Can he open a Patreon or something to finance it , this exactly why you should never pass by a distributor create your own studio!
Dark crystal cancelled/ midnight gospel cancelled and now this frick this troony Earth
>Too damn much by American standards
Do you think Americans animate? What planet are you from? Americans 'story-board' animations and then farm them out to uncredited korean sweatshops.
Professional broadcast level animation can cost between $50,000 - $100,000 per MINUTE of animation. If it was so easy to crowd fund animated shows you’d see more people doing it.
>Professional broadcast level animation can cost between $50,000 - $100,000 per MINUTE of animation.
Really? It always seemed like something that varied based on a lot of factors.
Close Enough wasn’t exactly popular as J.G.‘s previous work, as it was constantly delayed numerous amount of time in between before and after the AT$T merger, how it went from originally 22 minute episode to 11 minute segments and some that was previewed (presumably at a CC) was just the test pitch to see the show but some of the elements originally taken from it were used in some the episodes, plus it took about 4 years to finally air on TBS, a year after it was released on HBO Max.
Japanese animators make peanuts this isn't a secret and some western animation may be produced in sweat shop korea but a lot is done in house or in canada.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Wrong, a lot of keyframing is done in the US, and then most of it is sent off to Korea to do the in-betweens.
Mordecai was written by a variety of different people and the outcome of trying to take episodic romantic frickup humor and make a semi-realistic take on the effect that has on the people he knows so that people didn't call them out for Mordecai "getting away with" bothering his love interests all the time.
The romance stuff ruined the characters. Mordecai didn't suck until all the love triangle shit
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm well aware considering the romance issues with Mordecai is the only fricking reason anyone even mentions Regular Show because of all the autistic simp memes.
>Though, aren't we getting a spiritual sequel series about Gus and Wally?
Hopefully fricking soon because Tom Kenny turned 60 this year and Nick Jameson is 72
I've fricking had it, frick networks. I'm tired of this stupid shit. I don't get to enjoy hardly anything and any time I try this fricking shit. Why does JG's shows keep having to deal with this.
We'll never know the real storyline for Season 8 of RS
We'll never know half of every episode except the finale taken out of AT LEAST season 1 of Close Enough
and now we won't know Season 4 at all
I didn't wait years for them to finally release this shit just to completely make it a waste of time by cutting so much shit for a network that didn't even premiere it I'm gonna fricking I'm I'm fricking I'M
>cancelled halfway into the season, crew knew at that time >massive jumpstart into the final arc halfway in was because of this >terraforming planets storyline was removed >park dome vs east pines dome removed >evil plans of the spark initiative were completely left on the cutting room floor
That's all we'll ever know since no one on the crew has any intention of telling or sharing anything else and they moved on years ago to this show.
Yeah I said it a few months ago but this is why I'm kinda done with TV animation. You can't win with this industry. Even in the sea of shit when you find something you like, it gets canned right out the gate. You can't enjoy anything, you're not allowed to get invested in anything because it will just promptly get killed by its network/streaming service/whatever, or put in limbo forever, or held hostage for years and then dumped on a streaming service nobody cares about after which it will never get any attention again, etc etc and it's just happened too many times now for me to give a shit about any new project. I just don't want to do it anymore.
AT&T raped Time Warner/WB until it was on life support and Discovery just raped the comatose body and took out most of the life support to pay its own bills.
Mega-mergers kill most products to just save money on the purchase anyways.
It used to be that when your show was cancelled you at least could make 'final season' comics by adapting the unproduced scripts, but the comics market is loldead so that doesn't seem to be an option anymore.
In another era Owl House, Close Enough, Amphibia, Animaniacs 2020 and Inside Job would all have comic tie-ins, perhaps outlasting the animated series. It's curious how the era of the tie-in comic seems to be mostly over.
>It's curious how the era of the tie-in comic seems to be mostly over.
Because their own fans shit on the idea. BTAS had tie-in comics better than the show, but if you discuss them here people just go "lol not canon". Or cite modern tie-in comics instead of the ten years of good ones from 92-2002. Snimation fans mainly just like animation.
Same. Makes you wonder where these two were headed in the next planned season. This at least makes for an unintentionally satisfying series finale I guess.
Close Enough wasn’t exactly popular as J.G.‘s previous work, as it was constantly delayed numerous amount of time in between before and after the AT$T merger, how it went from originally 22 minute episode to 11 minute segments and some that was previewed (presumably at a CC) was just the test pitch to see the show but some of the elements originally taken from it were used in some the episodes, plus it took about 4 years to finally air on TBS, a year after it was released on HBO Max.
