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SupSuper
23 Jun 2006, 12:37
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/back_to_the_futurama_entertainment_don_kaplan.htm
Comedy Central will be funding Futurama's future now.

bonz
23 Jun 2006, 12:41
Yeah! Finally!

Traxada
23 Jun 2006, 14:35
Yes Good God There Is A Bender Related God!

Xinos
23 Jun 2006, 15:21
Ah, wonderful!
But... I am already in my pyjamas..

AndrewTaylor
23 Jun 2006, 16:59
Call me cynical, but the last three "Futurama's Returning" releases were all lies. I'll believe it when they give us an air date.

thomasp
23 Jun 2006, 21:03
Call me cynical, but the last three "Futurama's Returning" releases were all lies. I'll believe it when they give us an air date.
*Kind of agrees*
But anyway:
WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP!
*Scuttles off*

philby4000
24 Jun 2006, 01:16
I belive this deserves a 'Woot'.
...
Woot.

Xinos
24 Jun 2006, 12:50
An actually rather boring comercial for Al Gore's movie;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BjrOi4vF24
But still, would they make it if Futurama really wasn't coming back?

AndrewTaylor
24 Jun 2006, 13:06
If that's how well the new Futurama will be animated I vote it stays dead.

MonkeyforaHead
24 Jun 2006, 19:07
I was thinking that too, but then I realized that at least half of it is YouTube's automatic reduction of the framerate. Then if you look at the credits pertaining to any of the actual graphics, there was one person in "animation", one "FX animation", one "rough draft editor", one "clean-up", one "camera composite", and one "digital ink & paint". I never paid much attention to the credits of the original show, but somehow I think there were generally more people involved in an episode than that. :p

AndrewTaylor
24 Jun 2006, 19:54
There would be. An episode is twenty times as long. I've seen better animation than that on Newgrounds.
That is not anything like up to par, and none of the blame can be levelled to YouTube. That was just lazy -- only the mouth moved for most of it. Any individual frame would look alright, but the animation was... well, there wasn't any.

SupSuper
24 Jun 2006, 23:58
It says "Animation by Rough Draft Studios", so maybe they didn't pay them a lot for that video. :p

worMatty
25 Jun 2006, 00:37
It appears to have been sanctioned by a politician. No further explanation is necessary.

AndrewTaylor
25 Jun 2006, 01:02
It says "Animation by Rough Draft Studios", so maybe they didn't pay them a lot for that video. :p
Rough Draft Studios is the company that animates Futurama.

SupSuper
25 Jun 2006, 16:14
It appears to have been sanctioned by a politician. No further explanation is necessary.It's a "pseudo-trailer" for a movie with a politician: Inconvenient Truth. Why wouldn't it be sanctioned?
Rough Draft Studios is the company that animates Futurama.Yeah I found that out with a little googling. In any case, judging the future of Futurama from a simple video hardly seems right. It's not like that video needed tons of animation to get its point across.

Xinos
25 Jun 2006, 18:42
There would be. An episode is twenty times as long. I've seen better animation than that on Newgrounds.
That's not saying much...

AndrewTaylor
26 Jun 2006, 01:29
That's not saying much...
About the animation or about Newgrounds?
Frankly, I don't think it's saying a great deal about either. The point was that one bloke and a computer on zero budget for no reason other than self indulgence should not be able to do better than a paid group of professionals.

MonkeyforaHead
27 Jun 2006, 17:03
About the animation or about Newgrounds?
Frankly, I don't think it's saying a great deal about either. The point was that one bloke and a computer on zero budget for no reason other than self indulgence should not be able to do better than a paid group of professionals.
Correction: A paid group of professionals should be able to do better than one bloke and a computer on zero budget for no reason other than self indulgence. :p

Xinos
27 Jun 2006, 18:24
About the animation or about Newgrounds?
Frankly, I don't think it's saying a great deal about either. The point was that one bloke and a computer on zero budget for no reason other than self indulgence should not be able to do better than a paid group of professionals.
The professionals should be better, yes. But it's because unpaid people have skill that companys hire new employees =P

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