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Home Movies
1999 · TV series · 22 min episodes · 4 seasons
Created by Brendon Small, Loren Bouchard
TV series about the life of Brendon Small, an eight-year-old visionary who, using his friends Jason and Melissa as actors, have managed to direct over a thousand homemade films. His parents are divorced, but it doesn't feel strange since so many other kids' parents are divorced. His friend Jason actually feels upset because his parents are still together. At school, he is taught soccer by his coach John McGuirk, or as he calls him, "that weird Irish guy".
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I liked Moral Oral, and the PJs, Venture Brothers, and even really whacky stuff they did like Xavier: Renegade Angel. I could even sort of get stuff like Superjail. But Squidbillies is a bridge too far. So was home movies.
The first few Squigglevision shows were notorious for being cheaply hand drawn in their production so they probably got that effect the original way (using a base template and redrawing it by hand a lot without too much concern for continuity/cleaning between frames). I'd imagine in the age of Bob's Burgers (and 15 seasons of such) they are probably using digital drawing tools and emulating it, maybe with filters, when they feel they need it, but also the "squiggle" is nowhere near as pronounced as it was in the Dr. Katz and/or Home Movies days.
Home Movies!
Yep, I immediately thought of Squigglevision and Home Movies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJcBL9JPfZw). Did it use the same algorithm as mentioned in the article, a noisy displacement map?
Home Movies carried me through the pandemic, fond memories of the show
Same thought! Home Movies is one of my favorite shows.
And it looks so similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJcBL9JPfZw&list=PLqIbkxo6OPu-JxjHggZnIWNw6SWmKc2nc
Looks like the animation style of the cartoon "Home Movies" - seriously underrated show. Jon H Benjamin is the voice of the main character.
"But if anything, it strengthens the point."
No, it really doesn't. The value in Fountain has nothing to do with the tangible piece of art itself. That's what I'm trying to communicate to you.
Attempting to boil "art" down to any one quantifiable aspect is impossible. That is the point of the anti-art like Fountain.
In other words, I disagree with your assumption that highly polished corporate art is superior to home made "mediocre" art. I grew up with TV shows like 12 OZ Mouse, Home Movies, Shin Chan, Tom goes to the Mayor, etc. If you think running those shows through generative AI would improve the shows... I would say again you don't understand what made that art good.
At best you could try to make a case for "death of the author" but I'm not sure if that principal applies to art that never had an author.
love the Home Movies cartoon rock opera https://youtu.be/8uaaF83eVig
I got down voted? Does no one watch Home Movies?
> (Dr. Katz etc seem to similarly be trying to mimic this.)
Fun fact: Tom Snyder (of Dr. Katz fame) invented and patented the technique, called "Squigglevision".
"Squigglevision is a patented method of computer animation in which the outlines of shapes are made to wiggle and undulate, emulating the effect of sketchily hand-drawn animation. Tom Snyder of Tom Snyder Productions invented the technique, which his animation studio Soup2Nuts subsequently used in Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Dick and Paula Celebrity Special, Home Movies, O'Grady, and Science Court." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squigglevision
Squigglevision! I remember it from Home Movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squigglevision
I've also been wondering if there is something similar to Content Aware Fill that can help process old 4:3 cartoons to 16:9.
A lot of the really old cartoons would use a background art image and would pan over it with the characters dong stuff to create a sense of motion. Sometimes the characters would move over a still background image but the 'camera's would zoom in.
Something that could extract the full size background image to apply it to the frames to enlarge the aspect ratio could go a long way toward revitalizing a lot of older cartoons. Especially fit could fill in any gaps using the opensource equivilent of Content Aware Fill (is there an FOSS equal?)
I've been trying to get my kids into Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Home Movies, Sealab 2021, the Simpsons, etc. If the video is wide screen they try it and enjoy it. If it's 4:3 they barely give it a chance because it's "too old"
Reminds me of Coach McGuirk from Home Movies when he has insomnia.
"Oh, you mean all I need to do to fall asleep, is just close my eyes and go to sleep?!"
In all seriousness, I mean, who doesn't have anxiety, right? If someone broke into your house, you'd start feeling anxious.
I focus on building things, on going outside and being happy.
And yet people still don't buy my product or offer me a job ^.^
If that doesn't make anyone start wondering what might be wrong, then I'd like to know more.
Home Movies (from Adult Swim) already made an awesome cartoon about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNCRcozGZNU