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Fiona's Revenge

Charlemagne In Sweatpants — Thu, 23 May 2013 00:38:23 -0800

Steven Universe is an upcoming series by Rebecca Sugar, who has written many songs for Adventure Time. It will be the first Cartoon Network series created by a woman. Check out some screenshots here.

OK. 3, 2, 1. Let's Jam!

zarq — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:02:17 -0800

The year is 2071. Humanity has spread across the solar system and the Space Police have reinstated the bounty system of the Old West: catch wanted fugitives alive, deliver them to the cops and get paid. Cowboy Bebop chronicles the adventures (and misadventures) of a group of bounty hunters as they try to catch bad guys and make a living. Background * Wikipedia * Bebop was the very first anime to air on Adult Swim, starting on the very same night that the network itself premiered in August 2001. * TV Tropes: The Bebop's crew faces dangerous criminals, occasional starvation, a particularly disgusting refrigerator, and their own dark pasts over the course of the 26-episode series. One of the defining thematic choices the show makes is that everything has a rich backstory, but almost nothing is explained in full; the stories are concerned with the problems in the present, so in many cases, only an implied history is given. The other half of Cowboy Bebop is its sound. Bebop also thrives on its soundtrack, composed by Yoko Kanno, which is almost entirely jazz music, with a few tracks even defying categorization — and some of the music was actually improvised to finished footage at the moment it was recorded. The show's soundtrack is not an afterthought, it is central to the experience, and many scenes are related solely through visuals and music, eschewing dialogue entirely.
The Episodes 1: Asteroid Blues 2: Stray Dog Strut 3: Honkey Tonk Women 4: Gateway Shuffle 5: Ballad of Fallen Angels 6: Sympathy for the Devil 7: Heavy Metal Queen 8: Waltz for Venus 9: Jamming with Edward 10: Ganymede Elegy 11: Toys in the Attic 12: Jupiter Jazz, Part 1 13: Jupiter Jazz, Part 2 14: Bohemian Rhapsody 15: My Funny Valentine 16: Black Dog Serenade 17: Mushroom Samba 18: Speak Like a Child 19: Wild Horses 20: Pierrot Le Fou 21: Boogie Woogie Feng Shui 22: Cowboy Funk Movie: Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven's Door (Lands chronologically between Episodes 22 and 23. This is a playlist of multiple videos of the full, English-dubbed movie. However, the entire thing is backwards -- likely to avoid it being flagged by YouTube copyright protection. The movie has also been uploaded dubbed in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and in the original Japanese.) 23: Brain Scratch 24: Hard Luck Woman 25: The Real Folk Blues, Part 1 26: The Real Folk Blues, Part 2 The Music Soundtrack Playlist Background Interviews * Wendee Lee (Faye Valentine) * Sean Akins of Cartoon Network * Jet - No Ordinary Dad * Spike - A Complex Soul * Faye - Intellectual Vixen * Ed - Resident Eccentric Previously on MeFi 2008: Cowboy Reeves: The Movie 2010: A glimpse of Seba Jun, aka Nujabes: 1974-2010 2011: Thus did Man become the Architect of his own demise... 2012: Sakamichi no Apollon from the Cowboy Bebop team Samurai Champloo Cowboy Bebop Director Shinichirō Watanabe's next major project was Samurai Champloo, which also aired on Adult Swim. In this series, he shifted from a musical theme of jazz to hip-hop. Wikipedia: "...the show was set during a fictional version of Japan in the Edo period with an anachronistic, predominantly hip-hop, setting. It follows Mugen, an impudent and freedom-loving vagrant swordsman; Jin, a cool-headed and stoical ronin; and Fuu, a brave young girl who asks them to accompany her in her quest across Japan to find the 'samurai who smells of sunflowers'."
The series is also available to view for free on YouTube to the US and Canada only, through Funimation's Channel. However, because it is violent, contains a few curses and shows a little nudity, login at YouTube is required. Also, Funimation began by uploading dubbed episodes, and then at episode 5 for some reason, they reverted to episodes with the original Japanese-language track, subtitled in English. The Episodes Dubbed Episodes 1: Tempestuous Temperaments 2: Redeye Reprisal 3: Hellhounds for Hire, Part 1 4: Hellhounds for Hire, Part 2 Subtitled Episodes 5: Artistic Anarchy 6: Stranger Searching 7: A Risky Racket 8: The Art of Altercation 9: Beatbox Bandits 10: Lethal Lunacy 11: Gamblers and Gallantry 12: The Disorder Diaries 13: Misguided Miscreants, Part 1 14: Misguided Miscreants, Part 2 15: Bogus Booty 16: Lullabies of the Lost, Verse 1 17: Lullabies of the Lost, Verse 2 18: War of the Words 19: Unholy Union 20: Elegy of Entrapment, Verse 1 21: Elegy of Entrapment, Verse 2 22: Cosmic Collisions 23: Baseball Blues 24: Evanescent Encounter, Part 1 25: Evanescent Encounter, Part 2 26: Evanescent Encounter, Part 3 All episodes are also available on Hulu, subtitled. The Music * Samurai Champloo Soundtrack Playlist

