Very cute but as mhoyeso eloquently put it "GAH" spiders!!!
if I ever request a mefi pony it will be for a required OMG!Spiders!!11! warning
Thanks, Alia! posted by pointystick at 7:00 PM on May 28, 2010
Heheh, reminds me of the classic Pink Panther cartoons where Pink is dealing with a fly or mosquito, etc. posted by darkstar at 7:11 PM on May 28, 2010
For a different point of view, watch the Academy Award winner for best animated short, the 1980 film The Fly. posted by twoleftfeet at 7:43 PM on May 28, 2010
Go, and cook yourself AN EGG! posted by ropeladder at 8:00 PM on May 28, 2010
Roadrunner + Mr Bean + Wallace & Gromit + Mousehunt = Meh. posted by Sys Rq at 8:37 PM on May 28, 2010
I'm going to admit that I'm sick of animations. They begin to feel the same to me. The rhythms, the tone of humor, the setups, the "cleverness." I think something about the CGI (the overhead, perhaps?) makes animators risk-averse.
There may be some CGI shorts out there that go against what I'm saying. I'd like to see them. posted by argybarg at 9:06 PM on May 28, 2010 [3 favorites]
AUGH SPIDERS! posted by cmyk at 10:22 PM on May 28, 2010
argybarg: "I'm going to admit that I'm sick of animations. They begin to feel the same to me. The rhythms, the tone of humor, the setups, the "cleverness." I think something about the CGI (the overhead, perhaps?) makes animators risk-averse.
There may be some CGI shorts out there that go against what I'm saying. I'd like to see them."
Oh wow, TrialByMedia, I didn't get 20 seconds into that before I was laughing out loud. When kitteh starts chittering up into the lampshade, I couldn't contain myself. That has to be one of the fastest "Zero-to-LULZ" I've experienced in a while. posted by darkstar at 1:13 PM on May 29, 2010
I'm going to admit that I'm sick of animations. They begin to feel the same to me. The rhythms, the tone of humor, the setups, the "cleverness." I think something about the CGI (the overhead, perhaps?) makes animators risk-averse.
With you there, argybarg. Maybe we're spoilt for entertainment these days, but use of animation often correlates with weak writing and pacing. Shorts like the Kiwi one are cute and 'clever', and that's fine - I enjoyed that short when it came out a few years ago - but the amount of time and effort that went into it for such a small payoff (i.e. one joke, and an obvious one at that) seems misguided. Even those linked by Rhaomi seem formulaic, even if they aren't. There's a certain homogeneity of tone.
I usually find the best thing about animated shorts to be the music, which is sad, because it means the novelty of animated shorts (which I enjoyed and appreciated until not so long ago) has worn off, and THAT means that they were a novelty in the first place. posted by doublehappy at 4:30 AM on May 30, 2010
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I'm not as fond of the CGI stuff as I am the claymation.
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