do YOU love achewood, too?

well, nothing is final considering they're shopping test footage and have created zero actual episodes!

Onstad as Beef was pretty good I thought, but yeah, that ain't right for Ray.

it does feel a little flat but maybe that's because i'm already familiar with the jokes. i can't imagine the comics being acted out any other way. timing does seem weird.

the voices are certainly jarring but again... i don't know how i'd expect ray to sound. the voice as-is is a little weird, but i hope and assume that will be refined. i think i might have expected ray to speak with enthusiasm in the place of a funky accent.

my least fav voice is philippe - just seems like generic child voice, which i always find grating

agree that onstad was on point

best voice of the test footage was tina though, for sure. "terrible". curious as to how they'll flesh out the less-explored characters. i was always curious about tina and hearing her talk in her terrible voice confirmed my suspicions about who she was i think

i had to stop after about 10 seconds of ray

― JoeStork, Friday, March 1, 2013 3:50 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^^^this. heartbroken.

It comes disturbingly close to being an impression of a "black guy" voice

― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, March 1, 2013 3:43 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf this more or less describes Ray's general turn of phrase as well but yeah I did think it was going full Dolemite at a couple of points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJfE-W6FqmM

Huh liked it better than I thought I would, but maybe that's just because there was ten people itt pooping on it. Onstad actually nailed Roast Beef, but I guess he knows these voices intimately. Ray was close to what I imagined but something is off, like the actor isn't fully committed. Philippe is whatever. Worst was that the comedic timing was weird like many have pointed out, but I still laughed at a couple jokes like Philippe's scone line.

If anything, Ray sounds over-committed to me. But once again yeah, not far off from what I had heard in my head.

i watched this a second time, and it just doesn't work. i *really don't like the cold, cheap animation. and again, the pacing seems off. it should be drier. don't ask me what that means: just DRIER.

only the segment about stuffing so many toilet flushes in the toilet feels achewood to me.

Drier to mean means a more subtle Ray

this was...bad

to mean... more silent moments, to be less hectic. but no i don't think ray is like i imagined him either,.

This reminds me of how a few months ago I was in the mood to look up old Calvin and Hobbes strips and read them and have a nostalgia party. I nostalgia partied for a while and enjoyed it very much. Then, after about an hour, I wondered if anyone had done any amateur animation on youtube, so I went there, and some had, and they were repulsive, and my nostalgia party abruptly ended.

In an ideal world, the Achewood cartoon would be entirely in scratchy hand drawn cel animation, kind of like the old MTV Migraine Boy bumpers. The current footage as it stands all feels a little too...smooth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS8qzkMO3K4

All these years thinking how well Onstad's non-punctuation and "uh"-prefixing of Beef's lines conveys him speaking in a hesitant monotone and it turns out that Onstad-voiced Beef does not talk in a hesitant monotone

(but yeah, Beef way less jarring than Ray, certainly)

In an ideal world, the Achewood cartoon would be entirely in scratchy hand drawn cel animation, kind of like the old MTV Migraine Boy bumpers. The current footage as it stands all feels a little too...smooth.

agreed. this computer animation is both too smooth and too weird. in the credits they mention motion capture was used, which maybe explains why it feels like one long uncomfortable cutscene.

i'm only bummed about this because a) i love achewood and b) i've always thought it had potential as an animation.

All these years thinking how well Onstad's non-punctuation and "uh"-prefixing of Beef's lines conveys him speaking in a hesitant monotone and it turns out that Onstad-voiced Beef does not talk in a hesitant monotone

totes

It's weird to me that anyone might have a problem with the smoothness of the animation itself considering that the original Illustrator vector art is about as smooth as you can get. It was off-putting when the Simpsons made the transition to that creepy all-computer razor-sharp HD art, but Achewood's always looked that way. That was part of its original charm for me, that the guy who created it was clearly just goofing off with Illustrator when he was probably supposed to be at work designing something important.

spacecadet, completely agree - I expected beef to be waaay flatter and 100% monotone.

It's weird to me that anyone might have a problem with the smoothness of the animation itself considering that the original Illustrator vector art is about as smooth as you can get. It was off-putting when the Simpsons made the transition to that creepy all-computer razor-sharp HD art, but Achewood's always looked that way. That was part of its original charm for me, that the guy who created it was clearly just goofing off with Illustrator when he was probably supposed to be at work designing something important.

I agree with this. Re: Onstad's Beef voice, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried it flatter and in a monotone and it just didn't work for a cartoon. Another option could have just been audible mumbling and subtitles, but naaaaah. I think this is a workable compromise.

ray's mouth shouldn't work like that
it's like a wobbling ass with a pendulum underneath

after watching this again i've softened from 'certain disaster' to 'needs a few adjustments but i can see it working'

Ray sounds a lot older than I imagined him sounding. Like 10-20 years older. That cat could be purple, is what I'm saying, but not old.

I'd probably get used to it, but I'm not sure there's any reason to get used to it. I love Achewood. It doesn't have to go on forever, get animated, or even have closure. I'd like to see Onstad do something different, or just enjoy his life beyond the bounds of my awareness.

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/068d24f167402586b7bef8d2d1ca453e/tumblr_mlicsmSKl31s76b06o1_500.jpg

roast beef when they recreated cheers for him

new strip

is boring

cornelius wasn't good for achewood, in the end

cornelius is my least fav character by a country mile.

was always the worst-heard voice, became more and more florid with time, the harder it tries to be wodehouse the further away it drifts

I like the character, but I think C.O. has lost how to write him.

I like the comic, but I think C.O. has lost how to write it.

^

so this is making a comeback huh

cool but idg the ending to the Dead Kennedys one :/

did ray fart on beef's earphone?

hes pleasing his anus with the bass, is the joke

last few have been really good! and there are a few of them!

yeah, the one a few weeks ago involving Nice Pete and female characters was kind of amazing.

The mouseover text on the one where Philippe writes his will made me LOL in the office.

OMG at today's strip: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=11152013

he killed Molly????

i think he's just imagining worst-case scenarios

PHEW

one weird trick to last longer

i love the strip before this.

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=03182014

what particularly creeped me out after reading this was that I had unconsciously removed my wedding ring and put it on my desk. then i looked down from this comic and saw it sitting there.

This is from a few months ago, but I googled him up when I couldn't get achewood.com to load.

http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/eat-and-drink/articles/portland-soda-works-geeks-out-on-pop-september-2014

Rereading it aaaaaalllllllll

Weird how this came true: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01122006

prescient

hey, remember when he got it together again? that was like a year and a half ago.