Not sure if anyone is talking about this, but here goes:
https://makevisual.com/project/houseontheoutlands-m
>Welcome to House on the Outlands: A serialized adventure telling the dark tales of Harmony, a little girl endowed with eldritch powers. As she struggles to contain this dark magic, she uses her power to defend her impossibly crooked home from mysterious evil forces lurking beyond the fabric of our reality. This is a love letter to cosmic horror inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and Frank Belknap Long, William Hope Hodges, and Walter De La Mare– in the spirit of saturday morning cartoons.
About the company making this:
https://makevisual.com/about
Trailer:
Episode 1 has been out for a few days:
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damn good short i'm looking forward to what's next
Nice.
Is there anything else coming?
Seems alright.
Well, it is just the first episode. And it’s a micro-short.
>episode is about as long as the trailer
the website literally said microseries
Perhaps it's to pitch to other services, or maybe to make it longer themselves if enough people like it
and ffs stupid fricking Cinemaphile is gonna ignore the cute girl and go after the homely mom
>cute girl
im tired of scowling b***hes making up 99% of girls on Cinemaphile
Her purple fair was pretty cute.
I don't give a shit. The last time someone made a thread about new animation it was the same fricking picture.
Hobo girl sexooo
>Girl
Skip
As someone else has said, frick you.
>Girl
Skip
Frick you
>This is a love letter to cosmic horror inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and Frank Belknap Long, William Hope Hodges, and Walter De La Mare– in the spirit of saturday morning cartoons.
So, that means this is going to be just as racist and homophobic... am I right?
Why is Lovecraft popular with lefties?
do you honestly think lovecraft wouldn't have hated you personally? he was a weird butthole. he belongs to us all.
I'm not saying that they can't be a fan of the guy, but it seems strange to me that he is popular with people of that ideology.
Separating the art from the artist.
Most of them much like people ITT don't understand the first thing about Lovecraft other than cultural osmosis, memes, and some made up mental image they have of him in ther head based on maybe having read like 1 or two shortstories and a few spicy letter excerpts without having actually studied the historical context with any real depth.
It's a serious problem with academia on the topic of most "genre fiction" authors and genres and key works honestly. It's all either projecting metaphorical homosexuals or projecting literal homosexuals less interested in actually studying a work or author and more interested in making the same "bold, progressive claim/examination that reveals the truth of the work" that other people have already been making for the past 100+ years depending on the work in question. And their only challengers are usually like 3 youtubers who are probably also projecting or literary fiction academia who are sneering morons who managed to turn themselves into a cargo cult because they didn't understand the difference between realism and cultural or philosophical relevancy.
Its just homosexuals making up their own headcanons and sneering at eachother all the way down. Another great example is Carmilla where morons have literally held university panels asking if one of the first vampire novels key figure who drinks blood is a vampire or not while accepting as gospel that she's a lesbian and the book is about the patriachal oppression of lesbians.
For context, Carmilla being bisexual is a key plot point, Lesbian wasn't even a word at the time, and pre-Eugenics Victorians did not give a frick if teenage girls were fricking eachother because it was straight up considered nonsexual and nonromantic if it was two girls, hence why the protagonist's father can repeatedly walk in on them making out and doesn't give a frick.
It's nothing but this bullshit. And Lovecraft has by far the fricking worst of it.
he's popular with bad writers who use "fear of the unknown" as an excuse to be lazy
they unironically think he was a tran because he didn't like the way he looked. which is wierd to claim when his family had a history of mental illness and his mother dressed him and treated him like a girl when he was young, seems counter to the goals of the aforementioned group.
they don't read anything he wrote. they just repeat what they know about cthulhu and lovecraft adjacent media. then they excuse his hatred for Black folk and injuns because he's dead lmao.
I only like his one story about the rats in the walls, Edgar Allen Poe is my favorite racist horror author
He's popular with everyone. Lovecraft is a cultural icon to the point that he's a genre of vibes on his own.
You don't need to be a connaisseur to recognize lovecraftian themes, it's part of our cultural background radiation like king Arthur or superheroes.
Cinemaphile here.
In complete seriousness they don't,they hate him personally, but they also can't get away from the fact that the core theme he had speaks to them like it does many, many other people. Radical lefties and wannabe pseuds try to blither and seethe about racism to look smart but that was the science of his day and one look at his friend group and wife, a bunch of closeted gays, minorities, and assorted outcasts and sexual deviants, blows that idea to hell beyond what survivorship bias [TLDR: Lovecraft has a disproportionate amount of documentation surviving from his time period, most shit got recycled during the world wars], can plaster over.
