Not creepy at all. I just hope this photo never gets back to her Black Butler Body Pillow. SCANDAL!
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Monthly Archives: April 2014
WTF Merch: ‘Attack On Titan’ Mousepad
Rest your wrist between Levi’s bulbous buttocks and ward off carpal tunnel syndrome. Thanks, science!
Take An Animation Vacation: Studio Ghibli
Travel website Where On Earth has put together a list of 11 Places That Inspired Studio Ghibli Movies. It’s amazing to see that the real world actually has spots as stunning as those found in Miyazaki’s movies. Makes me wonder…why am I still sitting here? (Via.)
Related: Take An Animation Vacation: Disney
Jamie Chung Joins ‘Big Hero 6’
Jamie Chung (Mulan in Once Upon A Time) will voice the character of Go Go Tomago in Disney/Marvel’s upcoming animated film, Big Hero 6.
This Is My Favorite Dance Cycle *Not* Featured In ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
Coincidentally, it’s also Christ-y! Dancing With Jesus was written by Sam Stall (author of the South Park Episode Guides), and is $8 on Amazon.
Laid-Off Animators Get ‘Frozen’ Out Of Bonuses
Animation Magazine reports:
Animation Guild…representative Steve Hulett has revealed that some of the union’s members have been snubbed by Disney Animation Studios.
I’m Doing A Marathon This Summer!(Well, A ‘Simpsons’ Marathon)
FXX will air all 552 episodes of The Simpsons — IN CONSECUTIVE ORDER! — during a 12-day marathon this summer. The pilot will air on August 21, with episodes continuing non-stop ’til Labor Day. (Via.)
There’s An ‘Evangelion’ Store In Shibuya
To see what it looks like inside, click here. (Note: Keep an eye out for the First Angel walk-around character. Surprisingly cute!)
Positive: Marvel Editor Sana Amanat Discusses The Importance Of Racial Representation In Comics/Cartoons
Negative: Overly-Confident, Woefully Ignorant Teen Powerpoints *Against* Racial Representation In Animation
You have to read it to believe it. (Thankfully, the commenters speak truth to powerpoint.)
Andy Warhol Was A CG OG
V[]cativ reports:
“In 1985, Commodore called in the big guns to help launch their new home computer, commissioning Andy Warhol to paint a digital image of Debbie Harry. The result of that session sits in Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum.
Disney’s ‘Feast’ (More Of An Appetizer, Really)
Disney has released two images from Feast, the upcoming short by Paperman‘s head of animation Patrick Osborne.
You, Me & Brad Bird Vs. Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. wants to release a bare bones Blu-ray of The Iron Giant. Brad Bird wants better. Tweet Warner Bros. and let them know YOUR preference! (Via: /film)
Recommended Viewing: The Trailer For Takashi Murakami’s ‘Jellyfish Eyes’
Crave kooky? Check out the trailer for Jellyfish Eyes, the live-action/CG feature film debut by pop artist Takashi Murakami.
Lou Ferrigno Will Voice The Hulk In ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’
In the first Avengers movie, the Hulk spoke only one line of dialogue: “Puny God.” That line was provided by actor Mark Ruffalo. But did you know that all of the other grunts and roars were made by the original TV Hulk, Lou Ferrigno?
S’true!
What’s more, while at WonderCon, Ferrigno told Nuke The Fridge that he will be doing the voice-over work for the Hulk in Avengers: Age Of Ultron (May 1, 2015). How cool is that?
Killer Display At The Disney Store
Via: humortrain
Eric Goldberg’s ‘7 Questions To Ask Yourself While Studying The Work Of The Masters’
Marc Hendry from marcanimation (one of my favorite cartoon Tumblrs) sent a question to the ‘Unofficial Disney Animators Page,’ (one of my favorite Facebook pages) and received a reply from Eric ‘The Genie’ Goldberg (one of my favorite animators)!
The question: What questions do you ask yourselves when you study another animator’s work?
To read Goldberg’s 7 Qs, click here.
Olaf ‘Til You Cry
Remember when the first trailer for Frozen came out and we all hated Olaf, but then the movie came out and we loved him? Now I’m just scared. VERY. SCARED.
Nightmarish screen-cap via: onlinepunk
The First Five Minutes Of ‘HTTYD2’
Dragon racing. Water dragons. A BIPED TOOTHLESS.
How many more days until June 13?!
Related: HTTYD2 concept art
Someone Show This To Dean DeBlois
The Mother of Dragons watches a child-rearing film.
Via: reddit 0885
Unintentionally Suggestive Cartoon Frames
Shown above is a small sampling of So Bad So Good’s Unintentionally Sexually Suggestive Cartoons.
To quote thisiswhytheinternetwascreated, “This is why the internet was created.”
