The plushies are coming! The plushies are coming!

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sounds like ryanjunell's having a bad day. maybe he had a messy mascot experience as a kid. maybe captain wahoo touched his special spot behind the dugout. no worries. we're rootin' for ya, ryan.

I honestly debated whether I should leave critical feedback on this site. others post some pretty brutal honest opinions. everyone's a critic, right?

and what's weirder for me is that I just realized that I totally know max from another project (hi max! sorry!) and I totally liked what he did for that... so... its not personal...

I just have been seeing these animal suits used in SO MANY indie videos and movies over the past 5 or 6 years... and I guess its just not ironic, funny, or weird to me anymore... and I know they're really just cuddly and cute outfits and there are probably audiences that haven't seen them in action yet...

I should shut my yap and go make something instead... please let me add on a positive note that I do like the animations and the pacing...

check out the grizzly bear thread... opinions flying everywhere

Hey Ryan, Max here, nice to see you on antville. It's been a while since I've stopped by, strange surprise to see the Boogie video up here.

I guess I missed your original post, but it sounds like aprilnine has changed your tune (not sure whether to thank him/her yet). The video is definitely kitschy, and yeah, intentionally so, but it's not exactly meant to be ironic. More allegorical or metaphorical, really, though that may not come across in the final cut.

Sure, there are real "plushies" out there - people who get off on animal costumes and mascots, sexually - but the video is more about how people become the very thing they secretly obsess over online. Okay, sure, kinda heady for a Prince send-up, and maybe doesn't translate that well in this instance, no biggie.

I don't know if I would've posted the video here myself, though it's getting play in other places. If there's any irony intended at all, it's that the video begins as something mom & dad would approve of, only to devolve into softcore mascot mayhem. Maybe I should've left more of the uh, graphic stuff, in the final version.

Love that Grizzly Bear video BTW, odd pacing and all. Different goals, different results, different, er, strokes...