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My essay, Animators and money is a research essay about the animation industry, job rolls and merchandising. I was always curious about what where the different job rolls and what they were called. When I first started, it I was only aware of Director, Producer, storyboard artist, inbetweeners and animators. When researching, I found that a runner is basically an intern that help out around the office, by keeping the place where the animators work with fresh supplies and making photo copies. It is also a good way to start off in the animation industry and does give the runner lots of experience. Also, came to find out that not all animation projects ca go as plan as the movie called Sausage party was unbudgeted and the creator decided that forcing the animators to work extra hours for free or get blacklisted, which for animator is or a freelancer is not a good thing to have. Some of the people that work on the project for a year did not even get credited for their work. Then there is the merchandising that that I thought that animators who create setting and character can also get some of the money that the merchandising gets, especially if it’s a film and it became a big success. But only the creator of the show and the concept artist would be the only ones who would get the most of the money from the merchandise. Being the one that comes up with the ideas for a lot of things they are paid the most.
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Handling popular licenses for adaptations
Popular show that have a huge fan base and new reboots that have new directors and art style. Sometime they can be successful movie or show, bringing old fans with new generation of fans. Or bring a book to the big screen and giving new imagination to the world the story takes place in. But other times it can go very wrong. Sometime the reboots of shows don’t have the same writing or spirt that the pervious show once had. Or even when new director decide to put his vison of a show and make it into a new style of animation. The director could even change the tune of the show, from a serious character driven, to a slap stick comedy.
An example of this would be Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go. Teen Titans was a show about sidekick superheroes fighting crime on their own, it was anime influence for the animation. Each of the characters were flesh out and were given their own season to do so, delving in to serious themes, of growing up, death, bad parenting, being an outcast and psychological obsess problem. The show had its light moments with its anime influence jokes and animation. But when it came to serious matters this got dark and personal. With each challenge they overcome the character came closer together.
With the spin off show called Teen Titans Go, all of that was drop or made fun of. Even though the show is supposed to be a comedy from the start, but of lately after many complaints from the fans of the previous show, the comedy is more directed to the old fans of the original Teen Titans. Their writing was made of kids of this generation, with musical numbers about favorite food, and the biggest threat to being too much television. With such childish writing for a popular action cartoon many people had a lot of complaints. This problem anger the writers because they decided to make episodes dedicated to telling people that they will do things their own way. Old fans did not like the brainless style of the new show, so they made a parody of themselves being a serous version of themselves. People complaint about the animation and voice acting. So the directors made the characters exaggerate being a proper actor and have better animation. Other times they just Break the forth wall and look at the viewers and tell them off. It would seem from watching the show that the creators are not going to listen to any negative feedback to do what they feel like. Other example would be the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Transformers movies.
There are time when the Team behind a show or movie is having just as much fun as making it as the viewer is watching. While watching their work someone can see the love and personal attachment the development team has with the show. Weather it is stories that can only be created because someone had such and experience themselves or emotional struggle that they themselves had gone throw. Making sure that that they balance out the comments of their viewers and their own artistic ideas, bring their own taste in art and in music as well as putting different variations of themselves as characters. Creators would sometime make an appearance of themselves, whether it be in live action or cartoon form. Little jokes amongst the cast can be littered among a show as jokes that only they would understand or for them to share with their fans.
An artist usually have their own style and opinions of how they want to do thing. But there are some things that should not be remake into a feature film. With some novel books or Dr. Seuss stories are can be tricky to put onto the big screen. Some books have many characters, sub plots and development that a movie cannot show in such a short time. It’s not impossible to be a shorten version of long books into movies. A movie called the watch men was one such case. The book had diverts set of characters that all had their own development. Many pack stories and flashbacks, all dealing with mature topics. Relationship between the team grew and broke apart. Leaving a bitter sweet ending to the ending of the series, cramming all the lore into a movie would not be possible. There were serval tries before the latest one. Some director said that the watch men deserved their own television series that would need multiple seasons to go through all the stories the comics have to offer. But then come two thousand and nine, Watchmen was release to the public. It was directed by Zack Snyder which got the movie four to three stars. But given the about of content that were in the original comics a lot of stuff were gloss over. Some things were also change from the original comics. What made the watchmen human was that they had no superpowers of to speak of. Except for one and those powers are part of his character arc. But Zack Snyder increase the action by giving all the normal humans super strength that are able to beat up twenty men at once.
Changing a main protagonist into a different race or gender can throw previous fans of a show into discus. The director may have a vison that others may have to open their minds, to enjoy the end product. Some characters like The Joker from the Batman franchise can be portrayed differently and depending on how the actor played the part, can be loved by everyone. But then you have to consider the type of audiences that will you are targeting and the ones that will actually show up. For example, Dragon Ball: Evolution, a live action movie of a beloved anime series Dragon Ball Z was a complete failure of a movie. But poor action and terrible script aside, the director decided to change to the settings into modern day American school and giving it a very high school plot to marshal art action comedy anime series. This change was obscure because the people that grew up watching the anime are probably have grown up and kids of their own. Seeing the many out of place changes the movie had distort fans of the series. So was the director in his right when he decided to change so much for his own vision of the series. There is definitely a gray area when dealing with popular licenses.
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Animators and money
at first I wanted to do a essay about remakes of cartoon or film but I thought I would not have enough to right about so I desired to wright about animators and merchandising as it was what i was interested in and a lot more can be said.
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