The guy that overlooked the teams that made my favourite cartoons playing Wii with the guy that overlooked the teams that made my favourite video games (Rareware). You know what these geniuses have in common? They know exactly what theyre doing when they give notes and overlook a project. Steven Spielberg directed such movies as Jaws, E.T, Jurassic Park, etc, etc, etc. Shigeru Miyamoto created Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, etc, etc, etc. A lot of people that have made such iconic franchises would get egos as big as Cleveland. But, not these two. They both let these teams make EXACTLY what they wanted to make, and didnt interfere even though their iconic names were attached to the projects. They just looked things over and occasionally gave suggestions, which more often than not were very good and helpful ones. Freedom is such an important ingredient in the creative process and these guys knew that. Not many people that have so much power will give people that kind of freedom and let them make exactly what they want to make. That is definitely why so many cartoons and video games these days arent appealing to me at all. With the cartoons, nowadays it seems like theres a bunch of flash-animated, targeted to a specific age group and no other, cheap as possible stuff that will save money. And with video games nowadays, it seems like theres a bunch of copy and paste, first-person rated M shooters that get sequel after sequel and copy and paste Wii/Kinect Sports-type family games. Im starting to sound like Slappy Squirrel and Cranky Kong rolled into one, so Ill end that part there. My point is this. Thank goodness for these two, because without them I wouldnt have my favourite cartoons and video games of all time, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Donkey Kong Country, Banjo-Kazooie, Conkers Bad Fur Day, etc, etc, etc. LONG LIVE CREATIVE FREEDOM!!!
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:11:44 +0000
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