New Tootsie Pop commercial sucks compared to old

Mark Frauenfelder 4:06 pm Wed May 2, 2007

Amid Amidi (author of the great book about 50s animation, Cartoon Modern) despises the CGI version of a 40-year-old Tootsie Pop TV commercial.

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Are ad agencies so deprived of original thinking that the best they can do is recycle a forty-year-old soundtrack, and remake it shot-by-shot in CG?

What does this new version offer that the original didn't? Less charm? Check. Uglier character designs? Check. Blander animation? Check. Fussy over-detailed backgrounds that overwhelm the characters? Check.

Link (Thanks, Evan!)

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