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Posted on 03.28.08 by Widge @ 11:35 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. We've recently seen the Tron lightcycle sequence recreated with actual bikes. Now see it done with stop motion and cardboard. Bonus points for the making-of bits at the end. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 01.12.08 by Widge @ 6:01 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  After our previous post, Bailey and I were marveling over the ability of people to find time to do things on the internet, when we barely have time to, you know, live. Case in point: somebody's created a listing of all the ACME products featured in various Warner Brothers cartoons. We don't know where you found the time, but bless you regardless. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 12.25.07 by Widge @ 6:57 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. The Neil provided a great present for his fans: an extraordinarily tasty snippet of the movie Coraline: This is directed by Henry Selick (who did, among other things, Nightmare Before Christmas) and stars the voices of Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Keith David, Ian McShane and French & Saunders. If you have not read the original book, you owe it yourself to buy it now. It's probably the best YA dark fantasy/horror book I've ever read. You can read my review of it here. Direct link for the feedreaders. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 12.20.07 by Widge @ 8:00 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Kids, don't try this at home. In reality, you'd be better off with something like this, methinks. With proper parental supervision, to be sure. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 12.14.07 by Widge @ 3:00 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Okay, so: everybody listen up. This is important. If the CGI abomination that is the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie does well at the box office this weekend, then truly civilization as we know it has come to an end. Just. Say. No. Watch this instead: Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 12.12.07 by Widge @ 2:41 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Here's a great segment from 1985 that talks to June Foray and Bill Scott about their career providing voices for many of the characters appearing in Rocky & Bullwinkle. As Mark Evanier points out (in his post, which is where we found this), this might actually be Scott's last public appearance before his death. This is a great find, since the previous video we had posted of Foray and Scott got yanked. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 12.06.07 by Widge @ 11:46 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Cap'n D writes in to tell us about this, a supposed Top 10 of cartoon openings from the 80s, judged by the song and the opening sequence. However, this list is null and void. You can't have a list like this and ignore Robotech. That song kicked ass and the opening sequence was badass. Yes, when you got into the cartoon proper the music took a sharp left turn and you found yourself wanting to just stitch Minmei's mouth shut, but we're talking just the openings here. The good Cap'n points out somebody also did a solid half-hour of 80s cartoon openings and one of 90s cartoon openings as well. There, we've shot your productivity full of holes, either for tonight or in the morning. You're welcome. Direct link for the feedreaders. I mean, Christ, when was the last time you thought about the Pole Position cartoon? Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 12.01.07 by Widge @ 4:21 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Stephen Worth over at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog has some of Virgil Ross' drawings of the cartoon, "A Hare Grows in Manhattan." (We previously posted about magazine illustrations of that particular short here--that was also due to the fine folks at ASIFA.) Worth has taken the drawings and turned them into a flipbook pencil test, so you can see them in action. It's short, but man, it's pretty cool. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 11.27.07 by Widge @ 5:36 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Even as surreal and non-sensical as this is, it's still miles ahead of anything J. Michael Straczynski did to the character. Update: Sadly, this bit has been taken down. If anyone finds it again, please let me know. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 11.13.07 by Widge @ 10:07 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Most animators really get into their work. And some people take this notion to extremes. Extremes that the rest of us sit back and admire. Showing here: Yes, in case you were wondering, it's a video that's supposed to be viral in support of the Samsung G800. Stop motion appears to be the advertising animation technique of choice, I guess. Direct link for the feedreaders. Categorized as: Animation
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