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I supported Toymods
Location:
Perth
Registered:
July 2004
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Bayside Melbourne.
Registered:
May 2003
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Re: Lil Pimp
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Mon, 18 July 2005 13:10
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I saw that movie about 6 months back so my memory of it is not that fresh... but i do remember that i was impressed with the animation mainly because I like that kind of style of cartoon drawing. Also, after doing a Macromedia Flash subject at uni last year I realise that the time it would take to make that movie would have been massive and they get my respect for that.
The movie itself had very little plot or direction and it very quickly got boring... There were some kickarse lines from Weathers but that's about it. I was very dissappointed because it could have been so cool but missed the mark.
Here's a quote from an animator that worked on that movie... In short, he's a little bitter about the whole ordeal. 
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I'm an animator on Li'l Pimp.
yes, the test screening was a spectacular failure.
word has it over half the audience got up and left
halfway through, followed by a sony marketing exec.
the screening wouldn't have been a failure if the
movie itself wasn't a massive failure - TWICE over.
This movie was put into production in april of 2001,
with an unfinished script, and it quickly fell apart
and the crew was put on hiatus in november. the script
was put back into the grinder & reworked.
at this point you'd think that after Revolution (the
production studio - Sony is the distributor) had sunk
a few million into 7 1/2 months of worthless labor,
the production team would have tried something
different - you know, actually finishing the script
before putting the film back into production.
you'd think.
but animation executives don't, and production again
ramped up in april of 2002 with a full crew, an
unfinished script, and an unfinished storyboard.
poor management combined with a complete lack of
passion and vision on the part of the creative team
made the movie weak. creative executives made it
weaker. the cronish hag of a producer (a true dinosaur
of animation management who had also helped ruin films
at Warner Bros. & Disney), riddled the film with song
and dance numbers. The top floor executives then
thought it would be cool to add some x-treme fight
sequences, and proceeded to steal scenes from
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Iron Monkey, Blade II,
& various jackie chan films. very inappropriate to the
overall feel of the movie - made a bad thing even
worse.
all the while, the script was constantly being
rewritten. scenes came and went. i'd finish a shot &
it would magically reappear on someone else's desk
months later because they changed the dialogue, or
because they wanted this instead of that. we were
constantly given scenes that weren't ready to be
animated, poorly set up or with temp dialogue.
i could go on about the film itself - racist & sexist,
borderline mysoginistic. blacks are portrayed as one
dimensional sodomites, the humor isn't tongue in cheek
or witty. it's written by a couple of cracker morons
from colorado who haven't talked to a black person in
their lives.
you know what the test audience liked though? those
who stayed long enough to get a response card thought
the animation looked nice.
so we did our job, did it well, and were rewarded with
a nice round of christmas layoffs. over half of the
crew was let go this week, a skeleton crew staying
behind to collect a few more paychecks, because the
script is again going into rewrites & the possibility
of a full shutdown looms.
but the dumbass producer's staying. and the dumbass
production manager is staying. and the dumbass
assistant production manager is staying. the dumbass
creative team is staying. basically everyone on the
management side who fcked this movie up (or is utterly
useless) is staying.
so i'm part of the skeleton crew, & i'm writing this
from my workstation. it's been an incredibly
stereotypical animation production - perhaps to
exaggerated proportions. i mean, at least disney can
get their films out the door. it was amazing to watch
all the sht go down that i heard about in school &
from my employed friends, and especially looking back
at the "articles that started this" here on AN.
nothing has changed since then. it's gotten much, much
worse. monkey boy can't evolve or change, he can only
degrade.
the crew was as good as the movie is bad though. great
people, some real talent scattered throughout. plus
i've had a steady paycheck since july, moved out of my
parents house, got a nice one bedroom in west LA & a
nice girl to join me in that bedroom, so all in all
it's been a rewarding & educational experience.
that's it, i'm done, i've gotta get out of this place,
it's way past quittin' time. peace, and KEEP CREATING,
it's the only way we can stop this kind of travesty
from happening again!
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