Why does this feel so wrong ?
Why does this feel so wrong ?
Lincoln Peterson
Charles Martinez
It's not wrong. It's just painfully lazy and unfunny.
Noah Rogers
Because the original premise of the Simpsons in quintessentially based on very late 80s - early 90s takes on traditional American family life which had been pretty stable since the end of WWII, and seeing patently modern technology both underscores how much time has passed and serves as a pretty blatant break in that stability.
Gabriel Cruz
Poor stylization
You'll see the same thing with some cars and background objects, where the characters and familiar sets are a lot more rough around the edges, but the new stuff is all way too detailed, too precise, too much like it's been made by a 3D artist instead of drawn by an animator.
These things would feel a lot less out of place if they were simplified far more, just a flat box with a circle on it, and that's it.
Ayden Flores
Ideally the Simosons should have been cancelled in 2000 and futurama would take its place
Evan Gonzalez
not as bad as this. What the fuck is going on with their TV? What the fuck is this?
Zachary Howard
What is this even, a TV from the 50s ?
Grayson Turner
South Park suffers terribly from this when ever new characters and old characters are in the same frame
Landon Martinez
because you've spent the last 45 years heating your food in the microwave you got as a wedding gift
Matthew Morales
It looks like a TV from the mid-90s being drawn by a kid who only grew up with flatscreen TVs and was trying to guess what a TV from the mid-90s looked like
Brayden Stewart
Because the Simpsons was a product of the 90's with Homer and Marge were always been technologically illiterate.
Luis Sanders
product placement
good post
Jose Parker
Looks 50s to me
Austin Flores
They used to have CRT tv originally. But then they upgraded to whatever the fuck this is when the started making episodes in HD. I don't know what it's meant to be. It's meant to look like the old CRT tv, but also like a modern LCD HD tv? It's a monstrosity. Like they wanted to update the look of the show and make it more relatable to modern families, but didn't want to let go of valuable nostalgia.
Zachary Clark
Pic or didn't happen
Cameron Smith
>just give them some kind of flatscreen
>but put a VCR on top
Ethan Phillips
I can't even tell if it's meant to be flat.. I mean surely it must.. but it's clearly a thick TV. It's not like anything from real life. It's like something you'd imagine in a fever dream if you were imagining old simpsons episodes but couldn't remember what their TV looked like.
Sebastian Edwards
Eat up Martha
Jacob Rodriguez
>Screen matching all corners of the box
>Box itself implied to be some kind of plastic instead of wood
>Two speakers instead of one speaker
Only thing un-90s about it is that the buttons are on the right of the screen instead of underneath
Carson Moore
did they make the 'haha baby use iSmartPhone better than adult' joke?
Isaiah Ward
No it doesn't. It looks completely anachronistic with the long, flat screen of a modern TV with the frame of a 90's projection TV and the knobs of a 50's TV.
Andrew Williams
Cartman looks a little out of place but compare these guys....
Parker Turner
I wonder if this is some kind of "uncanny valley" like, the first time they talked about computers and internet felt a little wrong but I was "oh hey they are modern now" but past that feels so out of place.
Isaac Turner
You know what's even weirder? I'm not bothered at all when I see it in South Park. I guess there's almost a decade of time between the two shows air dates, but something about Homer holding a cell phone feels so odd but it feels pretty natural for everyone in South Park to be in the present.
Kevin Long
to these guys
Angel Miller
It's still kind of surreal watching the older episodes and all of the kids loving bands like Korn and Nirvana.
Camden Foster
Because if you know anything about the Simpsons, an Apple product is NOT what they'd have. At BEST, they'd have a crappy off brand version, like a Huawei parody.
Benjamin Carter
It's really hard to illustrate a flatscreen because it's just a flat black rectangle that keeps getting more and more minimalistic.
They have no visible buttons or lights or anything any more, so if you draw one from the front you end up with what looks like a window.
That's why animators STILL default to the 70's box television with large speaker in one side and rabbit ears on top. Because it's easier to identify.
Even younger animators do this. Although undoubtedly it won't last much longer.
With streaming people barely even buy DVD players either, so all you have is an impersonal flat piece of modern art on your wall.
I mean look at this shit.
How dull is that from a design perspective?
Elijah Brown
This is how I felt about new Star Wars. It's just weird seeing older stuff in a shinier condition.
Chase Roberts
Literally all the original characters look out of place today. It also goes against the crude and simple nature of the show's look by making things more detailed and more movement animations. They don't look like they were made from cut paper. It's like it's all fanmade.
Jonathan Murphy
That's retarded. The simpsons is the only show to do this. Drawing black rectangle with some legs that's in the middle of a sitting room is not confusing. I mean is pic so confusing looking? Could the simpsons not had a purple version of this? No, they just wanted it to still look like the old tv somehow.
Tyler Robinson
It's a show that people expect to be set firmly in its' original setting/era, yet modern episodes are filled with "modern" references. It's a problem that plagues shows or reboots that go way beyond their own time (see picture or Looney Tunes Cartoons).
Camden Lewis
>Draw a box
>Give it some border to show that it's a screen
>Put it on a stand
>Make the screen grey when it's off and have moving pictures with sound when it's on
Wow, so hard