"Homestuck" News and Discussion

[wonderfly]

From the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:

"“Hazbin Hotel” Creator Vivienne Medrano Is Making A “Homestuck” Animated Pilot"​

"Vivienne Medrano, creator of Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss, is making an animated pilot about Homestuck. Homestuck was a web comic that lasted from April 13, 2009, to April 13, 2016, and was created by Andrew Hussie. Homestuck was a popular webcomic with a devoted fanbase. Vivienne Medrano’s YouTube channel released a trailer for the Homestuck pilot:




Homestuck centers around a video game called “Sburb” that is being beta tested by a group of teenagers. They soon discover that “Sburb” is no ordinary game and has the power to reshape the world. Homestuck is a complex, non-linear narrative, featuring a large cast of characters.

The Homestuck pilot is being produced by SpindelRoo, a new Australian subsidiary of SpindelHorse, Vivienne Medrano’s main production company. Richard Horvitz will serve as the voice director for this pilot, having been the voice director on Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss. This pilot will feature seasoned voice actors like Colleen O’Shaughnessey, Cherami Leigh, Brandon Winkler, and Adam McArthur in the voice cast. However, the most interesting and unconventional voice actor in this pilot is Toby Fox, who is more well-known as the creator of the indie video game Undertale, rather than as an actor. Toby Fox has had some connection with Homestuck in the past. He was a composer for animated sections of the original Homestuck web comic before he became a successful indie video game creator."

Read the full article here.

 

[PicardMan]

Okay, now I'll finally find out what the fuss with the Homestuck cultural phenomenon is. The webcomics' art turned me off, but I know it had a huge and eccentric fanbase. At one point in time, a quarter of everybody at anime cons had black body paint and were dressing as Homestuck people. For some reason, Homestuck connected with anime fans despite being a Western made webcomic.

 

[Frontier]

I remember trying the webcomic for a bit before dropping it, but maybe the cartoon will work better for me.

 

[PicardMan]

Vox Machina managed to make it big even for those who've never seen the source material. Maybe a similar effect here. I do know that Viziepop knows how to make popular cartoons. Considering how huge Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss are, Homestuck is probably going to come back with a vengeance with all the cosplayers with gray facepaint staining comic cons across the nation that comes with it.

 

[The Overlord]

Okay, now I'll finally find out what the fuss with the Homestuck cultural phenomenon is. The webcomics' art turned me off, but I know it had a huge and eccentric fanbase. At one point in time, a quarter of everybody at anime cons had black body paint and were dressing as Homestuck people. For some reason, Homestuck connected with anime fans despite being a Western made webcomic.

The thing is, American anime fans are different from Japanese anime fans, in that outside of anime, some of the other entertainment they like: video games, music, live action movies and TV shows, could be American rather than Japanese or more of a mix of the two. I have never read the webcomic myself, but it seems to be centred around video games and might make references to both Japanese and American media.

Of course, Japanese anime fans can enjoy American video games, music, TV shows and movies, but this comic may feature more obscure refences that appeal mostly to American nerds.

 

[The Overlord]

Here is the Homestuck pilot:

 

[PicardMan]

My reaction as someone unfamiliar with the source material,

I still believe that adaptations should be able to stand on their own without viewers having to know the source material. This was absolutely incomprehensible. At least the art for the cartoon was much better than the hideous webcomic.

 

[The Overlord]

My reaction as someone unfamiliar with the source material,

I still believe that adaptations should be able to stand on their own without viewers having to know the source material. This was absolutely incomprehensible. At least the art for the cartoon was much better than the hideous webcomic.

Yeah, most other indie pilots get to the point way quicker. They didn't even start playing the video game that the plot revolves around.

 

[PicardMan]

Most of my knowledge of Homestuck comes from the people in gray facepaint that used to be omnipresent at anime cons. The trolls only appear in the very last shot of this episode. It was slow in that it took to the end for them to play the game that kickstarts the plot, but super fast in that what I assume was the prologue of the webcomic seemed extremely rushed. Why was Egbert fighting his dad? So this world is like a video game or something? The pace was rushed to the point where it was hard to tell how the world worked or to pin down character personalities or motivations. With Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss, those indie toons were original ideas and not adaptations. I hope if this gets picked up for a full series, that the main series episode 1 is a redo of the pilot with a longer runtime that is able to tell this story properly. I believe Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss both made lots of tweaks and refinements between the pilot and the real episode one.

 

[Ghoster1987]

I dont know anything about homestuck outside of a semi obnoxious fan base

 

[Daikun]

I'm surprised the pilot is out already. I thought we'd be waiting several months for it.

 

[wonderfly]

From the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:

"Homestuck “The Animated Pilot” Episode Review/Recap"​

"April 13, 2009 was the launch day of a quirky and bizarre crudely drawn Microsoft Paint webcomic that became an absolute cultural phenomenon. Viziepop, the animation legend behind Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss, has just released an animated pilot of this series. I admit to being much more familiar with Viziepop’s work than the source material this is based on, so I can’t say anything about how this works as an adaptation. As a Viziepop cartoon, this was another example of her quirky rude and crude F-bomb filled humor, this time with an action scene. At 11 and a half minutes long, this short pilot was very light on plot, but heavy on quirky crude humor that seemed mainly based on source material in-jokes that will probably fly over the heads of those uninitiated. Viziepop manages to bring some visual polish to capture the simplistic character designs of the original work, but this time with a more professionally looking aesthetic than the source material. Without further ado, let’s recap this offbeat and quirky new cartoon.

The pilot begins with someone watching a suburban house on a spy satellite. The narrator begins exposition to let viewers know who lives in this house. This suburban house belongs to our protagonist Zoomshell_Pooplord, er, John Egbert. The date is April 13, 2009. It appears that this cartoon will be a late 2000s period piece, complete with everybody using flip phones. Egbert is a normal teenage boy who is into teenage boy things like video games and watching cheesy B-movies. He is also an amateur computer/game programmer, a bad one according to the narrator. Today is a special day as it is is Egbert’s thirteenth birthday."

Read the full recap here.

 

[Classic Speedy]

My reaction as someone unfamiliar with the source material,

I still believe that adaptations should be able to stand on their own without viewers having to know the source material. This was absolutely incomprehensible. At least the art for the cartoon was much better than the hideous webcomic.

Same, this did absolutely nothing for me. Oh well.