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Based on an actual conversation that me and my roommate had not but 30 minutes ago.
She was flipping channels and came across and extremely bad CGed sequal to the original 1964 stop motion Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer. We like to bash such things, I mean that was some ugly cg. And this is just showing how much FA has currupted when you see rudolf look at cleriec and think "Look its like his nose glows every time he gets a boner..." Laughter then insued....
Can't you tell I did this in like 15 minutes XD
She was flipping channels and came across and extremely bad CGed sequal to the original 1964 stop motion Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer. We like to bash such things, I mean that was some ugly cg. And this is just showing how much FA has currupted when you see rudolf look at cleriec and think "Look its like his nose glows every time he gets a boner..." Laughter then insued....
Can't you tell I did this in like 15 minutes XD
Category All / General Furry Art
Species Lion
Size 738 x 356px
File Size 165.2 kB
The main premise is that a shadowy figure in a trenchcoat named "The Toy Taker" is stealing children's toys. He flies from house to house in his blimp, and plays a flute like the pied piper, which causes the toys to go into a trance and march right to him. Initially everyone thinks he's evil, but it turns out he's not your typical shallow villian, and he actually has a good, if misguided, reason for doing this. There is also a side plot involving Rudolph being unhappy because he thinks people only like him because of his nose, which results in him going to see this singing diva hippo who is a plastic surgeon for toys. Plus there's some romantic scenes with Clarice and him expressing their love for eachother as he helps her learn to fly. Oh and Bumble and Yukon Cornelius tag along on their adventures too after their silver and gold mine dries up... Another thread which is resolved by the end in a silly manner.
In short, if you don't like this movie, you're not a REAL Rudolph fan! I think it does great justice to the franchise. If anyone else had done it it would have been done cheap and would actually have been as shitty as ShadowRaven has made it out to be.
In short, if you don't like this movie, you're not a REAL Rudolph fan! I think it does great justice to the franchise. If anyone else had done it it would have been done cheap and would actually have been as shitty as ShadowRaven has made it out to be.
I own that on DVD! Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys. What's so bad about it?
Ugly CG? You kidding? Sure the models were overly smooth, but the use of color, the layout of the sets, the lighting, and the animation were all well done. It's unfortunate that the company didn't have a decent fur shader, and did a rather poor job on Bumble as a result, but overall it looks decent.
And the rest of the production values are also good, if not excellent for a kid's movie. The songs are catchy and fun. The ending with the teddy bear is unexpected and touching. It's not incredibly dumbed down and phone-it-home like most kid's stuff on TV these days. Oh, and and all the character's voices sound right! You know how easily they could have just said "fuck it" and just had the artists do the voices for cheap, rather than finding people who actually could imitate the originals well, and do a decent job of acting too? VERY easily.
Yes, it's true that they used the young version of Rudolph, but that's the one everyone remembers, because that's the one they use in all the advertising. Is that really that important? I'm pretty sure they also gave Bumble teeth... which ,if you'll remember, were removed by Hermie to tame him in the original movie. But again, in almost all the Bumble merchandise, they show him with teeth, so they were just doing what people expected.
Anyway I thought it was as well done as the originals. I think the only reason you prefer those is cause they're what you remember, and cause they weren't CG. Maybe the CG is a bit simple, but they clearly put effort into producing a decent product where another company would have just put out crap and figured the kids wouldn't know the difference.
If you want to see an actual BAD Rudolph movie, then check out the cartoon they did a few years ago which had nothing to do with the original's characters, and instead had a white fox as his friend. THAT, my friend, was crap.
Oh, and since you mentioned Rudolph's nose glowing whenever he saw Clarice, I thought you'd like to see this little gem the animators tossed in there. Just as this occurs they cut to some little birds covering their eyes and you hear clarice going "ohHHh!":
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/.....mage009jz3.jpg
Ugly CG? You kidding? Sure the models were overly smooth, but the use of color, the layout of the sets, the lighting, and the animation were all well done. It's unfortunate that the company didn't have a decent fur shader, and did a rather poor job on Bumble as a result, but overall it looks decent.
And the rest of the production values are also good, if not excellent for a kid's movie. The songs are catchy and fun. The ending with the teddy bear is unexpected and touching. It's not incredibly dumbed down and phone-it-home like most kid's stuff on TV these days. Oh, and and all the character's voices sound right! You know how easily they could have just said "fuck it" and just had the artists do the voices for cheap, rather than finding people who actually could imitate the originals well, and do a decent job of acting too? VERY easily.
Yes, it's true that they used the young version of Rudolph, but that's the one everyone remembers, because that's the one they use in all the advertising. Is that really that important? I'm pretty sure they also gave Bumble teeth... which ,if you'll remember, were removed by Hermie to tame him in the original movie. But again, in almost all the Bumble merchandise, they show him with teeth, so they were just doing what people expected.
