This can be justified as apparently the original film masters couldn't be located for the opening, and the original effects were edited on videotape and the VHS master is too low resolution to upscale to HD, meaning a true restoration is straight up impossible. - Tv Tropes, Garfield and Friends Trivia
@@Mattcai2004 But you can make a Digital drawn look like Traditional. They did this for Some Disney movies in the late 2000's like Princess and the Frog, some of the Made for TV movies for Lilo and Stich as well as the show. Just they were made to a high quality Traditional like the way that Cinderella, Fantasia, Little Mermaid was done or Aladin, the last of the fully Traditional movies. Not The lesser style used for movies like Jungle book, Winne the Pooh, or Robinhood as those have the more alive technique used on them, that was also used for about 1/2 of the cartoon TV shows that Disney did like Rescue Rangers, Goof Troop, and Original Duck Tales.
Another example is the Simpsons… There’s an episode where homer imagines a land of chocolate. In the Simpsons game the exact segment happens but the older one looks bette
The remaster is a noble effort, but it comes off soulless. It's like the uncanny valley, you lose some spark of life when the characters are rock solid on-model every single frame. Each cell being created by hand, by an actual human being, really gives it a subtle, yet easily, noticeable energy.
If they wanted to remaster this intro, why couldn't they just mask out (or heck, even trace over) the original frames so the timing and movements remain intact from the original?
Look like the remastered intro was too heavily dependent on Motion tween feature. The motion looks too smooth and lack any impact or timing the original had. Heck you could say the only good bits are the one they actually have to animated and not rely on a computer feature.
Then seasons 3--7 yes and also the 3D animated Garfield Show from 2010 to mid or late 2010's. Not the Latest TV show on UA-cam only that is crappy 3D even worse than the poor animation they had for the 2010 show on TV.
The remastered version looks like it was animated digitally, unlike the original which looks like well done hand drawn animation. Also, the Remastered version looks like it’s interpolated at 60 FPS.
To answer your question, the 2010s intro was animated in Flash, and the 90s intro was animated in pencils(as in they drew every frame). Perhaps the people who wanted to remaster the show couldn't be bothered to reanimate the intro by hand and instead made a rig of every character so they could let the computer do all the in-between work.
@@akganimationstudioproducti3779 Hahaha! That was so true just a couple years ago. Now, there are AIs developed expressly to do in-betweening based on keyframes & concept art. Homer: "Will it be _live_ ?" 'No Homer, live animation is a tremendous strain on the animators wrists.' Soon... _Soon,_ Homer could finally get a live-animated episode.
Goofy & Max had to be re-animated by hand when Disney decided to remaster Goof Troop and its intro, only the difference was still very noticeable for me.
This show was a classic What a nostalgic and fun sounding intro like the Garfield show theme song and I’m so excited for the new Garfield movie next year I hope we see orson the pig and his fellow farm friends to appear in this movie or maybe a movie for them
Easy answer: The original has more frames. They cut corners with the remastered intro, having the computer fill in the holes. It looks unnatural. Hand drawn is best.
@@LePenguinTmk the one on Peacock also uses this release, though I've only seen small clips of that release (and don't plan on since they stretched all the episodes into widescreen, which just looks ugly)
@EQ Games More corners then just a few because they used a digital drawing over a hand done thing. They missed expressions that stay through a few cells in the traditional that should have made it onto the remake.
I saw the original on Starz last year and the remastered version on Boomerang this year. I'm not sure exactly when the remastered version was made but I've read somewhere that it was made exclusively for VHS tapes.
While I also admit that I'm not well fond of the idea that they did this, heres some interesting and off topic trivia I thought I'd share with you guys...... This show was originally going to be only U.S. Acres, but the networks declined its pick up and so they added Garfield in it. No joke!
Definitely agree with the notion that there’s something deeply wrong with the remaster, but I’m finding it difficult to explain why. Though they desync at some point they’re at the same framerate, and I feel like the tweening criticism is overblown, it’s used surprisingly sparingly. I think the main problem with this is a culmination of a lot of small issues and errors that creates an uncanny feeling compared to the original.
