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Posted on 05.31.08 by Widge @ 2:59 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Tomorrow's the premiere of the new season. Are you ready? I don't think there's any way we can possibly prepare for what those maniacs have in store. They've already unleashed their t-shirt mayhem upon the world (full disclosure in a voice from that old Shake n Bake commercial: "And IIIIII helped"). And now the third season is here to take our lunch money and mock us in front of our parents. May the Grand Galactic Inquisitor have mercy upon us all. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 05.29.08 by Widge @ 3:18 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. ![]() It's no secret that we love Ian Falconer's Olivia series. Starring a young pig and her family, her adventures have included searching out her missing toy, saving a circus from disaster, and going to bed. They are some of the best children's books we've read in ages and we snag each new one as it becomes available. So it is with a mixture of damnable hope and trepidation that we heard Nickelodeon's getting an animated 3-D CGI Olivia series in 1Q2009. Twenty-six half-hour episodes are planned. Why 3-D CGI? It was Olivia creator Ian Falconer's idea, says Chorion, the media content company that's working with Nickelodeon on the project. In keeping with Olivia's stellar publishing history, books will be featured prominently in the upcoming consumer products roll out. The Simon Spotlight and Simon Scribbles imprints of Simon and Schuster will be developing a robust television tie-in program with a myriad of formats, from storybooks to novelty and coloring books set to launch in late 2009. Olivia's imagination leads the way in this new series which aims to foster the sense of make-believe and play that every preschooler has. The show will encourage children to be creative and to think beyond the scope of everyday parameters, instilling a sense that with a strong imagination, there are endless possibilities for any great idea. Mostly the show, like this character, celebrates a spunky, confident personality who is always wondering 'what if?' Here's a tip for Nickelodeon and Chorion and everybody else: make it a show for preschoolers that parents will want to watch and you've got a winner on your hands. There's a trick to making a cartoon watchable by multiple generations. Adults dig the inclusion of a Pollock painting out of the blue as well as the expressions on the parents' faces as they're dealing with life with Olivia. It's word of mouth from adults that's made this a franchise--so don't blow it. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 05.20.08 by Widge @ 4:03 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. "This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" is a student film that discusses modern Disney animation and how it got to where it is today. There's a little bit wrong with it accuracy-wise, as Disney Blog points out. But as a short film it's terribly entertaining, which makes it better than the cheapquels it discusses, which were simply terrible. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 04.28.08 by Widge @ 5:06 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Dave Thomas of SCTV glory sent to Quick Stop Entertainment a trailer for the upcoming Bob & Doug McKenzie animated series which hits next year. This was shown at New York Comic-Con in-between scheduling clusterfucks. I just want the return of Brewmeister Smith. Just for one episode. Please? Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 04.23.08 by Widge @ 7:02 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Found yourself depressed because you didn't get to see the Venture Bros. Season 3 teaser trailer that Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick detonated in the middle of New York Comic-Con? Pining because you weren't part of the masses that were so unanticipated that they broke the Comic-Con schedule like a twig? Jonesing because you didn't get the chance to be impaled with a Dum-Dum thrown by the deadly hands of Ken Plume? Your prayers and burnt offerings have been answered. Quick Stop Entertainment has posted the teaser. You will not be disappointed. Update: It's now embeddable. God bless those pagans. Categorized as: Animation
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