Look how mad John K. gets about Alvin and the chipmunks plushies lmaoWhat a loser
>>150327662I respect that John K can provide valuable analysis and explain his ideas with examples.
he's right though off model fanart and merch shows a lack of care from the designers/artists
>>150327706It's because making on model plushes is expensive.
>>150327662john k's taste in cartoons was always great. and his criticism usually full of solid insightsin fact it's genuinely bizaare to me how ugly his later work became. i guess that's what raping teenagers and taking human growth hormone does to a man's brain
don't tell him about funko pops
>>150327718>having a sewing pattern that isn't off model is expensive absolutely. paying someone who gives a fuck is expensive. Even plastic toys like dolls and action figures that come out look like shit get released because they can't afford to invest in a quality designer after paying the lowest bidder way more than they were worth
>>150327706off model bootleg trash is a lack of care, off model fanart is just a lack of skill
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>>150328085That's not a bootleg
>>150327662>>150327800I can understand John criticizing cartoons, and I can agree with a lot of what he says, but why on Earth would he get angry over the way merchandise looks? The people who make merchandise and plushies aren’t the same people who make cartoons lol.
>>150328097I don't hate the stimpy, but ren should have had his lips turned sideways like in the cartoon
>>150328205Ren usually always looks weird when he’s translated into toys or sculptures, look at the animatronic Ren from FAO Schwartz for example, thing looks like a fucking duck
>>150327662>before hippies destroyed the western world in the late 60s there was a concept called "form"It wasn't hippies and it wasn't the 60s. The death of form came in 1919 within the German city of Weimar. It then spread to Dessau in 1925 and finally Berlin in 1932. It started with architecture, then interior design and then graphic design and before long art itself. It had one name, and it birthed a slew of others descended from it, all united under the philosophy to "unify individual artistic vision with the principles of mass production and emphasis on function".It's name was Bauhaus, and it was the death of form.
>>150327662Gay
>>150329800i can't tell if john is on the spectrum or just a really weird dude.
>>150329800Back when I read his blog in high school in the 00s I thought he was sometimes totally out of touch. Nowadays, (some of) his takes come across as so ancient as to be alien, like a boomer preserved in formaldehyde.
>>150329800>all that over a completely normal Simon plush Something was wrong with this guy mentally. Ironically, I think merch today looks better than it ever did if you just ignore shit like Pop Figures
To be fair, fuck the Chipmunks.
>>150330906Hey retarded Nintendo virgin, what are your thoughts on Timon & Pumbaa show? reply to the thread.
>>150330957Well now I don't wanna.
>>150330029his father was an asshole even by boomer's parent standards
>>150330029He’s a cartoonist so both
>>150329800>ok grandpa, go take your medicine
