Oof, I tried searching for "online composition tools," but they all seem to be meant for stitching together panorama photos to produce a larger panorama photo.
Finally I hit on searching for "online gallery image tool" which led me to this one. Good enough!
However, I have to get used to the serious and more mature keynote, because for me Marsupilami is a childhood memory defined by being light and wholesome.
Yeah, makes total sense. I also like the drawing style, as it looks amazingly like an animal that should really exist, like a cross between spotted hyena and some kind of monkey.
Btw, I like the image compositions you make, such as above. Are you using a tool to do that? I have another post to make in which I need to line up 5-6 images in to a single image, and doing it by hand in GIMP would be a pain.
thanks for the context; i need to take a closer look at this series
btw, there is evidently a new marsupilami series called 'La Bête,' by Zidrou and Pé. from what i understand, it takes the characters in to a more serious, modern direction, with not as much clowning fun as in the earlier series--
https://www.google.com/search?q=La+B%C3%AAte+Zidrou+P%C3%A9+marsupilami&tbm=isch
you might also be interested by the story of how franquin got revenge on disney--
Laate reply, but very interesting comments that do make a lot of sense to me, particularly about the different mechanisms used in the ZAZ and Mel Brooks' movies.
Judging from more recent movies clearly built on the models above, I feel like in general, modern directors & producers try to broadcast more to the audience as to how and when to react. That is-- in this post-MTV age, it seems like they're more scared of potential dead air time, and want to avoid indulging too much in the deadpan, pregnant moments common in ZAZ films. Ones that made them so delicious, of course, tending to appeal to the thoughtful person.
By comparison, King of the Hill is maybe a rare case of a cartoon comedy that wasn't entirely concerned with whether the audience understood the full humor of the situations. Just popped in to my head anyway, so I thought I'd mention it.
Their successors forgot that however thin, the underlying movie has to be watchable, or you lose something. Maybe it’s just generational (always have to allow for that at my age), but I kind of think that Scary Movie et al is stuff that is not nearly as timeless.
That reminds me of one of the major keys to the success of the ZAZ movies, which was to hire a cast known for their serious, dramatic roles, a type which Nielsen epitomized. At no point could the actors indicate that the situations going on around them were funny, otherwise the illusion might be punctured.
Perhaps some of the later imitation films, like Scary Movie et al, kind of drifted away from that premise, I don't know.
Speaking of Blazing Saddles, I recall reading that the musicians and orchestra were told that they were producing music for a classic-style western, and when they ultimately learned that the movie was an intentional farce, they were *not* amused.
If you can read French, I'd check the same sites that college students use to download textbooks. Archive.Org is also preserving some BD content, I believe.
I don't really feel comfortable saying anything more, so please follow up as you see fit. Thanks.
Damn, good question..!
You know, even as I was posting this, I was thinking "that's NOT classic Horus, weird"
So let's retitle this then as Thoth..?
On top of that, the anti-militaristic and anti-authoritarian message in a sci-fi setting, is exactly my cup of tea.
Ah yeah, good point! That was a fun theme there. I think possibly because I've read so much Philip K. Dick and Harry Harrison, that's why I didn't notice the theme so much. Something like that.
Hey, thanks for adding on with the cool art posts. ^^
And thanks for adding the info above. Have you read the "Memories" book by chance? The full name is actually Memories : Memories of Outer Space and Memories of Other Times, i.e. two books in one.
I'm really enjoying the book's short story format, because in the past, I've had trouble getting in to some of Bilal's long-format books. I could maybe post another 'best of' short story later, if you're interested.
AI can copy, but can’t innovate
Is that true in real-world terms, though?
Because as is, one can spend only a tiny effort using ChatGPT and generate medium-sized works of fiction that are functionally brand-new. Yes-- I realise that they're still ultimately based on material they've been fed, but the more material they've absorbed, I imagine the less that's necessarily a constraint.
On top of that, is there anything preventing the prompter from doing the heavy-lifting of 'innovation,' creating the skeleton of the plot, while ChatGPT fleshes it all out?
Btw, Cabeza-- thanks for creating this thoughtful thread of scenarios and art. It's nice to have discussions like these, and these issues clearly aren't going away.
Haha yeah, this guy doesn't seem too popular here so far. There's definitely a '4-color poster art' effect going on in his work, in which regions of color detail get turned in to lesser blocks of color. The effect and composition looks nice from a distance, but I guess one when zooms in, it can be pretty underwhelming. Of course to be fair, it's video game art, probably not best-evaluated next to classic BD.
Germany's Thomas von Kummant seems to work in a similar style, but arguably does much better detail-work, as seen in the cool post-apoc series Gung-Ho.
Oof, I've posted very little so far about German artists, and feel pretty stupid about that. Surely I can start with this guy or Mawril, who's a real genius IMO.