LAKEWOOD PLAZA TURBO
If you have 8 minutes, watch this. I wish for it to become a real cartoon so badly. And yes the kid has Gohan/Kid Goku’s voice.
SUPPORTING NEW TOONS IS RADICAL GUYS
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“For years I’ve tried to convince network executives and movie executives that cartoons that center around women created by women, for something more than just little kids, would be a really valuable, wonderful cartoon to have. And they’ve been kind of resistant. So we’re happy that when we’ve put these shorts of Bee and Puppycat on the air that you have responded so greatly. By the way it’s not just women, but men too. The audience is, like, huge. You know it, all your friends know it. It’s become a cartoon that has, like, seeped into everyone’s consciousness in a really short time. And we’re really excited for the idea to be able to have Natasha bring it to a whole series.” -Fred Seibert, Executive Producer of Bee and Puppycat
Donate to the Kickstarter here
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Thanks eddiecastiel for making this and showing your support.
Click here to check out the Bee and PuppyCat: The Series Kickstarter
-Cade
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HEY GUYS WHY AREN’T WE TALKING ABOUT MARGARET WINKLER
Seriously, for this website, she should be hailed as a goddess. If you’ve ever watched some early cartoons, you may have noted the name M.J. Winkler as the distributor. This lady was pretty much instrumental in getting the early animation business off the ground, like you have no idea.
See, because when she was working as the personal secretary for Henry Warner—as in Warner Brothers—she kept telling him “hey, seriously, we really ought to be putting more money into this animation stuff, it’s really going to be big.” Warner shrugged it off, because hey they had cartoons of their own what was the big deal right? Eventually, she bugged him about it so much, he said if she was so into it, why didn’t she just distribute it herself? So she did, and with his approval she started her own production company.
For one, she handled getting Max and Dave Fleischer (Betty Boop, Popeye, basically masters of everything and did it all way before Disney did) into theaters, but most important to her was making sure Pat Sullivan Productions got a contract, because she saw Felix the Cat and knew that shit was going to blow up. They did! All of them had found success on their own, sure, but it was Winkler’s business sense that made them BIG. She knew where to make connections and put money. Her approval and support was vital for success in the early animation industry, okay?
Then she gets to look at this weird little cartoon from some dinky little business in Kansas City, of all places (pretty much all animation was in New York, back then), making shorts called “Laugh-O-Grams.” This specific short was called “Alice’s Wonderland.” It sucked. Wow, it was bad. The animation was cheap, repetitive, obnoxiously long, confusing, and dull. And bad. So bad. Wow.
Margaret, though, somehow, saw a glimmer of potential buried somewhere under the blandness. So she called up the head of the company, some asshole named Walt Disney, and told him that she’d distribute this thing and give him a contract if he went and studied some Felix the Cat and came back with something better.
Yes that’s right. It was her doing. She made it possible. I can’t imagine ANYONE else would have given that dreck more than a glance, but she goddamn knew.Sidenote: a few years later, though, she got married to a man named Charles Mintz. Maybe if you watched Up, you might remember a guy named Charles Muntz. He was the bad guy. It’s not a coincidence.
ANYWAY what you need to take away from this is that Margaret J. Winkler is a wonderful beautiful person who made everything we love today possible and she was the first big female name in animation and wow what a boss so great
WORD UP
Friendly reminder that Ed ate an entire slide just because there was a pebble in his shoe.
This guy gets it.
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So I was wondering how Sanji manages to provide a constant supply of fresh meat for the crew and…
Wander Over Yonder:
An upcoming animated television comedy series for the Disney Channel. The series follows Wander and his steed Sylvia traveling from planet to planet helping people have fun and live free, all against Lord Hater and his army of Watchdogs’ evil reign. It is scheduled to premiere sometime in 2012-13.
Creator, Craig McCracken created the Emmy-winning Cartoon Network series The Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. McCracken’s wife and frequent collaborator Lauren Faust (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) serves as co-producer.I wait for this, gazing up at the stars and sighing
seriously though look at his little chin hairs. This is so damn cute.
Just a reminder that this is going to blow your mind.
CARTOONS ARE HARD
IF YOU KNOW A CARTOON ARTIST GO GIVE THEM A BIG HUG
STYLIZATION IS HARD
ART IS HARD
NNNNNGUUUGH
YESSSSS
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8O
is this gonna be western themed?AHHHHHHHHHH CRAIG!
Okay so with this, Gravity Falls and Motor City, Disney is officially way up in my good books for smart decisions lately.
Now make a goddamn traditionally animated Oswald cartoon so I can go work for you.
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Why do I have such strong feelings for film?
No, really. Honest question. I don’t know. I’m not sure why. It’s just, I have these insanely strong emotions when it comes to film and cartoons.
Like, not even individual films, just the entire medium. I love all types of art, but there’s something about film that I feel inherently connected to. I see a reel of film or an animation cell and I legitimately get emotional about it. Damaged nitrate film makes me genuinely sad. I get tingles when I see the circular countdown numbers and hear the pips. Seeing film restoration documentaries make me cry more than ones about saving kids in third world countries. I know, I’m horrible, but I have more immediate feelings for film than other human beings.
Don’t get me wrong I love living things too, and yes okay I would save the puppy from the fire before the two-reeler if I had to choose, but I don’t know if I would save me before it. I’m not even being dramatic, I’m being pragmatic. Maybe it’s because I’ve always had trouble understanding what reality is, or, rather, how people decide what is real. I remember having a real argument with an adult (I can’t remember who) when I was a kid about cartoon characters being real. They kept telling me that they weren’t, but I couldn’t accept that; because both of us knew who they were, what they were like, how they spoke and felt and what they’d done, and more people knew about that person than about either of us. That character was known to the world, and influenced it. To me, that meant that we were less real than the character, and I think I still believe that- we’re certainly less permanent.
Anyway I don’t know why this came up I just had a really weird night’s sleep and sometimes I have feels about things.
