My animation professor did a lot of animation on the Alvin and the Chipmunks 2, and most of the bad guy chick in Hop. I learned alot about how most of what animators do is doing your best on bad movies to pay bills. I will say that the animation on all of these looks pretty damn good, but the compositing and some vfx really don't blend great, and that ends up making things look bad (not that what they were blending into was great in the first place). But that's not so much on the animation itself, . I mean damn, every one of those damn chipmunk shots took months to animate, with hundreds of iterations.  Woof.

Also the animatiors all know what this is, a common animator game is to get as many people together as you can and compete to see who has the lowest rotten tomatoes score to their name. They know. You still knuckle down and do the best job you can anyway, if for nobody else but yourself and your demo reel. and maybe to 'win' the rotten tomatoes game.

Fun fact, the studio that made Hop had only really specialized in  super realistic work before, and their riggers could not understand why the animators would want bouncier,  more exaggerated and malleable characters. Or at least, they had no idea how to deliver flexable models so they just didn't. He spent most of that production fighting the guy rigging the villian cuz my prof wanted him to do big cartoonish actions and treat him like a two stretchy balls connected to eachother, but just couldn't cuz the model would constantly break. These cartoon chickens were never being built to do cartoonish actions.   That odd disconnect of highly restrictive animation put onto extremely cartoonish characters goes a long way to making it feel off, even before you get to akward blending of live action and cg.

A great many people spent years upon years of dedicated schooling, countless nights spent crying over artistic insecurities, braved a job market that will toss you out without warning, being fired and hired and refired, and have accepted professions that nobody will ever notice the good work you do and will always blame you for everything. And they did it all so that they could make Hop. This is the end-point of all of those college panic attacks.

Making Hop.

1:16 "an atheist born and raised"

On the playground was where I spent none of my days

You can't escape...




THE FURRY

"I can't for ten movies from now when he's basically Saw" ... not going to lie, I would totally watch a Jigspaw movie, that would be kind of amazing.

Oh my god quinton you HAVE to review furry vengance. It's everything you want and more.

The writing is wade freeman levels of subtle.

Sonic the hedgehog 2019 is s spiritual successor to HOP

Jacqueline Frost looks like a Monster High character.

I remember watching the CGI Peter Cottontail movie.

The movie's CGI was way, WAY worse and far less cooler than I remember.

I mean, things like the Easter Bunny and Father Christmas are borrowed and adapted from (mostly European and Middle Eastern) pagan practices and folklore. But consumerism has absolutely massively transformed those as well.

All hail Eostre, the Goddess of the spring, of birth, of fertility, you can see her will with the propagation of new life and rabbits and the hatching of eggs.

3:47 "I'VE MADE THE LAST SUPPER OUT OF PEEPS!"
I almost died when I heard that

6:29 Jesus Christ what kind of cover art is that

"You can't escape the furries"

He's not wrong...

I had forgotten about Hop...I was perfectly okay with having forgotten about Hop. It came out at just the moment when I was old enough to realize how awful most kids movies are.

Quinton: Hey Bonbon, have you saved any major american holiday?
Cat: Quinton, for fuck's sake, I am a CAT

It's amazing how little Here Comes Peter Cottontail looks like the original film. These characters look almost nothing like their original counterparts.

Wait, this isn’t BEE MOVIE!
Edit: WAIT, IS THAT JOEY DIAZ?

this is why i sleep in my closet

i love u quinton but ur cat really stole the show

Easter has significance for me as an atheist, I have the day off work for easter monday.