‘Stand By Me, Doraemon’ Trailer Premiers, Prompting Skunk To Lament The Amazing Advances In CG And Stop-Motion Animation
The trailer for Takashi Yamazaki’s 3D CG Stand By Me, Doraemon is cute, whimsical and quickly forgettable. But maybe that’s just because I don’t speak Japanese. Maybe when the American trailer comes out and it features an English-language cast comprised of SNL alumni and Disney Channel cast-offs it will leave a more lasting impression. Continue reading
HBO’s ‘Monster’ Is Getting Stronger
We’ve known for a while now that Guillermo del Toro is directing the pilot for a live-action HBO series based on Naoki Urasawa’s amazing manga, Monster. Pretty cool, right? Well, it gets better. Crazy hunter recently revealed that producer Stephen Thompson (Doctor Who and Sherlock) is writing the pilot!
This is like one of those heist movies where they hire the best thieves from around the globe to pull off some incredible caper. Only, instead of thieves it’s geeks, and instead of a caper it’s a TV series about a fugitive brain surgeon’s hunt for the ruthless killer whose life he once saved. So yeah, same thing.
Jinkies, He’s Right!
“Scooby-Doo is the most useless member of the Scooby-Doo team. Why is the show named after him? The show should be called Velma.” - Zac Wells
Your wish is my photoshop.
Meth: Not Even Once
This message was brought to you by Thomas the Tank Engine and Ginger Brownies.
While We’re Posting Terrifying ‘Thomas’ Art…
Here’s some SFX concept art from the proposed live-action Thomas the Tank Engine film.
KIDDING. Actually, these two demented doodles were done by Twitter user Yui. She recently rediscovered them while flipping through her old school notebooks. Memories!
Print ‘N’ Cut Papercraft: Fake Walt Disney I.D.
Underage drinkers only. No terrorists, please.
The Falcon Wants A Wonder Woman Movie
“There should be a Wonder Woman movie. I don’t care if they make 20 bucks, if there’s a movie you’re gonna lose money on, make it Wonder Woman. You know what I mean, ’cause little girls deserve that.”
- Anthony Mackie (a.k.a. The Falcon in Captain America: Winter Soldier) in an interview with Geek Dad.
Via: doc birdman
How Superman Serials Crippled The KKK
On June 10, 1946, a Superman radio serial, Clan of the Fiery Cross, began airing across the U.S. The serial was a deliberate attempt on the part of the writers and producers to put a dent in the post-war resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.
According to DangerousMinds.net, the serial’s sixteen episodes “exposed many of the KKK’s most guarded secrets, including code words and rituals. The Klan relied a great deal on an inscrutable air of menace and mystery, and the Superman serial stripped the Klan of that mystique utterly. Almost overnight, the Klan’s recruitment efforts began drying up completely.”
To read the rest of this amazing TRUE STORY, click here.
Animation’s Newest Philosophical Debate
The wily wizards at DBLG Animation made a stop-motion film using figures created in CG and printed — frame by frame — on a 3D printer.
This begs the question: Is this CG animation, stop-motion animation…or both?
Many thanks to pinball1998 for the tip!
For Sale: Popeye Pop Art & Gundam Gravestones
Jeff Koons’ 7 foot tall Popeye statue — only three were made! — is expected to sell for $25 million at an upcoming Sotheby’s auction. As for the 13 foot Gundam gravestones, they’re only available via the Kise Sekizai grave makers in the Shiga Prefecture of Japan. (Price unknown, buyer pays all shipping fees. No exchanges or returns.) Start savin’!
Via: The NYTimes and RocketNews24
‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Opening Scene — Now This Is Bloody Brilliant!
Using non-stop action and next-to-no dialogue, this brief clip reacquaints viewers with Iceman, Colossus and Kitty Pryde, while simultaneously introducing us to FOUR new mutants — Warpath, Blink, Sunspot and Bishop. Exciting stuff! I am so looking forward to this flick!
Like I Needed ANOTHER Reason To Buy Ice Cream
Häagen-Dazs has teamed up with digital design firm Jam3 to bring you the enchanting app Concerto Timer. After downloading the app, simply hold your smartphone up to a pint of Häagen-Dazs, and a hologram of a classical musician appears, complete with classical score! Even cooler? Each flavor displays a different musician!
While the official product pitch describes Concerto Timer as a timer for perfect ice cream softness, it’s really just a cool party trick and a clever example of animation being used in modern marketing. The Concerto Timer app is free and available here.
Green Lantern Vs. The Focus Group
Animation writer/director/storyboard artist/you-name-it-he-does-it Giancarlo Volpe just posted a comic strip he made (wait — he does comics now, too?!) about a focus group test he attended for Green Lantern: The Animated Series. (His credits on that one? Showrunner and producer.) It’s an interesting insight into the world of TV animation, especially the part where Volpe and the folks doing the testing walk away from the experience with completely different takes on the audience’s response. It’s a nauseating, nerve-wracking and excruciating experience, but there IS A happy ending — featuring no less than Batman: The Animated Series‘ Bruce Timm!
Click here to read.
The Perfect Anime Work-Out Tee
$20 on Amazon. Click here to order.