TRON UPRISING Art Direction

rebent — Thu, 02 May 2013 21:21:55 -0800

"During 3 years I was working on Tron Uprising as the Art Director/Production Designer... Here, 4 minutes re-edit of my favourite scenes." - Alberto Mielgo

Omelette

KChasm — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:52:42 -0800

A short animation by Madeline Sharafian about making food for somebody you love.

Disney Rejection Letter, 1938

latkes — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:02:52 -0800

Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as that work is performed entirely by young men. For this reason girls are not considered for the training school.

Kittybus!

Artw — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:23:00 -0800

The Real Catbuses of Japan

DOCTOR PUPPET!

Ursula Hitler — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:22:27 -0800

To celebrate Doctor Who's 50 year(!) run, our friends at Nerdist bring you a new animated web series featuring a stop-motion 11th Doctor investigating a mystery involving his previous selves. It's Doctor Puppet! (I wouldn't have though it was possible for Matt Smith to look even more like a Rankin/Bass stop-motion puppet, but these folks proved me wrong...)

You can't ground Spiderman!

The Whelk — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:59:22 -0800

Josh Keaton, the voice of Peter Parker/Spider-Man from 2007-09 for the TV series The Spectacular Spiderman reads a whole bunch of 60s Spider-Man Image Macros (Bleeped Audio) (Know Your Meme - video)

Swiper no swiping?

oulipian — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:22:17 -0800

The Story of Christoph Niemann's Petting Zoo App, an illustrated article from The New Yorker. "I had this idea of making a simple line drawing that one could naturally manipulate by touching and swiping. How hard could that be?"

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

1f2frfbf — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:31:36 -0800

The Okeh Laughing Record, a novelty recording, was first released in 1923 and rose to #8 on the Billboard charts, becoming the highest ranking anonymous* recording ever. It's history and provenance is completely unknown**. It has since appeared as the soundtrack to cartoons, on Dr. Demento and on Jean Shepard's radio show. *At least one YouTube poster claims that one of the voices is German comedian Karl Valentin who, strangely enough, generally played the straight man in his routines. **It may have been inspired by a Rudy Vallee outtake of (Drunkard's Song) There is a Taven in the Town where the singer cracks up in the middle of the song.

Flintheart Glomgold!

shakespeherian — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:44:33 -0800

DuckTales invented a new animated wonderland—that quickly disappeared.

S is for Spoiler, so you are thus warned

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:12:21 -0800

George R. R. Martin's A Song Of Ice And Fire meets Edward Gorey

I want you people to know this will NEVER be made public

Rory Marinich — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:07:36 -0800

Dexter's Laboratory was an animated cartoon by Genndy Tartakovsky known for delightful musical numbers (one episode was an 11-minute-long opera) and genre parodies like The Justice Friends and Dial M For Monkey (and more!), but for years there has been talk of a never-aired episode, Dexter's Rude Removal, in which Dexter and his sister Dee Dee turn hilariously foulmouthed. Needless to say, Cartoon Network never aired this episode, and with the exception of one Comic Con showing, it was never shown to an audience – until now. Adult Swim has kindly put Dexter's Rude Removal on YouTube, for all the world to see.

