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    Moeblobs always kind of remind me of the ongoing equivalent trend in western animation of depicting female characters with the exact same childlike features: heart-shaped face, large almond-shaped eyes, and a very small nose and mouth set very low on the face. It not only looks bad from a visual standpoint, it's creepily infantilizing.

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    Lip sync is such a weird thing to get hung up on in animation to me. Its such an abstraction that I absolutely do not notice. My childhood circumstances (growing up with significant multi-lingual content and ubiquitous subtitling) probably predisposes me to disregard it though.

     

    It's really hard to get right and is a pretty important part of western animation, but I imagine it's way easier to flub in Japanese where the language seems to have a much more strict, predictable rhythm. Plus there was a precedent of manga characters doing all of their expression through their eyes with relatively small mouths for years before animation hit Japanese TV.

     

    See, this kind of discussion is why I actually would like to be on this thing.

     

     

    As and aside, my anatomy teacher hated anime because it led to year after year of students who didn't know how to draw a damn nose, which is reasoning I can get behind.

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    Oh god I remember listening to one of the animation tutors at my uni go into a near incandescent rage rant on that whole subject.

     

    Yeah, I spent the better part of my life trying to break into animation before deciding it wasn't for me, and anime was hugely looked down on by my college professors for reasons that generally boiled down to its cost-cutting techniques, which is funny since American TV animation was

    techniques for cutting costs until right around the time the Disney Afternoon rolled around. Regardless, though, my animator brain still primarily divides Eastern and Western animation by its lip-sync.

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    So BoI:R is coming to Xbox One, new 3DS and Wii U, with some amazing deliberate asinine changes to the Nintendo versions that I had to check multiple sources on before I was sure it wasn't just an April Fool's joke. What really interested me about that update, though, was the accompanying crossed-off note on the bottom. I've always been kind of on the fence about Binding of Issac. The gameplay is pretty fun, but it was always pretty ambiguous whether the themes it chose to deal with were picked because there was actual commentary to be made or if they were just trying to be deliberately offensive. Seeing the note and how badly it smacks of "SJWs takin' away our games" leads me to believe it's probably the latter and, if that's the case, very likely not really worth my time.

  21. Posted

    I love that none of the Thumbs realized that Two Rooms And A Boom is a game that they had already played and talked about mere months ago.

     

     

    Oh, and regarding western religious imagery in Japanese pop culture: I'm sure that there's an interesting discussion to be had regarding western influence on Japan and the growth of Christianity in that region over the past half-century or so etc etc; but it is astonishing how much of that can be directly traced back to the massively influential 1995 anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was deliberately given extremely strong religious imagery solely because the director thought it looked cool. It's everywhere in that show and all of it is 100% meaningless.

  22. Posted

    So allegedly that Binding of Isaac thing isn't a joke. The game really is coming to Wii U and New 3DS (only New, not the olds ones or the 2DS) with those changes, and coming to Xbox One untouched.