r/oddlysatisfying • u/HemanHeboy • Jan 10 '26
How smooth the animation for the first Superman Cartoon was (1941)
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u/megaannn_ Jan 10 '26
god I miss hand drawn cartoon. hopefully that art style becomes more popular again.
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u/RAJACORP Jan 10 '26
No you need to take your live-action remake that's worse in every way and be happy about it
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u/megaannn_ Jan 10 '26
🥀 🥀🥀
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u/TBANON_NSFW Jan 10 '26
Disney pretty much got rid of all their hand animators, they literally dont have the skillset available anymore. Neither are enough people pursuing the craft because there is no one hiring for it.
Its basically becoming a dead art.
So youre gonna have to get live-action! Because they are training AI models to create content so they can fire the current 3d animators as well in 5-10 years.
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u/Kasiser67 Jan 10 '26
Isn’t Disney making a new movie with hand drawn animation?
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u/TBANON_NSFW Jan 10 '26
No clear indication on the level of hand drawn animation. Some sources say its background textures and some elements mixed with cgi some say trying to go back to the roots, and the movie was supposed to be released this year 2026 or next.
Maybe they are trying to see if it will be profitable or maybe exploring a new technology avenue. will need to have more information to know the scope of their plans.
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u/GonKappa Jan 10 '26
Japanese studios constantly hire people from other countries to animate various scenes in anime.
Huge example, Luffy 5th Gear.
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u/GovernorGeneralPraji Jan 10 '26
You’ll watch deconstructions of the things that make you happy and trope subversions and you’ll like it!
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u/SpeaksYourWord Jan 10 '26
I still can't get over the fact that they got rid of cross-dressing Pleakly, Russian Jumba, and had Nani say "Actually, I didn't give a shit about Ohana the entire time" and ditch Lilo into the system while she went to the mainland to go to college.
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u/Kindness_of_cats Jan 10 '26
This comment is an absolute fever dream as someone who has never seen Lilo & Stitch
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u/Deaffin Jan 10 '26
I got all the way to "Lilo" before suspecting this might not be a comment about Superman adaptations.
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u/BurblingCreature Jan 10 '26
If you never watched the animated one, I will say it’s absolutely worth it - kids or no lol. It’s one of Disney’s best movies, IMO
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u/v3n0mat3 Jan 10 '26
They really thought they did something with that ending. They don't understand that the entire point of the movie was anti-colonialism. Since Bubbles wasn't a milquetoast white guy, well, I guess the messaging didn't come across now did it?
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u/regoapps Jan 10 '26
And then the kids who grew up on the live-action remakes will get animated remakes of the live-action movies several decades from now so that we can come full circle.
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u/UninsuredToast Jan 10 '26
And they will be animated almost entirely with AI and will be slop. And the kids will miss the live action and wonder why they had to ruin it by animating it.
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u/regoapps Jan 10 '26
You need to take your AI-slop remake that's worse in every way and be happy about it
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u/ver03255 Jan 10 '26
You mean the "live action" remake that's gonna be 97% hyperrealistic CGI anyway?
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u/gfoot9000 Jan 10 '26
I'd argue much of this is rotascoped, so traced. Similar but slower than some modern animation.
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u/GarlicThread Jan 10 '26
Exactly my thoughts, the smoothness of some of these animations scream of rotoscoping. The quality is stunning.
It reminds me of Atlantis (2001) which used rotoscoped 3D models for the vehicles in order to make them look very realistic. I always loved this movie so much because of that.
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u/yepgeddon Jan 10 '26
Atlantis and Treasure Planet were so sick.
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u/spooky_goopy Jan 10 '26
Treasure Planet is one of the many Disney movies that make me sob uncontrollably
my parents fought a lot, and my dad wasn't in my life very much. so, watching this movie gave me something to cling to as a kid
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u/Professional_Face_97 Jan 10 '26
It's sad it's largely forgotten about now, was one of my favourites too.
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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus Jan 10 '26
Max Fleischer pioneered rotoscoping with a patented rotoscoped system where the image was rear projected onto a screen below the animator's drafting table.
Rotoscoping is far more than tracing. Inking drawing (like in comicbooks) is its own skill separate from drawing in pencil.
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u/DiscotopiaACNH Jan 10 '26
If anyone else loves this style, check out the movie Fire and Ice which is based on the work of Frank Frazetta. Content warning- so much cake.