Don’t forget the fact that the remaster looks like the animators tried to draw the characters in both their 80s styles and the modern ones, which, though they may look similar, do have some key differences, so looking at the styles constantly changing between modern and classic also adds to the uncanny sort of feeling of the reanimated one. Not to mention the fact that it honestly looks like a modern-day Garfield & Friends reboot at times instead of an 80s/90s cartoon.
They reanimated the original intro just to get it into 16:9 widescreen. If I was the one to get the intro into widescreen, I would either stretch or crop it.
This comparison made me realize 9story did not really try with making a properly good remaster on Garfield and Friends at all. The awful reanimated motion-tweeny intro from the first two seasons that makes the animation look straight out of a low budget toddler show (god, I hate motion tweening animation), the terrible use of stock footage in the "We're Ready to Party" theme song, the unnecessary 16:9 cropping on all of the cleaned up episode footage, the lazily made end credits sequence, just everything else that makes this so-called "remastered" version so unwatchable that it's sad to look at and that the only good thing to come from the remastered version of the show is the color correction and the sharper outlines. Everything else shows 9story did not care and try at all with anything.
The "remaster" looks pathetic, especially since it was made in an era ToonBoom/Flash animation can actually be made to look organic. The only part that SORTA matches the original is Booker's scribing at the end.
That new version looks terrible. This reminds me of when they shipped black and white cartoons to Korea to have them reanimated in color. This is the only example I could find at the moment: ua-cam.com/video/_BGQ5mKfWDU/v-deo.html. Once you get past the title cards you'll see a noticeable drop in the number of frames, so the Korean one looks choppy compared to the original. I have seen a comparison with a Popeye cartoon that was even more of a drastic drop in quality, but I can't seem to find that one. The Popeye cartoon had originally used cels in front of elaborate rotating 3D backdrops, and the Korean reanimated version didn't even attempt this and looks terrible as a result.
This is literally the closest I can find to a clean rip (in english) of the the updated intro, what the hell, lmao, you’re telling me NOBODY has properly uploaded this? I found one in the complete wrong aspect ratio and then a ton with tacked on music and effects
I feel like the remastered is not good as the original. I just wish a new Garfield Show (or atleast that new movie) is good as the old Garfield And Friends TV Show or the old movies.
This can be justified as apparently the original film masters couldn't be located for the opening, and the original effects were edited on videotape and the VHS master is too low resolution to upscale to HD, meaning a true restoration is straight up impossible.
- Tv Tropes, Garfield and Friends Trivia
But what about the past Garfield & Friends DVDs?? Those weren’t HD?
@@carlbloke8797 I have the 20th Century Fox DVDs of the first season, and no they weren't
@@carlbloke8797 Those were likely sourced from the broadcast tape masters.
so it's too low quality to become high quality?
@@carlbloke8797 FYI, DVDs aren't capable of holding HD video.
To be fair we at least have to give the remaster credit for trying to stay true to the original
trying is the key word there
RIP Lorenzo Music (1937-2001)
Lorenzo Music: Tĥe original voice of Garfield
the original looks more alive
Traditional animation always looks alive
@@Mattcai2004 But you can make a Digital drawn look like Traditional. They did this for Some Disney movies in the late 2000's like Princess and the Frog, some of the Made for TV movies for Lilo and Stich as well as the show. Just they were made to a high quality Traditional like the way that Cinderella, Fantasia, Little Mermaid was done or Aladin, the last of the fully Traditional movies. Not The lesser style used for movies like Jungle book, Winne the Pooh, or Robinhood as those have the more alive technique used on them, that was also used for about 1/2 of the cartoon TV shows that Disney did like Rescue Rangers, Goof Troop, and Original Duck Tales.
This is why you don’t make your character models very strict… I mean pause at 0:30 and look at Garfield’s mouth
Another example is the Simpsons…
There’s an episode where homer imagines a land of chocolate.
In the Simpsons game the exact segment happens but the older one looks bette
Yeah for real. The remastered version is so lifeless, it looks awful.
it seems like the updated version is flip flopping between How Garfield used to look in the 80s vs how he looks today
Yes with the UA-cam uploaded 3D show yes, he has some of that in parts by mistake.
It looks like they just hit the "2004 flash game" button and called it a day lol
Hahaha so funny
not
The remaster is a noble effort, but it comes off soulless. It's like the uncanny valley, you lose some spark of life when the characters are rock solid on-model every single frame. Each cell being created by hand, by an actual human being, really gives it a subtle, yet easily, noticeable energy.
