Good news for those of us who are fans of Astro Boy. YouTube in partnership with Crackle.com is allowing for free streaming of the entire Astro Boy cartoon series (season 1 & 2) on YouTube.
Simon’s Cat coming soon in book form
August 4, 2009 @ 10:36 pm
If you’re a fan of Simon’s Cat, the online video shorts of a cute animated cat by Simon Tofield (see “Fly Guy” and “TV Dinner“), then you’ll be very happy to know that Simon is publishing his well-loved cat in book form. Simply titled Simon’s Cat, the book is a 240-page look at the relationship that one man has with his funny and always-hungry cat.
Simon’s Cat is currently on pre-order at Amazon.com
Mainframe’s ideal future
July 18, 2009 @ 6:51 pm
One day… from Challenge Your World on Vimeo.
Mainframe, a production studio specializing in motion graphics and animation, created this wonderful and light-hearted video for theChallenge Your World 20/20 series.
The Challenge Your World 20/20 is a series of 20 videos each year that showcase a wild invention that can somehow solve environmental issues the world is facing. The inventions can be absolutely ridiculous and don’t have to be actual products which explains why the video above gets away with such hilarious suggestions.
Compilation of smoking characters in Disney films
March 23, 2009 @ 1:12 am
SmokeScreeners.org is an outreach program focused on revealing the devastating effects that smoking has on children who watch Hollywood films and cartoons. This video here shows the number of Disney characters who smoke or have tried smoking in Disney cartoons. [via]
Wolverine has cartoon claws
March 6, 2009 @ 12:14 pm
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I just watched the final trailer for the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine film and it is awesome…except for the computer generated imagery integration.
What is up with Wolverine’s claws?! They look cartoonish and straight out of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Even in some other parts of the trailer when Wolverine is clawing his way through cars, it looks incredibly bad.
I think the problem is that the root of the claws are missing some sort of realistic shadow. At the moment, they just seem to be drawn on top of the film itself. I don’t remember it looking bad at all in the other X-Men films. What’s up with this one, huh?
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Beached Whale
December 1, 2008 @ 9:12 pm
Casey sent over this animation of a beached whale talking to a seagull. I don’t quite understand why it has 3 million+ views, but I think the fact that it does have that many views makes it that much more funny.
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