Object shows rant!

#1

DISCLAIMER: everything in this post is MY OPINION and you do not need to read or listen to it. I am posting about this simply because I want to meet those of similar opinions.

I don’t like object shows. to me, they’re boring and have no real story, and the plots are never any good at all. The voice acting is rarely good, and the characters usually have a very stiff personality. In the case of Wick Editor, they’re even worse, because the characters most people use aren’t made by them. they’re not hand-drawn, but downloaded from others to use. Even the arms and legs used in Wick are just taken from this one other post I forget the name of. I find this extremely lazy, sloppy, and “un-creative.” I believe that animation should be made by the animator, not made by overusing the tween option. characters should almost always be made by the person animating. If you read all this, what are your thoughts?

**keep in mind that this post is not meant to be an attack on anybody and is completely my opinion.

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#2

:frowning:

At The Harbor

#3

try to watcg hfjone

#4

What about this? why reply with no message?

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#5

I watched a little bit of multiple, that’s what sparked this post.

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#6

I just meant I didn’t agree with the post, but you can have your own opinion

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#7

I heavily agree with this, frame by frame animation without spamming tweens would be so much better, and making your own assets would add more personality to It rather than it just being a copy paste of someone elses drawing (depending on what’s used) this is my opinion on a lot of puppet animation like object shows and sometimes stick nodes, with the sole exception of madness combat

mainly because the sheer ammount of hand expressions and angles you can use for the characters
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#8

Okay but what about the passion? also not ALL object shows abuse the tweens my object show i’ve been working on started out bad, with pixelated assets and lazy animation. But I never gave up! I’m remaking my object show and making the assets 10x better! just look at these assets I made for the show: A little something i'm working on! See? Passion.

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#9

+1! I think that the reason many use asset packs is because they are trying to replicate and extend a show they already like. If you go back, all of the first (non-jnj) object shows look like badly animated fanfics.

#10

exactly, just look at II (The 2nd or 3rd object show btw)image

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#11

All good points, but so many people make object shows using the same assets that at some point passion ends and slop begins. I’m talking about most object shows, not yours specifically. I like that you’ve made the assets yourself, that totally negates half my original point, but there’s so many object shows that originality becomes difficult because it’s not viewed as “(this person’s) object show” anymore. It’s viewed as “just another object show.” Basically, if you’re making an object show you’d better be damn well prepared to make it stand out, with genuinely good animation and story.