One of my favorite animations that is on television right now is The Venture Brother, which is played on Adult Swim. The show has to do with a parody version of what a Johnny Quest character might be like if he grew up to fall short of emulating his super scientist father, and how he lives his life as a sham scientist with his two strangley naïve boys and body guard. There are many great things regarding the animation of this show. For one, there use of space is great, they really take into account how a camera might be able to film these characters if they were real and a lot of times it gives a good 360 degree feel of a space, capture all sides of a room and a character. Another thing that I like about the show is the realistic way they make their characters move. Not that I don’t like animation that allows their characters to move in unnatural ways, but it fits the style more to have them move as real people would, especially because the show parodies the style of sixties Hanna Barbara cartoons, which were very still and bulky with limited movement.
Another aspect of the show that I like is their attention to detail when it comes to backgrounds. As I mentioned before, this a show that parodies shows like Johnny Quest, a program that would reuse their backgrounds and not pay too much attention to continuity details. In the Venture Brothers, this does not seem to be the case, most likely because the show is made with Flash and it becomes a lot easier to manipulate backgrounds and allow for greater detail.
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