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The trouble with CG is that nothing is left up to chance

filthy light thief — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:58:33 -0800

Since the mid 1990s, Don Hertzfeldt has been making animated shorts by hand. To date, his 8 primary films have an apprioximate runtime of 75 minutes, and in total have won 117 awards, all shot on 16 or 35 milimeter film. (There is another 8 minutes or so that was part of the Animation Show (previously).) His recent films have been shot on the same camera rig that recorded It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966), as he noted in a 2007 interview (part of a Scene Unseen Podcast (direct link to the MP3)). Hertzfeltd is currently two thirds of the way through his most ambitious project to date, a trilogy of films which have been called "the closest thing on film yet to Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey." (Video links inside) Ah, L'Amour (1995) - awarded Grand Prize Award for "World's Funniest Cartoon" in 1998 from the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival (now known as The Comedy Festival). Genre (1996) mixes stop-motion and 2-D animation, and was shown on an episode of MTV's Cartoon Sushi in 1997. Lily and Jim (1997) - single-handedly animated from over 10,000 drawings, and was shown on an episode of MTV's Cartoon Sushi in 1998, and Hertzfeldt's first short with a vocal track. Billy's Balloon (1998) - The film was invited into Official Competition at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival (where Don Hertzfeldt was the youngest director involved), and it won the Grand Jury Award at the 1999 Slamdance Film Festival; has also appeared on Adult Swim and MTV Rejected (2000) toured North American theaters between 2000 and 2004, first as part of Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation, then with fellow animator Bill Plympton's films called "The Don and Bill Show," and finally as part of Hertzfeldt's own the Animation Show tour. Welcome to the Show/Intermission in the Third Dimension/The End of the Show - 3 shorts created as an introduction, intermission, and end for the first "Animation Show." The Meaning of Life (2005) is the result of almost four years of production and tens of thousands of drawings, single-handedly animated and photographed by Hertzfeldt. Everything Will Be OK (trailer) (2006) won the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Jury Award in Short Filmmaking, a prize rarely bestowed on an animated film. I am so proud of you (2008) Hertzfeldt traveled with the film on a sold-out special theatrical tour of his work in 2008 and part of 2009.

"I Look Straight into Linus' Weasel Eyes..."

LarryC — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:56:17 -0800

Frank Miller's Charlie Brown. [via Andrew Sullivan]

You're a seminal character, Charlie Brown.

GrammarMoses — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:10:40 -0800

A few years ago, we had "Peanuts Meets Marvel." In another thread, someone name-checked Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown. The Web currently brings us Peanuts characters anime-style, a la Jack Kirby, by way of Family Guy and as seen on The Simpsons. (See also this pessimistic vision of a grown-up relationship between Charlie Brown and the Red-Haired Girl.)

You're a spared man, Charlie Brown

Burhanistan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:56:43 -0800

In 1943, over Allied bomb ravaged Germany, US pilot Charlie Brown's B-17 was badly damaged and straying further from friendly territory. Luftwaffe ace fighter pilot Franz Stigler pursued the bomber intending to shoot it down, but refrained when he saw the extent of the damage and directed Brown and his crew out of harm's way. The two pilots were reunited 46 years later. [via] Herr Stigler passed away last month.

Watterson on Schultz

dismas — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:09:52 -0800

Bill Watterson comments on Peanuts as part of a review for David Michaelis's new biography of Charles Schultz. This isn't the first time Watterson has waxed poetic on the subject of Peanuts, which he often cited as an inspiration for his own Calvin and Hobbes. via Fark .

Isn't there anyone out there who can tell me what Christmas is all about?

sleepy pete — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:55:36 -0800

The Lonely Tree: The Story of a Charlie Brown Christmas (via largehearted boy)

A Scrubbie Brown Christmas

gottabefunky — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:15:55 -0800

A Charlie Brown Christmas as performed by the cast of Scrubs.

It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

jonson — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:18:03 -0800

It's October, and across the nation, the search for the most sincere Pumpkin Patch begins anew. For those unfamiliar (or those wishing to reacquaint themselves) with the rituals & lore of the Great Pumpkin, the entire CBS Special is online here. Also, for the blind readers of this site, the long out-of-print spoken word radiodrama version of the Great Pumpkin can be found here.

Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown

kirkaracha — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:41:35 -0800

Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown "Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head." (Google Video)

Good Grief Charlie Brown

Funmonkey1 — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:24:22 -0800

Its a rare 1962 Peanuts album recording from Charles Schulz. The first Peanuts comic strip was originally printed on October 2nd, 1950 and in 1962 Charles Shulz wrote an entire album featuring the gang released by Columbia Records. In 1965, he moved into TV with the brilliant Charlie Brown Christmas Special. Nearly 50 TV specials have been made since, but lately with the help of media sharing portals like Youtube, The Gang has gotten several NSFW remakes (youtube filter)

Lights please?

ScottMorris — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:13:17 -0800

Dec. 9, 1965: "Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?" [Realmedia] [More inside]

Gimme some sugar, I am your neighbor!

djspicerack — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:13:07 -0800

Andre 3000, Meet Schroeder. Well, it's not flash, but it's good for a Friday... Charlie Brown meets OutKast.