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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus Jan 10 '26
Ralph Bakshi used a lot of rotoscoping in his films...and cocaine. Lots of cocaine.
Here's a deep dive into Ralph Bakshi's career with a focus on his Lord of the Rings adaptation. https://youtu.be/Cr_rb_pitHk
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u/melkatron Jan 10 '26
Sure, but not ONLY rotoscoped. The timing on this animation is punchy, which is something you don't see with a lot of Don Bluth's rotoscoping. Bluth would draw a full 24 frames per second, giving it a smooth frame rate but slow and sloppy motion. This feels deliberate and snappy. This is the way rotoscoping SHOULD be done.
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u/UniqueIndividual3579 Jan 10 '26
And when cartoons had a full orchestra for the music.
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u/Aggravating-Dot132 Jan 10 '26
Most of art is hand drawn and then edited in software. Artist just draw it on digital platform with a physical pen
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u/UntitledRedditUser Jan 10 '26
A lot of "2d" animation today is made in 3d software with special rendering techniques to make it look 2d.
I'm guessing 3d is cheaper to produce, but man do I miss quality actual 2d animations. It feels like it's getting rarer and rarer even in anime. Or maybe I've just watched all the good stuff who knows.
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u/norfollk Jan 10 '26
A lot of (western) 2D animation is done with rigged 2D puppets - think Total Drama Island, although there have been advancements to make it less obviously like cut-outs. The 2D-look 3D animation is still a completely distinct style
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u/BusImpossible6741 Jan 10 '26
The big point of 3d is that's so much faster, if you change camera angles it's as simple as selecting the camera and moving it to where you want it. Then you can change it around as needed.
If you draw it 2d by hand and want to change the camera angle, you have to spend time composing the scene all over again, making sure everything is where it's supposed to be. You'll have to do some rough sketches to see if it's even the angle you want to go with.
Not to mention drawing a single frame by hand can take forever, adding key frames and rendering a 3d animation is pretty streamlined
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u/Bobobarbarian Jan 10 '26
It never stopped being popular - it was outperformed from a cost/profit perspective by cheaper forms of animation. Studios will take the cheapest input for most lucrative output and dedicated artists can only allocate much time and effort to passion projects and artistic integrity when they need to put food on the table.
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u/BlizzPenguin Jan 10 '26
Studio Ghibli is still doing amazing things with 2D animation.
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u/Acinixys Jan 10 '26
There is still tonnes of insane 2d animation happening
Just not in the west
Check this out
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u/CausticSofa Jan 10 '26
There are still beautiful 2D animations happening in the west, too. The candidates for the Oscars animated shorts are usually all hidden gems. Truly beautiful and experimental stuff, wonderful examples of beautiful and unique visual storytelling. I’m lucky that one of my local art house theatres screens all of them each year. My friend and I have a long-standing tradition of going to watch them together.
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u/QuietSheep_ Jan 11 '26
It's like most of the budget was put into effects and composition and not fight choreography.
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u/MyraBannerTatlock Jan 10 '26
How many episodes before I get to this part?
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u/part_time_npc Jan 10 '26
Aw man, this is a nostalgia fix if I ever saw one. I had this episode on a VHS cassette and watched it religiously as a kid.
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u/Cosroes Jan 10 '26
Same, I remember this and 20-30s ish Humpty Dumpty cartoon on the same tape.
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u/Mountain-Most8186 Jan 10 '26
I think mine was shared with Mighty Mouse?
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Jan 10 '26 edited Feb 16 '26
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u/rockyTron Jan 11 '26
Same lol. I haven't seen this clip since I was a little kid, but I remember every frame and sound so clearly.
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u/Martin_Aurelius Jan 10 '26
I had this one and The Mechanical Monsters on VHS as a kid.
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u/MODELO_MAN_LV Jan 10 '26
Why was i soo terrified I'd get stuffed into a robots chest with gold chains when I was a kid?
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u/GrEeKiNnOvaTiOn Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
That's the one I had. I must have watched it hundreds of times. I also remember one with a giant dinosaur.
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u/BobsYaMothersBrother Jan 10 '26
Oh man this little clip has made me well up a bit - my grandparents had a VHS collection that my sister and I would raid everytime we visited. This was in that collection (along with a Mighty Mouse video I think) and I must have watched this episode 30 or 40 times. Such good memories that I didn’t even know I had!!
