getting the voices right will make or break it
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 25 February 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
otm
Onstad's clean lines should make this fairly cheap and easy to animate, which that snippet sort of confirms (to the extent that ten seconds of video can confirm anything).
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
Can't watch the clip till I get home, but I find it extremely hard to imagine a real life voice that would capture Roast Beef.
― Vinnie, Monday, 25 February 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
There are no voices in the clip.
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Monday, 25 February 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
animation looks good tho
― call all destroyer, Monday, 25 February 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
this isn't going to work i'm afraidhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=b_97q16TFxk
― Number None, Friday, 1 March 2013 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
IRONY
that was hideously awful
― acid sierra (electricsound), Friday, 1 March 2013 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
oh man that ray voice is just incorrect imo. dude is not half-cajun or whatever is going on there.
― Clay, Friday, 1 March 2013 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
noooo, that's bad. not dry enough.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 1 March 2013 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
i always pictured beef as sounding more like tina from bobs burgers
― acid sierra (electricsound), Friday, 1 March 2013 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
It comes disturbingly close to being an impression of a "black guy" voice
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, 1 March 2013 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
just the comic timing in general of that footage is insanely off
yeah roast beef as tina from bob's burgers is about right. maybe a little more exasperated.
― Clay, Friday, 1 March 2013 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
this is fucking terriblelike potentially a joke terrible
― forks is lucky he didn't get stabbed over a marilyn monroe cd (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 March 2013 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
like xtranormal terribleevery voice is wrong.every joke is terribly timed.so sad
― forks is lucky he didn't get stabbed over a marilyn monroe cd (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 March 2013 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
I thought everyone other than Ray was generally ok, although it was really jarring to hear the characters
also, lol bob marley
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, 1 March 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
i had to stop after about 10 seconds of ray
― JoeStork, Friday, 1 March 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
It says test footage, so maybe the voices aren't final?
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Friday, 1 March 2013 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
the guy doing ray's voice is Toby Huss, aka Artie, the Strongest Man in the World.
― Clay, Friday, 1 March 2013 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
well, nothing is final considering they're shopping test footage and have created zero actual episodes!
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, 1 March 2013 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
Onstad as Beef was pretty good I thought, but yeah, that ain't right for Ray.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Friday, 1 March 2013 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
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
― cocktail onion (fennel cartwright), Friday, 1 March 2013 06:02 (eleven years ago) link
― JoeStork, Friday, March 1, 2013 3:50 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^^^^this. heartbroken.
― The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Friday, 1 March 2013 08:24 (eleven years ago) link
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (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
― an average girl realizing that leggings aren't helping the cause (DJ Mencap), Friday, 1 March 2013 08:42 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJfE-W6FqmM
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Friday, 1 March 2013 11:46 (eleven years ago) link
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