Anyway I thought it was as well done as the originals. I think the only reason you prefer those is cause they're what you remember, and cause they weren't CG. Maybe the CG is a bit simple, but they clearly put effort into producing a decent product where another company would have just put out crap and figured the kids wouldn't know the difference.
If you want to see an actual BAD Rudolph movie, then check out the cartoon they did a few years ago which had nothing to do with the original's characters, and instead had a white fox as his friend. THAT, my friend, was crap.
Oh, and since you mentioned Rudolph's nose glowing whenever he saw Clarice, I thought you'd like to see this little gem the animators tossed in there. Just as this occurs they cut to some little birds covering their eyes and you hear clarice going "ohHHh!":
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/.....mage009jz3.jpg
My...I must say I wasn't expecting to find such a long winded comment concerning this 15 minute doodle of a comic. In affect I feel you are taking things way to seriously, this is only my point of view after I only watched about ten minutes of the film. It came on, I saw stiff walking elves, a younger Rudolf, porcupin Bumble, and a reindeer fangirl and I was all WTF, me and my roommate commenced complaining. Its hard to argue with a purest and an animation major, we tend to like what we like and in this case we tend to lean towards classics which filled our childhood. So I'm sorry that I thought it was bad, but I tend to think alot s sequels made fourty some years after the fact to be bad.
And my opinion as quoted from Wikipedia "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys is a computer-animated feature film directed by Bill Kowalchuk. It is a sequel to the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special. The film is infamous for its widely criticised, low-budget computer animation as well as its criticism for its poor storyline, script and songs."
So in affect I find my point of dislike to be valid none the less, even if my source material may be lacking.
And my opinion as quoted from Wikipedia "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys is a computer-animated feature film directed by Bill Kowalchuk. It is a sequel to the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special. The film is infamous for its widely criticised, low-budget computer animation as well as its criticism for its poor storyline, script and songs."
So in affect I find my point of dislike to be valid none the less, even if my source material may be lacking.
I'm not taking it seriously, I just thought I'd provide an alrenate viewpoint.
As for what Wikipedia says, if you check Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/review/produc....._cr_pr_helpful
You'll see that half the people liked the movie, and half didn't like it. So while the Wikipedia article is technically accurate as far as the movie being "widely criticized", it was also widely acclaimed. Also, "infamous" is a bit much, don't you think? I mean who even talked about this movie? Rotten Tomatoes has NO reviews of it by any critics!
Oh, and it's against Wikipedia policy to present opinions... and this is why. It's inaccurate to say the movie was criticized when a full half the people that saw it, liked it!
Anyway, I don't really care if you didn't like it or not, I was just offering my opinion. There's far worse movies out there for kids than this. For example, the Life and Adventures of Santa Claus apparently animated by the same people that made the original Rudolph cartoons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh4zIi7S3ck
Creepy AND nonsensical!
As for what Wikipedia says, if you check Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/review/produc....._cr_pr_helpful
You'll see that half the people liked the movie, and half didn't like it. So while the Wikipedia article is technically accurate as far as the movie being "widely criticized", it was also widely acclaimed. Also, "infamous" is a bit much, don't you think? I mean who even talked about this movie? Rotten Tomatoes has NO reviews of it by any critics!
Oh, and it's against Wikipedia policy to present opinions... and this is why. It's inaccurate to say the movie was criticized when a full half the people that saw it, liked it!
Anyway, I don't really care if you didn't like it or not, I was just offering my opinion. There's far worse movies out there for kids than this. For example, the Life and Adventures of Santa Claus apparently animated by the same people that made the original Rudolph cartoons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh4zIi7S3ck
Creepy AND nonsensical!
Really? XD
I usually find my quick stuff to be sort of blah, but I try X3
I guess you could call it a sort of meme. It started with an artist creating a Monarch icon for someone and then blossomed into everybody wanting to be henchmen for the monarch. (some others wanting also to be other characters as well) Mine is only of like two that were not made by that artist...mostly because I don't have the money for such a thing as an icon XD Its sort of old at this point so many are starting to change to new icons.
Also Love to the Pterosaurs XD
I'm happy you like my character :3
I usually find my quick stuff to be sort of blah, but I try X3
I guess you could call it a sort of meme. It started with an artist creating a Monarch icon for someone and then blossomed into everybody wanting to be henchmen for the monarch. (some others wanting also to be other characters as well) Mine is only of like two that were not made by that artist...mostly because I don't have the money for such a thing as an icon XD Its sort of old at this point so many are starting to change to new icons.
Also Love to the Pterosaurs XD
I'm happy you like my character :3
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