Yeah, it was a mix of getting the short end of the stick and not being as good as Regular Show.
It's kinda lame that it was announced so soon with animation and all that. With that announcement it seemed like they had it right around the corner after the end of RS.
>Close Enough cancelled after two years >Midnight Gospel cancelled after one season
what the frick
The Midnight Gospel was good, but I think that being based on the podcast done by that guy it probably wasn't enough material for another season. It was more of a short series and done type of deal.
I'd like to see something with Moynihan's art style in animation being as massive as the Midnight Gospel.
>I'd like to see something with Moynihan's art style in animation being as massive as the Midnight Gospel.
We almost got that with Manly, but Cartoon Hangover very quickly fell apart, with only Bee and PuppyCat just barely making it out alive.
Shows are often written in advance because scripts are pre-production work. Most shows end with unused scripts still on the table. It means very little.
Clone Wars had 3 entire seasons (with a grand finale to close out the show) written when it was cancelled and despite the sixth season and revival, we only ever got the equivalent of one of those 3 seasons. There's still 2 whole seasons that never got made.
>what went wrong bros?
several things >adult cartoon in the R&M and Bojack era >confusing title, "close enough" doesnt really rolls off the mouth >premise is basically just regular show but less fun >not publicized enough >took too long to release, killing all the hype and migration it could have gotten from regular show fans
It only got revived because either AS was trying to appeal to female audiences or one of them actually liked the show since Netflix trashed the show after S1 only for them to pick it out the trash bin
gotta convince them to air reruns of it first. if they do, and it brings in good ratings, it's a possibility. has happened with a bunch of shows before
The problem with being sad about this show's cancellation is that at it's best it's only as good as Regular Show was at it's worst. It's not awful, but a lot of it feels like retread.
The shot of Josh pedaling the family bike by himself might be one of my favorite gags across both shows though
I was really excited about this show when they first announced it in 2017, but I kinda had to force myself to even finish the first season and completely forgot this even existed afterwards
It's not bad, but just really mediocre and definitely nowhere near as good as RS
I'll admit Close Enough wasn't always the most visually impressive thing out there--especially compared to how lively early Regular Show used to look--but it was a decent series overall. Just sucks that when you're a streaming exclusive, you REALLY need to stand out in order to be considered profitable. Close Enough was good, but nothing special.
What? It already got cancelled? Feels like it only started a couple of years ago. Cartoons don't live long nowadays eh? It seems that most shows released in the last few years die after just a few seasons.
hmm, it almost seems as though big corporate streaming services exist in service of shareholders and CEOs rather than creators or consumers. how curious.
🙁
Wut? It got a second and a third season? Did it improve a lot from the first?
Can he open a Patreon or something to finance it , this exactly why you should never pass by a distributor create your own studio!
Dark crystal cancelled/ midnight gospel cancelled and now this frick this troony Earth
>Can he open a Patreon or something to finance it
You can't be serious, how much do you think animation costs??
Too damn much by American standards
>Too damn much by American standards
Do you think Americans animate? What planet are you from? Americans 'story-board' animations and then farm them out to uncredited korean sweatshops.
Even besides the point, WB more than likely owns the rights to the show. They'd porbably have to raise a minimum of 8 million to buy the rights back.
>Can he open a Patreon or something to finance it
Not worth it
Also he not own close enough, but corporate
Same with Olan trying to do it for Final Space after they initially erased every evidence or footprint of the show’s existence off the map
Professional broadcast level animation can cost between $50,000 - $100,000 per MINUTE of animation. If it was so easy to crowd fund animated shows you’d see more people doing it.
>network production is inefficient
with blender and other free software, I just need to spend money on voice acting and basic expenses like electricity, water and internet.
it's his fault
>Professional broadcast level animation can cost between $50,000 - $100,000 per MINUTE of animation.
Really? It always seemed like something that varied based on a lot of factors.
>TBS
Jesus...
Because western animation doesn't use sweatshops like Japan does
You almost got me.
Japanese animators make peanuts this isn't a secret and some western animation may be produced in sweat shop korea but a lot is done in house or in canada.
Wrong, a lot of keyframing is done in the US, and then most of it is sent off to Korea to do the in-betweens.
i hope netflix snatches close enough
>patreon
Why would i pay for things i get for free?
Dark Crystal was amazing, Midnight Gospel sucked dick and was fricking awful. Listing the two in a single sentence should be severely penalized.
Remember how long it took to air Close Enough?
