Animators React to Bad & Great Cartoons 7 

What an honor. Thanks and mad respect for you guys 🤟

James Lee deserves all the attention he gets! Hell yeah.

I love how animation is no longer how it look real or just the "Pixar" look. They are mixing 2D and 3D and making 3D look 2D and vice versa.... Spiderverse, Arcane, and Demon slayer are some amazing

I saw James Lee and I clicked. This man is everything I aspire to bring to my projects.

Hey Corridor! I worked on The Bad Guys as well - The one and only, Ravi Kamble is the animator who animated Snake playing the guitar by the way. They only asked for like 1 pose of Snake playing, and he went ABOVE AND BEYOND animating a super cool 15 or 20 second loop that they then sprinkled throughout the whole dance scene. Go Ravi!

I'm spanish and I'm so proud of Klaus. We haven't made an animation movie to THAT level in years. What a shame it's not well known, it deserved more recognition and awards.

I'm SO GLAD James Lee is finally getting the notice and admiration he deserves!

I always like the animations in The Wonderful World of Gumball. The mix between 2d characters and 3d characters with Live action Puppets and so on. I really like the episode where they explored the concept of things that aren't cool anymore so they disappear, bringing up Mullets and Cassette Tapes while driving an RV.

I love "The Bad Guys" style. It feels so fresh and I love how they mixed anime animation with wester style 3D and 2D

Now that they've talked about Treasure planet. The crew needs to do a full breakdown of the movie. The animation, design and overall feel of that movie was godlike

The first Brother Bear had a scene where the main characters were on the edge of a cliff while the 'camera' spun around them in an aerial arc. It was a fairly short scene, but I believe at the time it was supposed to be one of Disney's last all 2D animated works, so the rumour I heard was it was intended as a last 'showing what they can do kind of scene with a whole heap of manual perspective work. I would love to know if it was true or not. I love hearing stories of creators taking on challenges because they are hard.

the bad guys is the best animation i've seen in a long long time. stylization and clear posing is so much more important than trying to get hyperrealistic super smooth movement

YES, James Lee getting the love he deserves!

Treasure Planet is one of the most criminally underrated Disney films ever, it's so so good. The story, animation, characters and the world its set in is so magical, it's one of my comfort films.

The Pinocchio one was so trippy to me esp because there was no weight to the characters. Like it looked like Pinocchio was throwing his whole body around with the same ease as I could lift my hand

11:22 took me off guard, because I didn't expect this out of a.. kind of professional feeling video. it was just so random and I love it.

Amazing surprise to see one of my videos in this episode! I can confirm it was done for laughs and how much time I was willing to put into it.

Finally this channel talks about Klaus. That movie is a love letter to the golden age of 2D Disney animations, and it deserves more love. Treasure Planet is also super freakin' amazing (albeit underated) 2D Disney movie that unfortunately bombed at the box office due to the rising demand for CG films at the time of its release.

I would love to hear you guys talk about The Peanut's Movie. It was such a beautifully stylized film that really captured the heart of Charles Shultz's work.

Klaus is not only a brilliantly animated movie, but a wonderful and beautiful Christmas story as well.

There was an Ed, Edd and Eddy episode where they start playing with the physics of the world, and did some really weird perspective stuff I remember. I can't remember if it was the same episode or not, but there was a moment where Ed yanks the entire plumbing system out of a house in one big chunk, and it was enough to make my mother passing through the room mutter 'Jesus christ' in awe/horror under her breath, which just heightened the scene for me :P

I watched _The Bad Guys_ back in April and it's by far one of DreamWorks best animated films since the How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda films. Everything from the story, the voice cast (Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina, Zazie Beetz, Anthony Ramos, Richard Aodade, etc.), the comedy were phenomenal but it's the animation for _The Bad Guys_ that impressed me the most, as it's vastly different than the CG animation seen in the previous DreamWorks animated films (e.g. Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon, Megamind, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar) considering that the titular characters, the supporting cast including the humans gives off a Hand Drawn Cel-Shaded look similar to the animation seen in Disney's _Paperman_ and _Feast_ and especially Sony Pictures Animation's _Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,_ which the filmmakers did admit the film was a huge inspiration for the animation. I also got a lot of _Lupin the 3rd_ and _Dragon Ball_ vibes for the character designs, especially from the Chief. Even the same can be said for the upcoming _Puss in Boots: The Last Wish_ as the visual style is giving off a 2D/3D visual style so I'm excited on the future direction DreamWorks Animation is heading.

So many valuable Lessons in this Episode!

