Homestar Runner Wiki Forum

A companion to the Homestar Runner Wiki
It is currently Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:01 am

All times are UTC




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 25 posts ] 
Author Message
 Post subject: What if Homestar Runner was traditionally animated?
PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:12 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:48 pm
Posts: 130
Location: SNOOPING AS USUAL, I SEE
Well? I think that would be pretty interesting.

_________________
Argh.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:15 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:53 am
Posts: 2217
Location: Australia
How would the style of animation make the content any different?

_________________
"Explain to me how drowning them would not ruin their date."


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:50 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:57 am
Posts: 2981
Location: Oklahoma City
Nobody said it would. ;) Although it would likely open up more possibilities. You can do a heck of a lot with the limited poses, expressions, and backgrounds, but you can still only do so much.

- Kef

_________________
404 sig not found


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:17 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:11 am
Posts: 18942
Location: Sitting in an English garden, waiting for the sun
We would have to wait even longer for updates.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:15 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:24 pm
Posts: 580
Hah, "even longer". Speaking as someone with a flash toon, I have NO idea how tbc squeeze making an entire toon per week. My reaction would be to assume they have no social lives and perhaps some kind of time machine, but infuriatingly that's probably not true.

And it'd mean we'd get more action, more varied scenarios most likely (if the background is redrawn every scene or so, there's less reason not to experiment with different settings) and less snappy dialogue, and the entire mood of the cartoon would change.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:30 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:15 am
Posts: 430
Location: youtube, where else would i be?!
damik wrote:
Hah, "even longer". Speaking as someone with a flash toon, I have NO idea how tbc squeeze making an entire toon per week. My reaction would be to assume they have no social lives and perhaps some kind of time machine, but infuriatingly that's probably not true.

you are most likley incorrect damik, they do have social lives, the avrage ammount of time it takes to make a toon, sbmail, etc is 20 hours. and you have 7 days to do it

do the math ( i dont have any calculators or the computer calculators but i think its 0.35)

_________________
brawl friend code: 2277-6303-8626


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:35 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:45 pm
Posts: 5441
Location: living in the sunling, loving in the moonlight, having a wonderful time.
Actually, from what I remember it only takes them about a day to make a sbemail, so i figure the rest of the week is spent dealing the store and goofing off.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:45 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:15 am
Posts: 430
Location: youtube, where else would i be?!
Capt. Ido Nos wrote:
Actually, from what I remember it only takes them about a day to make a sbemail, so i figure the rest of the week is spent dealing the store and goofing off.
the american dreeeeeeeeeam! :p

_________________
brawl friend code: 2277-6303-8626


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:01 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:29 pm
Posts: 149
Location: ...WHY R U ASKING ME!?!?!?
homestar55 wrote:
Capt. Ido Nos wrote:
Actually, from what I remember it only takes them about a day to make a sbemail, so i figure the rest of the week is spent dealing the store and goofing off.
the american dreeeeeeeeeam! :p


Wow that would be like the most awesomest(which is not a word)job EVER!!!!

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:27 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:36 am
Posts: 1423
Location: Hot-Land
You know, it'd be pretty cool if there was a short toon in a different style of animation.
Lots of work, but it's a challenge. Or whatever.

_________________
NOT A SIGNATURE!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:00 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:10 pm
Posts: 3999
Location: Sims 2
Angelgrl1029 wrote:
homestar55 wrote:
Capt. Ido Nos wrote:
Actually, from what I remember it only takes them about a day to make a sbemail, so i figure the rest of the week is spent dealing the store and goofing off.
the american dreeeeeeeeeam! :p


Wow that would be like the most awesomest(which is not a word)job EVER!!!!


Very, very yes.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 1:22 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Tue May 29, 2007 4:47 pm
Posts: 67
damik wrote:
And it'd mean we'd get more action, more varied scenarios most likely (if the background is redrawn every scene or so, there's less reason not to experiment with different settings) and less snappy dialogue, and the entire mood of the cartoon would change.

To be fair they'd probably use cels like actual animators do, so they could still reuse the backgrounds

I think it would make an interesting novelty to see one H*R toon in traditional animation, but I can't imagine their being must justification to do it very often


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:02 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:58 am
Posts: 3419
Location: What's it to ya?
Sedric A. Dragon wrote:
To be fair they'd probably use cels like actual animators do, so they could still reuse the backgrounds

Yeah, they do, but (correct me if I'm wrong) in Flash, they are called 'symbols'.

