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Rant - CalArts, Thundercats, and Digipen
7 years ago
Have you ever been in a situation where you swear you've never heard a word or phrase before, only to wake up one day and find almost everybody saying it. In some cases people claiming they have always said it?
That's my experience with "CalArts". I had never heard it before, and now it feels like it's everywhere.
From what I understand, CalArt is the name of an art university in Callifornia, and for 12 grand they teach you to draw in the Steve Universe style. I guess they have a lot of pull in the animation business, given how every other cartoon uses that style it seems.
Speaking of which, there was a Thundercats Reboot announced. ...and it looks bad.
For context, in 40 years we have gone from this-
https://static.comicvine.com/upload.....ndercaths3.jpg
To this-
https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/.....hundercats.jpg
But, that said, the show isn't for me, so I maybe the kids like that style of cartoon.
Anyway, CalArts reminds me of Digipen. Ah ha! I tricked you. This is actually an excuse to re-use one of my old rants. Not really of course... ...well, kind of. See, I've ranted in the past about how game development/design degrees are worthless at best. While I'm sure you learn some valuable skills, my experience with "qualified" pro-devs has been less than great. They will look down their noses at the plebs because they worked under Warren Spectre, or have gone to a school some famous designers came out of. The most famous being the Portal guys came out of the game dev school Digipen. But even if we take their word for it, they never actually do anything with the education. Instead, they get a min wage job, and wait for that call from Gaben or Ken Lavine or whoever else, a call that will never come because they are a nobody with a degree that have never made anything. I've seen people go to art school, and go from having unique, memerable OCs, to making a bunch of League of Legends rejects no one remembers.
I mention this because CalArts reminds me of the same, somewhat. They are actually making cartoons, but none of them (so far) have been of any real quality. I stopped following animation a while ago, so I could be wrong, but when the only thing going for your show is that some people on Tumblr like it because of "representation", then that's not much of a show.
Oh, and in doing some quick checking for this post, I learned that both Teen Titans Go and Steven Universe both had a "beat meat" joke.
That's my experience with "CalArts". I had never heard it before, and now it feels like it's everywhere.
From what I understand, CalArt is the name of an art university in Callifornia, and for 12 grand they teach you to draw in the Steve Universe style. I guess they have a lot of pull in the animation business, given how every other cartoon uses that style it seems.
Speaking of which, there was a Thundercats Reboot announced. ...and it looks bad.
For context, in 40 years we have gone from this-
https://static.comicvine.com/upload.....ndercaths3.jpg
To this-
https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/.....hundercats.jpg
But, that said, the show isn't for me, so I maybe the kids like that style of cartoon.
Anyway, CalArts reminds me of Digipen. Ah ha! I tricked you. This is actually an excuse to re-use one of my old rants. Not really of course... ...well, kind of. See, I've ranted in the past about how game development/design degrees are worthless at best. While I'm sure you learn some valuable skills, my experience with "qualified" pro-devs has been less than great. They will look down their noses at the plebs because they worked under Warren Spectre, or have gone to a school some famous designers came out of. The most famous being the Portal guys came out of the game dev school Digipen. But even if we take their word for it, they never actually do anything with the education. Instead, they get a min wage job, and wait for that call from Gaben or Ken Lavine or whoever else, a call that will never come because they are a nobody with a degree that have never made anything. I've seen people go to art school, and go from having unique, memerable OCs, to making a bunch of League of Legends rejects no one remembers.
I mention this because CalArts reminds me of the same, somewhat. They are actually making cartoons, but none of them (so far) have been of any real quality. I stopped following animation a while ago, so I could be wrong, but when the only thing going for your show is that some people on Tumblr like it because of "representation", then that's not much of a show.
Oh, and in doing some quick checking for this post, I learned that both Teen Titans Go and Steven Universe both had a "beat meat" joke.
