Congratulations! You're a better animator than you think.
ghastlycomic
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Feeling insecure about you skills as an animator? Don't think you can make decent animations with Daz Studio?
Worry no more. You're already better than the animators at The Asylum.
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I'm just wondering how they conned Dick Van Dyke into doing it. They must have told him it was going to be a Pixar production or something. You could literally have nothing but a 20 minute video of Dick Van Dyke eating a bowl of prunes while telling you what the story was going to be and it would end up being better than Trolland.
well that certainly was uhh, umm ,well it was... oh look suppers done gotta go!
What... what did I just watch half of?
Reboot didn't look that primitive....
The last time I saw something like that, I was watching a Dire Straits video...and someone is getting money for nothin' LOL
Laurie
The Asylum is famous for what is known as mockbusters, cheaply produced knock-offs of Hollywood blockbusters. Their business plan is to basically trick well meaning but pop-culturally unaware grandparents into buying their crappy knock-offs as presents for their grandkids. Like their Transformers knock-off called Transmorphers. Pretty much every Disney/Pixar/DreamWorks hit has receieved a cheap knock-off by The Asylum. Trolland was a knockoff of Trolls and was originally marketed as Trollz until they got sued because Trollz was already a trademark of an animated series from the 90s. While their CGI has always been pretty bad Trolland marked a new low for the company. It was like they basically were giving a middle finger to the kids saying "We got your grandma's $10 and we're not going to even try to make a decent movie for you".
They've received a lot of critical condemnation for their mockbusters and have been trying to "go legit" with their original shark themed (ala Mega Shark Vs...) movies but mockbusters still remains a big part of their business plan.
Looking at that trailer for Trolland I can see a number of things they could have done to improve the quality that would not have added to the cost or the production time. Decimating their mocap and not insisting that every scene be composited over waving grass would have helped a lot.
the lipsync alone sucks
it actually looks like something I would upload to my channel
I wish more studios would sue their pants off! Unfortunately they seem to work the angles in their releases just enough to skate thru lawsuits and the times they have lost, just changed the name on the films. too bad the lawsuits also gave them publicity.
It's like finding a new website called Das3d.com with a new, mediocre figure line called gennisis 8
* rolls eyes*
My eyes...
Don't get me wrong...for an amateur working with limited software and experience...good. I can't even animate a cube ;). But for a production house? Urgh. :P
Laurie
Then when they get sued they just call it PhilCollins 8.
I feel bad for anyone who has to be involved with this... thing.
This is the best thing I've ever seen ^_^
Seriousy though, is this a joke trailer?
i want one of you bashers doing a clip like that
no you cant do even that
but prove the opposite
well I honestly don't think this one by me is much worse
i always knew you are the only true artist in Daz universe Wendy
Smiles@ Wendy.
TY but just note, I had fun doing JaguarElla’s story but openly admit it is bloody awful animation
the whole point of sharing
she does however beat their lipsync hands down
If it was just a random person doing this for a hobby i could see your point, but its being sold as a film to people capitalizing off another movie, so yes it can and should be criticized and not just on whether one can animate or not.
A haunted castle animation I did a couple of years ago. that I just recently rendered with new technology and uploaded to vimeo for a much better video quality than I got when I uploaded it to YouTube.
Check it out , it make you smile ~ Happy Halloween~
Black Stone Haunted Castle II on Vimeo.
My thoughts... Knowing how hard it is to animate. I dont think any of us really have room to make fun of the artists who made this. 3D is very hard, I think we all know, and can appreciate that. Just because they dont have a 300 million dollar budget dont mean their not trying their best, with what they got. It's expected to see mean comments on youtube from snarky 15 year old kids. But I would expect better from this crowd.
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy my eyessssssssssssss
so you think Southpark is bad animated ?
or it just suites the style ?
if you tell a story right theres no need for "good" animation sometimes
if i say it was fun for me watching this - goal reached no matter how
i know this bashings from musicians forums as well
if i am kind of small i like to make other works small so i am feeling bigger a bit
If nobody ever critiqued the work of others we would live in a world utterly devoid of quality.
If you tell a story "good", you wouldn't weaken it with bad animation.
True for you, however if you are in the minority in that opinion, the goal has most definitely not been met. Do you honestly think that movies which bomb at the box office have no one who enjoys them? Of course they do. There are bad films I like, but they are still very obviously bad.
That makes sense, but in that case you do the best you can with what you have. That movie's not even a good amateur animation. That movie is not an example of someone "doing the best that they can", it's an example of someone doing the bare minimum that they can just to enable them to rip off someone else's brand for a quick money grab. They obviously pay good money to the voice talent for what's probably a very quick and easy day of work. It's the only reason, I think, that the agents of those stars would let them do a low-rent knockoff like that.
if this were a hobbiest production I'd agree, the whole point is it is not
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6283598/
Is Asylum Hiring??.. or farming out work??
I am thinking I might have a shot.
IT'S A TROLL !!