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anyone remember when we unironically gave animated shows/films their own threads

http://www.dofus-le-film.com/fr (http://www.dofus-le-film.com/fr)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rztQ0GKQ4c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rztQ0GKQ4c)

[spoiler=longer trailer but it doesn't have english subs]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nnJUXdSqlw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nnJUXdSqlw)[/spoiler]

so i'm wondering if anyone else is paying close attention to this film that will be playing in France. unfortunately i have yet to see any information on a release date for America. i also don't speak french so i don't really know whats going on in the general story other than that it looks like a 'call to adventure (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CallToAdventure)' trope. but hey, i'm up for one considering i haven't seen any of those in awhile. that and the fact that this visually looks fucking amazing.


thoughts/opinions?

This looks cool.

Is it related to Wakfu?

the people who are making this are the same people who made wakfu.

i tried playing wakfu for awhile but it ultimately wasn't for me. the only reason why i played it was for its artwork. without that, it was just another free-to-play rpg. i'm assuming whatever the plot is for this movie it will be similar to wakfu's plot (which was taking back a generic artifact and using it to restore balance to the world or something)

Oh yeah I meant the cartoon. I'm guessing it's the same team of animators?

I honestly forgot they were also games.

i'm pretty sure that the game and show were made by the same group of people who are now making this.

i never watched the show but i heard it was good...

I saw a few episodes. It couldn't keep my attention but it also wasn't this pretty.

I think the last thing I remember from France was Miraculous Ladybug coming out and disappointing absolutely everyone who saw the original teaser.

Here's hoping the frogs deliver this time (meaning don't go CG on us).

Quote from: Bamyasi on January 20, 2016 02:22 AM
I think the last thing I remember from France was Miraculous Ladybug coming out and disappointing absolutely everyone who saw the original teaser.

oh wow

so that's why the buzz for that show completely disappeared from my newsfeed.

rip

I was expecting a really overblown rage-face-type project based on the title.

This sure is pretty. I have no idea what exactly it's about, tho, but I do hope the rest of the movie is as stylish and fluid as these trailers.

Also I'm surprised French anime is still a thing.

France saving anime

Quote from: Bamyasi on January 20, 2016 02:22 AM
Here's hoping the frogs deliver this time (meaning don't go CG on us).

it's already cheap bad vector animation so don't hold ur breath

It may be cheap but I wouldn't call it bad.

@rtil (http://www.thebackalleys.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1) what's your openion on this.

Quote from: Stu4U on January 19, 2016 11:20 PM
i also don't speak french so i don't really know whats going on in the general story other than that it looks like a 'call to adventure (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CallToAdventure)' trope. but hey, i'm up for one considering i haven't seen any of those in awhile. that and the fact that this visually looks fucking amazing

uhh basically starts off with the guy freaking out because "...?.. has been stolen? (i think i heard voler, could have been voiler tho)"

blah blah blah action scene, the bit at the end with blue cow and jak from jak and daxter is cute tho

little shit thing says "we need to hustle", cow pops up and is like "hahaha yeah let's move, we're not here as tourists *blush*" to which Jak replies "I WAS SO CLOSE"

assuming they're an item, cute i love beastiality

It also has [cc] (closed captions).

Not that the [cc] (crackers captions) aren't appreciated.

Also that guy does look like Jak. That jump was weird though. It's like she just levitated.

Levitating Blue Cow Waifu.

Quote from: Bamyasi on January 20, 2016 07:19 AM
It may be cheap but I wouldn't call it bad.

@rtil (http://www.thebackalleys.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1) what's your openion on this.

i don't mind tweens when they're used appropriately, i think wakfu/dofus does a decent job at finding a balance. thw tv show takes more shortcuts than this movie does or at least it would seem so from the trailers. there's obviously a lot of hand drawn animation in it , i don't see how anyone could call it cheap looking. this is leagues above the Johnny Tests of the world in style and substance.

at this point the wakfu universe is so popular, i hope whoever hired xa-xa-xa (http://xa-xa-xa.deviantart.com/) way back when to develop the style of the game got a raise because if it wasn't for him i doubt their freemium mmorpg would be where it is today.

