The german animation genre is a ruin, this show is a further proof for it. This is show is one of the worst things I had to see for a long time.
The art style (if one can call that art) is abysmal. If you think Brickleberry or Paradies PD was badly drawn, this takes the top of ugly. Soulless, bland and uninspired. It looks like a very late 90ies flash animation by some (talentless) amateur. Even if with a tight and limited production budget one can create a decent look, shows like Bojack Horseman (which they are clearly inspired by) are a good example for it.
The animation consists more or less out of talking heads, some janky body movements and camera tracking shots where they seem to have forgotten how to ease in bezier curves.
The audio sounds at certain times like voice actors recorded it via skype on low quality. A lot of standart sound bites where used (which would be fine) but were not properly mixed down.
I wont get into the "story". They try to copy current adult animated shows, which would be Ok for me. If done well like Stromberg, Die Discounter, etc., which where clearly copies or inspired by well known shows, but worked well on their own because they understood the source material and added their own spin on it. But with this show it seems that some producer had a field day taking the fun out and tone it down for the german state tv (at least I hope that's the reason for it). It tries to be edgy but in such a cringe way that I am ashamed to concider myself a german.
Whoever greenlight this should be fired and I seriously asking myself if this is not an attempt to launder public fundings. Germany has so few 2D animated productions, none of them dared to be for an adult audience until now and I am afraid this attempt will be the first and already final nail in the coffin. Germany has a lot of talented artists, animators and filmmakers, young and old - I guess none of them were involved with this production. Shame.
The art style (if one can call that art) is abysmal. If you think Brickleberry or Paradies PD was badly drawn, this takes the top of ugly. Soulless, bland and uninspired. It looks like a very late 90ies flash animation by some (talentless) amateur. Even if with a tight and limited production budget one can create a decent look, shows like Bojack Horseman (which they are clearly inspired by) are a good example for it.
The animation consists more or less out of talking heads, some janky body movements and camera tracking shots where they seem to have forgotten how to ease in bezier curves.
The audio sounds at certain times like voice actors recorded it via skype on low quality. A lot of standart sound bites where used (which would be fine) but were not properly mixed down.
I wont get into the "story". They try to copy current adult animated shows, which would be Ok for me. If done well like Stromberg, Die Discounter, etc., which where clearly copies or inspired by well known shows, but worked well on their own because they understood the source material and added their own spin on it. But with this show it seems that some producer had a field day taking the fun out and tone it down for the german state tv (at least I hope that's the reason for it). It tries to be edgy but in such a cringe way that I am ashamed to concider myself a german.
Whoever greenlight this should be fired and I seriously asking myself if this is not an attempt to launder public fundings. Germany has so few 2D animated productions, none of them dared to be for an adult audience until now and I am afraid this attempt will be the first and already final nail in the coffin. Germany has a lot of talented artists, animators and filmmakers, young and old - I guess none of them were involved with this production. Shame.
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