The scene in Avatar the last airbender when he is fighting with Ozai(or what ever his name was) and then the screen was just pretty much coloured in red and blue. That truly blew my mind

Wren sitting there trying to mentally keep up with him is hilarious. the guy can so casually rattle off so many bits of information that when all combined become the whole that is the effort that goes into artistic quality animation.. just trying to picture what goes through his mind for a living and just how much of that he has to track all at once feature length movies.. insane. wren has exactly the right expression on his face to match that realization.

Never expect to see James Lee, would love to see other online creators I think this fits more to the vfx reacts but you should check out "Buttered Side Down" and "Chaz Dono"

There is a very famous scene in Gravity Falls where Mabel trusts Stan and leaves the interdimensional portal opened. And what blows me away everytime are the shots of the city falling apart by those anti-gravity anomalies, with the very dramatic lightning and the background setpieces moving, it's incredibly cinematic and beautiful.

The ending of Klaus always makes me cry. Great Christmas movie.

YAY JAMES LEE!!! He deserves so much attention, he's like the Captain Disillusion of the animation world hahaha

I can’t describe how amazing it is to see James Lee represented here, the man’s so fucking talented and seeing him used as an example alongside major studios is so dope

Amphibia, true colors, when Anne uses her powers! The animation in that scene blew me away

12:48 the sims 4 Encanto pack looks wild

8:20 It's somehow really reassuring to hear that even professional animators sometimes use rigs wrong.

You mentioned Treasure Planet when you talked about mixing 3D and 2D animations. 1) Treasure Planet deserves it's own episode cuz it's such a great movie. 2) You should talk about the Big Ben scene in The Great Mouse Detective. It's the first time Disney blended 3D CG animation with 2D animation.

The fact you covered Klaus and Gay Pinocchio in the same video is astonishing

god it's so interesting hearing an expert like Snow point out little details in animation, it's like a free masterclass with him talking about the straights and curves of the body, the asymmetry, the character, the practicality of movement ahhh

SO HAPPY TO SEE JAMES LEE HERE WOOOO

As an artist at DreamWorks, its nice to see some representation :) Some of the most talented people I know worked on Bad Guys and I'm glad it was a success.

OMG I can't believe you guys talked about James Lee! He's one of my favorite animators, but it never seemed like he was big enough for something like this. You guys should also look at Jamie R. The way he gets things to flow is absolutely insane.

The moment in a "kids" show that blew my mind, animation wise, was the scene in Avatar the Last Airbender in the final season where Aang goes full-on-avatar state and starts sweeping Ozai

The kids cartoon that always blew my mind was Code: Lyoko, how the main group has their 2d and 3d versions. I would love to see you guys break down those animation styles.

James Lee is one of the most creative animators I've ever seen on RU-vid, definitely one of my favourite content creators

you should check the Magic the Gathering - war of the spark trailer. it is the best piece of animation I've ever seen, the face expresions are pure gold

In my opinion James Lee’s glasses really alienate the figure. Eyes are often a way to identify human differences, so removing them can completely change someone’s figure.

I would LOVE it if you just did a whole episode reacting to the evolution of Clone Wars animation. By the time season 7 comes around, the animators are just fully flexing their muscles on us.

I was a compositing artist on the Bob's Burgers movie and I would love to see a break down of that one once more gets released! I'd even be happy to chat with you guys about how we did some of the work

For the cartoon scene, It's definitely all of James Baxter's work, he has this amazingly fluid animation style I just love. There's a few cameos in adventure time, but my favorite scene is in Steven Universe's finale.

I'm glad Hotel Transylvania got a shout out. People can have whatever opinions they have on the movie, but it's undeniable the animation in this movies are great, imaginative, and beyond creative.

I'd love to see Animators React to some of the early episodes of VeggieTales. Small studio with a small budget doing 3D animation in the mid-90s (the first few came out before Toy Story). They made it about vegetables because animating limbs was too hard with the software they had. I'm sure some of it doesn't hold up today, but it'd be interesting to hear you talk about it from a "working around technological limitations" standpoint.

Oh my god words can’t describe how happy I am to see you guys looking at James Lee’s work. He’s one of my absolute favourite artists (another being Cyriak Harris- maybe check him out too sometime?)!!

3:35 "Deep Canvas" was used for Treasure Planet, but was created originally for Tarzan, and it is one of my favorite integration of 3D while keeping the 2D drawn styling intact. My favorite film and is the movie of my childhood that I grew up with of this styling of mixing 2D with 3D animation is Titan A.E., which my dad showed me and I'm grateful he knew about that movie because it unfortunately didn't perform well because it was overshadowed by bigger titles. Sort-of forgotten movie.

