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Winnie The Pooh
…Studio released during the 1970s, it’s a classic Disney short designed with the aesthetics of the 1950s cartoons and some of the supporting characters might have been picked right out… |
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Bubble Guppies-Bubble Puppy’s Fin-tastic Fairy Tale
As a cartoon fanatic, I love all cartoons, even ones intended for children (Bronies, I am right there with you.) Sometimes the ones geared towards very young children can gnaw… |
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Phineas And Ferb Star Wars
…and now I can see why that is. Phineas And Ferb has the makings of a timeless classic (well, in terms of kids’ cartoons), with a style all its own,… |
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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
…of war. Mila represents the children who survived and the children who were lost. The Mila Family wants to prove that “cartoons” can successfully enlighten all age groups on serious,… |
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DC Nation Block – Week 1
…cast free of the cookie cutter molds personified by other mainstream cartoons, though Artemis does fall into the “tough girl” category and Superboy is a tad emo. Nobody’s perfect. We’re… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…Justice League Unlimited, Futurama. JAMES: When I was a kid, TV cartoons were probably my first big introduction to animation and I’ve been hooked ever since. Some favorites from childhood… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…industry recast the voice actors of characters on several cartoons, including long-running hits like The Simpsons and Family Guy [below]. Rather ironically, these choices were all made based on skin… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…top pigs with pigs” was Uncle Walt’s famous retort when asked for more Three Little Pigs cartoons back in the 1930s, although even he relented with a short-lived series of… |
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Cartoon Network reviving Looney Tunes
…each episode of The Looney Toons Show as a half-hour story along with “cartoons within a cartoon.” The concept takes Bugs and Daffy out of the woods and puts them… |
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Updates on DC Nation with News on Beware the Batman
…Beware the Batman. It’s drastically different from other Batman cartoons: Robin is replaced by a girl ninja and Alfred is younger and totes a gun. DC Nation is contracted to… |
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The Academy speculates about special effects and animation
…and George Clooney in non-animated form, so for the time being it seems unlikely that studios would even want for movies like that to count as “cartoons” in Oscar’s eyes…. |
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Historian draws attention to black animation art
…of the characters and storylines on the series Fat Albert. “Doing the cartoons and developing those shows and working on them in those early days was exciting. It was more… |
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Classic Nick Toons Coming To Blu-Ray
…later on Nickelodeon’s Noggin channel. For many people growing up in that decade, these cartoons were an integral part of their youth. On May 17, 2011 The Wild Thornberrys: Season… |
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Escape From Planet Earth
…always have to be the bad guys in kids cartoons these days? And strangest of all, the moral message of this film seemed to be turned on its head. I… |
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Jerry Beck leaves Cartoon Brew
…and continuing my efforts to get classic cartoons out of the vaults and onto your personal screens (on whatever device you prefer). I’m also committed to several new book projects,… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…And The Seven Dwarfs was the first step in establishing Disney as a major Hollywood studio. AV: At the same time, you start your study with Mickey Mouse cartoons and… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…the imaginative to the downright wearisome. Theodore Geisel, Dr Seuss himself, collaborated directly with Chuck Jones to create cartoons in the 1940s before taking on How The Grinch Stole Christmas,… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…done some short subjects with Woolie before the war, cartoons like How To Ride A Horse with Goofy, so I was then involved again in animation. AV: Who were you… |
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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
…or two of dialogue. The old-school charm in the animation again recalls the simpler look of the Pooh cartoons, and although A Very Monkey Christmas isn’t as CG enhanced as… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…mislabelled as Tricks Of THE Trade), which has Walt describing the Multiplane Camera and the use it has in his animated cartoons. It’s a sequence that has been recycled on… |
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Justice League Action – Superpowers Unite: Season One, Part One
…Firestorm and Green Arrow hew closer to their classic looks. In terms of continuity, the show takes its cues from various eras of the comics and cartoons. One episode sees… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…me about the influence of cartoons of the 1930’s on your work on the characters? CZ: Some of my favorite animation short films are the Silly Symphony series, from Walt… |
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Stop-Motion Marvels!
…a more fully developed story, with a romantic set-up not unlike the Paramount Popeye cartoons. Hector The Pup (8:10) has a strong resemblance to Pepper, except that he’s a sheriff… |
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Pixar artist and Facebook try to reinvent the smiley
…independently says, “If we can crack a universal language, that will be true success. What we need to aim at is instant readability, just like what we do in cartoons”…. |
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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…Tex Avery, Bob Clampett and Bob McKimson’s legendary Termite Terrace output (the WB animation unit had been trying to push new Looney Tunes cartoons to theaters with little support from… |
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M.A.S.K.: Volume One
…cartoons of that era had tie-ins with toy companies, who were usually involved with planning the cartoon version from the very beginning, so that the premiere of the series would… |
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ParaNorman
…films over the next decade, to many of Max and Dave Fleischer’s strange excursions into the surreal in their Betty Boop cartoons. Out of all the animated methods, stop-motion seems… |
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Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…were not as many cartoons as today, what kind of work did you think you were going to do when you first heard you got the role of young Bambi?… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part Two
Another 13 episodes from one of the greatest comic book cartoons ever…. |
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2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…akumatizing himself. The other question was a cute question of what each panelist’s own personal Miraculous would be, a couple humorously answering they would be their own dogs. All attendees… |
