No.1026174
OK KO had their Halloween special drop on the CN app today and it features some special guest stars:
Monster Party
>Enid is faced with a choice when her old friends from Ghoul School show up.
https://mega.nz/#!emwX2SyL!laQBTP9YEMMQ1_Yf06WPyWRwVUs-7SHskibxBLEOHGU
No.1026176
>>1026174
Do they just dump random forgotten cartoon characters in this show? I remember they did some crossover with Captain Planet for reasons.
No.1026178
>>1026176
I think its just Ian has a fondness for some of the older properties in the Cartoon Network library. As for the Captain Planet crossover he mentioned that he used to watch the series a lot. The show even has a crossover special later this month featuring characters from Teen Titans Go, the Ben 10 reboot and Steven Universe which he says was heavily inspired by the old CN City bumpers.
https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/1046781856811630593
No.1026181
>>1026178
He should keep his fondness to himself, no one wants to see old cartoon gets get dragged back from the grave just make a guest appearance in a bean face show.
No.1026185
>>1026181
I'm ok with it as long as its done in small doses
No.1026187
>>1026185
I'd be okay with it if it was in a better cartoon.
No.1026210
Wait, what's going on here? Did I miss something? I don't watch OK KO since the character designs are fucking hideous to me.
No.1026212
>>1026210
Ian decided to make a crossover with the girls from Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School.
No.1026217
>>1026210
>I don't watch OK KO since the character designs are fucking hideous to me.
Kinda the same for me, except all I ever saw was the pilot which just used the same animators as SU. Then I saw some pics from the Captain Planet shit and paid it no mind, but after watching this, this actually looks decent. I mean the animation is choppy as fuck but at least its not SU or AT-tier. And its humor seems cozy. But I have to wonder, is any of CN's tumblrisms in this show? Any annoying moral, political or social shit?
No.1026218
>>1026217
>Any annoying moral, political or social shit?
One of the episodes is about gun control, but that's the only one I know of because I don't watch the show much.
No.1026220
>>1026218
I can live with that. That shit was way more prevalent in the 80s and 90s. Nowadays they'll just replace guns with lasers rather than outright call it out. So seeing something like that might actually be annoyingly nostalgic in a non-faggy way.
No.1026369
>>1026174
I dig the new Winnie, it stays true to the source material for the most part.
No.1026374
>>1026174
The art style is, ugh… expressive, I guess?
No.1026377
>>1026374
It seems they still haven't gotten over people criticizing them for their bean face shit.
No.1026440
>>1026185
I think I would have preferred the entire episode been done in the style of Ed, Edd 'n Eddy, but the fact they showed an ability to at least make a few frames in the style of pic 2 and 3 makes me upset they didn't just do the whole episode like that.
Shit like this is why I'm glad I don't watch tv any more.
No.1026451
Is this show still pushing left-wing political agenda? It used to be my guilty pleasure but the gun control episode was too much for me
No.1026455
>>1026451
That episode wasn't meant to be taken seriously.
No.1026463
>>1026455
How do you know?
No.1026493
>>1026463
Because the ending to the episode is unironically tongue-in-cheek paying homage to those corny life lessons shown at the end of a cartoon like Sonic Sez.
No.1026589
>>1026377
At least beanheads are better than potatoheads.
No.1026590
>>1026451
I saw it. It was just a parody episode man. A throwback to the 80s and 90s where anti-gun toons where as common as anti-drug, anti-smoking or anti-drinking episodes. This show's pilot looked like Steven Universe but it's far from being anything like that show.
No.1026592
>>1026377
Oh jesus fuck. They went there.
No.1026596
>>1026592
The fact that some poor sap had to conceptualize and draw these is soul-crushing.
No.1026599
>>1026374
Looks like that shitty awful comic with the asian tranny
No.1026602
>>1026596
Current year Spongebob is soul crushing.
No.1026617
>>1026602
They're in their nostalgia bait phase too. Yeah, like that's going to undo all the shitty episodes.
No.1026619
>>1026592
Why is nu-Spongebob so obsessed with deformities and gross-out humor? I mean season 3 had a small bit of that but it was practically non-existent. Now its happening almost every episode.
>>1026617
This. The new season is only getting praise now because of all the throwbacks, nostalgiabait and "continuity" they're bringing up. Once they run out of season 1-3 material and memes to reference they're screwed. I can already picture an episode about Seaweed Monster Man being right around the corner.
No.1026621
>>1026617
It's not just Spongebob that's in a nostalgia bait phase, Nickelodeon itself is trying especially hard to pander to their old fans, between the Rocko, Zim, and Rugrats movies, plus a show reboot for the latter, that kart racing game that looks to be mediocre at most, and that shitty mobile game called Super Brawl Universe that has old Nicktoon characters like Danny Phantom and Jenny, they've made it very obvious that even Spongebob can't keep them afloat forever.
>>1026619
Seasonal decay tends to do that to cartoons, Family Guy wasn't heavy on the gross out and shock humor when it started out either.
No.1026631
>>1026621
>Seasonal decay tends to do that to cartoons
The longer a show goes on, the more it starts to decay. Its artistic/writing entropy. You either play it safe with the same formula until it starts to decay,try new things and watch the whole damn thing unravel and become unrecognizable, or you actually do a good job but the whole thing naturally begins to crumble and fall to pieces as all things that physically age do. Simpsons, Spongebob, Family Guy, Sitcoms, Capeshit, etc. Best thing to do is to release in moderation so you can stave off the decay, like video games do or Hanna Barbera did in the 80s and 90s with triennial or so "special/movie" releases of old IPs to keep them relevant. But even then, there's just something about the current age of films, television, comics and animation where people prefer to be shitty from the start due to seeing it as a sort of subversion of expectations, as though such a thing is inherently good without realizing that such a tactic requires detailed care and consideration instead of just going in head first and trying to see how many reactions you'll get regardless if they're good or bad.