I mean if you want to talk impressive kid's shows then The Amazing World of Gumball is always a winner. Of course that's a pretty common suggestion I would think, so maybe try the guest animation episodes of adventure time. "A Glitch is a Glitch" is a cgi episode and it's not groundbreaking but it's cool how they translated the characters. "Beyond the Grotto" is lively and distinct 2d animation. "Bad Jubies" is stop motion with this sort of felt material? gives the whole episode a warm and fuzzy vibe which fits the story. "Food chain" is the last of the guest animated episodes I can think of (there might be a few more idk) and it's also 2d but has so many crazy perspectives and great shading. Finally, "King worm" is in the classic adventure time style, but it's incredibly trippy and bonkers the whole way through, they really take advantage of the idea that the characters are in a dream and allow darn near anything to happen. if you only have time to go through one of these, a personal favorite of mine is Food chain. it's downright beautiful at times and as a bonus the episode is beyond hilarious imho. sorry for the novel I just love kids cartoons :Y

Prince of Egypt was amazing and had some beautiful animation and epic camera shots! I would love to see you guys take a look at that.

I'm so happy you talk about Treasure Planet. That movie is so underrated! My favourite from Disney! Visually absolutely stunning and if Disney were to continue 2D animation something of a combination between it and Claus would be what we'd see today I think.

I love James Lee so much! So surreal to see so much crossover in the RU-vid community

Ok im late, but the moment that blew my mind was from bolt when the car flips over penny in the beginning. Granted that was just one of the more impressive shots of that movie for me.

"Ropes are not great in CG" - Truer words have never been spoken! I've spent 18 years in this industry and still dread every time there is a rope, or a vine drawn in the storyboards. And the best they've gotten is "Well, that was kinda less annoying to work with this time" LOL

A scene that blew me away in a kids show was on Steven Universe. James Baxter animated Steven’s fusion scene in front of White Diamond. The scene was so fluid and it was such a heartfelt hug that I knew the animator as soon as I watched it.

0:57 minus a point for going with Santa Starts instead of Kringle Kommences

08:50 I wonder what Wren saw ?

If you guys plan on doing another one of these, it would be interesting to see some of Worthikid‘s work discussed. He has a few videos where he tries to replicate the classic stop-motion look in Blender and it’s very impressive.

gonna need more meme animation clips

The crossover of Jimmy neutron and fairly odd parents was something that was wild as a kid

In the UK we seem to have some amazing animated TV specials at Christmas, adapted from popular books. There used to be a few Raymond Briggs stories, most notably the Snowman, which still looks beautiful. There's been plenty of Julia Donaldson stories captured in CG, that keeps the illustrated style: The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom etc. In 2016 there was a gorgeous 2-part version of Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes, the CG still looks great. And I think last year there was a 2D version of the Quentin Blake book Clown which managed to animate Blake's iconic illustrations.

Another call for a "Voice Actors React" segment to get behind the scenes look at this crucial portion of animation that has made or broken many a theatrical animated release (along with TV and games). I'd imagine Mark Hamill, Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Daran Norris, Lori Alan, etc. would love to talk about their craft on the couch.

You should take a look at the music video for Take On Me. Some incredible shots combining animation and live action.

Those are some of the best animation lessons on youtube! please keep it going, and give us as many episodes as possible! Also, I appreciate how you let the animators dive into complex topics, and geek out on old-time and modern animation

Funny that you'd make the link to Treasure Planet, Segio Pablos (who won a BAFTA for Klaus) was a character lead for Doppler on Treasure Planet.

Would love to see you guys check out Titan: AE. Severely under-rated movie that has great use of 3D animation in a primarily 2D film.

As for children's animation: Pat & Mat has outstanding stop-motion animation, and is very well known in the Czech Republic, its country of origin, and over here in the Netherlands (where it's known as Buurman en Buurman). Even without dialogue or facial animation, the two characters' personalities are so incredibly clear.

James just talks to me on a personal level of doing your own thing and being good and unique at it, i love this dude.

I remember being a kid watching shrek save Fiona from the dragon, those fire and smoke simulations blew my mind because I had no idea how that was possible at the time the flames looked so real.

If any of you thought James Lee's style was interesting *at all,* please go check out his channel. He's insanely talented and his stuff only gets better from what they showed here.

A modern kids' cartoon with a bunch of well-animated scenes: The Owl House Their animation goes through the roof when there's a fight scene or something alike

Hey Corridor! Love your content, and always enjoy learning from each episode! I hope Wren will bring out another video essay at some point! A kids show cartoon that was always a complex detailed show (or at least I thought so as a kid) is Code Name: Kids next door. They always had cool gadgets and wild “weapons” on the show it was my favorite! I wanted to say that I got a pair of earbuds from RAYCON(really nice earbuds) and fell in love with the Vessi shoes I own! They really are everything that you guys have advertised as the sponsored bit, thanks for sharing these products with us!