Roughly three years since it’s original announcement in 2017
that doesnt really seem that long
It was a worse version of Regular show without half the stuff that made Regular Show marketable
This, human Mordecai can't carry a show on his own
Rigby and Muscleman were the key to the show's success
he was basically just quintel's self-insert lol
This makes me worry about how much of a midwit and creep he is, Mordecai is entertaining but unlikable
Josh is even more of a self-insert and he seems cool
Mordecai was written by a variety of different people and the outcome of trying to take episodic romantic frickup humor and make a semi-realistic take on the effect that has on the people he knows so that people didn't call them out for Mordecai "getting away with" bothering his love interests all the time.
The romance stuff ruined the characters. Mordecai didn't suck until all the love triangle shit
I'm well aware considering the romance issues with Mordecai is the only fricking reason anyone even mentions Regular Show because of all the autistic simp memes.
I could really use a wish right now
>what went wrong bros?
It didn't go to AS instead.
It would not have gotten 3 seasons if it were on AS
Could they do some rough storyboards and have the actors read their lines over the resulting slideshow or would that not be allowed?
They don’t own the ip. If it’s not being produced by the network, it’s not legal
Quintel is a hack. Hope Alex cucks him again.
Stay mad, Alex.
Like the Mission Hill episodes that were already boarded before that was canceled?
TV is a horrible business.
>TV is a horrible business.
Yep. Work in movies, boys and girls.
Anon, if you aren't profitable, do you think your bosses are going to keep you around? I'll give you a hint: the answer isn't Yes
nothing on a streaming service is profitable except the subscriptions
And the wound is open anew.
Though, aren't we getting a spiritual sequel series about Gus and Wally?
>Though, aren't we getting a spiritual sequel series about Gus and Wally?
Hopefully fricking soon because Tom Kenny turned 60 this year and Nick Jameson is 72
I've fricking had it, frick networks. I'm tired of this stupid shit. I don't get to enjoy hardly anything and any time I try this fricking shit. Why does JG's shows keep having to deal with this.
We'll never know the real storyline for Season 8 of RS
We'll never know half of every episode except the finale taken out of AT LEAST season 1 of Close Enough
and now we won't know Season 4 at all
I didn't wait years for them to finally release this shit just to completely make it a waste of time by cutting so much shit for a network that didn't even premiere it I'm gonna fricking I'm I'm fricking I'M
>We'll never know the real storyline for Season 8 of RS
What? We didn't get the real storyline?
No.
Elaborate
>cancelled halfway into the season, crew knew at that time
>massive jumpstart into the final arc halfway in was because of this
>terraforming planets storyline was removed
>park dome vs east pines dome removed
>evil plans of the spark initiative were completely left on the cutting room floor
That's all we'll ever know since no one on the crew has any intention of telling or sharing anything else and they moved on years ago to this show.
Yeah I said it a few months ago but this is why I'm kinda done with TV animation. You can't win with this industry. Even in the sea of shit when you find something you like, it gets canned right out the gate. You can't enjoy anything, you're not allowed to get invested in anything because it will just promptly get killed by its network/streaming service/whatever, or put in limbo forever, or held hostage for years and then dumped on a streaming service nobody cares about after which it will never get any attention again, etc etc and it's just happened too many times now for me to give a shit about any new project. I just don't want to do it anymore.
AT&T raped Time Warner/WB until it was on life support and Discovery just raped the comatose body and took out most of the life support to pay its own bills.
Mega-mergers kill most products to just save money on the purchase anyways.
Who cares, I want the original unedited 22 minute episodes of Season 1
Good, go watch good animation
I personally reccomend
Spy X Family
Take that weeb shit elsewhere.
>muh weebshit
>while he watches chidlren cartoons
Better than your shit child cartoons, yes
Yet you watch american animation, funny
>Spy X Family
>good
Anon, I don't hate myself enough to start watching anime again.
It used to be that when your show was cancelled you at least could make 'final season' comics by adapting the unproduced scripts, but the comics market is loldead so that doesn't seem to be an option anymore.
In another era Owl House, Close Enough, Amphibia, Animaniacs 2020 and Inside Job would all have comic tie-ins, perhaps outlasting the animated series. It's curious how the era of the tie-in comic seems to be mostly over.
>It's curious how the era of the tie-in comic seems to be mostly over.
Because their own fans shit on the idea. BTAS had tie-in comics better than the show, but if you discuss them here people just go "lol not canon". Or cite modern tie-in comics instead of the ten years of good ones from 92-2002. Snimation fans mainly just like animation.
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Can't believe they canceled it right when it was getting interesting. I was actually enjoying the family shit and seeing these two get back together.
