By alain on Tuesday 24 July, 2007
After The Simpsons and Futurama the next Fox animation series might get a feature-length movie. The creator of Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane, told The Hollywood Reporter he is enthusiastic about making a feature film. Family Guy follows the adventures of the dysfunctional family Griffin. With an enormous dose of absurdity this show takes it a step further than The Simpsons.
In 2005 there has already been a movie titled Stewie Griffin - The untold Story. However, this was a straight-to-DVD release and was primarily aimed at the real fans. MacFarlane doesn’t have a story yet, but he definitely doesn’t want a “the Griffins are saving the world from destruction” plot. Ricky Blitt, the ex-writer of the series is a desired candidate. Click “Read More” to see a clip from Family Guy where Stewie is training for the Olympics.
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Category: Fox, Television
By alain on Monday 23 July, 2007
Last week the nominations for the yearly Emmy-awards have been announced. This price can be seen as the Oscars for television productions. Two of the categories are devoted to animation: “Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)” and ”Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour Or More)”.
And the nominees are…
Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)
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- Avatar: The Last Airbender • City Of Walls And Secrets • Nickelodeon Animation Studio
- Robot Chicken • Lust For Puppets • ShadowMachine Films
- South Park • Make Love, Not Warcraft • Central Productions
- SpongeBob SquarePants • Bummer Vacation / Wig Struck • Nickelodeon Animation Studio in association with United Plankton Pictures, Inc.
- The Simpsons • The Haw-Hawed Couple • Gracie Films in association with 20th Century Fox
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Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour Or More)
- Good Wilt Hunting (Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends) • Cartoon Network Studios
- Hellboy Animated: Sword Of Storms • Starz Media in association with Revolution Studios
- Secrets Of The Deep • Impossible Pictures in association with Discovery Channel
- Where’s Lazlo? (Camp Lazlo) • Cartoon Network Studios
Apart from these categories there is also a nomination for the episode “Peter’s Two Dads” of Family Guy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.
Category: Fox, Television
By alain on Thursday 7 June, 2007
Earlier we posted a clip of Purple and Brown, two funny clay creatures from the Aardman studios. Today a collection of 32 clips of these funny, laughing idiots.
Category: Aardman, Television
By alain on Thursday 31 May, 2007
Joost is the new way of watching online television. You can download a small program for this, with which you can watch many movies and series in perfect quality. It is a completely legal way of p2p television. To pay for the costs of the distribution rights there will be some advertisements between the programs. Joost is still in a beta phase, so you can only use it once you’ve received an invite.
The good new is that we’ve still got loads of incites, so if you are interested, you can leave a message and we’ll invite you.
Why this article on an animationblog? Next to all the movie, series and sport channels there are also some animation channels available. At this point there are 5 of them available worldwide:
- Aardman Animation: Aardman classics, like:
- Creature Comforts
- Rex The Runt
- Morph Smart
- A town called panic
- GONG: Various Anime-series, for example:
- Ikki Tousen - Battle Angels
- Gun Frontier
- Saturday Morning TV:Classic Cartoon, like:
- Rocky and Bullwinkle
- Mr. Magoo Show
- Harveytoons
- Wildlight Channel: Short Animations
- Channel Frederator: shorts and animation by amateurs
In the US there are some extra channels available:
- Adult Swim channel
- G.I. Joe channel
- Transformers channel
Category: Aardman, Television
By alain on Monday 28 May, 2007
Bernard Bear: primitive, egocentric and impatient. Or at least, that’s how his creators describe him. You can also add clumsiness to that. The bald icebear (don’t ask him how that happened) experiences adventures from modern times: skydiving, motorracing, tennis, gymnastics and so much more… I like to think of him as the Mr. Bean of bears: excellent fysical humor and no dialogues. You’ll only hear a strange “gnorfl”-sound from him. The stories never last longer than a couple of minutes. Will his tales know a happy ending? You better watch it yourself!
Category: Television, Bernard Bear
By alain on Monday 28 May, 2007
What better way to start than with Purple and Brown: a short animated series from the Aardman stables. The show is created by Rich Webber in 2006. Tonight we watch episode: Bubblegum:
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