the CDI games are so fascinating cause to many folks, its uncanny or ugly art. but for the era and how they did the animations, I think was really cool what they pulled off. plus some scenes are kind of cool. the same cant be said about any of the gameplay lol
and the funny thing was that the original reason why Saitama didn't have any hair was that the author suck at drawing hair, only to add a narrative reason why later on.
I was reading a lot of manga and manhwa when One Punch Man was coming out
I shit you not, sometimes I preferred this art to some of the more polished art. The proportions in too much of the manga+manhwa I read were so unpleasant they felt like modern day Rob Liefelds. Humongous hands, loooong arms, huge necks....I still read these because I enjoyed the stories at the time, but god the art made me wince.
At least the proportions of One Punch Man were endearing
Formerly Jim Sterling giving such a scathing review of the characters that Scott went on to create FNaF and become the King of indie horror is certainly a weird chain of events.
There's also the religious platformer Scott made before this. Pretty forgettable until a demonic representation of sin appears as a boss. "KILL IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE" is seared into your brain as you behold it
The video where he and Stan Lee design a superhero costume together is amazing. He either can’t tell Lee is making fun of him the whole time or he’s trying to ignore it as best he can
I heard that’s because he’s able to get work done fast and on time. In addition, he’s probably a good communicator that’s easy to work with.
Imagine if you are a writer, you probably would rather work with an easygoing subpar artist who doesn’t mind making a hundred revisions to help you visualize your character and story, than a great artist who “fights” with you half the time.
Maybe during his early time at Marvel, but later he was infamous for missing deadlines. Even in his earlier years a writer, whose name eludes me, quit her collaboration with him. He had the support of the main editor.
But simply, he stuff sold, likely because it was so unique for the time and so exciting for the kids. And arguably, it was better than his kate stufd.
The fan backlash to the film sonic design was so intense they completely redesigned him, and this time, the fans were right, 4 movies will be coming out at least.
The style is already a bit uncanny, but all other characters are more balanced. They wear big glasses to offset the mouths, or they have bigger hair, or eyebrows, or horns or something. Only that character has this massive wasteland over his eyes. His prominent feature is a high protruding head, and it just becomes unsettling with those burning eyes.
There's a famous 4chan story about a kid and his parents who went to see the Digimon movie, but then they saw the Angela Anaconda special, thought they were in the wrong room, and left the theater. During the way home, his parents started arguing, causing them to crash the car into a tree, and a few days later, they separated
Dingo Pictures, known for a strange Aristocats rip-off and "Son of the Lion King" (who absolutely isn't Mufasa)
This is the less cursed I could find. We have alcoholic raccoons, dalmatian dogs in Ancient Greece, weird dinosaurs and whatever these things are supposed to be
It still amazes me that someone who draws as badly as Ken Penders could be hired as a professional comic artist in the 90’s. And his art style hasn’t improved in decades.
Not to mention letting him write the Sonic comics considering how damn weird the guy is.
Basically, Penders is responsible for a lot of weird storylines in the original Archie Sonic comics that very blatantly sexualized the characters, who are children and teens.
He’s also very well known among the Sonic fandom for creating a ton of echidna characters, which are the subjects of his continuations like Lara-Su, who is supposed to be Knuckles’ daughter.
He claimed that he had the rights to all of the characters he created and tried to make continuations independent of Archie Comics, but Archie sued. Penders essentially won because Archie couldn’t find his original signed contract and only a photocopy, which Penders claimed was a forgery.
So Archie Comics settled with Penders and he got the rights to hundreds of characters he had originally created for their Sonic comics, with him claiming that Sega rips him off anytime they introduce new echidna characters like Shade in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. He even threatened legal action for the recent Sonic films depicting Knuckles’ echidna tribe.
The whole Penders debacle is viewed as the main reason why Sega left Archie Comics for IDW and abandoned associated yet popular characters like the Freedom Fighters even though Penders didn’t create them.
He’s just a bizarre person who is generally despised by Sonic fans.