Lovecraft's work is fundamentally about himself, a fragile intellectual for his day with many myriad mental problems, lived in a world where he found himself caught between a humanistic, emotional understanding of history and human advancement and societal good VS a scientific, reasoned understanding of those things that he considered to be at a complete impasse and that if he were to ever have a definitive answer to it he personally would go fricking insane because either human compassion is an irrelevant bit of drivel before a universe of reason and ergo humans are incompatible with the truth and flawed, degenerate beings, or all our achievements and enlightened advancements have done nothing but proliferate suffering while accomplishing nothing of value as far as he was concerned, and he thought he personally could not fricking handle that.
Most of them are projecting their own views on what Lovecraft represented, but a lot of them realize subconsciously that they have a similar duality to their worldview THEY could likely not be able to handle if the curtain was pulled away. So they're drawn to an emotional outlet that is relatable and articulates that feeling.
Well, the guy apparently was horrified to find out he was part-Welsh.
Yeah and his best friend was one of the loudest Celtic Pride Irish-Americans in history and he married a israeli woman for love prior to WWI, Lovecraft was complicated.
Good
>b***h has Steven Universe's nose
Lmao skip
Frick you
I got to see this short early at an animation film fest. I wish I knew more, but nobody from the studio elaborated on House on the Outlands.
I really want to see more though
Make your best guess: Is Harmony going to bang:
>A: Incuboy
>B: Zola
>C: Furgil
>D: All of the above
>M: Mom
I'll check it out later OP, thanks for the info.
There’s other short series on their channel.
post them
Well, here’s their channel:
https://youtube.com/@makeoriginals
How many episodes?
>Girl
Easy skip
Why is it rated M?
because this badass little queen is about to literally SLAY
Tentacle rape is IN
I like the premise, Harmony is both cool and cute. I hope this gets picked up and the artsyle doesnt change too drastically.
That bearwolf better not be annoying. I dont want a king 2.0
The house got fricked up damn, and and shes gotta clean it all up? The moms kind of a b***h
It’s basically self-published. They’ll have more episodes. From the looks of it, the next one will come next month.
Oh I see. I checked out the host channel and it seems its going to be short episodes like their other shows posted. Kind of a let down but the animation will at least be consistant with the shorter runtimes.
>a little girl endowed with eldritch powers
>in the spirit of saturday morning cartoons
fricking female writer
>eldritch powers
>it's just her floating and shooting green blasts like Shego
What would be some better, more lovecraftian superpowers?
>mindreading
>seeing the invisible
>semi-controlled reality warping
>timestop but there's something else that can move and it knows where you are
being part fishman
Almost none of these are properly lovecraftian at all.
Are there even humans with "superpowers" in Lovecraftian mythos?
Most hybrids seem to get their powers after they turn, like Innsmouth folk (if they weren't Eldritch beings from the start, like in the Dunwich Horror), I don't remember any regular human having any sort of power.
Asenath (or rather Ephraim) was Innsmouth folk, so the magic came from that?
No not in the lovecraftian mythos itself (though there is an evil wizard in one I think).
I just meant, given the premise of a girl with superpowers and an otherwordly horror theme, what would you come up with?
I don’t know, threats against her family?
Shifting back and forth between the upside down and the real world.
Allows you to avoid attacks and appear behind your enemies but you gotta traverse a scary world to do it.
Okay, I might be a little moronic. Can someone point out the lovecraft references?
the 'necronomicon' is from lovecraft.
Wasn't it a real Egyptian book?
Well, not so much one book as several independent works gathering partially contradictory burial rituals and instructions for how to construct a grave.
More accurately would be "the book of coming forth by day" as it is mainly concerned with the soul ascending through the chambers into the sunlight.
It's a very hopeful myth around the raising of souls, not too dissimilar to the Christian idea of souls ascending to Heaven.
Which naturally meant that racist Brits translated it badly and spread the idea of mummies coming to life and killing people, understanding this book(s) of burial rites and religious beliefs as some tome of dark magic.
So in this case, Lovecraft's Necronomicon is actually less racist because it is a completely fictional work and not a vilified part of Egyptian religion.
I love the animation
shill thread.
ffs just buy bots to inflate your youtube numbers like the circus people.
>tough girl
>ambiguously brown skin color
>Purple hair
>double puff hairstyle
>the sidekick/love interest
Jesus, they hit ALL the checkmarks. I’m sick of this archetype popping up everywhere. She would look better with darker skin and completely different hair
Edit of how I’d design her
Holy shit It's the first time I've seen one of these that really is objectively better
It really is better though I'd skip the Kim Possible mustache.
