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Hotel Transylvania
2012 · Film · 91 min
Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula has invited all his best friends to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis's 118th birthday. For Dracula catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem but the party really starts when one ordinary guy stumbles into the hotel and changes everything!
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John K is such a jackass in general though about anything that didn’t come from him.
I was mentored by several people who worked under him for Ren and Stimpy, and I’ve never met anyone who’s said a nice thing about working with him.
His blog is also one of the more toxic fixtures of the animation industry, leading to tons of people who look up to his style of critique in much the same way many engineers looked up to Linus’s early aggressive rants (but worse). He’s the proginator of the derogatory “Calarts bean mouth” description that so many wannabe artists throw around without thought, and led to so many death threats and harassing of brilliant artists.
That’s not even mentioning his rampant sexual abuse allegations and dating underage girls.
John K made some great content but man is he a blight on the industry as a whole, since Ren and Stimpy finished.
Meanwhile since you mentioned Genndy, who I’ve had the pleasure to work with directly, he’s an artistic genius and just great to work with. Genndy and Craig McCracken pushed an art style that defined multiple generations of cartoons, and Genndy pushed forms more than most people I know of.
A lot of the more fun stylization in CGI is thanks to Genndy pushing Sony hard. The first hotel Transylvania is mind blowing if you analyze the animation, and a huge part of that is Genndy drawing over frames to show the extreme silhouettes that he wants. Technology was then developed to allow artists to fit those forms repeatedly and reliably. That’s had knock on effects to other CG films, even ones from Disney and Pixar who analyzed how much he pushed forms. Not to mention he created three of the best shows: Dexters Lab, Samurai Jack and Primal. primal is a master class in story telling and cinematography.
Anyway long rant to say, man I dislike John K but Genndy is awesome.
You're confusing correlation with causality.
Lord and Miller definitely like to push the style of their films, but a lot of the technology used to achieve that style from Sony is from trying to closely adapt the rubber hose animation style of Fleischer cartoons in an attempt for Sony to differentiate themselves as a studio.
They really pushed it in Hotel Transylvania, their next feature film, where they were bringing Genndy Tratakovsky's style to 3D.
> I don’t have kids
I used to think all kinds of things about how we'd raise our kids before we had them, but I'm pretty satisfied with the job that we're doing overall - they're outside catching the first frogs of spring in the creek that goes by our house at this very moment.
However, sometimes when you're driving for hours to somewhere they get a little bored and want to watch a movie. And sometimes you get bored of listening to the dialog from Hotel Transylvania and want to listen to a podcast and then you discover how handy those headphones actually are.
edit: I mean, this is constructive feedback and I do appreciate it. And you should absolutely think about your parenting strategy before you have children as well. It's just that, well, sometimes your opinions on things soften as you age and gain domain experience is all...
There's also Genndy Tartakovsky with Samurai Jack and Dexters Laboratory, although I realize they're in early 2000 - they're both excellent. Sad that his first foray into feature films is Hotel Transylvania.