book.

[glaciation.livejournal.com]

It takes a certain kind of courage to throw away twenty years of improvements in animation and aim for mid-80's crap.

[slian-martreb.livejournal.com]

*cough*

I can't go back quite that far for reference.

To me, the closest comparison I can get to is 'whatever they were doing in animation before they draw the animated X-Men in the early 90's'

I really think it must be a joke. Really. They are playing with us, to see who will buy it anyway.

[xleste.livejournal.com]

*whimper*

[elenderel.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe they've not only resorted to using crappy 80s animation but mixed and matched crappy styles to suit some sort of perverse whim. The original Scooby Doo series had better animation and at least it was consistent. Even Liberty's Kids is better than this. I am just ... just horrified. I never read the series, so I was considering viewing this film, but I can't now. My head would explode.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Read the books, seriously, they're just like reading a D&D campaign in novel format. You can almost hear the dice rolling, it's fantastic.

[missjones.livejournal.com]

This hurts on so many levels. I mean even if it is going straight to DVD...Couldn't they do better with the animation? I mean fercrissakes...Tierney's old Barbie movies have better graphics than this damn thing.