Spongebob was a core piece of my childhood. I hoarded as much memorabilia I could get my hands on, and one of the first drawings I ever made that I still have was of the characters. One time while going through the menus of the spongebob movie as a very young kid, I discovered an interview with Stephen Hillenburg. I was fascinated by everything he spoke about, telling me the secrets of how spongebob came to be, from the perfect humor that still holds up, to his actual real life experience with marine biology. From then on my life was influenced forever by him, and I definitely would’ve been a completely different person without him. So long ocean man <3, thank you so so much
that post was right i wouldn’t have a sense of humor without spongebob. its still some of the goddamn funniest shit i’ve ever seen. spongebob almost dying because he’s too polite to ask for a glass of water at sandy’s house. mr. krabs and spongebob killing the health inspector. smittywerbenjagermenjensen. “I was born with glass bones and paper skin. every morning I break my legs. and every afternoon I break my arms.” the perfume department on the flying dutchman’s boat. that time spongebob cleared his mind to be a fine dining waiter and forgot his own name because that’s how customer service just BE. the ugly barnacle that was so ugly everyone DIED. the END. the one where squidward buys a pie but it’s actually a bomb. and the MUSICAL numbers like??? the fun song. the christmas song. tony award winning song “this grill is not a grill”. the entire band geeks episode like…this is all from the top of my head!!!!! just from the top of my head!!! there’s so much more!!! thank god for stephen and all the laughs i’ve had because of him.
I’m gonna be real here for a sec, and I’m sorry for being the one to say it. Every single one of you who is advocating for shows that tried to be inclusive and had hiccups to be voted down and be punished by attempting to lower the ratings and sending messages to the higher ups are playing themselves. You all turned on SU, Korra, Voltron, and will turn on the Dragon Prince and She-Ra as well when those also turn out to be flawed shows and not peak respectability politics as well. There is no such thing as a perfect show, let alone the prefect rep.
Do you really believe execs care about what you’re saying? All that they will see is that people hate shows with reps, and that shows with reps get the most hate and more so than shows that don’t even try, so the message to them is that we shouldn’t try since people will eventually turn on them. All you’re doing is making creators see what these shows go through and go you know what, it’s not worth it. Because the level of outright malice is vicious and horrifying.
Execs don’t care what you’re saying all they see is that you hated the rep so to them it’s better to not have rep. If you think big corporations care about your plight then you are heavily misguided. Creators have to fight and fight to get scraps and there are many internal politics on what goes down and how. They aren’t kidding when they say they fight for it. Shows that try will always be held on a higher standard and when that isn’t met it’s punished for trying and those above the shows will go welp, better never include those nasty queers if they’re gonna hate it. Thats’ the bitter reality of it and it will never change so choose your words and actions carefully.
netflix is literally losing money over regions that prohibit queer representation, you KNOW they will JUMP on the chance to cancel shows with rep to replace them with more hetero (mainstream) shows they can show in all regions! so please don’t be the reason they cancel these shows, and please remember that in the end, it is a cartoon aimed at children, there are a lot of restrictions on them already.
I wonder how many lackluster characters/entire stories have gotten a free ride here on tumblr since a lot of ppl here are kind of creative types who filled in all the gaps with their own headcanons and convinced themselves the source material was good without realizing they’d done the writer’s job for them?
Yeah no
Vld makes sense
But bnha and SU doesnt. And honestly, you entitled little brats shouldn’t even be reading this series
I also love how you ignore so much context to be a meme
Vld dismantles toxic masculinity
SU has been exploring abuse, relationships, impact of war, etc well
Bnha has been exploring abuse, impact of stress, and what it means to be a hero
What these 3 have in common is that their fandoms are filled with the purity police
The content you talk about are self inserts and shipping. See, you arent even subtle. Anyone can tell youre a pathetic edgelord who wants to hate everything
Like god a series can be flawed, do you understand? The series is being improved as time and the results show.
And stop judging the fucking source material based on their fandom. Are you on crack, why are you thinking the material the fandom has no say in should have their quality determined by people who have nothing to do with it.
When I was in school and wanted to work in animation, there was very little information about how cartoons are actually made. Even my professors at college knew very little about the industry as it is today. I’m sure it would’ve been better to study somewhere in California (like CalArts) to be better informed about this stuff, but I didn’t have that opportunity.
Nowadays, many kids in school have a dream career that they don’t really know much about. There’s a lot of missing bits of information and a lot of straight up lies that get circulated as fact as people try to scramble to put the pieces together on how cartoons for television are actually made.
I’ve been storyboarding for television for a while now, and there still aren’t clear resources for those wanting to get into the industry. I wanted to make the basics available to everyone, so here’s a quick rundown through the TV pipeline. Please note: all studios and productions are different. Even cartoons made within the same studio could have wildly different production guidelines. This is not a concrete explanation of how every cartoon is made; this is simply a generalized look at the “typical” television pipeline.
**DISCLAIMER** All images in this post have been sourced from blogs, twitters, scribd and flickr pages are publicly available, and no internal studio materials have been used that have not been already published publicly online. This post is influenced heavily by my own individual experience, as well as friends’.
With that said, this might be a lengthy read, so let’s go!
this is great, but remember that script-driven shows have an entirely different production process! also, not everyone who works in animation is an artist or has gone to an art school. board artists/revisionists, background painters, designers, color stylists, etc are a very important part of making a show, but they’re not the only jobs you can get in animation. non-artists work at studios too and still have roles just as important.
Stressed, Depressed, and Story Obsessed 