I agree with Schmelly. I think that it would be a cool thing if they did it for one episode just for a change.

_________________
Guten tag, Johann, du riechst ganz richtig. Danke schon, Heidi. Und du auch. - A Bit of Fry and Laurie


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:24 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:14 pm
Posts: 8899
Location: looking at my post and/or profile
Traditional animation is rarely used anyways on the TV and the like. Most of them have changed (Simpsons, KoTH...)

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:37 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:57 am
Posts: 2981
Location: Oklahoma City
They still have the same look and feel as traditional animation, though, except for the odd occasions where the use of underlying 3D graphics is obvious. (Futurama did this a lot... at times it felt like it was all, "HAY LOOK GUYS WE'RE IN 3D BUT IT LOOKS TEH 2D". Like the million ways they'd rotate around the Planet Express building.)

Homestar Runner, on the other hand, definitely looks and feels like a Flash cartoon. (Which still isn't a bad thing...)

- Kef

_________________
404 sig not found


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:29 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:05 pm
Posts: 12
Location: Pennsylvania
I have a feeling that complicating the animation would cause a lot of the novelty to be lost. Just compare the original Astro Boy anime to the recent one on Cartoon Network. The old one was way funnier, though possibly unintentionally.

_________________
Image
Are you prepared to bear the blood of an entire world for this girl you love?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:11 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:36 am
Posts: 351
Location: The middle of EVERYWHERE
Schmelen wrote:
You know, it'd be pretty cool if there was a short toon in a different style of animation.
Lots of work, but it's a challenge. Or whatever.
You mean like this?

Or this?

Or even this?

_________________
Image

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure
about the former" - Albert Einstein


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:46 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:39 am
Posts: 307
How are we defining "traditional" animation here, anyway? The way most cartoons on TV are done nowadays? Genuine old-timey stuff from the 20's or 30's? Nightmare-inducing cut-as-many-corners-as-possible Synchro-Vox style? (I think that last one could potentially be pretty hilarious.)


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:53 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:11 am
Posts: 18942
Location: Sitting in an English garden, waiting for the sun
We're talking hand-drawn cel animation.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:10 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:15 am
Posts: 430
Location: youtube, where else would i be?!
not to be technical or anything but they do kinda hand draw them before they become part in a episode in the sketchbook. like strong sads astronaut costume, the jolly green helmet, and keep on trucking. they drew those and they made them into an episode so it's kind of half-baked with the animation ritual.

_________________
brawl friend code: 2277-6303-8626


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:13 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Tue May 29, 2007 4:47 pm
Posts: 67
Nasty ol' Puppet wrote:
Nightmare-inducing cut-as-many-corners-as-possible Synchro-Vox style? (I think that last one could potentially be pretty hilarious.)

that would actually be pretty dang cool. Maybe they could mix it with the Krantz Films style of animation for maximum impact (something about those ridiculously cheapskate approaches to animation is actually weirdly compelling to me)


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:46 pm 
Offline

Joined: Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:13 pm
Posts: 3
I think part of what makes Homestar what it is includes the flash animation. I'm not convinced that the cartoon would improve by changing the animation and if they turn it into the same animation as you see on TV, it would seem too "commercial" to me.

I think I would lose all interest in Homestar if the animation was changed.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:43 pm 
Offline

Joined: Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:11 pm
Posts: 20
Schmelen wrote:
You know, it'd be pretty cool if there was a short toon in a different style of animation.
Lots of work, but it's a challenge. Or whatever.


http://www.homestarrunner.com/20x6vs1936.html


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What if Homestar Runner was traditionally animated?
PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:57 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:47 am
Posts: 65
Location: NZ
It would be kinda funny to them exploding with TNT's and Anvils smashing them, litttle stars floating around there head a huge gross lump on there head, there eyes bursting out of the sockets and when they're in love they would have heart pupils, there tongue would roll out like a red carpet and his heart would pulsate through his chest. Also when they run off a cliff they wouldn't realise and then look down and a few moments later fall down a large chasm

i spend to much time watching Roadrunner

_________________
Why are you reading this?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What if Homestar Runner was traditionally animated?
PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:28 pm 
Offline

Joined: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:22 pm
Posts: 49
well i'd like to see a REAL anime stinko man someday. :p

_________________
Oh, escard on me...
-Senor Cardgage


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 25 posts ] 

All times are UTC


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
cron
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group