pretty good
great graphics stupid story
Reviews for "Nutsy & Klutsy: Ep. 1"
ok...
omg the sound has 2 get better. this is my kind of humore random and stinkin. The part wen it was loading was funny... i got bored of ur show tho bcos it wasnt that funny + it was draged out way 2 far. and half the stuff the green guy was sayin i couldnt even make out. you should put the option wither to have subtitles on or not. other than that it was ok
I dunno
It started off good and strong, but then got reeeeaaaaallllly long and boring. Had some good ideas, but they could have used a little more padding.
Very well done, despite the style plagiarism
"Ren and Stimpy were knocked off of all the old Bob Clampett and Tex Avery cartoons, so why can't I knock them off."
What I think really bothers me is that you clearly have a lot of skill and talent, and are wasting it by imitating someone else's work.
The difference is that you didn't really even try to come up with your own style here. Right down to the exact same needle-drop music and sound effects, animation gags, and graphical design. If this were done as a tribute, it would be phenomenal. It's a shame that you didn't just make a Ren and Stimpy cartoon of it, with a line in there somewhere saying "A Tribute to John K's Ren and Stimpy" or something.
Now I've mentioned all the things that are the same as Ren and Stimpy.. What's different? Obviously your characters are, although they still have similar roles (although the thin one has the stimpy role, and the large one the Ren role).
The voicework, while not bad, is not nearly the quality of Billy West - but let's face it, there's only one Billy West, and you couldn't afford him. So I'll forgive that.
The animation is lacking - you did more tweening and less frame by frame work, particularly visible when ... Um... the blue one is laughing. However, being that you're one guy, and do not have the entire spümco animation team to help out. Ok, I can forgive the simplicity of animation as well.
The humor is lacking - although you based your jokes on Ren and Stimpy concepts, they don't have the same level of humor. It's just not that funny.
The artwork is not as good - This one I can't say I can forgive quite as easily. The artwork is still good - but it's not up to Spümco standards.
The plot lacks cohesiveness, or the direction is faulty, or something - it's not quite right in many ways. It seems jerky in places, awkward, abrupt. It's rough, is what I'm saying, and some better transitions or more well thought out scenes could have helped.
Now then. Sick of my saying it's not up to Spümco standards? Sick of my comparing it to Ren and Stimpy? THEN STOP RIPPING REN AND STIMPY OFF. Come on, get your own ideas. Yes, some of the ideas that John K used in his cartoons were lifted directly from old cartoons... But not 96% of the idea of the cartoon! His basic cartoon was very original - with groundbreaking artwork and character design, and a very original style. Yes, he used the same kind of needle-drop music as they did in the old toons, and the same kind of sound effects - but he used them in his own way, in a way that had not been done before.
I sincerely hope you get an original concept before you do episode 2. As well done as this is (and I can't fault your skill, this was superbly done) - it's an almost total ren and stimpy clone, and the fact that you did that without even MENTIONING John K's creation (except in defense when people pointed it out to you) is inexcusable. You knew you were ripping him off in a huge way. You could at least credit him for the ideas, since you clearly could not come up with any of your own.
Please, prove me wrong. Do something relatively original in episode 2.
chubbybunny responds:
damn you didnt have to write an essay about it
Mmmm...
I would say you pretty much knocked off Ren and Stimpy big time. I don't think it you should have done that. I would love to see this remade in a different ORIGINAL style and humor. I just didn't want to be negative about it.