Genndy Tartavotsky does interview to promote Fixed where he laments the state of Western animation

[Jman]

Genndy’s interviews over the past few years are him taking the industry to task.

[Sketch]

Man he flat out said nobody but DIsney is making kids cartoons now...

Yet another Genndy project that he slowly cooked for decades, he originally pitched the movie in 2008 and obviously the industry wasn't ready for that yet but the Sony exec at the time did like it but they got promoted and the next person didn't. Can you IMAGINE if this came out in 2010?

[Toonamiguy321]

“Expert on dog boners and nutsacks feels the animation industry is declining”

This would have been a good topic during Primal S2s run, not after dog testicle show. 
 

5 hours ago, Sketch said:

Can you IMAGINE if this came out in 2010?

It likely would have went to proper theaters but gotten destroyed because competition for attention in theaters was fierce in 2010. Would have been squaring up with Harry Potter, Avatar, Inception, Iron Man 2, and quite a few other heavy hitters. I don’t think dog penis can compete with those. 
 

For a positive, it likely would not have been scrutinized as much. A movie that exists, is not good, and everyone just moves on. Genndy’s obsession with throbbing dog meat is only jokingly referenced now and then as his other projects release. 

[Top Gun]

10 hours ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

“Expert on dog boners and nutsacks feels the animation industry is declining”

This would have been a good topic during Primal S2s run, not after dog testicle show.

You can not like or be interested in this particular movie of his and still agree with his points. The two are entirely separate things. Genndy's more than earned the right to make statements like this given his entire body of work.

[Toonamiguy321]

4 hours ago, Top Gun said:

You can not like or be interested in this particular movie of his and still agree with his points. The two are entirely separate things. Genndy's more than earned the right to make statements like this given his entire body of work.

My point is, he is talking about the decline as if he didn’t just contribute to said decline not even one month ago. The state of western animation is more than just the way it looks. Fixed has that animation flare we come to expect from Genndy. But then content wise it’s about dog schlong and just becomes another reason in the pile for why the west is falling miles behind on animation. 

[Jman]

There’s only so much even the greatest auteurs can do when the only animation being made in-house these days are video game adaptations desperately pretending to be Japanese but failing because the boobs are all too small, or vehicles for comedians who don’t want to do stand up comedy tours.  And make no mistake, Genndy is one of the last great auteurs from that era that is still active and hasn’t been disgraced.

Even American comics are begging people to have Japanese studios animate them.  Over the past few months, there’s been rumors Robert Kirkman’s (Invincible, Walking Dead) next big project will be an adaptation of his Energon Universe comics.

And everyone has made it clear they want Studio Trigger to animate it, not the people who are doing Invincible.  To me that’s telling that everyone thinks Western studios suck that much ass (and Trigger has repeatedly asked to do a Transformers project) that people want them to do Transformers and G.I. Joe.

Edited 12 hours ago by Jman