“The new NASA suit design looks like the Great Cornholio”
Pics and title via El_Charro_Loco.
The Real Reason Anthropomorphic Animals Wore Freestanding Shirt Collars
“Yogi Bear was one of several Hanna-Barbera characters to have a collar. This allowed animators to keep his body static, redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke. This reduced the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 to around 2,000.” — Wikipedia entry for Yogi Bear. Image: Patrick Owsley.
‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ - Trailer 3
Looks like DreamWorks and director Dean DeBlois are going epic with How to Train Your Dragon 2.
If DeBlois can pull this trilogy off — and after seeing his work in Lilo & Stitch and the original HTTYD, I have faith that he can — Dragons could become the new face of DreamWorks. I don’t know about you, but I think it’s high time DW became famous for something other than Shrek.
Disney Is After ‘The One and Only Ivan’
Disney is in negotiations to buy the rights to Katherine Applegate and Patricia Castelao’s Newbery Medal-winning children’s book, The One and Only Ivan. The book is about a silverback gorilla (Ivan) and a baby elephant (Stella) who hatch a plan to escape from their cages — cages located in the middle of a shopping mall! Making this story all the more marvelous, it’s based on actual events. Well, loosely based. Very loosely.
This Is Supposed To Be Terrifying, Right?
Alex Ross’ cover for Life With Archie #37.
Shaquille, Don’t Feel
Via: ShaqInFrozen.
Yes, Shaq in Frozen. There is a whole Tumblr devoted to this.
Eyegasm: Every Disney ‘Art Of’ Book…Ever
The Disney ‘Art Of’ books are an animation fan’s nirvana. Chock full of captivating concept art, these books shine a light on the brilliant artists working behind the scenes, and give a gorgeous glimpse at what could have been. Compiled after the jump are the covers and ordering info for each and every one of these books. Kiss your paycheck goodbye. Continue reading
On My Way To Tim Burton’s House
Title and GIF via: threadsinthistapestry
The Cartoon Illuminati
Click through for the full image and list of names…
‘King of the Hill’ Style Guide Warns Animators:
My first reaction: Was this really a problem?
My second reaction: Wow. ‘Shapely’ Peggy was actually quite…wow.
Related: Mike Judge Lists His Cultural Influences
Miyazaki Thinks Animators Are Dreamy
Click pic to enlarge.
Related: Miyazaki’s Top 50 Childrens Books
Doraemon Meets Akira Meets The 2020 Olympics
a = Tokyo’s bid committee for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games appointed Fujio Fujiko’s famous robot cat Doraemon as a special ambassador.
b = Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga Akira predicted the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games way back in 1982.
a+b = I had to make this video, I couldn’t resist. — Aleix Pitarch.
Poor Idina Menzel…
First “Adele Dazeem,” now this. Via.
Related: Idina Menzel & The Roots perform Let It Go — using kids’ instruments!
Marvel-ous Moment Of Clarity
Via: Work hard. Render fast. And breathe.
Batmobile Limo
Available for weddings, proms and classy crime-fighting. Via.
Weekend Time-Waster: The Entire ‘G.I. Joe’ Animated Episode of Community
Complete with crappy toy commercials!
Via: Screenburn
Otomo Covers Tezuka
Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo drew a full cover tribute to Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy for the Spring 2014 issue of Anime Busience.
To see the full image, click here.
Elsa’s Ice Palace, Made In Minecraft
This glorious bit of geekery was created by digital artist, CMKMStephens. For more pics of the palace, click here.
Related: Miyazaki Minecraft
Gerald Scarfe’s Disney Hell (Er…Hades)
Most animation fans know Gerald Scarfe as the artist behind Pink Floyd The Wall‘s sketchy, surreal look. But did you know that Scarfe briefly worked for Disney in the mid-90s?
S’true. Early in the production of Hercules, directors Ron Clements and John Musker hired Scarfe to help design the look of the characters. And unlike a lot of concept art, most of Scarfe’s eerie imagery actually made it into the final film! Curious? Click through…
OMG BMO GIF
Via: Spoilers
Mike Judge’s Pop Culture Picks
Mike Judge, the brilliant brain behind Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill, has compiled a long list of the cartoons, comics, movies and TV shows that helped shape his skewed sensibilities. While Robert Crumb and Ren & Stimpy may seem like par for the course, it’s Judge’s less predictable picks (Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing, the comics of Harvey Pekar, Leave it to Beaver, etc.) that provide the real insight into his wide-ranging and perfectly nuanced menagerie of characters.
Disney Artists’ Influence On WDW
Imagineering Fun Fact: When Walt Disney World first opened in 1971, its Fantasyland was heavily stylized after the personal art styles of some of some of Imagineering’s most iconic artists — It’s A Small World for Mary Blair, Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride for Rolly Crump and Cinderella’s Castle for Dorothea Redmond & Herb Ryman.
Via: Passport to Dreams