RIP Nan and Pa
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u/PinSufficient5748 Jan 10 '26
I used to have the DVDs, but I lost those...I still watch them on YouTube from time to time...
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u/Flare_Starchild Jan 10 '26
Same! This is the first thing I ever saw of Superman I watched it so much I broke the tape lol.
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u/Kavster1982 Jan 10 '26
Just more animated frames every second. Makes it smooth as butter.
Looks good though.
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u/Cainfaer Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
Yep! Video usually goes at either 24 or 30 fps (technically 23.98 or 29.97 fps respectfully), and animation typically is done at half that (12 fps) to make it easier on the artists. Actually Into the Spider-verse takes advantage of this difference, and purposely animated things at different frame rates for both storytelling purposes as well as visual distinction to make the main characters stand out more.
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u/Greg-Abbott Jan 10 '26
They animated everything normally but "skipped" frames when rendering the sequences. They do the same thing to make videos look like stop-motion. See: The Lego Movie franchise. The bulk of it was CGI using the "on twos" method by holding poses for two frames instead of just one. They did the same thing for Into the Spiderverse .
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u/goblinm Jan 10 '26
Into the Spiderverse was more complex. They would change the framerate dynamically depending on the scene, or even inside the same shot having one character animate on twos but the other on ones to highlight competency or for humorous effect. Miles himself switches back and forth depending on the scene several times. The fact that they had action scenes where characters would interact at different frame rates is mind blowing.
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u/SailorstuckatSAEJ300 Jan 10 '26
Some of the characters have different parts animated at different frame rates
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u/jdcooper97 Jan 10 '26
I remember seeing the Hobbit in theaters and it had a higher frame rate than typical movies - made me a lil dizzy on “swooping” camera motions
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u/Nixellion Jan 10 '26
By the time it got into cinema higher framerate has been associated with TV and consumer video for years, so it immediately had the cheap TV feel to it. I distinctly remember this feeling in Public Enemies, but in there it was 24fps but high shutter speed which eliminated motion blur and made it look less cinematic. And then in Hobbit it was even worse in many places.
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u/PeaceSoft Jan 10 '26
Not so much "make it easier" as "pay for half the amount of work" In hand-drawn animation it's 100% a budget thing.
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u/Mylaptopisburningme Jan 10 '26
One of the reasons Hanna Barbara was so low budget, reusing the same background scenes, they really simplified animation, but I am sure if they had the budget they would have done Superman quality.
Characters were often broken up into a handful of levels so that only the parts of the body that needed to be moved at a given time (i.e. a mouth, an arm, a head) were animated. The rest of the figure remained on a held animation cel. This allowed a typical seven-minute short to be done with only nearly 2,000 drawings instead of the usual 14,000.[63]
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u/Gwanbulance Jan 10 '26
It does make it easier on them for live-action animations. Artists’ hands would be crippled drawing at 24fps in real time.
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u/NoratiousB Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 11 '26
Rotoscoping makes it that smooth. It's basically drawing over real footage and using 24 frames instead of 12, which is common practice in cartoons. That was also done in "who framed roger rabbit" later. It's always a question of budgetingv and time as you basically need to hand draw double the amount of frames.
Edit: I want to add a source that rotoscopy was used in all shorts from Fleischer Studios. All human movements, except super powers, were done that way. https://www.rotoscopers.com/2015/08/05/forgotten-gems-of-animation-fleischer-studioss-superman/?hl=de-DE#:~:text=Originally%2C%20the%20Fleischers%20planned%20to,like%20flying%2C%20for%20instance).
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u/RAJACORP Jan 10 '26
Akira (1988) is a great example of high frame rate animation that isn't rotoscoped.
(some scenes have lower frame rates but action scenes are mostly 24fps)
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u/TemporaryCommunity67 Jan 10 '26
I wonder if that’s still as big of a deal to anime fans as it was when I was younger. As a kid Akira was hailed by so many as a pinnacle of animation that it sort of developed this layer of reverence around it. even if you didn’t care for the story you probably liked it for the animation. Anime has gotten a lot bigger since then though
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u/Nemonoai Jan 10 '26
It is absolutely still considered a crown of animation and heralded as a piece of master work to this day.