No.1028115
>>1026374
those lines aren't smooth
I see a lot of bumps in those lines
No.1028674
>>1026374
Okay I watched the whole thing along with the rest of OK-KO. I take back anything remotely nice I said about this shit. Cheap nostalgia grabs can only go so far before they start becoming gimmicky and poorly done.
No.1029474
Am I the only one here who actually likes OK KO? It makes me think of old three angled blue comics (pic related) and 2000s newgrounds cartoons
>>1026377
No, the whole show is like that. It's like ren and stimpy where it's deliberately off model
No.1029477
>>1029474
Ren and Stimpy didn't look like shit, and it didn't look like most of the cartoons that came out in the same decade as it either.
No.1029564
>>1029478
>yes
Good. /co/ thinks fucking filmation cartoons are good, so anything it hates is automatically good
No.1029565
>>1029564
>Oh no, a group of people disagreed with my opinion therefore everything they say is officially wrong, fuck them for not liking this one thing that I happen to like.
No.1029567
>>1029565
It's not that you dislike OK K O as much as it is everything you do like is complete dogshit
No.1029569
>>1029567
Name one thing we do wrong, I'll wait.
No.1029570
>>1029569
You think 80s toy commercials outsourced toy commercials that xeroxed model sheets so much they might as well be flash animation are good
No.1029571
>>1029570
Me and multiple others have literally never said any of that, only a few people do and I'm sure it's because F–
Whatever the fuck the company was called adapted some European comics I believe. I dunno.
Regardless that seems like a pretty shitty thing to base /co/ being bad on.
I mean with the major influx of newfags like you from /tv/ and Cuck/co/ you could have chosen a million different things to call out.
But you didn't.
No.1029573
>>1029570
Are you the same faggot from the QUALITY thread that thinks any cartoons after the 50s is shit?
No.1029576
>>1029573
No, but you're never going to stop believing that I am because it fits with your narative
No.1029577
>>1029576
You brought up filmation cartoons out of fucking nowhere just like him, you're not fooling anyone.
No.1029578
>>1029577
He also hates modern cartoons while I quite like them. Maybe, just maybe there's a chance that two different people will coincidentally do the same thing?
No.1029674
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>>1029474
>Am I the only one here who actually likes OK KO? It makes me think of old three angled blue comics (pic related) and 2000s newgrounds cartoons
I've watched madness animations with more appealing and detailed designs and better fight scenes than OK KO.
No.1029685
>>1026455
>not taken seriously
>whole episode is an anti-gun argument
>literally says to call your congressmen and ban guns
"its just a joke gais lol comeon."
No.1029688
>>1029685
You have actual autism
No.1029691
>>1029674
>detailed
Ah yes, because as we all know, the more detailed something is the better-er it is
No.1029692
>>1026440
>showed an ability
Ed edd and eddie's style isn't that hard to draw. It's actually a lot easier than OKKO because of how stylized it is
No.1029694
>>1029688
How? It's pro gun propaganda being spouted at our children with "lol xd" humour. Stop defending bad cartoons you downie.
No.1029696
>>1029691
Just look at that attention to detail - in the motions, I mean.
No.1029701
>>1029691
If it had more color, less blocky armor. and a more subtle cape design then it'd look fine.
No.1029750
>>1029564
Name a single show with calarts style that's actually good.
No.1029752
>>1029750
Gravity Falls and Gumball, but aside from those 2 there aren't any.
No.1029768
>>1029691
Over designed art work existing does not justify a tv scale production being less detailed and fluid than a free amateur flash animation.
No.1029793
>>1029691
Hell I'm having a better time looking at that than any other cartoon network show
No.1029800
>>1029750
Okay, well let's define "Cal Arts Style" as best we can.
>Big, bulging eyes that usually slightly overlap each other
>Simple geometric shapes make up all the bodies
>Bean shaped heads, goofy teeth
>Lots of round edges
>Overall simplistic
>Made in the last 5 or so years
Adventure Time doesn't really count because it was more of a prototype to the style than anything, and it turned sour after a few seasons.
Gravity Falls definitely counts, and it's genuinely good. The last season, things became iffy but even the worse episodes are entertaining in some way. The only episode everyone unanimously dislikes is the road trip one, to the point that Hirsch doesn't like it.
Gumball certainly counts for it's "normal" character designs, but the show goes so fucking insane with it's style and art that it hardly counts.
Harvey Beaks was like a mix between Chowder's style and Cal-Arts, and it turned out to be a pretty fun show, for as long as it lasted.
No.1029817
>>1029800
Gravity Falls has good art in spite of the bean mouth style. At least the characters aren't overly simplistic with overly bright colors and the backgrounds are very detailed.
No.1029863
>>1029800
But didn't artists who helped popularize this style not go to Calarts?
No.1029872
>>1029800
Looks like Sans from Undertale
/thread
No.1030447
No.1030452
>>1030447
What's this about Teletoon?
No.1031177
>>1029863
The only one I know that didn't go to Cal Arts was Rebecca Sugar.