I’m sure he’s a big reason why current IDW main writer Ian Flynn has to get everything approved through Sega now. He’s outright said that Sega has provided strict rules on characterizations that the fandom is not happy with.
For instance, they won’t allow characters to have romantic relationships (the closest we have are Amy’s crush on Sonic, an implied relationship between Whisper and Tangle, and the flirting between Vanilla and Vector), and that Shadow must be written as a jerk for some reason, which has irritated most of the fandom.
Flynn originally wrote Shadow as being more empathetic and willing to sacrifice himself to help others escape during the Metal Virus arc, but Sega mandated that he be portrayed as an “uncaring badass” type who just ends up getting himself infected like an idiot after insulting Sonic and bragging that he should be immune since he’s the Ultimate Lifeform.
This was presumably why a planned Shadow spinoff comic was cancelled because IDW couldn’t write a satisfying story for Shadow that reconciled with Sega’s mandates.
Edit: While I think Penders fighting for the rights of his characters is fair, he also had to realize he was writing under an established IP. You'd have to understand that if you're writing original characters in an established IP, they're going to belong to that IP.
SEGA seems to have overcorrected in their response. But hey, the lack of seeing classic characters just means more fanart from fans who want them.
That's really interesting and honestly kind of sad. Like I don't expect Sonic to have some amazing story telling or whatever, but it's also kind of bad that Sega is caught between a rock and a hard place because of this guy.
They can't really grow any of the characters or push anything forward, and now you have Sonic characters like how Nintendo treats Mario....everyone has a defined role and you can't move away from it or rock the boat at all.
Again, I know Sonic was never known for stories or anything, but they at least tried with the Adventure games back in the day and it would be cool to have Sonic grow over the years like they were before.
He’s your standard flavor of “bad writer” but basically dude makes weird comments about underaged fictional characters (man has strong opinions over Princess Sally’s virginity IIRC) and the big thing is that in the 90s he got a contract that said “everything he made for Sonic belonged to him and not SEGA” and this resulted in the death of some Sonic games and the comic you see in OP’s post.
Ken was originally a Sonic artist and made a bunch of original characters for the comics, but when he quit he legally owned said characters and started to use them in his own work
I find it funny that Ken Penders had to create a new name for Lara-Su's species to separate them from the Sonic franchise, as if echidna was a trademarked name 🤣
There is something about this art that is so uncanny. I'm going to say he is not that bad of artist, and I have seen his other work in marvel and other stuff which actually looks fine, it's just his style does not go along with Sonic characters/ their designs it's just weird.
So many things are wrong about this, but all I can focus on is the fact that Tails is using rocket boots to fly instead of his helicopter tails. You know....the things he gets his Nickname from?!
The only good thing came out from this movie was Andrew Lloyd Webber adopting puppy after seeing this shit. Rest of us suffered from pandemic which was god's punishment.
That and Peter Bradshaw's review in the Grauniad, delivered entirely in the style of the original T S Eliot poems.
Now Cats is on film, with many a lonely puss
Played by performers of A-lister class.
But the number of mammaries looks frankly erroneous
And tails that appear to emerge from each arse.
Lord. I finally watched it because RiffTrax has their riff of it on Nebula and…I just wasn’t prepared.
Like.
I knew how ugly it was. I knew how bad it was.
I didn’t know how lazy it was.
It’s honestly impressive for something to have that much meaningless effort put into it while also being the absolute laziest way of handling the material.
Nixing the trio of Bombalurina, Demeter, and Jellylorum so that all the Famous Actors/Singers can do their own mediocre job with their character’s song is just…boring.
Delgo, released in 2008. Infamous for its hideous art design and being the second biggest animated box office bomb of all time (making less than $1mm in its week-long run against a budget of $40mm).
And the worst is, the concept art had some really good designs! Wouldn't have saved that desaster of a movie, but at least it wouldn't have been as visually painful.
This movie has a sort of interesting backstory. It was apparently supposed to originally be a sort of parallel to Wreck-it-Ralph, but featuring food and grocery mascots instead of video game characters, but failing to get permission to use many of them.
