(originally posted at RubberOnion.com)
This week’s animation podcast episode was LIVE and you listeners in the chatroom were amazing. We had animation news stories, trivia, Rapid Fire, audience voicemail, and a heartfelt goodbye from Pat who leaves the show as co-host to pursue his higher education and new career in Substance Abuse Counseling (contact him on Twitter if you or someone you know needs help). The entire unedited video is embedded below for your viewing pleasure, but if you want that clean, professional, edited feel you’ve come to love you can download the audio podcast right here! Thanks for being such a great audience for 100 episodes and to Andrew Kaiko for his amazing fan art which I’m using as the featured image for this episode with his permission. Check out his Patreon page and support his excellent work. Rob and I look forward to bringing you more focused content in these upcoming episodes… the hundreds! See you next week!

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Full Archived video of the Live show! (check below for video embeds of news stories)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tmbUddW03M
 
 
FAN ART by Nathan Viney’s YouTube Page

 
FAN ART by Sam Albro’s Animated Series

 
FAN ART by Andrew Kaiko’s Patreon

 
Wrestling-style Promo cut by Chris McEwan’s animation blog (mentioned at the 55min mark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvqWo6HKJ5s
 
 
Weird Simpson VHS

 
Rob’s YouTube Page “Da Shimpsoons”

 
PEANUTS trailer 2

 
ANGRY BIRDS trailer

 
Nathan Viney’s animated short “DR WHO GOES GANSTA”

 
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I (Stephen) am back in NY on my new Wacom Companion 2 and it actually handled the recording and editing rather well! Rob and I talk 3 trailers, 2 series announcements, 3 audience questions and many more stories in our Rapid Fire segment! Of the trailers, “Peanuts” absolutely blew us away (retroactive spoiler alert). I also take the beginning of the podcast to talk about the Wacom Companion 2 and Adobe Flash CC 2015. You can check out the images under the annotations for a quick look at a weird bug I encountered and the symptom solution in Windows 8.1.

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(Below) Weird bug found using Wacom Companion 2, Adobe Flash CC 2015 & Windows 8.1. Left “1 2 3” drawn with pen, middle “1 2 3” drawn with finger/touch and right lines are actually “dots” drawn with the pen

(Below) The solution (of the symptom) I found is to change the scaling down to “Smaller 100%”

 
The PEANUTS Movie trailer #3

 
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS teaser trailer

 
KUNG FU PANDA 3 teaser trailer

 
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Stephen and Rob try to work through what happened at Charlie Hebdo last week in Paris, but also discuss less heavy topics like the Peanuts animation style and Wacom’s new 27 inch Cintiq. Join a very sick Stephen and a very uncomfortable Rob for over 2 hours of chatter… because if you’re looking for real information you might have come to the wrong podcast.

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When I heard that there was going to be a Peanuts movie, I was happy… until later in that sentence where the acronyms “CGI” and “3D” were used — then my heart sank. How could a studio hope to capture the uniqueness of Charles Schulz’s character designs or the dry playfulness of Bill Melendez’s animation in CG?

Well, they did it. The animation is done mostly on 2s (better known as 12fps, a traditional animation favorite framerate, as opposed to the full 24) so it has that semi-choppy feel, reminiscent of our favorite holiday specials. The textures are not perfectly smooth, as I had originally feared because it would belie the tone of the strip; they are more like an action figure model before it’s been sanded down… rough and unrefined. The color palette is dead on. The facial animation feels like it was drawn on with graphite and is a real hidden gem in this clip’s animation showing the skill it took to make it happen.

Color this animator impressed and excited! I’ve always liked what Blue Sky has done (especially with their lighting), and I should’ve had more faith in their execution — but nostalgia makes critics of us all, at some point, usually sight unseen. Here’s hoping the story can live up to the excellence of this clip.

Written by Stephen Brooks

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