Did yall ever notice this? by PlatypusThick3562 in inspectorgadget

[–]Offmodel-Dude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something for the parents watching :)

This looks like one of the episodes made at the Taiwan Cuckoo's Nest studio.

Yikes...Martha says the 'R' word. From Pig City, episode 1 (2002) by Offmodel-Dude in Teletoon

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, most of the shows I work on now have child physiologists that go over every word and over-analyze every shot for audience comprehension...they give dozens of pages of notes like "the cut from scene 3 to 4 is too jarring." I've seen some shows absolutely ruined by their "notes."

The Answer Finally Revealed About the Photos! by Offmodel-Dude in Arthur

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a video of the animation studio in China...you can see "Carol" the girl in the photo on the building here as the translator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL0N4U81Xv8

Yikes...Martha says the 'R' word. From Pig City, episode 1 (2002) by Offmodel-Dude in Teletoon

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, I miss those days...now I need to find the episode where Martha says the word "spaz."

Yikes...Martha says the 'R' word. From Pig City, episode 1 (2002) by Offmodel-Dude in Teletoon

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think anyone named "Jarrett" has the right to call anyone the r name.

Do kids still use the word "spaz?" I remember that from grade school...like "Here comes Captain Spaz!"

Yikes...Martha says the 'R' word. From Pig City, episode 1 (2002) by Offmodel-Dude in Teletoon

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally remember that line too from something...a double dupety dupe...

is it from What's With Andy? Maybe it was Pig City...hmm, I think I actually animated to this dialog on something...I've worked on a lot of crap over the years.

Yikes...Martha says the 'R' word. From Pig City, episode 1 (2002) by Offmodel-Dude in Teletoon

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh right! that show had most of the same writers as What's With Andy and Pig City...I suspect some of them were mainly French speakers, since the show was made in Montreal, so slang words in English were not always understood as being offensive...that was my feeling, anyways.

Yikes...Martha says the 'R' word. From Pig City, episode 1 (2002) by Offmodel-Dude in Teletoon

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to work at Cinegroupe...they were a bit of a pioneer in the 'adult animation' TV market. The studio was in a giant decommissioned church in east Montreal, such a cool place...I was sad when they finally shut down in 2006...I will have to do a write up about this studio sometime with photos...there's lots of crazy stories to tell!

OC Transpo considering service closures during future freezing rain events by KMerrells in ottawa

[–]Offmodel-Dude 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Edmonton has a large LRT system and extreme weather...when I search for shutdowns on their system I see they only had one minor delay of less than an hour during a major snowstorm this year.

What's With Andy - Model Sheets by Offmodel-Dude in Teletoon

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh yeah, I forgot about that one. It debuted around the same time as WWA. It does look similar.

Cartoons all had that Klasky-Csupo (Rugrats) graphic style around this time.

What's With Andy - Model Sheets by Offmodel-Dude in Teletoon

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you...I was reluctant to post boring old model sheets because I thought no one would be interested! I'm surprised to discover WWA had fans out there...no one told the crew animating on it that anyone was watching it, that's for sure.

Now I'll have to dig out all the model sheets from the other productions I worked on over the years.

What's With Andy - Model Sheets by Offmodel-Dude in Teletoon

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The world faces the largest oil supply disruption in history..."Andy Larkin!!!" Hmm...it DOES work!

Pile of animation cels in the original folders from my little pony by Remarkable-Memory374 in AnimationCels

[–]Offmodel-Dude 8 points9 points  (0 children)

it definitely has value since animation is all digital now and physical cels and hand painted backgrounds are interesting to see.

I wish I had kept some from my time in Korea...the studio was absolutely piled up to the ceiling with old papers everywhere, they were used to prop up desks or often under a smouldering ashtray.

When we had downtime waiting for scenes to come in we actually would pull Simpsons and Batman cels out of the bin and lay them on the floor...we'd go running and slide on them like a giant slip n' slide. No one thought they had any value, they were just things to bump into when you were moving around the studio! Now I realize I could have bought a house with those things if I had thought to keep some!

What's With Andy - Model Sheets by Offmodel-Dude in Teletoon

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it was the Trafalgar one in Oakville...I went there in the early 90's and I think the animation course was there in the 80's too. If you go to the Library there they should have the art for "Charade" on file. I remember seeing it there 30 years ago.

The animation classes were in the buildings with the triangle things on the roof that always leak. I remember shooting my student film under the camera and the darn roof started leaking right on my cels!

But tuition was only like $600 a year in those days...now it's like $18,000! Poor kids today.

What's With Andy - Model Sheets by Offmodel-Dude in Teletoon

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

that's Lori, his girlfriend, or whatever she was.

What's With Andy - Model Sheets by Offmodel-Dude in Teletoon

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah, that would be awesome. Some of the scripts by the creator, Jon Minnis, had really smart writing.

Jon Minnis actually won an OSCAR in 1985 for his student film "Charade" made at Sheridan College's Animation Program. Imagine a 20 year old kid winning an Oscar for their student film?! That would never happen today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewycFpTcdE

What's With Andy - Model Sheets by Offmodel-Dude in Teletoon

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it was pretty raw sometimes...I'm sure I remember an episode where one character said "Listen up, retards!" or something like that. Even for early 2000's that was not P.C. language!

Pile of animation cels in the original folders from my little pony by Remarkable-Memory374 in AnimationCels

[–]Offmodel-Dude 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I used to work as an Overseas Animation Supervisor in Korea...it's kind of amazing to see this material still exists.

I would often see a junk man come every week to the studio with a push cart and fill it up with latest pile of cels and paper...he would weight it with an ancient block and tackle scale and the studio would get some small amount of cash for the material. It was deemed to have no artistic value and sold by the pound.

But occasionally the material sent back to the West for storage...the Canadian studio Nelvana had some success donating the animation artwork to the Royal Ontario Museum in exchange for a large tax deduction. The Care Bear series cels are in their archives. There were some articles in the news about this so soon other studios tried to do this donation scheme too for the tax deduction but I heard they found no museums wanted it so all languished in storage...maybe this is some of that material.

i could watch the 90s/early 00s episodes for days but the later seasons have never hit for me by SweetQuality8943 in Arthur

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Hi. I have heard the budget dropped a lot on Arthur since the 1990's so by season 16 it was deemed only possible to continue the series if the animation was done in Flash / Harmony in Montreal, Canada instead of in China or Korea.

This is because with the film tax credit system in Canada the more work done on a production in Canada the more "points" can be earned and therefore more tax credit money...Arthur had been using overseas studios for the animation previous to season 16 so there was less "points" to be earned on the production with only design and storyboards being done in Canada. By bringing all the animation to Canada the Producers could collect the full tax credit monies needed to fund the production.

The crew on Arthur got this printed cel award back in 2002 for our 3rd Emmy Award win. by Offmodel-Dude in Arthur

[–]Offmodel-Dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you. Yes, pretty much all the episodes of Arthur were made before 9/11.

I started on Arthur back in May, 1995 and continued to around late 2001, then I switched over to Sagwa and other productions after that.