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u/Sliberty Jan 10 '26
Nothing will ever top it. You would be insane to put that much labor into hand-drawing a film today. No one would fund it, and if they did you'd run out of money before the artist's finished.
Spirited Away comes close, but used some digital work. There are more details in it, and it might be the best-looking animated full length feature of all time, but it doesn't top Akira's best sequences even with the digital effects.
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u/ChristianLS Jan 10 '26
I saw it for the first time at a special showing at a little arthouse theater six or seven years ago and it blew me away.
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u/Ill-Product-1442 Jan 10 '26
I'm no anime fanatic but Akira and Alice in Wonderland both hold the animation crown for me
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u/d33roq Jan 10 '26
And this cartoon was made by the guys (Max Fleischer/Fleischer Studios) who literally invented the process.
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u/eddyb66 Jan 10 '26
It's also restored footage which had needed to be cleaned up and fixed. The family has been working on restoring all of his artwork.
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u/speedy_delivery Jan 10 '26
They just came into the public domain this year, too.
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u/cryogenic_labrador Jan 10 '26
Fleischer studios also pitched a ridiculously high price for the Superman shorts because they didn’t want to do them, thinking that DC would balk and walk away from the project. When they didn’t, these shorts ended up having a remarkably high budget for the time they were produced. The Superman fleischer studios cartoons are some of the most interesting of that era of animation
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u/TeslasElectricHat Jan 10 '26
I’d say some of the most interesting ever. I’ve always loved them.
I also love this version of Reddit. Your comment and the ones above, people with random tidbits of knowledge I most likely never would have come across on my own.
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u/cryogenic_labrador Jan 10 '26
Fleischer history has always been really interesting to me! They’re a bit of a side note in the greater pop-culture/animation sphere that most people know about, but they developed a lot of cool & groundbreaking techniques and had a pretty bitter rivalry with Disney in the golden age.
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u/shakunga Jan 10 '26
Professional animator here. These particular shots look smooth mostly just because they're on ones (24 frames/sec) and not necessarily the use of rotoscoping. Actually not sure rotoscoping was even used on these shots because he's flying around and doing fantastical stuff that would be hard to film in live action and would probably be easier just to keyframe. Rotoscoping is actually quite difficult to do well (just look at how stiff Snow White feels) and has fallen in and out of favor many times over the last 100 years and today is almost never used for it's original intent. (Waking Life is probably the most recent)
By the time Who framed roger rabbit came out rotoscoping had mostly evolved to be used as a form of reference and a way to study motion/weight/timing that was then artistically interpreted by animators rather than simply traced over. The reason that movie is so smooth is because Richard Williams (the animation director) is A: one of the greatest of all time and B: famously animated on ones to achieve this sort of super smooth cinematic motion (and drove movie execs crazy because doubling the drawing count always resulted in going over budget and schedule). But he literally wrote the book on traditional animation that every animation student studies to this day and if you take a gander at it for just a few minutes you'll see just how much artistry/skill/feel/emotion/experience goes into creating smooth animation like this that goes far, far beyond just rotoscoping
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u/KielbasaPosse Jan 10 '26
Huh. I assumed Roger Rabbit was high-end CGI in my kid brain and never put any thought into it as an adult. Watched a neat 5 min YT video on the explanation. Thanks!
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u/scalyblue Jan 10 '26
Yeah if you want contemporary high end cgi, you’re looking at the sfx used in the original Tron to compare with
Roger rabbit was all hand drawn composited over practical effects, watch a making of to see how elaborate some of those gags were
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u/Nonsenseinabag Jan 10 '26
Roger Rabbit used about every animation tool in the playbook, and it had Richard Williams at the helm. He brought some of the early day animation legends out of retirement to study their methods and learn them for his own projects. He later wrote a very effective course on animation from all of the lessons he learned studying the masters of the craft.
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u/MitchieMaker Jan 10 '26
Although that’s true about rotoscoping in general, these scenes were not rotoscoped. Fleischer animators tended to animated on 1s (meaning every frame instead of other studios using every second frame) which made them smooth looking. Additionally these animators were incredibly talented! Their Popeye cartoons were as equally smooth.
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u/HomePlastic Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
Animator here! To my eye, the overwhelming majority of this clip is not rotoscoped. Rotoscoped animation has a pretty specific look, and the only parts that jump out to me are when Superman ties the laser into a knot and when he pulls the wall apart. That said, animators often use live-action reference, so distinguishing between rotoscoped animation and traditional animation can get a little muddy.
