When it comes to the animated story you're telling, what do you consider to be the bar - the standard you hold yourself to? For me, it's Season 2, Episode 6 of Arcane. The end of that episode destroyed me emotionally. The animation was breathtaking, the scene was tragic, the music was sweeping, and it reduced me to a blubbering pile on my couch. If I can achieve a moment like that in my own animated series, then I feel I'll really have done something special.
Everyone has their own personal tastes and opinions, and art is subjecive, but to me Arcane is the single greatest piece of animation I've ever seen. It's Top 5 in my favorite things ever made - movies, TV or streaming. And it's the reason I started writing Dungeoneers.
Anyway, if you've never seen Arcane... go watch Arcane! And don't click on the link below so it's not spoiled for you. And if you have seen Arcane, feel free to relive the beauty, the sadness and the horror. I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVn9HjO3ZYY&list=RDKVn9HjO3ZYY&start_rad...
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Arcane, Toy Story, The Lion King, The Wild Robot, Adventure Time, and others are the bar for me, Sean Rodman.
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Into The Spider-Verse is another of my favorites, because it showed on a large scale that not everything has to look like Disney or Pixar.
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Funny enough, the co-owner (who handles all the animation in our company), tried to put me onto the show early on but I wasn't having it. Only to be bored one day and decide to give it another try. Great animation, still need to finish it but I see why it has generated the attention it has. While I don't specifically handle animation (I'm audio). I would say the musical scene in sinners where they mash up the different genres, culture and styles into one seamless audio was eye open and pivoting for my career and what I would like to achieve in my craft. Sean Rodman I also like The Spider-Verse it's one of the animation that inspired our co-owner.
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I was late to Arcane as well. I don't play League of Legends and an IP based on a so-so video game had zero appeal to me. But a year after the first season was out, I was hearing rumblings that it was amazing. Late one night I fired it up on a whim. I think it was about 10 minutes in when I realized that I was watching something special. I had no idea it was going to turn out to be one of my favorite pieces of entertainment of all time, but I could sense pretty quickly that it was out of the ordinary.
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I played League of Legends waaay back in the day but yeah. I was late on it, glad I have it a chance. Need to go back in and finish watching the seasons.