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Originally Posted by tyrone
I'm just surprised by how much of it is mean-spirited. I had hoped we would have received more support from our own community.
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I have to agree tyrone, animation is alot more expensive and labor-intensive that a live-action production. Liken the Scriptures and others like Excel and Halestorm have this "low-budget" qouta for each movie so they don't spend too much in our "small lds market".
What I don't get is people like "The Living Scriptures" were able to make a competitive quality animation series with their scripture cartoons, but they also charge 30 bucks for their dvds.
Right now I am doing an "LDS Animation" survey(3d is absent in the poll) to see what LDS members like us think about animation.
But I am pretty sure as us both being animators to some extent(you use 3DS, I sometimes use Flash) that 2D animation is now being done overseas 70 to 90 percent of the time, and it's probably hindering low-budget LDS films to breaking into the recent 2D animation market. Though I am pretty sure some of us "otakus" wouldn't mind an LDS-themed Anime, even American Anime companies sometimes take a hit when getting a china, japan, or korean studio to give them animation in a competitive quality.
I am a big fan of Robotech and when Harmony Gold for the first time was on their own they hired DR Movie, a big korean studio to do the animation, and their CFO(Chief Financial Officer) was a bit stressed about it, and also some of the mecha was done in low-quality CG so it kind of counter-acted the decent hand-drawn characters.
I wasn't really to be "mean-spirited" I just take animation-quality to what it looks and feels, and being a big animation junkie I think you were robbed for being the only animator on a project that has so much potential, we LDS members if we want others to appreciate us more as a large community we need to compete at some competitive level, and though we can be cheap in "Singles Ward" or "The RM"...animation is an art that shouldn't be wreakened with.
When they were making Batman Animated Series back in the 90s, it might be a bunched of painted pictures on paper but you need to make any kind, ANY kind of animation convincing and enjoyable, and if we are going to have solo-animator or poor-managed animation like "Scripture Bugs"...I think we need to turn up our creativity, our ambition to another level.
We are as capable as everyone else, so not why act and do like that? I just realised this is getting very long so I'll just end on the note that we should be what we are:
"Indestructible"