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In this intro from the Disneyland tv show spotlights a few of the lands in Disneyland. These included Frontierland, Tomorrowland, Adventureland, and Fantasyland. For some reason, Holidayland was never really promoted too often, and was closed in 1961. Other “lands”, such as New Orleans Square and Mickey’s Toon Town were added later.

In this intro, we see Tinker Bell act out a bit for each of the spotlighted lands. She zips in and out as the text introduces the next location. It is particularly interesting to see the level of the effects in this piece as well, from Tinker Bell’s pixie dust trail, to the take off of the Tomorrowland rocket ship.  Custom animated segments would be used often to promote the park, and eventually animators would begin designing parts of the park themselves…

-Floyd Bishop 

I’ll be away for about a week, so I won’t be posting. Wish me luck applying the sunscreen evenly. I’ll leave you with this shore-related music video, starring some Playmobil People. It’s “Like a Toy Lost In the Sand” by Graceful Storms, a project of the French singer Manu Servé.

—Anne D. Bernstein

On this date in 1954, construction began on Disneyland. Making animated films costs money, and it takes quite a while to make one. Walt Disney wanted to make a park for employees to go with their families, he needed a way to keep people interested in his projects, and he needed help funding the studio in between films.

Keep watching for posts related to each of the “lands”, bits of park history, and how animation drove the park while the park drove animation.

-Floyd Bishop

Nite Fite’s Terry the Producer made his first posting on Nite Fite’s Site today.
He sure did Unleash some Internet Truth! Make with some clickies and check it out.
Go Terry!
-Jeaux Janovsky

PictureBox has announced that they are working on a John Kricfalusi book, to be published in 2009. It will be “the definitive book of John’s work – from childhood through Ren and Stimpy to today.” I can’t wait for this to come out!

PictureBox puts out high quality art books, including the recent comprehensive and massively tasty Gary Panter tome. Click here to see the $95 version. And, if you can bear it, click here to see the $1000 “Hot Burrito Deluxe” version!

They also have a store in Brooklyn near the banks of the scenic Gowanus.

If you go to the PictureBox news page and scroll down (no direct link–look for June 13th) you will see photos from Dan Nadel’s recent visit to Los Angeles. There are some pix of John K’s studio (but none of the man himself).

Also, there’s a photo of some guys. Very cool guys. Who apparently had a very cool party at the Chateau Marmont. Which we can only dream about.

Can you identify them? Answer after the jump. [Read more…]

via Animation World Network

The Television Animation Conference kicks off its fifth year with the announcement of top level keynote speakers Brown Johnson, the President of Animation for Nickelodeon, MTVN Kids and Family Group; Seth Green and Matt Senreich co-executive producers, writers, and directors of ROBOT CHICKEN. The festival is September 17-18, 2008 in Ottawa, Ontario.

Read the full article here… 

Are you going to the Ottawa International Animation Festival this year? Maybe we should have a Drinking and Drawing event during the fest? What do you think?

-Floyd Bishop 

*I meant to have this up yesterday, but when I posted an embed it looked like it broke the fredblogs. I’m glad it works now, and thankful for youtube.-JX

Apparently, sometimes when women give birth (some women), a tiny bit off poo squeezes out along with the baby.
Such is the premise of our pals Mukpuddy’s new “nutty” pilot, It’s the Pughs.
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The Channel Frederator Awards are Here!!! It was a hot, feverish, and fierce competition!!!

Find out if your favorite cartoons claimed the Big, Red, Hunk of Burning Fred!!!

In this episode, watch which Bunnies duked it out and prevailed in a battle of Epic Bad ASS Bunny-ness!!!

Also, meet Animator Stephen M. Levinson, winner of Channel Frederator’s Youngest Filmmaker Award, and watch his cartoon, Ace & Aqua!
You’ll forget that this 17 year old animation whiz kid is barely out of diapers.

Watch all the nominees at channelfrederator.com

-Jeaux Janovsky

There have been many Hanna Barbera characters with personalities based on famous actors and personalities. The Flintstones had their Honeymooners influences, Jabber Jaw sounded a lot like Curly from the Three Stooges, and Doggie Daddy (from the series of Augie Doggie cartoons) was no different. While he sounds like Jimmy Durante, his character and his relationship with his son are actually borrowed from two earlier Hanna Barbera characters, Spike and Tyke, who were created while they were at MGM. Spike’s son Tyke first appeared in the 1949 short “Love that Pup”.

The main difference (other than breed of dog) would be the character of the son. Spike’s son Tyke is seemingly much younger than Augie, as Tyke cannot speak, only bark. Perhaps the time difference in first appearances would account for the aging of the son? Tyke was created in 1949. If he continued to age in real time, he would be very close [Read more…]

Here’s some of the loot I got from the great Mocca Art Festival this year in NYC.

First off, here’s the cover to the mini I printed up to hand out to people. I guess I was inspired by Stephen Levinson’s gun-toting, wise ass Skunk, Prikk. The comic was called, Box Assassin Hitman: Box of Danger!!!
People seemed delighted to be given a free mini about a cardboard robot who can transform into a box and is a deadly hitman assassin. [Read more…]