Episode 49: Shizzagee
Written by CR Tuesday, 25 January 2011 23:02
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Comments (50)
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01.26.2011 - 00:17 | WarxePB
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01.26.2011 - 00:39 | Afro King Andy
6:56 The Shizzagee's leg clips through the grass. Also - of course there's butter in the forest - it was at the salad bar where that crouton was found. (bad joke *groan*)
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01.26.2011 - 01:21 | The Hardcore Kid
Ah good old Kablam! I actually liked this short. Too bad there was only one. Shizzawha? ;)
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01.26.2011 - 01:21 | The_Awesometeer
I had a computer game when i was a kid that let you make movies. The graphics look like this
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01.26.2011 - 01:21 | Torchic91
What a completely bore (the Shizzagee episode, not your review of it!)
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01.26.2011 - 01:39 | M.Seijin
You know what's really sad? This pilot would most likely be picked up now'a'days. -_-;
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01.26.2011 - 01:41 | Cinnamon Scudworth
I'm thinking about downloading Blender myself, so thanks for the recommendation on a tutorial, CR. But uh-oh, you didn't mention which one! I see several on this site.
http://en.wikibooks.org/ wiki/Blender
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01.26.2011 - 01:53 | Sploich
Yoshi's? I kid you not, there's a Chinese place near my house called Double Dragon II.
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01.26.2011 - 02:31 | repogirl91There's a Chinese restaurant about ten minutes from my grandma's house that plays a CD of piano renditions of Final Fantasy music (or at least it has every time I've gone in :P).
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01.26.2011 - 01:57 | Themonsean
I kinda remember this short. Yeah. BTW props for using Beast Wars in the intro there.
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I watched A LOT of Kablam but i do not remember this at all. It looked interesting but i was never a fan of talking animals in general. Rocko's modern life is my only exception really.
Also a great place to look at old cgi animation examples is Liquid tv shorts. I remember a particularly nightmare inducing one about a killer house and a pizza delivery boy. Also one with the poor baby egg and the snake.
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01.26.2011 - 03:07 | kaykeyser
your not alone CR, all I know about the Yankies I learned from Sienfield.
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01.26.2011 - 03:34 | ShredzorzI would just like to point out that one of the best websites for Blender tutorials is blendercookie.com. I'm a fairly experienced Blender user and I always learn something from the tutorials on that site.
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01.26.2011 - 03:37 | yuyuyin
oh shit i remebr this
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01.26.2011 - 03:41 | ArtticWitchica
I loved Ka-blam! as a kid :3 Never saw this odd cartoon before though.
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01.26.2011 - 03:55 | FunkyM
Fun stuff.
It's just too bad that Professional CGI is still out of the range of the average person.
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01.26.2011 - 03:58 | Kolonel
I think after the coconut throwing scene, they just ran out of money and/or time, so they made a quick 10 second ending with an already used set.
For me the CGI (nor claymation for that matter) never looked a bit cooler than the normal cartoon. Especially when the motion is this bad.
Wait, how come there's coconut in the middle of an amazonian rain-forest?
(Butter)
Ahh, never mind...
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01.26.2011 - 04:52 | Shinigami
Its bad when idea dosen't look good even in paper.
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01.26.2011 - 05:57 | ggbhtg
Never saw this, but I did see Action League Now a few times.
Might there be a title card update for the 50th episode?
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01.26.2011 - 06:58 | Space-Cadet
Wow that looks like my first year project it’s really cool that your taking an interest in CGI I’ve never used blender but I hear some good things about it you should check out Sintel its an amazing short flim made completely by blender
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01.26.2011 - 07:18 | Salen
"Shizzawhat?" "Shizzagee." "Shut yo' mouth!" "But I'm only talkin' about Shizzagee." "We can dig it..."
That's how you make the theme song better, give it some Shaft undertones, instead of Country music.
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01.26.2011 - 07:44 | English Rawb
I thought you would also point out the clipping error there; just before he throws the coconut you can see a leaf passing through his body.
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01.26.2011 - 08:45 | AdventChild
You know your CGI is bad if it makes Ratatoing look dignified in comparison.
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01.26.2011 - 09:16 | Korahn
Haven't watched the video yet but I had to comment on the banner ad next to the vid. Hemorrhoids Treatment? really?
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01.26.2011 - 10:02 | QuestionTheMajority
God damn. I remember this horrendous short. Unlike most kids in the 90's, I HATED computer animation primarily for the fact that it looked so bad. I saw no possibility of its ever becoming as good as it is now (though even now I feel it's overly prevalent), and this short provides a good example of why I saw no future in the art style. I hated this short as a kid and I hate it more as an adult.
I loved Kablam!, but I hated when a beloved regular spot was replaced with a failed pilot. With the exception of one or two shorts (I remember a rather funny short about a circus that I wished had become a regular), these pilots had good reason for their failure. Every single one of these characters' designs ranges from ugly to downright frightening and the movements are painfully stiff. And the wacky sound effects only make the lifeless movements appear even more dull.
At least you didn't review that "Girl with Her Head Coming Off" short. That one actually made me break out in a rage-fueled outburst at the television screen.
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01.26.2011 - 16:31 | Vismutti
I was the same, even as a kid. I just never got into it. It was okay in Pixar movies but whenever it got any cheaper than that it just looked... horrible. Ungh.
The only one I kinda liked was this one series (you wouldn't know it, it's a Finnish "political satire show") called "Itse Valtiaat" that was really cheaply animated but it kinda made it a part of its style, not even trying to hide the cheapness. It helped that it's actually a good show... or it used to be at least.
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I lvoe this show as a kid thanks this brings back so much memories. Now no disrespect to doug put to me you are the true nostalga critic :-)
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01.26.2011 - 10:47 | lordsathien
I had never seen this bit before, and I'd watched Kablam! for a while.
Also, thanks for the quick jab at that waste of a time slot show Comedy Central quickly yanked (the one with animated teachers against photo backgrounds, I can't even remember its name).
Lastly, it's spelled Ratatouille, not Ratatoing!.
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01.26.2011 - 16:36 | VismuttiNo, it's Ratatoing, a horrible rip-off movie of Ratatouille. You don't wanna know. But if you are still interested, Film Brain reviewed it at some point I think.
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01.26.2011 - 10:57 | Moomoof
i watched kablam for ages and i never saw this weird thing lol
beef where's the beef!
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01.26.2011 - 11:00 | yaoinut
I give you major props CR. You are attempting to widen your artistic abilities with CGI , which is impressive. Also, you gave a little nod to Beast Wars in that little segment, which makes me squee.
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01.26.2011 - 12:12 | Code-E
Holy crap I remember this! In fact, I remember it quit well. So much so that I was able to remember it just from the title card. Not that I remembered it fondly, I guess I just watched a lot of KaBlam! as a kid. Personally, I always felt the Shizzagee looked more like Rocko the wallaby's deformed cousin no one likes to talk about.
As terrible as this is, its actually a little bit sad that KaBlam didn't have a good CGI series of shorts. The thing I always loved about the show was that it combined so many different forms of animation: Henry and June's segments and the Sniz and Fondue shorts were traditional 2D animation, Prometheus and Bob were claymation, Life with Lucy was stop motion (among other things), Action League NOW was "chuckamation"; it seems like the only thing missing is CGI. Unfortunately, this one short was as close as they got, and that's nothing to brag about.
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Also, "KaBalm"? Did the Critic pass his superpower of having a typo in every review on to you? :P