Well that settles that.

Quote from: Gladius on January 20, 2016 05:36 AM
it's already cheap bad vector animation so don't hold ur breath

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still true brah gimme warner any day

Quote from: Gladius on January 20, 2016 06:49 PM
still true brah gimme warner any day

just goes to show you know absolutely nothing about animation, your beloved warner icons were brilliant animators in part because they were very good at knowing how to take shortcuts in animation and put quality where it mattered. they pioneered a lot of animation techniques that not only saved time but still managed to look good.

if they had the digital tools that we had today they would use them in the same ways. in fact, Chuck Jones used flash animation for his "Thomas Timberwolf" series in his later years which employed the use of re-usable assets.

Quote from: rtil on January 21, 2016 12:09 AM

Quote from: Gladius on January 20, 2016 06:49 PM
still true brah gimme warner any day

just goes to show you know absolutely nothing about animation, your beloved warner icons were brilliant animators in part because they were very good at knowing how to take shortcuts in animation and put quality where it mattered. they pioneered a lot of animation techniques that not only saved time but still managed to look good.

if they had the digital tools that we had today they would use them in the same ways. in fact, Chuck Jones used flash animation for his "Thomas Timberwolf" series in his later years which employed the use of re-usable assets.

A B S O L U T E L Y     D E S T R O Y E D

Quote from: zwimmy on January 21, 2016 01:40 AM

Quote from: rtil on January 21, 2016 12:09 AM

Quote from: Gladius on January 20, 2016 06:49 PM
still true brah gimme warner any day

just goes to show you know absolutely nothing about animation, your beloved warner icons were brilliant animators in part because they were very good at knowing how to take shortcuts in animation and put quality where it mattered. they pioneered a lot of animation techniques that not only saved time but still managed to look good.

if they had the digital tools that we had today they would use them in the same ways. in fact, Chuck Jones used flash animation for his "Thomas Timberwolf" series in his later years which employed the use of re-usable assets.

A B S O L U T E L Y     D E S T R O Y E D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PMmPRBfdBQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PMmPRBfdBQ)

Quote from: rtil on January 20, 2016 11:36 AM
xa-xa-xa (http://xa-xa-xa.deviantart.com/)

oh yea totally. they've also been pretty active on tumblr (http://xa-colors.tumblr.com/) as well.

makes me really happy to see that artists can still be successful this day and age
i mean look at how far this guy has come
(https://thebackalleys.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fp5.storage.canalblog.com%2F51%2F19%2F68558%2F69165866.jpg&hash=2d878c5650385c4fabab8c7288ce7f037e426c86)

is that an ad for his work?

Quote from: Stu4U on January 24, 2016 11:43 AM
they've

How many people are they? I thought it was just gueuzav or whatever.

Quote from: rtil on January 25, 2016 01:07 AM
is that an ad for his work?

yes, and look at how big it is

on his blog (http://xaxaxa.canalblog.com/) while everything was in french, i did found the words 'Times Square' in there, so i can only assume this is on Times freaking Square. can you imagine how much money it would cost to get adspace on TIMES SQUARE????

Quote from: Bamyasi on January 25, 2016 03:18 AM

Quote from: Stu4U on January 24, 2016 11:43 AM
they've

How many people are they? I thought it was just gueuzav or whatever.

yea it is one guy. sorry, bad grammar... though, 'they' can be used as a singular pronoun under circumstances. talking regularly on tumblr did that to me.

i bet that his employer paid for the ad, but still that is really cool

Quote from: Stu4U on January 25, 2016 11:02 AM
yea it is one guy. sorry, bad grammar...

Okay. This had me confused:
(https://thebackalleys.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebackalleys.com%2Fdump%2Ffiles%2F1530%2F440n9M_guayzav.jpg&hash=1ce3e3bed41482797246996c1a4e08107cb577e2)

I thought it was like a sibling team or something. I forgot he got his nickname from his brother.

pls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpqdeEhp3kI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpqdeEhp3kI)

The buuuuulge.

Most French thing about it tbh.