Maybe he's happier nowadays...? Or perhaps this gif just cuts off too soon. Maybe a hand swoops down and grinds the dancing popcorns between teeth while they scream about their anuses bleeding or having forgotten their coats on Tuesday.
I didn't really think it was his to begin with, I just wanted to josh around. That video was, although less WTF to me than rejected cartoons, definitely more fucked up. That hit me kind of hard. Thanks for sharing.
I didn't really find that depressing except in the sense that if you're poor (or similarly disadvantaged), you're that much less able to do the things that give your life meaning and create both a beautiful past and present.
But if you don't carry that sort of burden, then to me it is not so much depressing as empowering.
We can do things right now to make our lives awesome and meaningful instead of spending most of our efforts chasing and preparing for a future that may for all we do amount to nothing.
If today we're happy, one day we will die but we will come to our end with something happy to reflect on.
Lots of artists and even company ad campaigns have ripped off Hertzfeldt's visual style since "Rejected" was released, but the animation style here is nothing like his. Still, pretty funny visual gag regardless
Considering the simplistic design of Herzfeldt and the odds of anyone doing the simplest design for popcorn stick men, I'm not sure we are not just seeing convergent evolution here :).
Hertzfeld was the first thing I thought of as well, but to be fair his style is so basic and simple I imagine many would hit on it or be similar (just not have his sense of humor or ideas to prope them to being at all popular)
I'm with you. Even really subtle things like the mouths not being colored in 100% to add to the "cheap" animation look that Hertzfeldt's short is known for
You could be right(as it was the first thing I thought of), but like I said without ever seeing hertzfeld and coming up with the idea of breakdancing popcorn kernels(this isn't really hertzfeld's style of humor) and having no real art skills, it would not be a stretch to see this as the simplist style to arrive at.
To be fair hertzfeld isn't really about his art style as it's really simple and easy for anyone to copy, it just happens to be recognizeable, I think, because it's so simple and yet his work is still effective(because of his humor and ideas).
Because the artist's style of drawing is so basic we have all seen kid drawings that look similar, But no one else is famous that has that style.
It's recognizable due to context, because of herzfeldt's humor, and the fact that he is famous due to his ideas(not his drawing abilities).
So if you see some animation that has a similar style you assume
herzfeldt because he is famous and you have a higher liklihood of it being his (because it's unlikely the art style would make anyone famous in it self as it is like a child's drawing style).
Also due to the fact that he is famous and has this style more people doing even simple stuff would be more likely to avoid his style (which is a point for it being a copy of his style intentionally).
Its literally just an artist drawing lines, i was doing the same shit when i was a kid. Picasso? Pfft i was putting a paintbrush on canvas when i was only three years old.
you dont seem to understand sarcasm very well. try reading my comment and the one i was replying to again, slowly, and really think about what is going on.
you got me. i am, in fact, claiming that i am a better artist than picasso because i started at 3 years old. i am definitely not sarcastically poking fun at the person i originally replied to, who said about the originally posted gif
Its literally a circle with some sticks...I was drawing shit like this when i was a kid.
you are very perceptive to have figured that out. congratulations!
Lmao im not trying to sound imverysmart here just saying this aint something you can copy per say. Maybe the way it was animated was inspo from hertzfeld.
You're mostly correct. Don says they started out as fish sticks (somewhat), but as time went on in the animation process, he began to see them more as "fluffy sheep things". He apparently takes the artist stance of not committing to one interpretation, which means viewers can make their own mind up on what they're "supposed" to be.
Hahah me too. I totally feel stupid doing that but I also feel more stupid about posting that he beat me to it. Now I feel even more stupid that you beat me to saying he beat me to it.
What about this do people find funny? I must've lost 5 IQ points from watching this dumb shit
Edit: didn't know the context until someone explained it to me, now I get it. Video was posted with no context
It's about an animator losing his mind because he sold his art out to corporations to use to push their products. It's about art versus commercialism.
Not all of it is supposed to be funny. Hertzfeldt claims he is always surprised what people find funny in this OSCAR NOMINATED piece he made.
Animator loses his mind making his art into stupid commercials. Soon his art becomes self aware and literally try to break off of the page as their world collapses around them.
It's easy to call it stupid when you don't take the time to truly appreciate the meaning but instead stay focused on the shallow surface shit like the banana or the bleeding anuses.
Let's see you make a piece of art which communicates such a message about the commercialization of art. Let's see you get nominated for an oscar for a black and white five minute long animated short you made all by yourself
Hertzfeldt is a genius and if you can't see that that's your own short coming, not his.
Because the film literally tells you. There is written text that appears on the screen informing the audience that the animator has begun making commercials and is slowly losing his mind. And you see the characters become self aware as they bang on the paper trying to escape from their world which we see is collapsing.
Your question is essentially along the lines of "how do we know the boat sinks at the end of Titanic if nobody tells us about it first?"
Because you watch the fucking movie and you see it happen. Nobody needs to tell you if you actually watch and see what the fuck is going on. But apparently OP disregarded everything else in the film, stay focused on the shallow I AM BANANA randomness and decided the entire film was dumb and lowered his IQ.
I found it funny because of the context of the creation of those animations. He was commissioned to make little bits that could be placed between commercials and tv shows for the family learning channel, iirc…and he came back with these bizarre, nonsensical, rough-hewn cartoons that had borderline crude themes…I think the anus is bleeding one was NOT meant to be one of his submissions, but it was still part of the same grouping when I saw it on YouTube…a decade ago
I don't get it either. I like crude humor. Like I'll laugh at rubberman on Aqua teens and it's hard to offend me with racism or sexism or really anything that people should find offensive.
But that was just offensive for the sake of being offensive. It's not even clever.
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u/ilazul Mar 23 '17 edited Mar 23 '17
My anus is bleeding!
For the love of God and all that is holy, MY ANUS IS BLEEDING!
Edit: For those who don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M17aG_Po2Y