Oh my god, so adorbz! “Greatest cartoon ever? Greatest cartoon ever. I’m not kidding, if this was on TV, I would watch it every day until I began to gibber insanely… at its cuteness, of course.”
See also: io9 took the time to put together an introductory primer to H.P. Lovecraft — the man responsible for the tentacled Cthulhu creation. He is considered, perhaps, the master of sci-fi-horror literature.
From the mad chef himself: “They are not a pilot for some new, family friendly, watered down follow on. They are instead brief, often violent, alt versions of NO RES–representing things we could never have done on the actual show-or the way things should have gone on the show–or animated acknowledgments of what already went terribly wrong on the show. Or, for example, my take on the network’s “Travel Bug” promo campaign–about which I was, shall we say…dubious.”
Episode one has already hit YouTube, but others in the web series will hit on the Travel Channel website. [via]
You probably won’t ever be prepared to watch a flash animated video about a man singing to a lady to “Shut woman and get on my horse.”
However be warned that once you do, the song, much like the video from The Ring, can’t be unseen. It will be stuck in your head for all of eternity and you will wish that you never heard it in the first place. Much of that is due to it’s stupid lyrics and New Order-ish beats.
It’s funny yet weirdly sexist and one large double entendre. It goes without saying, that I get uncomfortable watching it. Do I laugh or act repulsed. NSWF, obvs. MORE »
Terry Gilliam runs down his 50 favorite animated films for Time Out London. Okay, I didn’t read this close enough. Gilliam didn’t pick out the list at all, he merely provided comments on several of the movies. As lists of animated movies go, however, it’s a pretty diverse one. I mean, c’mon, they included Transformers: The Movie for pete’s sake.
By James Furbush | September 22nd, 2009 | 9:05 pm PDT
Holy fucking shit my head just exploded. Got nine minutes? Squeeze this in between doing real work because you absolutely need to watch the shit out of this. This is everything I would want out of a cartoon as a kid and nothing more. Seriously, how was this not a cartoon from the 80’s? Regardless, I’m just happy this exists now.
From the official summary:
It is the 23rd Century…
Earth has long since been abandoned after the inevitable zombie apocalypse, and is now not much more than a backwater post apocalyptic wasteland. However, Dead Earth is still inhabited by the unfortunate masses of peoples trying to survive after the wealthy and powerful were evacuated during the Zombie Uprising. Day by day, they attempt to make a normal life amidst the crumbled remains of what were once great cities and nations – whilst fighting off the thriving undead that roam it’s surface.
Humanity has spread across the stars, and the cross cultural frontiers & explorations have begun anew, as more and more interstellar civilizations are encountered. History does indeed have a way of repeating itself, does it not? Because of this, the Interstellar Embassy was created. It’s existence enables a more or less amenable co-existence between the various races and species – keeping enough order to discourage an eruption into complete chaos and war.
Enter the Intergalactic Kung Fu Zombies.
They have no memory of who they once were in their mortal lives.
They are not like other zombies, such as those from Dead Earth.
…
They awoke aboard their BattleCruiser – the Coffin – 1, with but a brief greeting by the G.H.O.S.T – a mysterious Artificial Intelligence whose only purpose seems to be the vigilance of the cosmos, though it’s location is completely unknown. It keeps their old identities a secret, and they are not even sure if the digital persona even really knows what their days amongst the living entailed. Regardless of the situation, the G.H.O.S.T. always pays them handsomely for their efforts, which enables them to upkeep the Coffin-1 BattleCruiser and expand their arsenal. A question remains however, since their zombification is likely sourced by the same mutagen or virus that spawned the Zombie Uprising back on Dead Earth long ago…
By James Furbush | September 9th, 2009 | 5:49 am PDT
Disney has just debuted the second full-length theatrical trailer for The Princess and the Frog, their return to both hand-drawn animation and classic princess fairy tales. Truth be told, I want this movie to succeed way more than I have an interest in watching it. But it feels like if this movie succeeds then tradition 2D, hand-drawn animation will be in vogue again and if it fails we may have to rely on Japan’s animation industry for that fix.
Wes Anderson’s new flick is a stop-motion adaptation of Roal Dahl’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox. It’s difficult to adjust to the animation because it looks whimsical and old school, I guess fitting, for a Wes Anderson movie.
Great voice cast, lots of trademark Wes Anderson flourishes and I love that as a director he’s pushing himself to do something different. Hopefully, this rejuvenates him in a way that benefits us all.
The trailer for J-stache — the cartoon about John Oates (of Hall & Oates) and his mustache teaming up to fight crime is here. There is magic and then there is the possibility of this widely anticipated cartoon about his mustache.
DC Comics and Warner Brothers are debuting the animated film in it’s entirety at San Diego Comic Con. It looks good and should certainly hold over fans awaiting Ryan Reynolds turn as Hal Jordan in Martin Campbell’s live action go’round.
Here, we get Christopher Meloni, who does a good job as Hal. Animation is spot on and how can you complain about an origin movie that gives The Green Lantern his ring within the first five minutes of the movie.
Disney used to hold the rights for Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and in 1983 they had a young man by the name of John Lasseter , interested in using computers to render 3D backgrounds. Lasseter created some short animations based on the book as a test for another project he had in mind – The Brave Little Toaster. Neither project ended up manifesting itself, with the Toaster being made in traditional 2D animation. For his efforts, Lasseter was fired by Disney because his superiors felt he was stepping on their toes with his new technology.
Whoops! Talk about your all-time gaffs. Lasseter saw the future in the early 80s for how new technology could be applied to the medium. Instead he was fired and then went on to help start Pixar. So in a way, I guess, we should all be thankful these events all indirectly led to the creation of what is inarguably the best animation studio right now.
Lasseter always seems to be ahead of the curb and the above clip is damn impressive, even looking better than some present day computer animated movies. Even if it’s not quite ready for primetime.
Chalk this up to the what if dustbin and normally these types of things make me sad, but given how awesome Spike Jonze’s live-action adaptation looks, well, it’s hard to complain. Every single time the trailer has shown in front of an audience, the entire place inevitably yelps and shouts along at the end of the trailer. [via theseplaces]
It’s hard to believe that French animator/writer/director Sylvain Chomet hasn’t released a feature film since 2003’s The Triplets of Bellville. Sure he’s done some commercial work and the short above for Paris, je T’aime in the interim, but there’s nothing quite like the exquisite blend of hand-drawn animation and music from Chomet.
At the time of Triplet’ss release it was something of an eye opener. The world was gorging itself on Pixar, Pixar knock-offs and the monkey-brained dreck from Dreamworks Animaiton.
Which is why Triplets was something of an eye opener. It harkened back to a time when animation was an artform, when it was magical, when it aspired to be more than just cut and paste hack jobs.
It looks as though Chomet will release a film titled The Illusionist, which is currently in post-production, for the 2009 festival circuit with a potential general release in early 2010.
According to IonCinema, The Illusionist is a $20 million affair and is based on an unproduced screenplay by the late Jacques Tati. The lowdown for the film is that it’s about “a dying breed of stage entertainer whose thunder is being stolen by emerging rock stars. Forced to accept increasingly obscure assignments in fringe theaters, garden parties and bars, he meets a young fan who changes his life forever.”
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