The delicious looking anime food trope becomes more interesting when you put in to consideration that Yasuo Otsuka (a departed veteran of Japanese animation) mentioned that he & his peers were enamored with the food from Tom & Jerry when seeing U.S. cartoons for the 1st time
This film is so visually interesting. It feels like something that would come out of French animation. Most cgi films go for a very clean look, but this has a roughness to it that reminds me of Syvian Chomet. I especially like the bird that has an arrow in it's head.
Years ago, I saw a Youtube cartoon reviewer say that this show looks ugly & badly drawn.
Cartoonists should listen to cartoon reviewers, they are very knowledgeable about animation.
I love Toriyama's palm trees. He did them because they were easy & fast to draw. Even his shortcuts/time savers would give the environments such unique vibes, eslecially in early DB
There's a vid of Tartakovsky saying that when he started work at CN he had acsess to the og prints of old HB cartoons & he had to stop watching them to keep the illusion from his youth of them being good. He pointed out Hong Kong Phooey specifically
It's like a generational collective consciousness thing in Japan's animation. Even back in the day great care was put in to making food look good.
Otsuka said that young Japanese animators were enamired with the fridges full of food & fresh milk delivery that'd be seen in T&J
ABSOLUTE CINEMA
Amazing how they put something like this in an early flash toon, I guess somebody had extra time and decided to have some fun with the animation.
One of the interesting things about the plagues of Egypt is that, narratively, it's supposed to be God killing the Egyptian gods. Hapi, god of the Nile, was one of their most celebrated gods. So it starts with the Nile turning to blood.
Though their reason for being enamired not only with T&J's food but also it's big houses & cars becomes rather saddening when you take in to consideration that they grew up in post WWII Japan.
These things were extravagant luxuries for a lot of them.
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It's great, I'd love if there was a cartoon these days that looks like this. That one nicktoon with a kid in an orange shirt comes close to this sort of charm.
These cartoons are ridiculously simple, but they got some of the best stylization you will ever find in a cartoon. Great poses, line weight, color moods. It's all really well done.
Like with Chomet, all the characters have a very visible brokeness to them. Both in body & spirit. Eyes & limbs missing, rough voices, scars, the exhaustion from lack of water. They are constantly on the edge of death.
Once I saw a quote where an old school Japanese animator said that their favorite parts of Tom and Jerry were the fridges full of food. I think it was Yasuo Otsuka but I'm not quite sure.
#tomandjerry
#cat
Did you know that there was an ex Warner Bros animator who got a lobodomy in his later years, making him forget that he worked on Fritz.
I forgot his name.
Absolutely fantastic freak out sequence!
When characters don't have control of the situation they find them selves in you can really go insane with the visuals.
When Miyazaki was telling Otsuka that Lupin should drive a more humble car than his usual Mercedes, he pointed at a beat up Fiat on the studio parking lot & said "It should look like that crap!"
Otsuka said that's his car.
There's a great line where a family of convicts is preparing for their death sentance & the father says to his kids that "They gotta look good for when they meet their maker". Very morbid, but also when your death is near the best you can hope for is that it'll be beautiful.
It's pretty awesome how there were so many psycho cults in America that uncle Walt told his animators to make a Rescue Rangers episode telling kids not to join a cult & to not drink the Cola.