When The Legend of Korra first aired, I loved it. It was an action series with stellar animation set in a world inspired by Asian cultures, combining fantasy with advanced technology. What's not to love?
To this day, my opinion largely remains the same, I love it so dearly it's even inspired my personal projects. However, I'm not blind to the flaws of the show, which it has a few: 2024-02-26 12:08:48 +0000 UTC View Post
A while back I wrote an extensive article on the archons of Magic: The Gathering. Since I don't feel like making a fool reboot (and I can't add more images to that article) I've decided to make a sequel article dealing with the archons we haven't reviewed yet.
Archon of Coronation
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2024-02-25 13:13:04 +0000 UTC
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Inspired by the Hazbin Hotel gen alpha covers
***
"Let me skibbidi fortnite cook" Chase said.
Leo sighed.
"Sleepy joe keep a gyatt head."
"But he was right, alphas can fortnite!" screamed Jenna.
"And here I thought you were woke" TJ shook his head.
"You didn't rizz?" Sydney asked, skibbidily.
"Ohio is right around the corner" Carl said.
"Yeah, for fatherless gyatts like you" Flynn whispered.
Suddenly Brian burst out the door!
"...
2024-02-24 10:45:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Where to even begin with this show?
This series focuses on a pair of paranormal detectives who have to be the most chaotic neutral characters to ever be created. They are the vectors through which this show establishes it's comedy: very fast paced, with enormously nonsensical jokes. You literally cannot predict where this goes.
In many regards, I find it similar to X...
2024-02-19 21:12:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Based on the comic if the same name (and NOT on a certain book also with the same name), this movie showcases a lonely dog getting company via a bought robot. They have a lovely life as friends, but an incident at the beach seperates them.
The animation is a beautiful 2D, with charismatic character designs. I'm not quite sure if I'd called it cinematic, more like something for a tv s...
2024-02-18 15:39:59 +0000 UTC View Post"Garret, look!" Stefan pointed.
Garret yawned, then got out the bed and joined his lover by the window.
"Godammnit, more snow?" the wolf whined, "I was hoping global warming would have made this a warm day. I'm tired of the cold."
"Well, guess it's more fun for us" Stefan said, licking Garret in the nose.
***
As the two stepped outside Stefan's home, the opossum, run to the side. With a fast stride, he knelt down and rolled up a snowball, then threw it at Garret'...
2024-02-14 11:09:56 +0000 UTC View Post
As the advertising has insisted, this is essentially a retelling of Don Quixote through a Toy Story like world. Except of just toys, puppets and animals also talk, and there appears to be no unspoken rule about hiding from humans, which makes the set up especially confusing, given some things we later learn.
Animation wise, it's generic CGI, but the imagination sequences have a vivid...
2024-02-13 17:55:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt started with the dawn, warm rays spreading across the bed.
Sydney woke up first, and nuzzled into his lover, gently as to not wake him up.
Alas, TJ yawned, and slowly turned around, their lips meeting.
"Love you" TJ said.
"Happy Valentine's" Sydney replied.
This seemed to put TJ on alert.
"I completely forgot. I'm so sorry-"
"Babe, relax" Sydney said as he kissed TJ's neck, "We'll celebrate it after work."
Slow, he untangled himself from TJ a...
2024-02-13 12:48:49 +0000 UTC View Post
So recently the largest Mesozoic mammal yet has been found. Weighting around 14 kg (just barely larger than Repenomamus giganticus), Patagomaia chainko was a terminal Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) animal that co-existed with a variety of other early mammals such as Orretherium and Pa...
2024-02-09 21:32:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The first 14 minutes of this movie are alright. Mid to bad CGI but nice action scenes inspired by Chinese mythology, plus a "bullied kid" protagonist who's interaction with said bully is rather refreshing innovative.
After grandma passes away, though, the movie takes a turn to the legitimately mediocre, being one of dime a dozen mentor/apprentice stories (as if the title didn't give that way, I...
2024-02-03 19:43:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Self is I believe the first Pixar short to use stop motion (well, partly, since only the titular character is stop-motion). As the short uses CGI for the other characters, this makes a commentary both on the nature of mediums as well as race.
Being overtly black coded, its not hard to see Self's desire to fit with the radiant-skinned CGI people as a commentary on race and social acce...
2024-02-03 18:03:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This latest Dreamworks flick has quite the mixture of mediums. I don't much care for the "default" CGI, as the human characters are stylized in a not very pleasing way. However, the CGI models on the various supernatural entities look very pleasing - pretty sure there are 2D effects in some of them - and occasionally the movie pivots to 2D animation. Some transitions are downrig...
2024-02-02 17:48:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Having watched the pilot when it premeered, Hazbin Hotel has laid a good impression on me. It harkens back to deviantart's 2000's days, and that a show with that kind of aesthetics and characters became a proper, actual streaming series is beyond amazing.
In its transition to becoming a series, Hazbin retained its "deviantartisms" in terms of aesthetics, making it rather unique at th...
2024-02-02 11:22:29 +0000 UTC View PostBut I'm messy too.
Nick knocked on the door.
"Coming" said a familiar, beloved voice from beyond.
When the door was open, Frank's room was steamy, as if he had just gotten out of a bath. Behind him, his bed was a mess as always, as were his multiple screens.
"Sorry, I'm still can't stop being this...mess."