If they wanted to remaster this intro, why couldn't they just mask out (or heck, even trace over) the original frames so the timing and movements remain intact from the original?
Tracing over the frames would've worked a lot better if you ask me.
@@LePenguin 9story did that when they worked on arthur i wonder why they didn't do it here
I agree and probably would have saved time of the people trying to copy somebody's drawing style.
TRUE
@@LePenguin Huh? They didn't trace over the animation? Then how did they recreate the intro?
The ending at the remastered one at Booker tho. it’s too smooth
i think the entire animation budget went on booker
thats probably the only thing they didn't tween
@@CrashFan03FR
Look like the remastered intro was too heavily dependent on Motion tween feature. The motion looks too smooth and lack any impact or timing the original had. Heck you could say the only good bits are the one they actually have to animated and not rely on a computer feature.
Let's all be honest
The original intro sing is WAY BETTER than the newer song
Idk it looks pretty rushed…
Then seasons 3--7 yes and also the 3D animated Garfield Show from 2010 to mid or late 2010's. Not the Latest TV show on UA-cam only that is crappy 3D even worse than the poor animation they had for the 2010 show on TV.
@@caseysmith544 At least its still got more dignity than those two trashfire Garfield live action movies.
@@supermariof0521 honestly, i prefer the live action ones
Nah, the later song was classic.
Remastered is too stiff.
Yes
As the GarfieldFan19, I must agree. The classics are always better. Although an entire episode bring remastered in that style would be very fire.
The remastered version looks like it was animated digitally, unlike the original which looks like well done hand drawn animation. Also, the Remastered version looks like it’s interpolated at 60 FPS.
I'll be honest, the remastered version feels like it was animated entirely with Adobe Flash's Classic Tweens feature
@@LePenguin that’s a better way to put it
@@thethiefhistorian3873 feels like family guy animation to some degree-
I definitely agree with ypu TheThiefHistorian
@@LePenguin @Caleb Names Plush Or toon boom or any other tween program
The original is a classic. The remastered one feels like something made by a teenager in flash back in 2006-2012.
I mean, the remastered theme WAS actually made in flash
Exactly what I thought too!
I was so confused when it was rewatching the show and the intro was that smooth
To answer your question, the 2010s intro was animated in Flash, and the 90s intro was animated in pencils(as in they drew every frame). Perhaps the people who wanted to remaster the show couldn't be bothered to reanimate the intro by hand and instead made a rig of every character so they could let the computer do all the in-between work.
Computers are only tools
They don’t make animation, people do
@@akganimationstudioproducti3779 Hahaha! That was so true just a couple years ago.
Now, there are AIs developed expressly to do in-betweening based on keyframes & concept art.
Homer: "Will it be _live_ ?" 'No Homer, live animation is a tremendous strain on the animators wrists.'
Soon... _Soon,_ Homer could finally get a live-animated episode.
Goofy & Max had to be re-animated by hand when Disney decided to remaster Goof Troop and its intro, only the difference was still very noticeable for me.
Garfield doesn't even push the two pieces of the previous shot at 0:43. His movements are very delayed and sluggish.
"You folks have this confused, I'm real, and your animated."
I actually said "wait really" in response
Garfield can really play with your mind, I guess
When the remaster is a downgrade in every aspect lol
the old dvd increase in price
Rovio classics angry birds:
0:27 The transitions are a bit different.
i like the original a lot more, it just feels so much more natural
This show was a classic What a nostalgic and fun sounding intro like the Garfield show theme song and I’m so excited for the new Garfield movie next year I hope we see orson the pig and his fellow farm friends to appear in this movie or maybe a movie for them
Easy answer: The original has more frames. They cut corners with the remastered intro, having the computer fill in the holes. It looks unnatural. Hand drawn is best.
Strange how this show aired on Nickelodeon back in the 90s and now Nickelodeon owns the rights to it.
I never knew there was a remastered version I always watch on Netflix
It's the one that's on Boomerang's streaming service and (to some level) Tubi and PlutoTV
@@LePenguin It was also on Remastered DVD compilations.
Just got one today with Seasons 1-3!
