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2001-06-15 - 6:10 p.m.� Warning: This entry contains nothing but animation nerd ranting In other bitchy news, I just read this article: Betty Boop revived for new cartoon series Why? Why would they do that? I hate it when animation studios decide to make good old cartoon characters "new" and "hip." I still shudder at the thought of the updated Baby Huey show. And then there was new Felix the Cat cartoon series from a few years back. The one that was supposed to be all surreal and cutting edge, but ended up just being stupid and boring? ::shudder! shudder!:: The newest incantations of Little Lulu and Woody Woodpecker also both blow goats. Why do they try to mess a good thing? Old Woody Woodpecker cartoons are still funny. How can it possibly be more cost effective to make a new badly animated, poorly written, completly unfunny cheap ass cartoon series than to simply air the old cartoons? And now they dare to mess with Betty Boop. It's just so very wrong! I am honestly shocked and appalled. And worse, it appears they are using computer animation to do it! It's unthinkable, and it shows a complete lack of understanding for the original Betty Boop series. Granted, I am very old school when it comes to animation. I much prefer cel animation to computer generated stuff, but I do enjoy CG animation in its place. For example, Toy Story would have not have worked in as a traditionally animated movie. But Betty Boop cartoons are not the place for CG animation. Anyone who can appreciate the old cartoons should be able to see that. Because the cartoons were not just great because of Betty. It was all about the mood-- that dark, surreal, nightmarish quality of the cartoons. The mood was created through the look of the cartoons, the way they were animated: the way everything bounced and stretched. I can barely imagine Betty Boop in colour, much less computer generated. This is a sad day in animation history, my friends. A sad day indeed.
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