motorcity

[rtil]

Motorcity Promo #1
Exclusive clip: Disney XD's Motorcity

i'm getting a serious REDLINE vibe from this show - probably the coolest cartoon that's been on any disney channel in a looooooong time. and really well animated, too.

you can watch the first 2 eps here: http://disney.go.com/xd/motorcity/videos/?video=0_b1ftacf4

[Sef]

might not be horrific nothingness!

I'll check it out

[Casey Pixmintro]

Some of the dialogue is mehhh, but the show looks incredible.
Also, here's a sweet WIP/Final animation comparison Titmouse released.
Motorcity Animation Preview on Vimeo
The heads are symbol-based in Flash, and the way they do them is fucking ridiculous. Really nice fucking plug-in built by Ajar Productions http://ajarproductions.com, they also do Flash lip-sync plug-ins and shit
Titmouse Facinator Plug In Demo

[rtil]

haha all of those layers and keyframes holy shit. that's a really nice plugin, but sometimes i wonder if it would have just been easier to do it frame by frame. i suppose if the show were to go on long enough it would have been worth the effort to build all that for every character.

[Casey Pixmintro]

Yeah, I think they only do it for the heads and the bodies are traditionally animated for the most part (occasional puppeting that's scene specific). I think they do it so they can get as much life out of the character's expressions and inflections. It seems to let them do some pretty nice flourishes with facial animation sometimes.

[cipher]

I feel like the character models don't really suit the environment too well, but aside from that it looks like it has serious potential.

[naturally]

a good cartoon on disney is extremely surprising to see. the main character totally looks like murdoc from the gorillaz though.

just from the two promos it looks interesting enough to check out the first ep.

[sev]

looks really solid, will probably watch

[naturally]

watched both eps, show is awesome, etc etc

definitely gonna continue to watch the new episodes as well. 3rd one aired yesterday so i guess they wait a bit before putting them on the site.

[ZennyPLUS]

To draw clicks to their site, smart. The main character's design is A+ for me. Will watch these episodes soon.