@@LePenguinTmk the one on Peacock also uses this release, though I've only seen small clips of that release (and don't plan on since they stretched all the episodes into widescreen, which just looks ugly)
THE REMASTERED VERSION DIDN'T HAVE THE ANGRY EXPRESSION ON THE SECOND US ACRES APPEARANCE WHEN GARFIELD TURNS THE CAMERA BACK
They seemed more smug to me, but I get your drift
@EQ Games More corners then just a few because they used a digital drawing over a hand done thing. They missed expressions that stay through a few cells in the traditional that should have made it onto the remake.
He Looks Like He’s saying “REHEHHEHEHEHHEHEHE”
They pressed the "MovieClip" button and called it a day
When the original is better than the intro today
Garfield's arm muscle is bigger in the original, lol
It might slightly improve things if the remastered intro played at 24fps.
They could’ve just traced the old intro
Yeah but who would pay for it?
0:50 They Did In The Logo
The "remastered" intro is really sluggish, and looks like they slowed down the entire opening
I agree it looks to be almost 1/2 second slower
Wow, they even got Garfield's mouth color wrong at 0:30...
the original got it wrong, in the remaster intro its the color of his mouth when its in the show doing that expression
@@thegodzillafandomsrookie5514nah the remastered's wrong color is more of an error than smth intentional
0:30 garfield's mouth is a different color in the remastered
True
ERROR ALERT!!!!
The remastered intro is also used in PlutoTV airings
Normally I wouldn't agree that this kinda thing downgraded but when I saw the intro scene for the remastered version for the first time I was like wtf
The first I saw of it was on Tubi. I was so confused. Like, "why does this look so weird? Is this a remaster? If it is, then it's not a good one. 😑"
I saw the original on Starz last year and the remastered version on Boomerang this year. I'm not sure exactly when the remastered version was made but I've read somewhere that it was made exclusively for VHS tapes.
I don't see how that's possible if it needs to be digital.
I swear, this show and Heathcliff were my favourites when I was little
Remastered... where's the love?
i don't know, in the Patagonia or something
I declare the old version
0:43 bookers hand has roys foot lol
While I also admit that I'm not well fond of the idea that they did this, heres some interesting and off topic trivia I thought I'd share with you guys......
This show was originally going to be only U.S. Acres, but the networks declined its pick up and so they added Garfield in it.
No joke!
The original one is more bouncy
I knew something was off when I was watching this show on tubi at least the episodes themselves are still the same
Not exactly
im glad this show is still on television,also Garfield breaking the 4th wall almost everytime makes the show kinda funny
Flash can look good when done well but you can definitely tell they really didn’t care
Bro really said 0:45
0:27 different transitions
I Love the Remastered Version; in a COMPLETELY Unironic Way!! /gen
Definitely agree with the notion that there’s something deeply wrong with the remaster, but I’m finding it difficult to explain why. Though they desync at some point they’re at the same framerate, and I feel like the tweening criticism is overblown, it’s used surprisingly sparingly. I think the main problem with this is a culmination of a lot of small issues and errors that creates an uncanny feeling compared to the original.
Don’t forget the fact that the remaster looks like the animators tried to draw the characters in both their 80s styles and the modern ones, which, though they may look similar, do have some key differences, so looking at the styles constantly changing between modern and classic also adds to the uncanny sort of feeling of the reanimated one. Not to mention the fact that it honestly looks like a modern-day Garfield & Friends reboot at times instead of an 80s/90s cartoon.
When i was a luttle baby i thought the lyrics went, "for a whack with a paw, or a shot in the jaw..."
The remastered one feels so slow to me
The original version was done by Film Roman. The remastered version was done by 9 Story Entertainment.
Original one I prefer
I guess remastered means 'take original footage and make it unwatchable' now
I saw the remastered one on Boomerang but i can't believe they don't show Garfield and Friends on Boomerang anymore.
Probably because he's owned by Nickelodeon now
They reanimated the original intro just to get it into 16:9 widescreen. If I was the one to get the intro into widescreen, I would either stretch or crop it.
Yeah, they cropped all the old King of the Hill episodes, so why not do it to this intro? It is only for an intro.
Left One No Widescreen
Right One Widescreen
It Also Cool!
Original is obviously the best
The Remastered One Honestly Looks Fanmade.