"Well" Nick said, closing in to peck Frank in the lips, "I'm a bit of a mess myself."
The two kissed deeply, hastily...
2024-02-01 18:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Myanmar amber enantiornithean. Artist uncredited.
Recently a “new” continent was described, Argoland. More accurately described as a series of landmasses that seperated from Gondwanna and attached to Asia in the mid-Cretaceous, such a landmass probably warrants some unique biota.
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Calamity has merits both as a biopic as well as an artistic excellence.
On the animation side of things, the visuals are absolutely pheomenal, utilising a type of 2D animation that resembles a moving painting. There are no lines, going through the Samurai Jack style of utilising colors only. The occasional addition of CGI is the only part where the movie doesn't excell as it is notable.
I...
2024-01-20 19:54:11 +0000 UTC View Post"Your favourite" Milo said, laying a chocolate and caramel cake with 30 candles on the table gently.
"Thank you Milo" Raoul replied, salivating.
If it was up to him, he'd pounce on that cake like a wolf. But the discipline he honed for the past few months allowed him to stop and think.
"Happy birthday to you..." Milo sang, about as enthusiastic as he could be, clapping his wings together.
Raoul was not paying any attention to...
2024-01-11 12:14:56 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/658680/2023-restrospective
2023-12-31 23:58:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Japanese stop motion is generally underappreciated, so I'm glad a franchise as big as Pokemon is utilising it. Indeed, this is high quality animation on a technical level, with extreme fluidity, though this can backfire as the "flawed" quirks of stop-motion have largely been ironed over.
The four episode story follows Haru and her mid-life crisis being healed by her stay a...
2023-12-30 21:08:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Fox Mcloud in the Star Fox animated thingie vs his father in A Fox In Space.
One odd thing I noticed comparing anthropomorphic animals between eastern and western production is that each seems to have a predominant style. Western animated furries are more often "Disney-esque", having softer features and large eyes with large irises. Eastern, predominantly Japanese furries, on the other hand, ha...
2023-12-29 10:29:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Seems that a traditional animated feature per Christmas is now standard for the UK. This year we get this adaptation of Judith Kerr's book. The animation is beyond stellar, with long, panning shots. Mog herself moves and has manneirisms much like a real cat.
On a purely technical level, this short is quite lovely. Story wise, however, it's a bit hard to stomach Mog's clear extremely ...
2023-12-26 10:56:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Kren pakshee, a fictional nyctosaurid from Nyctosaurid Earth. The original description had this and it's ilk have more neck vertebrae than the azhdarchids they mimick, but it has since been rectified.
One thing that I see neglect is how pterosaurs seem to have a limited amo...
2023-12-25 21:31:09 +0000 UTC View PostMurdoch honours the old gods this Christmas
As the others were preoccupied with Christmas activities, Murdoch excused himself.
He grabbed a cup of wine, and approached the fireplace.
"Brighid, light of the hearth, patron of smiths, reborn in the solstice, please let this be a joyful year."
He had muttered that prayer, hoping to not draw too much attention, but Cliff ws already by his side, eyeing him curiously. He ignored them for t...
2023-12-25 10:40:49 +0000 UTC View Post"No fucking way!" Shams shouted.
"Language, mister" Kudzu said.
"Sorry" the cheetah cub replied, "It's just so..."
"Exactly what you wanted?" Chase chimed in.
"Yeah. Thank you guys so much."
Shams then gave each of his father's a hug, Leo being the last and suffocating him with kisses.
"Dad!"
"So glad you're happy, bicho."
"You're like the spirit of Christmas...
2023-12-24 11:56:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Supa Team 4 takes a serious real life problem, that of the energy crisis in Zambia, and turns it into a colourful premise for a super hero show. The show is serialized with greater ongoing plots, rewarding hawkeyed viewers that pay attention to every minute detail.
However, for the most part it is a formulaic action show, and seeing the four girls take down the villains of the week -...
2023-12-22 23:33:15 +0000 UTC View PostIn these days,
From equinox to solstice,
You set behind an acacia.
Your light flares among the leaves,
Beyond the tree.
Yet now,
In your shortest day yet,
You set south to it,
The tree does not blanket you.
I see you clearly now.
2023-12-21 17:11:57 +0000 UTC View Post
If I had a nickel for every time a 2023 animated movie involved stars, I'd have two nickels, but it'd still be weird it happened twice.
Where this movie truly shines is the creative worldbuilding. The north pole has several unique locations, the reindeer modernized while the elves didn't, and overall we get a taste of the day to day lives of the denizens of the far north. ...
2023-12-20 10:51:43 +0000 UTC View Post
So the spectacle has come and gone. Once Upon A Studio celebrated the 100 years milestone with grace, while Wish did so with disappointment and playing it absurdly safe (barring the credits sequence, I openly admit crying at that). I have so many feelings about this that I might as well be a bonfire, each flame a different opinion.
Of course there's nostalgia. It's hard not to...
2023-12-19 10:52:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Carol & the end of the world is yet another entry into the quiet, mature sci-fi animated menagerie of 2013 alongside Fired on Mars and Scavengers Reign. It is a bit more comedic than both, but still relatively down to earth and not as extravagant, since it deals with very real problems like depression, introversion and impostor syndrome.
The character designs are rather unique fo...
2023-12-16 10:37:06 +0000 UTC View Post