Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9624367-20121227014058/@comment-5588400-20121227114607

The first episode I've seen was The DVD. Now, I've seen the promo and I thought it was amazing. It did something with animation I've never even seen before! I want to note that I generally do not like Flash Animation (see: Johnny Test, George of the Jungle cartoon, Total Drama Series... you get the point, and yes, I know MLP:FiM is Flash Animated). I usually find the lines are too thick, or the characters are drawn "roughly", well, not in this cartoon.

They take Flash animation to a whole 'nother level! The only thing that reminds me that this is Flash animation is the way Gumball's pants, Anais' dress, and the (old) shading are drawn, other than that, I love it!

I also like the way that they infuse CGI into it. CGI Characters like Bobert, Tina, the Robinsons etc, were done beautifully. It fits in so well, and the characters look real rather than the cheap stuff (the "How to ratatouille your panda" parody thing is an example of how they could've gone with the CGI... if they were stupid.). Small details like making Bobert shiny, or the texture of the Robinsons really add up.

The background. I'm going to try to keep this a short as possibly because this post is getting lengthy. The background looks as if they took pictures from real-life. It's astonishing, really. Like the school, I feel like if I could walk into the tv, I would see a beautifully constructed building versus the side-scrolling of most cartoons.

Some say that the episodes aren't well written; the writing isn't exactly "golden" on some episodes, but that's okay. I personally think the writing is generally good, but even on the sucky episodes, the graphics and creativity makes up for it.

I've actually been lurking here since about February (about a few times a month), but didn't build up the motivation to make an account until like October.