CAD Animation

[margot]

http://www.cad-animation.com/

"Based off the hit gamer webcomic, CAD is going to create their own cartoon series online. They will be releasing a new episode once a month starting Feb 2006. The catch is that you have to pay about $2.99 an episode because the company helping make their cartoon needs to make a profit. Yet if you sign up now you can get 12 episodes for $1.66 an episode. Also you can get access to more artwork, scripts, wallpapers, and prizes from CAD in return for your support."

That animation is really awkward. They're charging for that?

[Mithrandir]

Oh... I thought you meant CAD as in "Computer Aided Design."

[margot]

Oh... I thought you meant CAD as in "Computer Aided Design."

AIDS.

[Wind]

I think it looks rather good.

[Mithrandir]

That is how CAD is typically used though...

[margot]

The animation in the trailer is attempting a fuller, slower style that doesn't work right at all. On top of that the animation is lumpy and inconsistent. With faster timing and quick inbetweens they could have disguised it. For a series that costs you $40 for a season (the price of a regular traditional animated series season set), the backgrounds need to be more detailed, the compositions need to be better, and the animation needs to find a style that clicks with its designs.

[Makil]

Not really worth $2.99 in my opinon. And I hope they are around a half hour long each. Because if someone is paying that much an episode, and it turns out to be 5 minutes long, that's just a total rip off.

[margot]

the episodes are only 4 minutes long, and only get released once a month.

[Belial]

Its pretty much how I would have invisioned Ctrl+Alt+Del in animated form, but the price ain't right.

[Gundampilotspaz]

CAD isn't a bad webcomic, it is just written by bad gamers.

I don't expect the best animation from an independant artist, like Lindsay does. And $3 really isn't that much money, you can't even three packs of gum.

Edited December 2, 2005 by Gundampilotspaz

[Battle_Pope]

i'll pass on this one.

[Belial]

CAD isn't a bad webcomic, it is just written by bad gamers.

My god your a fucking fan boy. Just because someone owns an X-Box, doesn't mean they're a bad person. Now say it with me GPS, "Just because someone owns an X-Box, doesn't mean that they are a bad person."

Now repeat it 50 times.

[uniform_motion]

I didn't like the music...

[Gundampilotspaz]

My god your a fucking fan boy. Just because someone owns an X-Box, doesn't mean they're a bad person. Now say it with me GPS, "Just because someone owns an X-Box, doesn't mean that they are a bad person."

Its not because they own an Xbox, its because that is all they talk about as if it were fucking Jesus.

[ASCIISkull]

Now, what would I rather buy for that much money? A dvd of a season of half hour episodes of a western cartoon, or maybe 5-6 episodes of anime? Or 48 minutes of these CAD skits, a good chunk of which would be credits most likely?

Oh yeah, Briarcliffe College is taking all my money anyway. Ah well.

[Kreutz]

Tim's a prick, I'm not paying that much for his fucking money-making scheme. He can stick 'CAD Premium' up his elitist ass.

EDIT: And he can follow CAD Premium with his XBox 360 skins. Tim has officially become a whore.

[darkon]

Tim's a prick, I'm not paying that much for his fucking money-making scheme. He can stick 'CAD Premium' up his elitist ass.

EDIT: And he can follow CAD Premium with his XBox 360 skins. Tim has officially become a whore.

This is the ideal location to post your "BURN!" image.

[Galkar]

I imagine it would be no trouble whatsoever to pirat these, so I might give them a shot that way, but I'm not about to pay 3 bucks for 4 minutes of animation.

[JesusTheNinja]

I'll probably download it off Kazaa or something to check it out, but I sure as hell ain't buying it.

[Hero]

God, CAD is terrible. And I'll explain why.

Can you feel it? That's Tim Buckley, the creator of CAD, opening your mouth and trying to shove a joke down your throat. In case you missed the joke, it's right there in bold! How wonderful!

To be fair, this joke isn't bad...

...when it was first made in Penny-Arcade.

They don't always steal jokes, though. This comic...

...is completely different from this.

I mean, bread and spoons! Those are completely different, why not?! HOW DARE YOU QUESTION TIM BUCKLEY?! IT'S COINCIDENCE, THAT'S ALL!

What can't be explained away is the general shittiness of the writing.

BOLD THE PUNCHLINES! Comedic genius!

I didn't work too hard on this, but I think I managed to improve on CAD in every single way.

CAD is Penny-Arcade's jokes wrapped in PvP's pacing and style, with something gone horribly wrong. The fanbase is the stupidest, most vile dreck on the internet, who lash out with "OMG U SUCK FANBOY" whenever you present any theory that Buckley's an unoriginal, untalented hack.

Which he is.

[Kreutz]

That is probably the most hamfisted delivery of a joke I've ever seen. It's like Tim finished the storyline part of the comic and had a text bubble left over, so he went to IGN and looked up the day's top story, of which he read the headline.

For further example:

Hi-fucking-larious.

Edited December 3, 2005 by Kreutz

[Gundampilotspaz]

The Radeon one is uncalled for.

I like about half of the strips, most aren't that funny and the Xbox love pisses me off. I never saw those connections to PA, and now that I see them it kinda makes me sick. The thing is, even the unfunny PA strips get the point across. CAD has no point, it is just trying to be funny, and that is why PA will always be better.

[Silver Cyclone]

CAD was good back in the day ;__;

[JesusTheNinja]

And is it just me, or is that Raining Earlobes comic terribly remnicent of the Wisp and Catsby comics of Penny Arcade?

Though, to be fair, I don't know when the comics came out, so the Penny Arcade guy's might have stolen the joke from this dude. Stolen and improved upon, that is.

[Siendra]

It's a comic. I mean... a comic for pete's sake. You people can be so anal it's actually scary.