How come Russia doesn’t have an large animation industry like Japan or America? Maybe all the talent died out with communism.
How come Russia doesn’t have an large animation industry like Japan or America...
Christian Morgan
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Brandon Gutierrez
It's a poor country.
Josiah Carter
Masha and the Bear is the most watched little children cartoon the world, they’re fine.
Christopher Johnson
it's just that many animators leave the country or work as freelancers because
Colton Ramirez
It is a shame. Soviet animation is quite lovely and stylized, and the stories are pretty solid, too. No animated musicals or comedy heavy stories, just fairy tales set to nice art and nice music.
Dylan Murphy
>all the talent died out with communism
sort of, no government backing meant jobs dried up and talent fled. but now it's so easy to get an animation education so its coming back.
Carson Moore
Eastern Europe has never really related to slapstick humor, they like only drama and arthouse shit.
Logan Anderson
Animation was never exactly the big thing in the Soviet Union. It existed and they made quite a few really good short films that I'm in love with, but the whole idea of animation usually contrasts with the idea of realism the government had especially before the 50s, so it wasn't as widespread as it became in Japan and America and only kickstarted later on in the country's history when funding increased.
Combine with the country not exactly being rich enough to focus on it and Russia is going to produce some but not a massive level.
Matthew Edwards
Russia's still largely haven't gotten over the "animation=kiddie shit" mentality like japs and burgers did.
But it sometimes results in hidden gems being produced as well.
Blake Powell
They're growing.
Jose Baker
Lack of artistic taste. It's an ugly country. This is a typical animated film made in Russia these days:
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Landon Sanchez
Animation during the Soviet-Union period in Eastern Europe was run by a single state run company called "BaseduzMultifilm" which from what i know was privatised and promptly gutted during the 1990s leaving Russian animation sorely lacking outside of things like kids shows which is quite a shame since the Soviet animations were at some points very good and trippy (The arts often being used in authoritarian states as a creative outlet) example...
Carson Ward
>typical
This is 100% not the word you can use to describe this fucking animated film with and you know it.
Every stage of it's production has been a fuck-up that would make Foodfight creators look like super-competent geniuses, stop trying to bait americans.
Liam Adams
As a slav i can say we are born with immunity to aesthetics.
Nathan Murphy
Oh trust me, this is a very atypical, funded by military and church example.
These days I'd say Russian animation is dominated by Studio Melnitsa, they had an ok start in 2003 with Little Longnose but since then descended into mediocrity and just concentrated on progressively worse animated sequels about Russian bogatyrs.
Cooper Smith
Making animation mainly for kids does show that your country's animation industry is creatively bankrupt. That's all Britain and Germany make. Even Walt Disney said once it's a fool who makes cartoons strictly for children.
Kayden Bell
>BaseduzMultifilm
I can't find anything on google about this besides links to other Zig Forums threads. You making stuff up user?
Sebastian Wilson
For some reason the Russians caught the Little Lulu bug and decided to make their own version. Latin America and Japan were full of Little Lulu knockoffs as well--for some reason a lot of people loved the smartass loli trope.
Jace Bennett
Some Soviet animators who don't do things strictly for kids are still doing some things very low key. Yuri Norstein already robbed Thief and the Cobbler and King and Mockingbird of their longest production records and it's still not out, nor is Norstein dead. I think.
Jaxson Sanders
>thinking s.o.y.zmultfilm wasn't actually based
Mason Clark
Replace Based with s.o.y
Asher Ross
Russia used to have an active of community of independent adult animators, lots of Russian animation on Flash and early Youtube was some adult shit.
Zachary Diaz
ah of course, my mistake.
Cooper Howard
Stupid filter
Its S.O.Y.U.Zmultifilm
Grayson Clark
say why do Britain and Germany only make shit for preschoolers?
Jack Howard
not that guy but animation=babies is the mentality. in Germany's case, media is creatively bankrupt on all fronts
John Clark
I had no idea these are still being made kek.
Joseph Richardson
Hungary had an ok industry in the commie era as well and as it turns out, Hungarians are kind of like the French in that they don't mind being a bit vulgar.
Zachary Gutierrez
i grew up with soviet era animations and im not even eastern european
that shit was great
Nathan Campbell
Funny thing is he migrated to Israel years ago.
Matthew Allen
I'm having mixed feelings about Syenduk being the head honcho of indie animation in Russia.
While he is able to organize others to produce collabs like this one, I personally find his content subpar and his personality somewhat obnoxious.
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Camden Brown
Germany is not an artistic society the way the French are--even all the classical music canon was mostly Austrian.
Owen Morris
This.
Some of his videos are good, but he should've stayed a fandubber.
Landon Perez
One of the greatest regrets of my life is that I had exams when Arino visited Moscow and couldn't go this fag's shitty 90's nostalgia shop at least to see kacho.