Category Archives: Animation

Walt Dali

By tone | Published: July 3, 2009
Hollywood had a love affair with Salvador Dali and a friendship with Walt Disney was nurtured to a point where they worked on a potential short film called Destino. The project was abandoned in 1946, only 18 seconds of test footage was created. The project re-surfaced in 1999 for Fantasia 2000, Disney’s nephew Roy Edward [...]
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Moral Orel

By tone | Published: July 3, 2009
Moral Orel is a parody of the classic claymation Davey and Goliath. The show is put together by writer Dino Stamatopolous of Mr. Show and The Ben Stiller Show fame. Dino Stamatopolous will be at the Just for Laughs in Montreal this year. Part two>> Orel is an 11-year-old boy who loves church and just wants [...]
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Badly Drawn Roy

By tone | Published: July 1, 2009
Badly Drawn Roy is romp of a documentary created by Alan and Frank Shannon, produced by Dublin’s Jam Media for RTE, Ireland’s public broadcasting channel. See part two. The film is set in a working class suburb of Dublin. Roy, Ireland’s only animated character was born into an ordinary ‘live action’ family. This fly on [...]
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Ponyo Movie Trailer

By tone | Published: June 24, 2009
Seems everybody is on the doomsday bandwagon. The world is a mess, who will clean it up. Will an ocean little child save the world? This rich laced movie of symbolism is one to be enjoyed by all generations. Legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki’s new movie Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea is given [...]
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Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection

By tone | Published: June 22, 2009
Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection Between 1963 – 1967 Chuck Jones handled the Tom and Jerry franchise. His Tom had an uncanny resemblance to his later creation, the Grinch, and the swift Jerry put on a little more weight for this series. This show had a slight psychedelic influence in the art and [...]
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Dinomixer

By tone | Published: June 17, 2009
If you were holding back on buying either an iPhone/iPod Touch, here is a good reason to buy one. There are so many kinds of apps out there. Into the fold many artists are finding new ways to generate income with this new milieu. Dinomixer is truly a cool App with artwork by Charley Parker, [...]
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In TOMS Head

By tone | Published: June 15, 2009
Tom & The Slice of Bread With Strawberry Jam & Honey is a series that ran in Germany for kids for many years from the studio known as Studio FILM BILDER. They are known for making animated sequences in Run Lola Run.
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Charlie Chocks Vitamins

By tone | Published: June 14, 2009
Chock treatment! Charlie Chocks is perhaps one of the lamest spokesperson cartoon character for a vitamin brand devised by Miles Laboratories, the creators of Alka Seltzer. They created the first chewable vitamin for children in 1960 and made parents very upset with commercials on Saturday morning cartoons. Miles introduced Flintstone Chewable Vitamins in 1968, [...]
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Pearls Sells Out, a Pearls Before Swine film by Stephan Pastis

By tone | Published: June 10, 2009
Stephan Pastis is a walking billboard for his own work and put up a gut-buster to exploit himself and his newest book, Pearls Sells Out, a Pearls Before Swine. Stephan Pastis visits his rival newspaper syndicate, Universal Press Syndicate, and tries to get an endorsement for his book. This is the way of the future, [...]
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The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9

By tone | Published: June 10, 2009
The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9 is actually a terrific animated little short by film student Jake Armstrong.
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