I like that better, but I do like the freckles on the first one.
Are you sure that’s not the lighting? I mean, she hasn’t officially appeared yet.
They have some images of her on the site, and yes... that's the skin color.
She reminds me of another character, but I just can't put my finger on it... still a much, much better design.
Glad to know Rise!April has a new gig after the show was cancelled.
>Jesus, they hit ALL the checkmarks.
No she still needs a half shaven hairstyle.
cute vamp girl!
I wish the "superpowers as allegory for periods or underage motherhood" trope died with the 2010s
>in the spirit of saturday morning cartoons
sounds like 90s kid nostalgia pandering bullshit.
Mite b cool
>1 minute 35 seconds
>episode
>20 second intro and 15 second outro for a 60 second episode
Its target audience are mayflies.
Wtf
>150k views
>800 likes
No way are they not botting this shit
>Episdoes are a minute long at most so far
Hmm, normally I complain internet cartoons are trying too hard to be normal cartoons with 20+ minute episodes but I don't think you can have a narrative that isn't pure comedy breath in 1 minute-long episodes. I could be wrong, daystone was able to make 1-2 minute episodes work but this show feels like it's gonna need a bit more time to breath.
I remember when Cartoon Network did those in Latin America, I wonder what happened to those studios.
They’re doing ‘Villainous’.
Why are western animators so allergic to textured lineart now? Why does everything have to look like it was drawn with vector tools? It's so fricking dull.
Technology.
He doesn't have to make ALL of them 1 min long. The ones for that Joel G channel called ENA had clips kept getting longer and longer were originally very short clips.
S'alright.
i hope there's a silly adaptation about Rats in the Walls
meh, doesnt look mythos inspired, feels generic monsters, werewolf, witches, vampire.
>This is a love letter to cosmic horror inspired by H.P. Lovecraft
As a fan of Lovecraft's work anything that claims to be inspired by him ends up being shit.
Even Bloodborne?
Don't get me started. And Bloodborne is more of a Brotherhood of the wolf fanart anyway.
>little girl
Sold
77 posts and none of them are intelligent.
So the graphics themselves; shading,lighting, shadows look decent with an action cartoon's budget, looks better than Bunnicula that only did gradient and very temporary lighting effects.
Aaaand it's shit...
Voice actor doesn't match the character, a bigger misfit than Harriet The Spy.
She has a pseudo alter ego who only takes over during the fight, so not even alter ego just a manic personality.
They introduced piece of shit nagging parents unaware of supernatural shit excuse yourself? if the mother doesn't get kidnapped or killed then this is going to get very formulaic and tedious.
Most importantly they instantly skipped the action scene with a cut to the window like the budgetless morons they are and this was for the first 1 minute so if they can't even make 10 seconds worth of dynamic animation like Glitchtechs, MonkieKid, Motorcity did then I very much doubt this series will go anywhere as an action show if it doesn't have budget for the action.
SFX overpowers the music which again is bad directing.
And they insisted on using those Steven Universe toaster noses, meaty fingers, and an attempt at some Samurai Jack/Secret of Kells russian designs with those eyes, ears, cheeks, round baby skullshapes? I like the 2000s colored outlines and neon colors constantly contrasting with the black, but it's half full.
There's an interesting "fleas" texture effect going on which you don't even realize is there.
Shit like 0:37-0:44 should have been extended with at least 10 seconds each if you wanted to create a slow movie-like atmosphere. So far it's just rushed. You can't even hear the music because of how rushed it is.
Well, it is just the first episode.
>inb4 it gets worse than the pilot.
>77 posts and none of them are intelligent.
idk, I thought
was pretty smart joke.
another girl MC?? oh well
I just gotta ask, why is it always some glowing magical energy bullshit?
I'd be up for a dark fantasy/pseudo-horror if it didn't always devolve into Sailor Moon/DBZ autism
Buy an ad, moron shill.
I know you can say anything is a combo of anything else, but I'm getting
Gravity falls dark mabel, and...
...
Uh... danny phantom, american dragon,
maybe molly mcgee, star vs (but darker), owl house or something? Not as much like amphibia?
I'm not sure about victor and Valentino.
But mostly gravity falls? Anyone else?
It it just a darker more serious version of all of them?
I mean if star or molly(ghost form) or luz were not upbeat and happy, and were more serious/angry...
Is that what this new show is?
My first thought was Courage the Cowardly Dog
She looks like the Digital Circus b***h
>Instantly Forgettable!
Ccuuttee