Actual kids love it, anecdotally. I'm working at a summer camp and one of the instructors shows this to the kids while they're waiting to go out to the field, they're riveted.
They're pussyfooting too much before the plot of the game starts. They should hurry up and get to the cups taking down the Inkwell Isle residents already.
I'm not entirely sure the cartoon is going to follow the plot of the game. They seem to be taking a Kirby-esque approach, adapting various elements from the game, but not the actual plot. And for something like Cuphead that's inspired by older, more episodic cartoons, I think this works better and allows for more freedom with these characters. Besides, when has a video game cartoon ever been that concerned about adapting its respective game's plot?
>I'm not entirely sure the cartoon is going to follow the plot of the game.
They haven't been following it since the very first episode where The Devil wants Cuphead's soul over a rigged game of Skeeball instead of a rigged casino. Doubly so now that the game confirms that Chalice can't co-exist with the boys like the cartoon and comics have her do.
It's not like the game had much of a plot to begin with, it was basically just an excuse to fight a bunch of vibrant and interesting bosses (of which only 4 have been shown in any sort of detail so far in the show).
I mean if you really wanted to adapt it all you'd need to do is expand on the backstories of all the bosses you fight, since they're all victims of the Devil too and you're getting their soul contracts back.
Each one is visually unique with a ton of character already, you'd barely need to add anymore dialog just to put it at an episode in length for each one. Each area is bursting with character and charm and side characters to interact with, it's not like it's just a barren wasteland, all you need to do is give them a couple more lines and maybe a flashback or two as to how each one lost their soul and now are becoming deformed monsters thanks to the contract, and bam. Done. Solid series that never feels samey and every character is unique, and the best part is someone else already did the hard part of making them pop out.
Instead we kind of just got a lame knockoff. Feels like everyone should be speaking chinese and the MC named "Bowlboy."
The people who like this shit also vote, and that's convinced me to support a fully-automated dictatorship.
I'm kidding. I've supported that for years, now.
They took a very exciting world and made it kinda boring. I get that games rely on striking visuals and shows need characters and writing, but I kept waiting for the psychic carrot to show up and he never did
they were in the show but they never did any cool attacks, they just showed up, had a party and sucked the moisture out of elder kettle's vegetable patch
It wasn't even a bad episode. It was funny. But you could have replaced all the characters with humans and it wouldn't have changed the story one bit. Same goes for the "looking after the baby" episode. All these crazy settings and characters doing really boring stuff
they don't do enough 1930s cartoon stuff, even the goldfish episode of clarence was a better tribute to 1930s cartoons than the official cuphead series
None of the characters have any of the game's wild powers or crazy transformations and visual gags, I feel like they can push the toon logic a lot more. And having King Dice and Ms. Chalice only appear in one episode each so far is criminal.
It wasn't even a bad episode. It was funny. But you could have replaced all the characters with humans and it wouldn't have changed the story one bit. Same goes for the "looking after the baby" episode. All these crazy settings and characters doing really boring stuff
These are actual complaints. The anons whining that the show isn't animated on paper and visually identical to the game are just making up excuses to talk shit. The Cuphead Show! looks great. The character/background design is gorgeous, and Lighthouse Studios puts a lot of life into their rigged animation to the point where I'd consider them only a few steps behind the likes of Mercury Filmworks. The real issues are the limited cast so far and most of the episode premises being too mundane. The Inkwell Isles feel very empty as of now, and it doesn't help that Ms. Chalice didn't appear until the latest episode. These three are funny, but they can't carry the whole series on their own.
I also respect the show for doing the Popeye Physical Model Backgrounds trick a couple of times.
They're pussyfooting too much before the plot of the game starts. They should hurry up and get to the cups taking down the Inkwell Isle residents already.
There's like 17 base game bosses outside King Dice's Casino and the Devil, they aren't gonna blow through them all at once within a 52 episode order.
Mercury is definitely the best in the biz right now, but there are plenty of other studios that do great work. Lighthouse, Jam Filled, and Flying Bark all do some impressive stuff. We've come a long way from the stiff Flash animation of the early 2000s.