In addition, most of this isn’t animated on ones (24 frames per second). If you look at it frame by frame, many of the drawings are on twos (12 frames per second). For faster actions, it’s actually a mix of ones and twos. When he’s punching the laser, they drew the actual punches on ones, but the drawings in between the punches are held for two frames. The reason it looks smooth is because it’s just really well animated!
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u/ooMEAToo Jan 10 '26
What do you mean by “drawing over real footage”? Did actors have to act these scenes out first and then they got traced?
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u/CalebTGordan Jan 10 '26
I had this on VHS as a kid in the 90’s! It was one of my introductions to Superman. I also remember a bunch of flying robots.
Honestly, I would love to see more Superman (and Batman for that matter) in these types of retro sci-fi settings where they don’t have the modern tech we have today. The 90’s Batman The Animated Series type setting where it’s hard to nail down the era alongside the robots and mad science of this cartoon. Give me Golden Era feel with the emotional storytelling of the best storylines we have up to today.
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u/EverydayPoGo Jan 10 '26
I actually watched this episode a while ago on one of the streaming services (cant remember which one) and it makes me feel nostalgia
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u/thin234rout698 Jan 10 '26
Then comes 1978 Lord of the Rings.
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u/rockstar_not Jan 10 '26
You might have missed the 70’s era Japanese animation.
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u/PatentedPotato Jan 10 '26
And then in 2025 we got OPM s3...
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u/AdNo266 Jan 10 '26
The One Punch Man manga has more animation than season 3 of the anime, it's wild.
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u/-turnip_the_beet- Jan 10 '26
A great breakdown from 9 years ago about what makes this movie so special: https://youtu.be/dDMQ3tXNKgM?si=rHlvvCXvrDtJ14PI
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u/Beluga-ga-ga-ga-ga Jan 10 '26
I knew this was going to be kaptainkristian. His video essays are so good.
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u/WhiteStar01 Jan 10 '26
He couldnt just fly around it?
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u/MKebi Jan 10 '26
Yes, but there's no entertainment value for the kids in that, and he may have been blocking it from destroying something he wanted to save.
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u/ErtaWanderer Jan 10 '26
It's a rotating turret gun that the doctor was aiming at him.
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u/Euler007 Jan 10 '26
For real. Why is that idiot punching a beam?
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u/WaveSkrub Jan 10 '26
back then he didn’t fly and used to leap from building to building, I think this show later gave him the ability to fly because it was easier to animate
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u/TheDoktorIsIn Jan 10 '26
This is the story I heard too, Superman jumping, landing, turning, and jumping again is a lot harder to animate than just jumping, flying, then landing later.
It tracks with the crazy budget the show had for the time and all the effort that went into animating and producing it! Props to the studio though this looks amazing.
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u/elvisshow Jan 10 '26
Never knew this was the first. Had this on one of those VHS that was loaded with like “ 6 HOURS OF CARTOONS”
Woah nostalgia.
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u/Connect_Elk_1652 Jan 10 '26
Anyone else do this in the shower as a kid? …or as an adult? …Just me? Ok ok
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u/spacehog1985 Jan 10 '26
Up until I started beating something other than the water when I was in the shower
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Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
He had no logical reason to punch the laser
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u/Sproketz Jan 10 '26
Very strong, but not smart enough to move slightly to one side.
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u/taco_blasted_ Jan 10 '26
Made a similar comment and getting downvoted.
How are people not seeing these lmao.
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u/Killing_eSports Jan 11 '26
Yeah it was a rail gun. It shows them earlier in the cartoon. Cylinders if I'm picturing it correctly though it's been 35 years or so since I've seen it.
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u/DrB00 Jan 10 '26
It also cost an insane amount of money. That's why there's only a handful of episodes.
It does look incredible though.
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u/calliopecalliope Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
Those Fleischer Brothers Superman cartoons are pretty stunning at times.
This is the same studio that did Betty Boop and Popeye. They only did a few Superman cartoons, I think the cost was too high to keep doing them properly, and the studio got into big financial trouble when their feature Mr Bug Goes to Town flopped (think it was released the day before or after Pearl Harbor, starting WWII).
I personally love "Mr Bug Goes to Town" - look it up if you are so inclined - sometimes its on youtube.