Same. Makes you wonder where these two were headed in the next planned season. This at least makes for an unintentionally satisfying series finale I guess.
wow surprised hbo max didn't renew it
raised by wolves and now close enough
they are cancelling their popular shows
Close Enough wasn’t exactly popular as J.G.‘s previous work, as it was constantly delayed numerous amount of time in between before and after the AT$T merger, how it went from originally 22 minute episode to 11 minute segments and some that was previewed (presumably at a CC) was just the test pitch to see the show but some of the elements originally taken from it were used in some the episodes, plus it took about 4 years to finally air on TBS, a year after it was released on HBO Max.
Yeah, it was a mix of getting the short end of the stick and not being as good as Regular Show.
It's kinda lame that it was announced so soon with animation and all that. With that announcement it seemed like they had it right around the corner after the end of RS.
The Midnight Gospel was good, but I think that being based on the podcast done by that guy it probably wasn't enough material for another season. It was more of a short series and done type of deal.
I'd like to see something with Moynihan's art style in animation being as massive as the Midnight Gospel.
>I'd like to see something with Moynihan's art style in animation being as massive as the Midnight Gospel.
We almost got that with Manly, but Cartoon Hangover very quickly fell apart, with only Bee and PuppyCat just barely making it out alive.
There should be a law that allows canceled shows to produce one more season to wrap everything up.
>what went wrong bros?
it didn't get good until season 3
first two seasons weren't funny
Shows are often written in advance because scripts are pre-production work. Most shows end with unused scripts still on the table. It means very little.
Some shows are completely written by the time they're canceled
Clone Wars had 3 entire seasons (with a grand finale to close out the show) written when it was cancelled and despite the sixth season and revival, we only ever got the equivalent of one of those 3 seasons. There's still 2 whole seasons that never got made.
>what went wrong bros?
several things
>adult cartoon in the R&M and Bojack era
>confusing title, "close enough" doesnt really rolls off the mouth
>premise is basically just regular show but less fun
>not publicized enough
>took too long to release, killing all the hype and migration it could have gotten from regular show fans
It's kind of his fault, he could have started an independent webshow, but he wants Hollywood people on his show
Is remind me of adult swim in Werid way With Both venture bros and also Metalocalypse
VB was only extended long enough because Lazzo was probably a fan of VB (iirc), but once he left, the new heads up dispose the show afterwards.
Any chance we get a Tuca and Bertie situation where it gets revived on AS?
It only got revived because either AS was trying to appeal to female audiences or one of them actually liked the show since Netflix trashed the show after S1 only for them to pick it out the trash bin
One can only hope, but I think if any reason AS would bring it back its because of its recent season
gotta convince them to air reruns of it first. if they do, and it brings in good ratings, it's a possibility. has happened with a bunch of shows before
The problem with being sad about this show's cancellation is that at it's best it's only as good as Regular Show was at it's worst. It's not awful, but a lot of it feels like retread.
The shot of Josh pedaling the family bike by himself might be one of my favorite gags across both shows though
Are we ever going to see the clip of Josh and Alex talking about booze demons?
Nope, never. Add that to the lost media pile.
I was really excited about this show when they first announced it in 2017, but I kinda had to force myself to even finish the first season and completely forgot this even existed afterwards
It's not bad, but just really mediocre and definitely nowhere near as good as RS
Damn, bummer…
>what went wrong bros?
homosexuals prefer watching Amphibia and Molly McGee
>wish the streaming wars were less annoying
He blames streaming competition for being cancelled ?
If not for streaming competition, a show looking as shitty as this would never even been picked up.
>he wants monopolies
hollywood is a hell of a drug
I'll admit Close Enough wasn't always the most visually impressive thing out there--especially compared to how lively early Regular Show used to look--but it was a decent series overall. Just sucks that when you're a streaming exclusive, you REALLY need to stand out in order to be considered profitable. Close Enough was good, but nothing special.
So what ere the New Normal Words they wrote about for this season?
What? It already got cancelled? Feels like it only started a couple of years ago. Cartoons don't live long nowadays eh? It seems that most shows released in the last few years die after just a few seasons.
>Close Enough cancelled after two years
>Midnight Gospel cancelled after one season
what the frick
hmm, it almost seems as though big corporate streaming services exist in service of shareholders and CEOs rather than creators or consumers. how curious.
One remains…
>still hasn't updated this flowchart with Big City Greens
I hate all of you
>Burnett and Levin
Almost 15 years and I still pine for more Ronin Dojo Community College
And you're never gonna get it. Just be happy the Elders exist. I can't wait to see where their arc is headed this season.
The asian chick was hot, show was boring.