The Cuphead Show looks great, it's just they chose the worst thing to base it on: something with top tier unbeatable visuals. If it wasn't Cuphead, people would be praising the show as saving the western animation industry and shit.
Why does netflix kill everything it touches? I feel like this genuinely could have been a great show had they actually paid people to cel-animate it instead of doing this shitty pseud-by twos crap that looks like it was made in flash 12 years ago. That, and the fact that it's trying to be squeaky clean despite the source material being based on 30s fleischer made the show feel pointless.
I'm not asking for it to be unmarketable, moron. I'm just saying that they could have made it feel like Cuphead did instead of actively grinding down the boomer humour for fear of the audience.
Yeah, because you can't feasibly do that with a game. This is a cartoon we're talking about, and they could have at least emulated the medium like the game did but instead they cut corners and it looks bastardised compared to the game. When the actual source material that is limited by other aspects such as gameplay mechanics looks better than your mid-budget spin-off series, something has gone horribly wrong.
More like because you can't fricking do it at all, all the companies that made the stuff needed for cels, like the inks, dont exist anymore. Even animators that wanted to keep doing cels(ie. Eddy, Edd & ed ones) could NOT because they didnt have the materials.
I'll agree on your other points tho, emulating the cel-look in digital is piss easy, and the cartoon is a freaking embarrassment when compared to the game.
>you can't fricking do it at all
What are you talking about? Cels and cel paints are still sold and cel animations are still possible to make, it's just not as practical and even more time consuming compared to emulating it so nobody bothers - but if you wanted to, it would be possible to make an entire Cuphead show in cel even today. Either way, emulating it as a medium was still possible and they didn't do it.
Not quite as much content as you'd expect from 4-5 years of development, but you can really see where they put the time and resources into, I'd say it was worth it.
Short but sweet, and the animation is somehow a step up from the base game (especially the final boss, who I won't spoil here but has incredible animation). You can probably finish the whole DLC between 1.5-4 hours depending on how good you are.
It's stunningly good, like at first you look at the amount and you're like "This took too long for that", but then you see the actual animation in motion and it's jaw dropping. Seconding
Short but sweet, and the animation is somehow a step up from the base game (especially the final boss, who I won't spoil here but has incredible animation). You can probably finish the whole DLC between 1.5-4 hours depending on how good you are.
that the final boss is something you have to see for yourself.
I remember when the animatics first leaked and in that frog episode, the smaller frog called the tall one 'Ribby', but in the actual show they fixed it and correctly called him Croaks
I like that even the show runners didn't know which brother was which at the time.
The Cuphead Show looks great, it's just they chose the worst thing to base it on: something with top tier unbeatable visuals. If it wasn't Cuphead, people would be praising the show as saving the western animation industry and shit.
>Attention all units >Be on the lookout for this fugitive chalice, wanted for multiple counts of theft and fraud >Don't fall for her cutesy tricks, she's a sly one...
Apparently Werner Werman is gonna be in the next batch, and that's good enough for me. I just hope the Tumblr community doesn't make a big stink about him being a Nazi despite the fact he's modeled after World War ONE German soldiers.
I already knew this would be bad because it was made for kids and cuphead doesn't have enough personality.
Actual kids love it, anecdotally. I'm working at a summer camp and one of the instructors shows this to the kids while they're waiting to go out to the field, they're riveted.
My kids love it too
>Make the satanic stuff subtle
>No problem
>Straight up deal with the devil
Do they really?
I liked it. I look forward to more.
The actual worst part of this show is there's been no new cupcest porn
Yeah and it was good, no matter how much Cinemaphile seethe about it.
It was fun as frick actually.
>the cuphead show but x
>the cuphead show being y for z minutes
shut the frick up c**t
>almost 4 mins
not enough
>worse animation than the game
>more toothless than the game, no gambling, no drinking, no smoking
It could've been so much better.
the indie scene is pathetic
>Netflix production
>indie
despite being crap, the show is bigger than anything on television
They're pussyfooting too much before the plot of the game starts. They should hurry up and get to the cups taking down the Inkwell Isle residents already.
