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John K. to Animate Simpsons Opening

Post by Terry Y » Tue Oct 18, 2011 6:39 pm

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Re: John K. to Animate Simpsons Opening

Post by fellranger » Tue Oct 18, 2011 10:00 pm

I've never been a fan of his style so I'm not exactly excited... :P That said, being an animator, he'll probably do a decent job. I saw Banksy's "effort" which had its moments I suppose, but largely came off as Banksy being a pretentious twat...
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Re: John K. to Animate Simpsons Opening

Post by Stretch_Dude » Tue Oct 18, 2011 10:17 pm

It already aired with "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts," guys.
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Re: John K. to Animate Simpsons Opening

Post by Terry Y » Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:10 pm

Stretch_Dude wrote:It already aired with "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts," guys.
I am so out of the loop....
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Re: John K. to Animate Simpsons Opening

Post by missy_misery » Thu Oct 20, 2011 3:56 am

And it was a great little gag, too:

Link for anyone who missed it.
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Re: John K. to Animate Simpsons Opening

Post by Terry Y » Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:06 am

Spoiler
It's over...
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Re: John K. to Animate Simpsons Opening

Post by Moleman » Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:33 pm

Still can't work out whether I like it or not. I think maybe I'm just not so much into his style.

I saw him do an outdoor exhibition in Germnany last year (more by luck that judgement as it was just round the corner from my B&B in Berlin) and although I knew he is obviously a great in his field, I just couldn't get on board with it.

The Banksy one was terrible in my opinion too. Hmm, all seems a bit unnecessary to me.
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Re: John K. to Animate Simpsons Opening

Post by c_nordlander » Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:01 am

You know, if it had said "John Kricfalusi" in the topic I would have known who you were talking about.

I thought it was funny, but it went on for too long. Couch gags only have a limited amount of time before they kill the pacing stone dead.

I guess it's kind of suitable since I don't know if 90s bad-taste cartoons would ever have had the market if not for The Simpsons opening the way...
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