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Oh yes, it's a common misconception in the industry, but animation is truly easier than ever! Light-tables BEGONE! |
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Zoetrope is a minor character of Inanimate Insanity Invitational, serving as a supporting character in Title TBD, the major antagonist in A Jury of Your Fears and an anti-hero in You Can't Do This Forever. He is voiced by Saberspark.
Appearance[]
Zoetrope is a cylindrical zoetrope, with a black rotating cylinder "head" with several vertical viewing slits at the top, white face, and dark brown handle.
Personality[]
Zoetrope appears to be rather smug and cynical, calling the animation industry and process "effortless", and laughing at Mephone4 when asked if either team's animations get picked up. He also makes similar comments directed at the contestants, stating he was appalled when Nickel, the director for The Thinkers' animation, wanted to take action as director. He seems somewhat jaded by the nature of the animation industry, agreeing with the notion that directors don't do anything, that animation nowadays is effortless, and laughing along with MePhone4 when Silver Spoon brings up the artist's intention behind their movie.
He is a member of The Unvitational Committee, and looks to stop MePhone4 and Inanimate Insanity Invitational.
Coverage[]
In Title TBD, Zoetrope works with MePhone4 to create the episode's challenge and reviews the episodes the teams make along with MePhone. However, his animation machine was destroyed by Yang after he got annoyed by Goo's film.
In "A Jury of Your Fears" and "You Can't Do This Forever", we see him working for the Unvitational Committee, aiding them with kidnapping MePhone4 and the eliminated invitational contestants. His reason for this was because of Yang destroying his animation machine, leading to him becoming a 'disgrace' at his job (and thrown tomatoes at) when using The Thinkers and The Pinkers film ideas. He also got a video made about how he was 'ruined' by 'MePhoneEpic'. Despite this, however, he doesn't want to harm or kill MePhone, likely due to his want to not sink his already ruined reputation even deeper with 'take-down videos'. He votes to not kill MePhone, leading to MePhone4 later being saved by the finalists and Springy. We later see Zoetrope and some of the other Unvitationals at Cabby's winner party, and we also see him at Cabby's Library after the season ends. [1]
Trivia[]
- Zoetrope is the fifth minor character to appear in Inanimate Insanity Invitational.
- Zoetrope has the ability to project images, as seen in "A Jury of Your Fears", where he lures away Clover with a holographic butterfly.