John K's pitch at Dreamworks

Dang, I know John K. has an ego and everything, but if working with Dreamworks is like that, then no wonder it's not held in a higher regard as Pixar.

That's just horrible.
 
...Where did you get that idea?

Anyway, it's so sad, because this is how I imagined the pitch would go. What's even MORE sad is that John Kricfalusi is my favorite cartoonist [I have weird tastes that are satisfied by his INSANE work]. I would've loved to see an epic He-Hog feature.
 
Well, that explains why Dreamworks films are like that.

As for John and CGI, one of his Bjork music videos had Jimmy rendered in CG for one scene. So he's done it before.
 
I knew Dreamworks Animation was superficial, but not THAT superficial.

In any event, IMHO, that may not have been EXACTLY how it happened. I'm under the impression that something like that may have happened, but that he may have "stretched the truth" a little in order to make a personal commentary about not only Dreamworks, but also where he feels the industry is headed.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, the blog posted mentioned may have really been a personal commentary, in which case, this doesn't really tell any of us anything new; no offense, or anything, I'm just saying.
 
I'd say there's a 50% chance this is a sour grapes blog post. Not that I would be surprised if it were true, but I also wouldn't be surprised if this were exaggerated given what I know of John K.
 
While I don't think it's entirely wrong to come up with a setting fairly early in the process, if one isn't careful, the setting ends up narrowly defining the characters, instead of letting the characters define themselves without the restriction of a location "theme".

Also, trying to decide celebrity voices that early in the creative process and working a character around that voice (instead of finding someone who can convey the emotions for a character that's already fleshed out) is rarely (ever?) good.
 
How much money did Dreamworks pay you to say that? :p

In all seriousness I haven't been satisfied by any Dreamworks movie since Wallace & Gromit four years ago (and that was a co-production with Aardman). I haven't been happy with their output at all since Shrek 2 to be honest, Kung Fu Panda included.

And even though I think John K. is a world-class jerk if Dreamworks really runs like that that explains a lot about the company's recent output. Plus the first picture in particular does shows that John K. doesn't have to be gross if he doesn't want to be, it looks like something I'd want to see. I hope he is able to make something surrounding that first project some day.

There is some legitimacy to what John K. as saying as Wallace & Gromit ran into many of the problems John K. is writing about, and Aardman barely managed to keep control of the production.
 
Kung Fu Panda is the only Dreamworks movie I really enjoyed. Though this thought process is, well, kind of silly. Though I'm sure John K stretched the truth at least a little bit.
 
...that kind of approach is so backwards I have to wonder just how they can get anything done.

Seriously, shouldn't a plot and characters be the first thing to be worked out?
 
Wow. It's freaky how dead on jbwarner86's post was about Dreamworks. I know most of you shared the same sentiment, but the way he summed it up just stuck out for me. Of course ,John K could be exaggerating the exact quotes, but from what i've observed about Dreamworks movies, not by much.
 
I'd like to see Will Smith voice a camel in a dessert in Casanova fashion.

Well, Dreamworks has an interesting way of creating their works though it would be better to create a base for your characters before you choose your setting most of the time.
 
The most ironic thing about that is that credo characterizes Disney's mindset after Katzenberg LEFT; If a movie isn't working, throw money, retools and production team upheavals at it.
 
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