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I've got to hand it to MTV: for a network that makes plot points out of their television stars questioning whether or not it's cheating if they were blacked out during sex, their "Sex Is No Accident" campaign is pretty effective (if not a little icky). The spots are short and to the point. More »
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If you aren't a fan of violence and haven't yet seen Ryan Gosling in Drive, this animated homage to the film by animators Tom Haugomat and Bruno Mangyoku may not be for you. For the rest of us, this is a tribute to the gruesome onslaught that occurs in the movie — and how intensely attractive Gosling looked in that silly scorpion jacket. More »
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Happy birthday, Minnie Mouse! Today Disney's first femme fatale turns the ripe old age of 83. Time flies! More »
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Marcel The Shell With Shoes On — otherwise known as the most adorable talking shell we've ever laid our eyes upon — is back with another video in which he details his life. This time, Marcel discusses his reading habits, desire for a nickname ("I'm not gonna beg for it ... Because you can't make it for yourself like yourself like you can make a new hairstyle!"), and how difficult it is to get places when your car is a bug and the bus you take happens to be an under-the-weather caterpillar. More »
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Not too long ago, illustrator Andrew Kolb created a children's book out of the lyrics to David Bowie's song "Space Oddity," only to be slapped with a cease-and-desist letter from Bowie's lawyers. Luckily, animator Andrew Ruttan has taken Kolb's imagery and brought it to life in this beautiful animated short about the sad tale of Major Tom. More »
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Quick, name an animated Chinese movie for kids! No answer? Exactly. Chinese animators have long remained in the shadows of Japanese anime and gigantic American companies like Disney and Pixar. But Variety reports that the Dean of Beijing's Film Academy, Sun Lijun, is hoping to put Chinese animation on the map with Tofu Boy (working title), a feature-length movie that's a take on Pinnochio, set in present-day Shanghai. Alongside Magic Dumpling Entertainment, Sun recently enlisted an ex-Disney alum Kevin Geiger to help the film break out internationally. Says he, "I think the Chinese culture element is very important, but we need a better way to carry it to the rest of the world. Kevin (Geiger) can give us a more international platform." The movie is slated for a holiday 2013 release. More »
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This short animation of delicious foods by More »
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After it's forthcoming release of Tangled, Disney's animation studios don't plan to follow up with any more fairy tales for the forseeable future. But what will our nation's little girls do without really boring animated princes to dream of marrying? More »
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More Mad Men today: Our beloved will play an FBI supervisor on an upcoming episode of the cartoon show. And in case you needed confirmation: "He was really funny. And handsome," remarked Simpsons executive producer Al Jeans. More »
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Speaking of cheating, we're glad this Christian cartoon is tackling the problem of rampant kid-infidelity. Of all the odd, creepy things about it, though, the hissed "number 7" at 1:47 may be the kicker. [YouTube via BuzzFeed] More »
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"Mei Ling, an idle young Chinese woman, lives alone in her flat, waiting for her lover. One day, she finds a little octopus in the kitchen sink. She decides to adopt it to avoid boredom. The octopus grows up..." More »
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Ever wonder what it would look like if Mean Girls was an animated film released by Disney? Here's your answer. An epic piece of work. You go, Glen Coco. [BuzzFeed] More »
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"It was a man's world all over the place," says one of the women who helped bring Snow White to life. "The stars were the beauties who sang and wiggled their fannies around-that's all girls were useful for." [VF] More »
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"I've never understood why the studios were saying people don't want to see hand-drawn animation. What people don't want to watch is a bad movie." — Pixar cofounder and current COO of Disney Animation, John Lasseter. [WSJ] More »
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The first five minutes of Disney's The Princess And The Frog went up online, and though it's a very short amount of footage, there are some awesome ideas: More »
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The chart at left diagnoses cartoon characters with various medical afflictions. Does Bart Simpson have Oppositional Defiant Disorder? Is Daria depressed? Who does it leave out? (Click for larger image.) [Buzzfeed] More »
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Miyazaki says for animators, "It's not very pleasant to draw evil figures," so he doesn't. Instead, he comes up with his creative plots by, "thinking, thinking and thinking... If you have a better way, please let me know." [L.A. Times] More »
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Fataneh, the first animated film to come out of Palestinian territories, is based on the true story of a woman, prevented by both Israeli and Palestinian red tape from getting breast cancer treatment in Gaza, who died in 2004. [Reuters] More »
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Had a rough week? Feeling kind of down? Perhaps you need to rock out a little, Saturday morning cartoon style. After the jump, a few performances from our favorite ladies of cartoon rock and roll. More »
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You've probably heard of (or seen?) Madagascar, the DreamWorks animated film in which a rag-tag group of NYC zoo animals (voiced by Ben "Alex the Lion" Stiller, Chris "Marty the Zebra" Rock, and Jada "Gloria the Hippo" Pinkett Smith) have to fend for themselves in the wild terrain of Madagascar. The sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, follows the first film fairly closely: The critters are stranded yet again, somewhere in Africa. The movie has all of the expected jokes, stereotypes and plotlines, without leaving much to be ponder once the credits roll (Wall-E this ain't), but what would you expect from a sequel aimed at 8-year-olds? The critics were bored, but they understood that they weren't exactly the target audience. The reviews, after the jump. More »
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Back in February, Prada debuted Trembled Blossoms, an animated film that used creepy psychedelic imagery to push purses on hopelessly hypnotized fashionistas. Get ready to trip again: Prada has a new movie, Fallen Shadows, which features music by Antony & The Johnsons and makes little sense. Thank goodness we're here to do a (sorta) frame-by frame dissection. A breakdown of the stills from the film begins after the jump. More »
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Pixar's latest film, Wall-e has been over a decade in the making, but the film's subversive, environmentally friendly, anti-consumerism platform holds truer today than they did ten years ago. Wall-e, which features the voices of Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Garlin and Fred Willard, centers around a robot (named, not surprisingly, "Wall-e") who was created to clean up a deserted Earth all alone. Wall-e meets a new robot named Eve and they fall in robot-love until she is forced to leave and he tags along. On the trip, the duo discover a spaceship inhabited by humans (and where all of them have grown fat and lazy, sucking down fast food like it's going out of style). What do reviewers have to say about a children's film with such subversive messages (let alone those that may be seen as "anti-fat" and "anti-Republican")? Do the messages overshadow the heart of the film? The reviews, after the jump. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5020251&view=rss&microfeed=true Leave it to the Japanese to make a simultaneously adorable and creepy cartoon about pooping (see also: Everyone Poops). The video above — seen today on parenting blog Babble — shows a little tiger named Shimjiro. His tigerents are trying to potty train him, and is he ever excited about weeing in the toilet! I'd probably be super psyched about my excretions, too, if they came out in little animated droplets and exclaimed "Yahoo!!!" on a regular basis. Anyway, the video is supposed to help toilet-train human children, and at the end of the video there's a real live kid atop a toilet that is equipped with a handrail (WTF is that rail for? Extra leverage?). While the animated portion of the video is amusing, sensitive readers may want to wait until after lunch, as the kid's semi-realistic poop-pushing groans are fairly disturbing. More »
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