Yeah thats what i meant, admittedly I'm not extremely well read on his style since i havent looked into golden age animation in years but SPX is a mix of Trigger studios, Tezuka, Ishinomori, and european comics

Same, it pisses me off, but even then, solarpunx would not work in rod's style either

Igaf about ship disourse anymore and stopped being an antishipper a while ago but jeez people into that stuff still give me a red flag

He's allegedly the only reason Mattie started to shift away from spumco aesthetics and warship. I'm at least glad their friendship made Mattie marginally less annoying.

I didn't even tell you about his man-crush busterbeam/tapirmutant who he sent my art for some reason and he compared it to Kaiba of all things. Mattie told me he was a self proclaimed "showa anime" expert and 99% of his twitter posts are crying about antis against gooning to lolis or some shit

John K might have been right on a lot of things but most of his opinions and artistic outlook are bullshit. Spumheads treat his blog like some kind of religious bible and if you don't follow it you go to autism cartoon hell.

I watched one of his videos once and thought it was really good until i looked at his username and realized "oh shit, this is the same guy who equated being transgender to pedophilia"

It's not unique to him, almost all spumheads talk and think like he does. As an example, look up the dude spumdonor/cartoon aesthetics on youtube (although admittedly his youtube vids are more well spoken)

if you know Mattie he often uses overcomplicated philosophy and art jargon to make his critiques feel more legit and sophisticated but they are really meaningless and condescending, especially considering the quality of his own work.

btw the reason he hates Dr. Shikajima's design (besides the fact his feet are covered by boots so he couldn't goon to them) is because he HATES pie-eyes and considers them to be "faux rubber hose simulacrum" or some shit lmao.

though out of everything this was probably the thing i deserved to get "judgemental asshole" reactions from because this was dumb af from me idk what i expected but i also have no idea what he expected either

i showed these chats to his other friends and they were flabbergasted at how well he was holding himself back from being a judgemental asshole, i think i'm the only person in the world he was nice to for whatever reason

to reiterate again i was in the wrong here because he was kindly suggesting i just make a new pitch entirely which would have made sense and the reason I didn't is bc i was also using it as a school assignment and didn't wanna make anything new. i have no clue what he was trying to make me do here

The damage john k did to peoples perception of how animation done can not be understated
Like at the end of the day you do shit based on the kind of storytelling you want in the work

BTW if you're really wondering how on earth i assumed matt's work was good, it's because he would often make his friend named rani do renders for him and bc im dyslexic i must have missed the fact he didn't draw the artwork for Bullseye, one of Mattie's pitches

Again, Mattie was unfairly softer and kinder to me, but i do want to appload him for being at least more empathetic to one person. I was always miserable and stupid and clueless so i really have no idea why anyone at SM wanted to keep me, as i only ever did layouts for one shot in one short.

This pitch ended up being a final i did for an animation class and it was absolutely terrible. I'm just surprised that Mattie was so nice to me when he basically said "yo this shit sucks ass!" Ofc he liked the feminine presenting Molli character though

He ofc got on my ass for writing a script for a cartoon but i mean it was terrible and he was really trying not to sound mean when telling me it was shit. He especially did not like Sam's character design and i would imagine part of it is bc that's also his real name

He basically asked me to make my tezuka-inspired characters more spumco-like bc its easier for him to draw and what he aesthetically prefers 😂😂 so i did that n here are my attempts. The full pitch is on my patreon bc this was terrible