Post by Noble Cactus on Mar 6, 2015 23:13:39 GMT -5
Okay I'm actually going to make a serious post in this thread because I feel disgruntled.
Just watched the new Dirty Potter (Fuckbeak Chapter 3), and it's pretty clear that he's burnt out on the whole project now. I'm sure it's due to real-life commitments that don't involve defaming/deflowering knighted voice actors and children's books. But yeah, I'm surprised to see that most people aren't disappointed like I am with his latest installment.
For one, his technical style is a lot more refined. The audio mashing and sentence mixing in FB3 is cleaner than ever before, and it's easy to listen to. It's also accompanied by animations, which is a DP first.
But it's those two factors that disappoint me. DP's lost the rough-hewn, crude and rude audio mixing and jokes that defined his earlier work. Those earlier projects were the result of going into the source material blind, and then making connections between unrelated phrases to make a new, coherent whole. The last Dirty the Pooh and the beginning of Fuckbeak 1 are still impressive for that reason; the former is a rolling cataclysm of obscenity after obscenity that keeps mounting on itself for nine minutes, while the latter is an intricate portrait of a no-life loser that could pass for decent amateur prose. And it's all made up of random voice clips and abstracted sounds made up from those voice clips. That patchwork roughness gave DP texture, something for your mind to grapple with as you went with the works ups and downs. The lack of visuals certainly helped this effect as well. FB3 is sterile. It just shows that he has a stock bank of soundbytes that worked in the past, and stock jokes that have worked in the past. The FB3 Intro is too memey as well. It just pokes at an easy target (neckbeards) instead of creating his own.
DP's sound effects are as on-point as ever, though.
The last five minutes or so go back to his roots and partially redeem the video's first nine lukewarm minutes. There are a couple nice twists, and the first part of those five minutes hearkens back to moments like Ron being ass blasted into another fucking dimension.
I'm not expecting much out of the next installment.
Why do I care about this? It's just a stupid audio series that makes dumb jokes.
Just watched the new Dirty Potter (Fuckbeak Chapter 3), and it's pretty clear that he's burnt out on the whole project now. I'm sure it's due to real-life commitments that don't involve defaming/deflowering knighted voice actors and children's books. But yeah, I'm surprised to see that most people aren't disappointed like I am with his latest installment.
For one, his technical style is a lot more refined. The audio mashing and sentence mixing in FB3 is cleaner than ever before, and it's easy to listen to. It's also accompanied by animations, which is a DP first.
But it's those two factors that disappoint me. DP's lost the rough-hewn, crude and rude audio mixing and jokes that defined his earlier work. Those earlier projects were the result of going into the source material blind, and then making connections between unrelated phrases to make a new, coherent whole. The last Dirty the Pooh and the beginning of Fuckbeak 1 are still impressive for that reason; the former is a rolling cataclysm of obscenity after obscenity that keeps mounting on itself for nine minutes, while the latter is an intricate portrait of a no-life loser that could pass for decent amateur prose. And it's all made up of random voice clips and abstracted sounds made up from those voice clips. That patchwork roughness gave DP texture, something for your mind to grapple with as you went with the works ups and downs. The lack of visuals certainly helped this effect as well. FB3 is sterile. It just shows that he has a stock bank of soundbytes that worked in the past, and stock jokes that have worked in the past. The FB3 Intro is too memey as well. It just pokes at an easy target (neckbeards) instead of creating his own.
DP's sound effects are as on-point as ever, though.
The last five minutes or so go back to his roots and partially redeem the video's first nine lukewarm minutes. There are a couple nice twists, and the first part of those five minutes hearkens back to moments like Ron being ass blasted into another fucking dimension.
I'm not expecting much out of the next installment.
Why do I care about this? It's just a stupid audio series that makes dumb jokes.