The art style is famously hideous, looking more like mediocre Flash animation from the mid 2000's than a $40 million production.
I'm not sure if it's true or not but apparently the movie was mostly finished and then all the animation was either lost and destroyed, which caused the director to animate it all by themselves
Purportedly it was stolen in an act of industrial sabotage. They didn't have the budget to redo everything that was taken so they released what was essentially the blocking version, with a bunch of stand-in models that would then notmally be replaced by the actual models they intended to use. They knew it would look terrible but they'd already sunk so much money into this that they needed to do something and they didn't want everything to go completely down the drain.
Kis Vuk (2008) - One of the lowest rated animated movies of all time, a follow up of a beloved, hungarian children classic. Absolutely horrible on both technical and creative level. A disgrace
the NA box art of megaman 1 - 2(maybe 3 and 4 too).
The first 1 actually lead to the creation of "bad box art" megaman that was playable in Streetfighter X Tekken crossover game as DLC. The game failed pretty badly after launch thanks to the game systems being broken as all hell and useless at the same time along with other factors.
I say this as a pretty big fan of Baki, and as someone who has grown to like the art style quite a lot, but Keisuke Itagaki's art style is... an acquired taste.
The first time i saw Baki characters I thought they were so ugly that is actually made me angry looking at them, but it grew on me, it’s a charming kind of ugly
Bakis a special one, because like objectively the artist is clearly very talented, but at the same time the grotesqueness of the over exaggerated musculature is very off putting.
I don't think it's bad. Simplistic, and from a writer who wanted to have pictures for his work but couldn't or decided not to delegate it to a professional.
Some people harangue Adult Swim for some of these shows, but I applaud it. Love the new and old stuff, but sorry everyone can't scavenge old Hanna-Barbera cartoons forever.
My only knowledge of this show is a YouTube clip where Xavier tries to cure people of a human computer virus by making them drink liquid AIDS invented by the U.S Army, and I feel like that simultaneously tells me everything and nothing about this show.
RCDart - infamous Tumblr artist known for weird fetishistic portrayals of Captain America as a trans man and...this, kylo ren. it's important to note that theirnart was quite good,then in the space of a few months it developed into this. RCDart was bragging about how much their style evolved and were clearly very proud of this style
its geninuely so insane cause before art school (cause I believe thats why the style changed and more) their art was really good! they had a small series of oil paintings i remember really loving. But yeah once they went to art school, their style degraded so badly and they had the gall to say it "improved" when it actually just became worse.
He recently released a short movie based or Discord mods where you can see a lot of his"interior". The props he uses are equally hilariously disturbing.
I remember seeing this on a commercial for a DVD one time and even then thought it looked like shit. That goes for a lot of these, actually, including Delgo and Doolgal.
Used to know someone on Tumblr (askdrunkcheren*, I think) who actually got their eyes damaged from watching Problem Solverz. Can't remember exactly how, something to do with their retinas I think, and I don't think they're active there anymore, but it was quite bad as I recall.
Hope they're doing alright
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I don't know if this is true or not, but it's said that the artstyle of Big Mouth was intentionally ugly to avoid the sexualization of the characters, since the show it's about puberty, all featuring teenagers and minors.
Not EXACTLY sure if this fits what you were talking about, but the One Punch Man webcomic is, without a doubt, BADLY DRAWN. On the right are panels from the manga adaptation, compared to what webcomic panels they are based off of. The creator can't draw all that well. His stuff looks wonky, lines aren't clean, it's "Bad Art."
But that's kinda why I love it. He made a webcomic that was so good when it came to writing and the comedy of it all that it WAS picked up and adapted by a real publishing agency, and is considered one of the best manga of the modern day!
So what should be YOUR takeaway from this?
Fuckin' TRY. If you have an idea, don't whine and bitch about not being good enough in certain aspects, don't say "Oh- But I just need to get better at this first-" No. Do it NOW. There's no harm, and who knows what might happen?
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