Add Some More Bourbon - One Day We'll All Be Dead

The Whelk — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:21:48 -0800

Saveur's utterly charming "Recipe Comix" features illustrated recipes/short stories by some of the web's best cartoonists covering a wide range of meals.

Learn Korean Easy!

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:39:02 -0800

Learn Korean Easy!

Arabian Knight

the man of twists and turns — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:37:24 -0800

You may remember an animated film from the early '90s. Set somewhere in 'Arabia,' a land of bazaars and minarets, the story featured a bored, harem-panted princess, an orphan boy, a treacherous vizier with bird sidekick, a rotund and oblivious sultan, a blue-skinned magic user, et al. But it wasn't Aladdin - and the movie had started production in 1964 ... Animator Richard Williams, who would go on to direct the animation for Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, started The Thief And The Cobbler, his vision of an animation masterpiece. After it was taken over by the bond company for completion and release, it was turned into The Princess And The Cobbler for the international market, and then further changed (with voiceovers to for formerly silent characters) for the American market, into Arabian Knight. But some of the original animation remained, and the film has been partially reconstructed. The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Full Length Youtube user TheThiefArchive has many videos of various stages of the movie's development, Richard Williams' work, and makings-of features. The making/unmaking of William's masterpiece was the subject of the documentary Persistence Of Vision. The trailer is on Vimeo and Youtube. Official page. The Thief blog, with lots of behind-the-scenes stuff. Animated commercials by Williams. Richard Williams on Cartoon Brew. TVTropes: The Thief And The Cobbler Previously on Metafilter: The best of YouTube (to date)?

Animation Pals

Greg Nog — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:46:20 -0800

Four under-a-minute Animation Pals shorts, so far: Episode One: Introduction. Episode Two: Nude. Episode Three: An Impressive Butterfly. Episode Four: Training. You can follow them at the Animation Pals tumblr. Voiced and animated by Adventure Time's Pendleton Ward and Ian Quartey-Jones.

Mother Goose gone Addams

caddis — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:54:28 -0800

The Charles Addams Mother Goose
Three blind mice, see how they run!
They all ran after the farmer’s wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Did you ever see such a sight in your life
As three blind mice?
Charles Addams, longtime New Yorker cartoonist illustrates the nursery rhymes of Mother Goose.

This is the first time that we use this way to do stuffs

xqwzts — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:49:59 -0800

Original Animation film Kung Fu Cooking Girls

Wolf Smoke is a small original animation making studio now in Shanghai, China. We have only a few ppl but we trying our best to make great animtion. Kung Fu Cooking Grils is a short story, we made it for testing new cartoon style and methoud of the way of making movies. We did key frames on paper first then used vector software to do the between frames and color painting. This is the first time that we use this way to do stuffs. Over 4000 key frames hand drawing and over 10,000 betweens in this movie. Any suggestion and comment is welcome!

My father didn't fight in the Clone Wars. He was a navigator on a spice freighter.

Artw — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:35:01 -0800

The Best Of Star Wars: Clone Wars - The CGI Star Wars spin off that made the franchise fun again for young and old reached it's 100th episode today.

Batman: the Animated Series

curious nu — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:22:13 -0800

Why the opening to Batman: the Animated Series is the best thing ever. Dun dun d'DUNN dun...

Haircut Mouse

painquale — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:30:28 -0800

Haircut Mouse. A short animated film by Michel Gondry.

Hey everybody, let's bob rhythmically!

JHarris — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:45:49 -0800

Hey everyone let's watch Aaron Long's Fester Fish, that irreverent cartoon scamp, as he watches his nephew, goes, uh, fishing, makes some friends, and takes his boozy girlfriend Blotty to meet his fokes for Christmas. (VIA CARTOON BREW - note, preroll ads before most cartoons) Aaron Long also did three Space Goose cartoons: Banquet Bust-Up, Space Race 7000 and Fugitive Goose

dun-dun-dun-DUN-dun-dun

griphus — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:47:10 -0800

The X-Men animated series opening sequence redone in stop-motion (SLYT).

pool cartoons women cartoons

fleetmouse — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:39:44 -0800

Pool Women Cartoon