The moment in an animated kids show that absolutely blew my mind is from the owl house the scene we're eda and Lilith are having this epic battle near the end of season 1 and amphibia the last episode "The Hardest Thing" l cried like a baby but the scene where the gang are all powered up and fighting in space WAS AMAZING I loved every second!

I ended up watching Arcane because of how many times clips showed up on this channel. I held off because I didn't know anything about the game, but eventually I gave in. So glad I did. What a wonderful, beautiful show. I loved how the 3D was enhanced by amazing 2D animation. The show now lives in my mind on a regular basis. Thanks guys!

Watching this video reminded me of a movie I was obsessed with. Titan A.E.!!! This movie BLEW MY MIND when I first saw it. The mix of CGI and animation was everything for me! If you haven't seen it, give it a shot! It doesn't disappoint! And remember, it came out in 2000....22 YEARS AGO!!!

As a beginner animatior I love listening to them talk about different techniques to use in animation within character, scenery, etc. It helps a lot!

3:40 it's amusing to use that example, considering one of the animators in Klaus also animated in Treasure Planet.

James Lee is pretty legit. You can tell where he's drawn his inspirations from like artists such as Jhonen Vasquez who did the invader zim series as well as the JTHM comics.

The opening sequence to Disney Channel's Owl House has an insanely animated sequence at the end. Also, the highway man from Over the Garden Wall is something to behold, haha

I think I've mentioned this before but you guys need to do a whole, or nearly whole, episode on Love, Death, & Robots episode titled "Jibaro." By far one of, if not, THE BEST animation and CGI I have ever seen.

One really good animation jaw-drop moment for me has to be at the end of the Adventure Time Finale, when Betty makes her wish. The shift to black and white is so frickin phenomenal. Also I'd love it if you guys mention the character background style and puppetry used in Chowder. That show deserves so much more attention

Attempt 41 Chronicle Telekinesis Scenes

Hey, I just watched "Small Soldiers" - bit of classic from my younger years, was presently surprised by the animation/integration still holds up today, fits so well in the film of the effects of the toys, you guys should check it out :)

I love how we get stylized cartoon animation on a 3d level now. Even a few years ago it just seemed like there wasn’t any of the cartoony stuff like you guys were talking about with the Bad Guys with the characters teeth changing when she’s angry.

Very captivating, as always. As a suggestion, i think some shots from The Amazing World of Gumball might be interesting to look into, the way they mix different styles and techniques is kind of fun

RU-vid has been having its own animation renaissance for the past few years. It would be cool if you took a look at things like Hazbin Hotel, Hell of a boss, Murder Drones, The summoning, Metamorphosis, Fuelled, Let's Eat, Here's the plan or any of the countless amazing pilots/short film/series people have uploaded to RU-vid that many might not know about.

You guys should totally cover the animation styles of Love, Death + Robots!!!!!

Yo watch Pootis engaged extreme, or the second one. It's really cool what they do with action

I think the animation of the show Red vs Blue would be perfect to react to and to especially focus on the camera movement, because it has one of the best 3d animated fight scenes I have ever seen.

Klaus is just a testament of how great 2D animation can be, melting 2D and 3D to make a full blown beautiful animated movie is definetly the way to go, Disney, DreamWorks should release, 2D everyonce in a while.

When it comes to suggestions; Considering how cheap the rest of the show is, episode 21 of Digimon looks incredible, as do the pilot short film and Our War Game. All three of these were directed by Mamoru Hosoda, who is now a big-name animated film director who's won several awards. The fluidity and lifelike mannerisms in his characters is breathtaking.

you guys should do an entire episode dedicated to Love Death and Robots, so much good animation in that series

So glad you guys finally covered James Lee, been waiting for this for awhile to be honest; too good to pass up, I knew you would. Cheers

You three should definitely looking into “Loving Vincent.” Would love to hear your expert opinion on it.

This show is one of the best parts of my Saturday mornings. It would be great if you made these animators/ stuntmen react videos twice as long.

Fantastic video ! As an animator, I never tire of seeing these special episodes about animation. Have you guys ever covered stopmotion, before ? Just on youtube, you can already find some pearls, like PES, or Animist.

Animation scenes that blew my mind (For you to review): Empty cartridges coming out of EVA-01's pallet rifle falling down on the street and crushing cars. There's so much to Evangelion, I'm surprised you haven't covered it yet, more since you are so much into Anime!! :o