It does but apparently it's real
No crap sherlock
The remaster looks WEIRD
Original: they hired cel experts
Remaster: Pressed the Overtween button and called it a day
The original is better because that's actually 2D animation. More honest animation. They just feel more alive.
Flash animation is not what the doctor ordered
The Remastered version used Adobe Flash
It looks like the remastered was animated with pngs
Even though I do not hate the newer version, I can not believe how low effort the "remastered" intro is. The original is 100% more enjoyable to watch.
The remastered just feels lazy using flash.
I think I’ll stick with the original
This comparison made me realize 9story did not really try with making a properly good remaster on Garfield and Friends at all. The awful reanimated motion-tweeny intro from the first two seasons that makes the animation look straight out of a low budget toddler show (god, I hate motion tweening animation), the terrible use of stock footage in the "We're Ready to Party" theme song, the unnecessary 16:9 cropping on all of the cleaned up episode footage, the lazily made end credits sequence, just everything else that makes this so-called "remastered" version so unwatchable that it's sad to look at and that the only good thing to come from the remastered version of the show is the color correction and the sharper outlines. Everything else shows 9story did not care and try at all with anything.
Original wins in my case more fluent emotions both on their faces and bodies
Original: 1988
In-between: 2003
Remastered: 2018
I like the flash animation in the remaster it brings back memories
The original tops! We all miss cartoons in the old-fashioned style!
The original intro is way better than the remastered intro.
The Garfield show
🎵Friends are there… TO HELP YOU GET STARTED!!!🎶
Friends are there!
I don't care...
But friend will care!
I like it. It's good work.
The "remaster" looks pathetic, especially since it was made in an era ToonBoom/Flash animation can actually be made to look organic.
The only part that SORTA matches the original is Booker's scribing at the end.
I KNEW I WASN’T CRAZY!!!! Life is a cartoon!!!!! And we are the main characters 😊
The original is much better than the remastered!
Garfield’s friends will eventually go work for my studio in season two
0:44 - 0:55 “Friends are there, I don’t care, but friends will care for you” that line has always been so poignant to me
Remastered reminds me of Fairy oddparents new animation
The last 13 was animated really good in my opinion
the remastered looks more bouncy i like it
This is like watching a tragedy happen in real time
Digital noise reduction? Motion smoothing? What am i looking at?
I think they completely reanimated it as a whole
They reanimated it because the intro tape wasn't in a high enough condition to crop to widescreen
@@CosmicSponge2004 That makes sense.
I like em both 👌🏼
As seen on The Complete Garfield Iceberg Explained Part 2
That new version looks terrible. This reminds me of when they shipped black and white cartoons to Korea to have them reanimated in color. This is the only example I could find at the moment: ua-cam.com/video/_BGQ5mKfWDU/v-deo.html. Once you get past the title cards you'll see a noticeable drop in the number of frames, so the Korean one looks choppy compared to the original.
I have seen a comparison with a Popeye cartoon that was even more of a drastic drop in quality, but I can't seem to find that one. The Popeye cartoon had originally used cels in front of elaborate rotating 3D backdrops, and the Korean reanimated version didn't even attempt this and looks terrible as a result.
old one looks miles better
Cheap, stiff, bouncy animation is not "remastered" in any sense of the word.
I have but one question, is the flash intro on the DVDs? I need to know what to avoid. 😄
The 20th Century Fox DVDs keep the OG intro, while the 9Story DVDs have the reanimated one.
This is literally the closest I can find to a clean rip (in english) of the the updated intro, what the hell, lmao, you’re telling me NOBODY has properly uploaded this? I found one in the complete wrong aspect ratio and then a ton with tacked on music and effects
I could upload it in the original quality if you like. I have it on DVD.
The tubi app used the remastered version for Garfield and friends
Like I always say, nothing can beat the originals
I feel like the remastered is not good as the original. I just wish a new Garfield Show (or atleast that new movie) is good as the old Garfield And Friends TV Show or the old movies.
Garfield&friends 1989-91.
The remastered is on Peacock
I saw the remastered on roku!
i saw it on tubi!
Garfield: I’m real and your animated…
Me: technically I’m both… I’m real and I put myself in my comic strips…
Garfield: then that makes you cgi
YO WHAT!?