I'm not entirely sure the cartoon is going to follow the plot of the game. They seem to be taking a Kirby-esque approach, adapting various elements from the game, but not the actual plot. And for something like Cuphead that's inspired by older, more episodic cartoons, I think this works better and allows for more freedom with these characters. Besides, when has a video game cartoon ever been that concerned about adapting its respective game's plot?
>I'm not entirely sure the cartoon is going to follow the plot of the game.
They haven't been following it since the very first episode where The Devil wants Cuphead's soul over a rigged game of Skeeball instead of a rigged casino. Doubly so now that the game confirms that Chalice can't co-exist with the boys like the cartoon and comics have her do.
It's not like the game had much of a plot to begin with, it was basically just an excuse to fight a bunch of vibrant and interesting bosses (of which only 4 have been shown in any sort of detail so far in the show).
I mean if you really wanted to adapt it all you'd need to do is expand on the backstories of all the bosses you fight, since they're all victims of the Devil too and you're getting their soul contracts back.
Each one is visually unique with a ton of character already, you'd barely need to add anymore dialog just to put it at an episode in length for each one. Each area is bursting with character and charm and side characters to interact with, it's not like it's just a barren wasteland, all you need to do is give them a couple more lines and maybe a flashback or two as to how each one lost their soul and now are becoming deformed monsters thanks to the contract, and bam. Done. Solid series that never feels samey and every character is unique, and the best part is someone else already did the hard part of making them pop out.
Instead we kind of just got a lame knockoff. Feels like everyone should be speaking chinese and the MC named "Bowlboy."
The people who like this shit also vote, and that's convinced me to support a fully-automated dictatorship.
I'm kidding. I've supported that for years, now.
They took a very exciting world and made it kinda boring. I get that games rely on striking visuals and shows need characters and writing, but I kept waiting for the psychic carrot to show up and he never did
they were in the show but they never did any cool attacks, they just showed up, had a party and sucked the moisture out of elder kettle's vegetable patch
It wasn't even a bad episode. It was funny. But you could have replaced all the characters with humans and it wouldn't have changed the story one bit. Same goes for the "looking after the baby" episode. All these crazy settings and characters doing really boring stuff
they don't do enough 1930s cartoon stuff, even the goldfish episode of clarence was a better tribute to 1930s cartoons than the official cuphead series
>some Clarence appreciation out in the wild
You love to see it
None of the characters have any of the game's wild powers or crazy transformations and visual gags, I feel like they can push the toon logic a lot more. And having King Dice and Ms. Chalice only appear in one episode each so far is criminal.
These are actual complaints. The anons whining that the show isn't animated on paper and visually identical to the game are just making up excuses to talk shit. The Cuphead Show! looks great. The character/background design is gorgeous, and Lighthouse Studios puts a lot of life into their rigged animation to the point where I'd consider them only a few steps behind the likes of Mercury Filmworks. The real issues are the limited cast so far and most of the episode premises being too mundane. The Inkwell Isles feel very empty as of now, and it doesn't help that Ms. Chalice didn't appear until the latest episode. These three are funny, but they can't carry the whole series on their own.
I also respect the show for doing the Popeye Physical Model Backgrounds trick a couple of times.
There's like 17 base game bosses outside King Dice's Casino and the Devil, they aren't gonna blow through them all at once within a 52 episode order.
I'd rather have Mercury Filmworks working on this show, their rigging has more juice
Mercury is definitely the best in the biz right now, but there are plenty of other studios that do great work. Lighthouse, Jam Filled, and Flying Bark all do some impressive stuff. We've come a long way from the stiff Flash animation of the early 2000s.
>Jam Filled, and Flying Bark
Never heard about these two
Jam Filled is responsible for Final Space and Inside Job, while Flying Bark did LEGO Monkie Kid and Rise of the TMNT. All good shit, visually.
