Wow, is that stuff still around? By now, about every effing page on the interwebs has posted some minimalistic moviescreens/gamepackage/cd-covers/whatever, it's not funny anymore.
Another story of bad timing: MSI (manufacturer of computer hardware) recently sent a mail to all its forum users, saying they are fed up with answering the same questions again and again, so people should please read the frigging manual. They sent this on March 28 or 29. After an outburst by the forum members, they sent another mail, saying they were sorry, they learnt a valuable lesson: no mor April Fool's jokes. So now it's kind of bad timing the other way round: had they sent the message on April 1st, people would not have taken in serious. But so, everybody thinks MSI uses the April prank as a lame excuse and is in fact a company full uoof iddiots. Well done, MSI...
Interesting video and nice comments of animators! I have recently stumbled upon an article about the same topic, e.g. animators "saving" them some work, but it was about modern cartoons. Take an anime, for example, or some modern American cartoon (Powerpuff Girls, etc). They have lots of ways not to do too much work. For example, the body of a characters is very often static and only his mouth moves when he is speaking. Or when a character is shocked, they would zoom on his face like three or four times. All that of course means less work (and less money needed) for the animators/studio. Of course, the animators here know about these tricks. But since I have read said article (which I can't find anymore) I look at cartoons in a different way. :-)
There have been some similar cases in Germany recently, where cashiers have been fired for "stealing" a coupon worth a dollar or for taking home bread instead of putting it in the garbage. Of course it's ridiculous stuff. The problem is: where do you draw the line? If one employee does this, it is ok, but what happens if every McD employee does it, every day, for several years?
I read about that in the German Mickey Mouse magazine, about 17 years ago.
So now it's kind of bad timing the other way round: had they sent the message on April 1st, people would not have taken in serious. But so, everybody thinks MSI uses the April prank as a lame excuse and is in fact a company full uoof iddiots. Well done, MSI...
Take an anime, for example, or some modern American cartoon (Powerpuff Girls, etc). They have lots of ways not to do too much work. For example, the body of a characters is very often static and only his mouth moves when he is speaking. Or when a character is shocked, they would zoom on his face like three or four times. All that of course means less work (and less money needed) for the animators/studio.
Of course, the animators here know about these tricks. But since I have read said article (which I can't find anymore) I look at cartoons in a different way. :-)
The problem is: where do you draw the line? If one employee does this, it is ok, but what happens if every McD employee does it, every day, for several years?