#jeremy zag

[splazartj]

🐞Bug and Chat OUT!!🐈‍⬛

I wanted to share it with you at the workshop so you can see it.

And I'm doing other art compos in the process, so I'll share with you a slice of it.

Also, I'm doing a little update: I'm doing a project with other professionals in the industry. It's a great opportunity for me! And I'm doing cool artwork. And yet I can't share it with you right now, but once it's out, you'll see all the development that I've been doing.

Also, I'm still waiting for the driving license. Here in Spain takes ages to get the test which sucks.

Anyway, have a nice week!!

[weebiewrites]

i can’t believe Jeremy Zag effortlessly shat on 8 whole years of Astruc’s career by dropping the most high budget fix-it fic of all time

Good Shit

[matt0044]

The mindset regarding Thomas Astruc appears to be that he's the end-all-be-all for Miraculous.

His thoughts and tweets are given so much weight, often distorted through a loooooooot of disingenuous reads. Except... what about everyone else on the staff.

Sebastien Thibaudeau is the story editor of the show and has written for most episodes so far.

Nathanael Bronn? He's a co-writer of the story bible, has a finger in near every pie, is considered a co-creator along with Astruc.

Wilfried Pain? Co-director along with Astruc for most episodes and clearly having a say in where things go.

Jeramy Zag? One of the composers for the theme songs, some of the transformation themes, CEO of Zag and screenwriter of the movie.

Then there are the companies and distributors involved. Less personal but no less have a knock on effect on the show's presentation.

So why are we giving the yapper on Twitter all of the onus for what the show does or doesn't do?

I think this is something of an Authorial Intent situation where we heap all of the adoration or derision upon the creator as if they are some indie web comic artist. Because acknowledging the vast, vast creative team and the corporate overlords takes a lot more work compared to just one person. Far less overwhelming.

This is aided when they have a Social Media prescence. Far more easy to heap everything on a human lightening rod for the voltage that is our anger.

A similar example would be that of Rebecca Sugar with Steven Universe a few infamous critics and fans alike really tried to blame her for every pet peeve they had with the show. Some, not naming names, went so far as to call her a Nazi just because the big bads were allowed to turn themselves around.

Man, don't tell that crowd about the Chloe stans...

But even if to accurately ascribe blame, why can't we put that energy to looking into others on the Miraculous creative team? Reach out to them more if at all possible. Figure out who exactly is responsible for what's got the fandom's goat this time around?

Just... anything other than "Mommy! Tommy's being mean again!"

Thomas Astruc is only as maddening as you allow him to be. And he's not even THAT bad. He's snippy at worst, opinionated at best. Good knows I wish that was the only thing bad about JK Rowling again.

So yeah, I have bone to pick with theimmaturityofthomasastruc blog for enabling this lack of curisoity.

[diin-art-1998]

The end of Ladybug ?

Is Papillon about to win ?

[anotherguynamedjeremy]

Oh, now we're getting a 2D animated version of Miraculous Ladybug!

Wonder if this special will be self-contained or will follow the show's story.

[skyedom]

Whether you watch the show or not, we can all agree that Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir should have been the main character.

[booskeleton]

Watching miraculous awakening after 8 years of everything Thomas Austruc has done that nearly destroys the show felt like a warm hug and a pet in the head by Zag. I quit watching the show because of how out of ideas Thomas clearly was (he took the time between seasons 1 and 2 to gather as many popular fan theories, fanfics and headcanons the fandom created as a way to wait for the next season and added it all to the show, claiming it's all been part of his plan since the very beginning). Now, after almost two years of not even thinking about miraculous, watching this movie was like being reminded of what made me like the show in the first place, only it was better. It feels like Miraculous Awakening was made for the fans who have been there since the very beginning and were tired of waiting for something that would clearly never come. Jeremy put his heart and soul into giving miraculous ladybug the story it deserves

[miraculouscriticismshub]

The worst thing a father can do is abandon their own child and replace them with someone who they think is better 💔💔💔 .

[crowreys-wormstache]

I'm sorry why is the new miraculous movie so somber and with genuine stakes

I thought I was free. I thought I wouldn't have to be invested in this franchise anymore. WHY IS IT GOOD NOW

[fabseg-creator]

Miraculous fanart: Ladybug (Season 6)

I've made a fanart about Ladybug. It's an adaption from the Sneak Peek image from the Jérémy Zag Instagram account.

The season 6 is coming soon.

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir belongs to Zagtoon.

A new info: Some of you are 300+ followers on my account. I thank you all. 🌈🎉🎊

[mikyapixie]

A 2D-animated Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir Japan special is coming soon, Jeremy Zag reveals!!!

The only thing I can say to that is

FINALLY!!!

[doamarierose-honoka]

First look at ‘Miraculous Ladybug and Cat Noir: The Movie 2’

(📸: Jeremy Zag)

[matt0044]

Thomas Astruc did not have a "vendetta" against Chloe. Period.

Here are the facts from those I have asked and official sources: https://old.reddit.com/r/miraculousladybug/comments/1e8vsit/could_i_just_have_the_facts/

She isn't based on his former bully or girlfriend who dumped him. That sort of accusation is petty at best.