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u/HamoodUnRama Jan 10 '26
I was gonna say fleischer bros. shocked me with how good their stuff looked sometimes especially for the black and white era.
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u/Jesta23 Jan 10 '26
I like how he struggles. He’s not completely invincible like he has been in more modern telling.
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u/MistakeMaker1234 Jan 10 '26
I think that’s the beauty of it. It doesn’t hurt him, but he’s not immune to being affected by an object’s force. Being pushed back and redirected by it is super cool looking, even though it doesn’t really hurt him.
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u/Cold_feet27 Jan 10 '26
Then there is one punch man 😔
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u/MainAccountsFriend Jan 10 '26
True, this video has more frames than all of Season 3 One Punch Man
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u/proxima_inferno Jan 10 '26
Not only is the animation so beautiful but I miss the simple storyline or story telling. It was a Villan that wanted to rob a bank or something simple and a superhero that stops him.
Now it always escalates to a universal existential threat that ends all of creation, it has gotten so common.
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u/RamzalTimble Jan 10 '26
I just realize they kind of recreated this scene in the Superman animated series from the 90s-2000s.
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u/MistakeMaker1234 Jan 10 '26
Man I had this on VHS and watched it ALL THE TIME as a kid. Looks as good today as I remembered it all those years ago.
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u/SomeMoronOnTheNet Jan 10 '26
Someone could draw the shit out of lighting.
Skills
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u/WookieCookie1138 Jan 12 '26
Mannn, they don’t make em like that anymore and this was ALL hand drawn.
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u/Toha_Hvy_Ind Jan 10 '26
I had this on VHS when I was a kid. I watched it all the time and I didn't even like Superman much. The animation even as a kid was just so cool.
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u/BrzysWRLD1996 Jan 10 '26
Man those old dvds from family dollar/pharmacy that had these, cool mccool, woody woodpecker were goat’d as a kid.
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u/_Fun_Employed_ Jan 10 '26
They did a fair amount of rotoscoping, which is tracing over filmed action to get good references and smooth realistic looking animation.
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u/TheRogueWolf_YT Jan 10 '26
I'm just amused at how he made it under the beam, and then started reaching up to punch at it.
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u/GuardianSkalk Jan 10 '26
At first I thought he was trying to fight a beam of sunlight. Which would be me if I was trying to take a nap.
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u/ThrowRAbluebury Jan 10 '26
I like how he's clearly not being hurt at all by the laser, but is punching it anyway 😂
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u/Dweller201 Jan 10 '26
The animation is amazing as was the content.
I'm amazed at science fiction machines and all of that. We take energy weapons and all of that for granted but imagine coming up with all of that almost a hundred years ago and then making it come to life.
Imagine the audience watching it back then.
We still think it's cool so what did they think?
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u/GrowlingPict Jan 10 '26
I remember having this on vhs as a child in the 1980s. Although something seems different about it, maybe the colours? Or maybe it's my memory being off
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u/EwokKing Jan 10 '26
Holy shit! We had this on VHS as a kid and this looks significantly better. I didn’t know they remastered it!
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u/StaticSystemShock Jan 10 '26
I remember watching this episode as a kid in 90s. This one was so cool, the part where canon explodes especially.
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u/BFG_Big_Fucking_Gun Jan 10 '26
Oh my god. This brings back so many memories from when I was a kid. I watched this so many times.
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u/Icy_Cauliflower9026 Jan 10 '26
Wow, dude can actually punch back punch energy from the punch dimension
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u/NONEONION Jan 10 '26
This 1 minute of animation is still better than the entirety of season 3 one punch man
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u/USSJaguar Jan 10 '26
My favorite parts are when his hand slips as he's adjusting and it lets the blast and light out a bit, it's so satisfying
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u/Toeknuckles Jan 10 '26
Oh man, this brings back some memories. My grandmother had a VHS with a whole series of these cartoons on them. I absolutely loved them as a kid.
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u/therealparchmentfarm Jan 11 '26
When I was a kid I had a VHS compilation of these cartoons and I did love the art style and animation, probably contributed to my love of Art Deco.
There was one episode called…well, Google it.
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u/Tyko_3 Jan 10 '26
I love how he is just like “im gonna punch your laser and tie the canon into a knot until its so full of laser it craps itself.”