JL: Well, I actually started back when I was a kid and absolutely loved animation cartoons.
The artist's works, which are heavily influenced by his deep knowledge of animation, cartoons and Javanese puppet theater, mix fantastical and incongruous images with sociopolitical commentary.
The new law, passed by the Indonesian Parliament a year ago despite furious opposition from more than 100 members, bans pornographic acts and images broadly defined as "man-made sexual materials in the form of drawings, sketches, illustrations, photographs, text, voice, sound, moving pictures, animation, cartoons, poetry, conversations and gestures".
The animation cartoons didn't appeal to me but once somebody put a football game on the screen in 3D it blew my mind.
To give the game more of a resemblance to an animated cartoon, vertex animation was implemented rather than the standard skeletal animation with "one-joint" weighting; this allowed the programmers to use the more sophisticated three-to-four-joint weighting available in PowerAnimator.
With its cheeky samples of the flatulent trumpet sound familiar from old Warner Brothers animations, "Cartoon" was whimsical, surprising and like no other reggae track.
In the animation, a cartoon character was also present but did not always witness the final destination of the ball.
Furthermore, his style is a good aesthetic sparring partner for the band -- where Linkin Park blends dark emotions with shiny pop, Mr. Nakazawa's animation contrasts cartoon cuteness with a grim view of humanity.
Amid Amidi, writing for the animation website Cartoon Brew, was more critical of the concept of the show, calling it a sign of "the end of the creator-driven era in TV animation".
One of the first critical reviews of Friendship Is Magic, published shortly after the initial broadcast in October 2010, was written by Amid Amidi for the animation website Cartoon Brew.