2. He wrote and directed most episodes of each season, alongside ten other writers and directors. No specific staff member (creative or executive, including Zag) had specific involvement in specific episodes which portray Chloé positively or negatively. At least as far as what has been official stated.

3. The scripts were written years before the episodes were aired (i.e. things weren't changed due to the viewers' reaction). For example, The Battle of the Miraculous was locked before Season 2 had even premiered, and Sole Crusher and Queen Banana around the time Season 2 was ending.

That last part is essential because animation takes TIME people. There are few opportunities for "fan service" or taking pot shots at the fandom.

Also... who writes a character that they hate, seemingly redeem them and then have them backslide. It feels more like Thomas loves the sh*t out of Chloe as a villain and wanted to explore the idea of not all mean girls getting over themselves before it's too late.

You can criticize the execution but can we just... take a step back and not make it all about us?

[dylanrosales25]

[goldensmilingbird]

I watched the interview with Zag and Aton Soumache (he's the executive producer for ML and honorary president of Mediavan) and took some notes. I'm not going to retell the whole interview here, only certain parts, you can watch it on your own if you wish (it's an hour long).

It bugged me a bit that it's called "Meet the creators of Miraculous" even though Astruc wasn't there and Aton is more on the business side, from what I understand. But anyway.

The interviewer asks Zag about how they developed this universe, and Zag talks about how the market at the time was against girl power and it was hard to sell, but ultimately "the world embraced the vision and it became what it is today". He also says: "we didn't just want to produce just content, we wanted to launch a brand". To make it huge, one of them had to go to US, so Jeremy went, and Aton stayed in France. The idea with Miraculous was to be "glocal" - basically to keep their local, French culture and influences while making it global.

Then he talks about anime influences - and this sent me, I'll just put the whole quote: "And when you look at the anime from Japan, there are girl powers, there are girl power superheroes, but they're very very sexy. [...] And this is something that is culturally okay there, but in France or America, it's just impossible. But when you look at the message behind it, these are girls who save the world. And when I grew up watching like, Sailor Moon, at this age I didn't even realise that she was super sexy. I was just...watching, and her aspirational character, and I was waiting for the final combo when she will do, you know, the super flashing light from the power of the Moon and kill the villains, and that's just what I was excited about".

So he wanted to mix this magical girl power with American look and feel of the comics. He thought about how he liked Goku or Spiderman and as a kid he didn't care about what studio was behind them, they were just characters to him, and so he approached Ladybug the same way. Then they discuss licensing, and how it's hard to do "if you don't start in the beginning, in the creative process" (in Aton's words), or, like Zag put it, "you don't make the toys of your content, you have to think about it as a brand"; "once you have the DNA, you can tell different stories, Ladybug will remain the same".

And they move on to talking about the movie. Aton says that you might think it's easy to make a movie for a brand, but it's the opposite, because it has to be different from something you can watch for free on tv, but also not dissapoint the fans. "And somehow when you say it's a success on tv, people say okay, it's for the young audience. And we wanted to make a bigger audience, we wanted to make a family movie". That audience distinction surprised me a bit.

Zag couldn't bring the show team on the movie because they were constantly busy with the show. He says it was painful because they had "great beginning and great ending and great stories" but every time they'd be like "omg we cannot say this, in episode X she said the total opposite". So for example they had planned an intro (you can see the animatic here, if you haven't seen it), where Marinette moved into Paris from China but then they remembered that "wait, in the Shanghai special she said she's never been to China" and had to scrap it. And also Zag couldn't be aware of everything that was going in the story room because he was so focused on the movie. (I wonder how much of the movie was Zag knowingly diverging from the show and how much was him forgetting or not knowing what's canon)

Aton says "the idea came from the music". Zag was preparing songs for a musical, when someone said that the music was so emotional and had a cinematic feel, we should go for a movie. Aton said the idea was "crazy", but also that they had something unique 'cause no one ever did a movie with superheroes singing. And also to them, it was opportunity to bring new people, especially parents into the show. And according to them, it did work because parents were going "I can see why my kid is crazy about this show now" and the ratings did get higher.

The interviewer asked how many people are working on the show, Zag said they started at 3, then 4, then 10, now there are like 15 to manage the story, and to manage the brand around 200. 120 in France, and the rest in America, and some in Asia, Africa, etc. He also mentioned they brought in new writers, because the show needed "fresh blood" and some writers move onto other projects, but Thomas and Sebastian are still the "keepers of what the episode should look like".

He talks about Lady Tiger, and how she's from Japan and has cancer and is balding, and how his dad went through the same thing. "When someone is sick, it's their whole family that is sick". And adds: "we have like 10 characters in the next 11 years, and they're like, all written and all in production already" (which I already rambled about, but I cannot imagine them all being in production at the same time).

They talk about animation some more, but what I wanted to know is their answer to the last question about AI. Basically, Aton was like, AI is scary for live action folks but not for us, because "AI is animation, you go quicker" and "if we can go from 4 years to 2 years with AI, I'm only happy with it". And Zag's stance (based off this and another interview) is that genAI can't replace imagination and passion (I agree) but it's still a great tool (ehhh) and it's "just a computer", "nothing about it to be scared about".

And that's where it ends.

[almadesarrollo]

MIRACULOUS LADYBUG.THE SHOW.