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.
― Vinnie, Saturday, 2 March 2013 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
If anything, Ray sounds over-committed to me. But once again yeah, not far off from what I had heard in my head.
― how's life, Saturday, 2 March 2013 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Saturday, 2 March 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
only the segment about stuffing so many toilet flushes in the toilet feels achewood to me.
― The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Saturday, 2 March 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Drier to mean means a more subtle Ray
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Saturday, 2 March 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
this was...bad
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Saturday, 2 March 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
to mean... more silent moments, to be less hectic. but no i don't think ray is like i imagined him either,.
― The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Saturday, 2 March 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― del griffith, Saturday, 2 March 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Pheeel, Saturday, 2 March 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
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)
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 2 March 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Saturday, 2 March 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
totes
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Saturday, 2 March 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― del griffith, Saturday, 2 March 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Saturday, 2 March 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
ray's mouth shouldn't work like thatit's like a wobbling ass with a pendulum underneath
― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 March 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
after watching this again i've softened from 'certain disaster' to 'needs a few adjustments but i can see it working'
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 3 March 2013 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― No, not sinister (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 4 March 2013 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/068d24f167402586b7bef8d2d1ca453e/tumblr_mlicsmSKl31s76b06o1_500.jpg
roast beef when they recreated cheers for him
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
new strip
― Dan I., Saturday, 10 August 2013 08:38 (ten years ago) link
is boring
― Dan I., Saturday, 10 August 2013 08:39 (ten years ago) link
cornelius wasn't good for achewood, in the end
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 10 August 2013 08:43 (ten years ago) link
cornelius is my least fav character by a country mile.
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 10 August 2013 11:54 (ten years ago) link
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
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 10 August 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
I like the character, but I think C.O. has lost how to write him.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Saturday, 10 August 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
I like the comic, but I think C.O. has lost how to write it.
― Clay, Saturday, 10 August 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
^
― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 11 August 2013 03:11 (ten years ago) link
so this is making a comeback huh
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 30 August 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
cool but idg the ending to the Dead Kennedys one :/
― many a slip 'twixt Yow and Yip (DJ Mencap), Friday, 30 August 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
did ray fart on beef's earphone?
― Ottworks SKG (stevie), Saturday, 31 August 2013 06:07 (ten years ago) link
hes pleasing his anus with the bass, is the joke
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 31 August 2013 06:11 (ten years ago) link
last few have been really good! and there are a few of them!
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
yeah, the one a few weeks ago involving Nice Pete and female characters was kind of amazing.
― JoeStork, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
The mouseover text on the one where Philippe writes his will made me LOL in the office.
― Dave Froglets (Phil D.), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
OMG at today's strip: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=11152013
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Friday, 15 November 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
he killed Molly????
― Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator (stevie), Friday, 15 November 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
i think he's just imagining worst-case scenarios
― call all destroyer, Friday, 15 November 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
PHEW
― Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator (stevie), Friday, 15 November 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
one weird trick to last longer
― Vinnie, Friday, 15 November 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
i love the strip before this.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Gatemouth, Thursday, 20 March 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
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
― how's life, Friday, 7 November 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
Rereading it aaaaaalllllllll
Weird how this came true: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01122006
― hardcore dilettante, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 03:36 (nine years ago) link
prescient
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 03:52 (nine years ago) link
hey, remember when he got it together again? that was like a year and a half ago.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 October 2015 04:24 (eight years ago) link
I reread the books a few months back. When it was on, it was glorious. There's so much of it to revisit too. Though I guess those Dark Horse reprints are finished now.
― please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Thursday, 1 October 2015 09:16 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/667372532748722176
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link
context: http://nymag.com/following/2015/11/this-8-month-twitter-roast-is-a-masterpiece.html
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
Ferocious tweets flew at Hendren left and right, mainly coming from users @Arr and @weedguy420boner.
Most 2015 sentence ever.
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
Could have been 2011 just as easily.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Friday, 20 November 2015 19:48 (eight years ago) link
oh hey, there are some new ones and they're pretty good.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 15 January 2016 21:28 (eight years ago) link