Good posts
Binged it with my roomie during a slow week
it allright
Why does netflix kill everything it touches? I feel like this genuinely could have been a great show had they actually paid people to cel-animate it instead of doing this shitty pseud-by twos crap that looks like it was made in flash 12 years ago. That, and the fact that it's trying to be squeaky clean despite the source material being based on 30s fleischer made the show feel pointless.
Needed more mocap, lousy jazz and israeli jokes
Blackface is another staple of this era
I'm not asking for it to be unmarketable, moron. I'm just saying that they could have made it feel like Cuphead did instead of actively grinding down the boomer humour for fear of the audience.
>I'm not asking for it to be unmarketable
Good, 'cause if you were, you got your wish already.
>this genuinely could have been a great show had they actually paid people to cel-animate
Are you deadass? Not even the video game is animated on cels
Yeah, because you can't feasibly do that with a game. This is a cartoon we're talking about, and they could have at least emulated the medium like the game did but instead they cut corners and it looks bastardised compared to the game. When the actual source material that is limited by other aspects such as gameplay mechanics looks better than your mid-budget spin-off series, something has gone horribly wrong.
More like because you can't fricking do it at all, all the companies that made the stuff needed for cels, like the inks, dont exist anymore. Even animators that wanted to keep doing cels(ie. Eddy, Edd & ed ones) could NOT because they didnt have the materials.
I'll agree on your other points tho, emulating the cel-look in digital is piss easy, and the cartoon is a freaking embarrassment when compared to the game.
>you can't fricking do it at all
What are you talking about? Cels and cel paints are still sold and cel animations are still possible to make, it's just not as practical and even more time consuming compared to emulating it so nobody bothers - but if you wanted to, it would be possible to make an entire Cuphead show in cel even today. Either way, emulating it as a medium was still possible and they didn't do it.
If they had paid the money to have actual 30s shorts quality animation it’d be remembered for that alone
Instead it has nothing
>sloppy timing
>mocap
>terrible plots
I also feel nostalgia for that time too.
Is the DLC good?
It's amazing
In my opinion cuphead doesn't hold a candle, gunstar heroes, contra and metal slug. boss design and level design is worse than in these games.
>the "haven't had my morning walk at three in the afternoon, but still need to look dignified" pose
Not quite as much content as you'd expect from 4-5 years of development, but you can really see where they put the time and resources into, I'd say it was worth it.
Short but sweet, and the animation is somehow a step up from the base game (especially the final boss, who I won't spoil here but has incredible animation). You can probably finish the whole DLC between 1.5-4 hours depending on how good you are.
Haven't even gotten past the first two bosses yet. It's clear they expect you to be playing as Chalice, but I prefer staying with Cuphead.
It's stunningly good, like at first you look at the amount and you're like "This took too long for that", but then you see the actual animation in motion and it's jaw dropping. Seconding
that the final boss is something you have to see for yourself.
Well I liked it.
yeah
>THAT FRICKING
>SOUL
I remember when the animatics first leaked and in that frog episode, the smaller frog called the tall one 'Ribby', but in the actual show they fixed it and correctly called him Croaks
I like that even the show runners didn't know which brother was which at the time.
The Cuphead Show looks great, it's just they chose the worst thing to base it on: something with top tier unbeatable visuals. If it wasn't Cuphead, people would be praising the show as saving the western animation industry and shit.
>Attention all units
>Be on the lookout for this fugitive chalice, wanted for multiple counts of theft and fraud
>Don't fall for her cutesy tricks, she's a sly one...
what a cutie patootie
ICE CREAM AND ROCKETS, TROUBLE NEVER ENDS
WATCH THESE DING-DONGS AS THEY MAKE NEW FRIENDS
>Literally none of the bossses I like are in the show
Not watching.
Soon.
Apparently Werner Werman is gonna be in the next batch, and that's good enough for me. I just hope the Tumblr community doesn't make a big stink about him being a Nazi despite the fact he's modeled after World War ONE German soldiers.
>Tumblr community
Tumblr is dead, it's Twitter you have to worry about
It was pretty good.