You knew this was coming, didn't you?

judging by Popeye having hair, this will be an origin story, perhaps?

It must be. But notice how he doesn't have his pipe.

I didn't know they were doing this, I am kinda excited for it. I liked Popeye as a kid. With Peanuts coming back too, I kinda hope we will also see the Jetsons and Flintstones return. In some capacity.  

I heard something about the Jetsons coming back in live action form.

Looks pretty cool. I'm not a big fan of his voice though. It doesn't sound crusty enough.

Good God, what's with this abuse of CGI? Are people too lazy to draw anymore?

Linux_Sage wrote :

Good God, what's with this abuse of CGI? Are people too lazy to draw anymore? -end quote

Afraid so my friend. In this day and age, everything is either CGI or "flashimation". It's depressing.

The good news is Genndy Tartakovsky is directing this.

CGI, like most "digital" things, is infinitely replicable.

Whereas drawing (or painting, as traditional feature-length animation
with a decent budget usually was) requires of at least one or two dozen artists a particular sweep of the hand for application of medium, once the character models are created computer animation requires only a plugging in of data points and keyframes by any number of technicians. Hopefully they retain the passion of animation and understand concepts such as squash and stretch, which I would believe in this case. But it is a very different kind of skill, much easier to do and learn and reproduce.

thecrow174 wrote :

I heard something about the Jetsons coming back in live action form.
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Live action? That sounds interesting.