Speed Racer: The Next Generation

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Originally Posted by TheCure

Animation is still a big part of it. It can have the best stories in the world, but if the animation sucked, it wouldn't be worth watching. It's on TV for a reason. If it just wanted to tell good stories, it would be a book.

Quoted for truth.

Animation is what makes cartoons...well, cartoons. Cartoons are made of three parts: design, story, and animation. For Speed Racer: The Next Generation, we have not so good designs, and the animation is something to be desired. At this point the story just doesn't matter. If it doesn't look good, people won't want to watch it.

Compare this to Avatar and you'll see what I mean.



No idea why I'm thinking of Avatar, but it's a prime example of an excellent cartoon in those three areas. It has great designs (within believable proportions, which is what I think this Speed Racer is lacking), interesting stories for both adults and children, and the animation is some of the most beautiful I have ever seen. Now look at Speed Racer.



Only after searching for this has my distaste for the show set. The animation is very amaturish, jerky, and many actions have been reused over and over, while the designs are just something that seems to have jumped out of one of my old sketch books when I used to draw Yugi-oh eyes.

Personally, I think that this thing would probably only work as a book. A comic is pushing it a bit, but that could work as well. But animation? It just seems too rough and unrefined for that.

... /animation rant