Nov
9
2007
Meth Minute Rocks Out With Ultra
The Meth Minute’s weekly post is live. This week’s short is titled Ultra and the Lazer Hearts, which is a spoof of the rotoscoped 80’s series Jem - who rocked with her glam-band The Holograms. Dare to compare! (NSFW)
Tags: Frederator, Meth Minute
November 10th, 2007 at 1:43 am
Awful !!!
November 10th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Why is the Meth Minute considered so Genius? Content=ok, style=played out, animation=weak. It’s not horrible, but just wondering why it’s being held in high regard
November 10th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
I agree. This just doesn’t stack up against Jem — flat (in a bad way), poor animation, poor drawing…
November 12th, 2007 at 12:26 am
Frederator has become the Dreamworks of Flash Animation.
November 12th, 2007 at 3:09 am
I want the old fredrerator back! PLEASE
November 12th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
I hear that! What are you doing Fred?! These shorts are not memorable at all and don’t have anything solid about them. They are what they are. But what happened to them doing shorts or series that could stand the test of time because of the great characters. examples: Dexter, Johnny Bravo, Powerpuff Girls, Fairly OddParents. With these Meth shorts, I don’t think many are saying “What-A-Cartoon!”
November 14th, 2007 at 12:41 am
I have to disagree with most of the comments here. I found the cartoon entertaining and it did make me chuckle at times. Personal I love the crude animation, I think it works will for weekly cartoon. Are you telling me you expected “Johnny Bravo” like animation from a weekly one minute cartoon?
November 14th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Sara. Johnny bravo is a sweet example of great pose to pose animation. Nice and snappy. So why wouldn’t you want to expect something that good from a weekly animation produced by a big dog. As an earlier anonomous mentioned “it might not be horrible”, but that doesn’t make it good. “crude” animation shouldn’t mean no regard for great timing, great posing. This can be done with any style of art and any content… hmmmmmm
November 14th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I love Dan’s work. I may be a bit biased because I work with both Fred and Dan, and consider them 2 of the smartest guys I’ve met. Dan’s stuff is hilarious, Fred had the foresight to see that in Dan. What’s important (I think) is walking away from the animation with the joke and if you “got it”. That’s really all that matters. Dan’s actually a really good illustrator, check out his sketchbooks sometime. Many people don’t realize that Dan pumps his shorts out in a week. Which is a hard task to do. What this shows me, these comments, is that people are talking about The Meth Minute enough outside the realm of animation that animation purists/elitists are getting slightly perturbed. It’s always going to happen.
I wish people would also be willing to leave their real names as opposed to posting anonymously.
Aaron, many thanks for helping us Spread the Fred ! We really appreciate the Love.
-JX!
November 15th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
What about the 39 shorts that were produced last year?? Can we air them now and give them the attention they deserve?
November 16th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Jeaux says “What’s important (I think) is walking away from the animation with the joke and if you “got it”
–As animation is an artistic medium that is also equally based on visual style and motion, I have to believe these things factor in to the final product as well. “but I did it fast” doesn’t seem like a great selling point to assure its integrity. That is half of the problem with the animation industry these days.
If the shorts are great, which I am not disputing, maybe he could take 9 days to make them, and we would all be on the floor
…and for the record, my name really is Anonymous. My dad’s name is Jeff, and my Mom’s anme is Sarah. I have no clue why they did it, but it works great in this new world of blogging. LOL. OMG. ROFLMAO. G2G