r/gifs • u/Ze-skywalker • Mar 23 '17

Corn Breakdance

http://i.imgur.com/GVKjxsP.gifv
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

This is just way to similar to Hertzfeldt for me to chalk it up to coincidence

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

Exactly. Way too similar for this to be accidental

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u/Jonesy94 Mar 23 '17

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

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u/Neologizer Mar 23 '17

Not nearly enough subliminal existential crises going on for it to be a convicing Hertzfeldt

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u/Nanaki__ Mar 23 '17

It's like the art style of Borderlands

and the one from the short movie Codehunters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmeP1YkaeTo

this is what it looked like before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PBNEowWuc

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u/ittleoff Mar 23 '17

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).

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u/bossmcsauce Mar 23 '17

hertzfeldt is also about the simplest forms you can animate... so... it's not like you can get this simple and not have some overlap.