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[Hypron]

Lastman is on VRV if anyone wants to still see it

https://vrv.co/series/GY5V11XQY/Lastman

The first episode with the English dub is also available for free on YouTube!

 

[Txαi]

I just realized Craig McCracken created two characters with a banjo: Fuzzy and Wander. Plus both have extremely opposite personalities.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

Not sure of the origin but Niko and the Sword of Light is flat out awesome. It's like Zelda story turned into a TV show. Magic Sword? Check. Trapped sleeping hero? Check. Magic Princess with special powers along for the ride? Check. Its a Amazon Prime exclusive but I'm loving the hell outta this show.


Also the pilot has the highest production values I've seen in a cartoon in a long time, if not ever. Its gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SigmasonicX]

Not sure of the origin but Niko and the Sword of Light is flat out awesome. It's like Zelda story turned into a TV show. Magic Sword? Check. Trapped sleeping hero? Check. Magic Princess with special powers along for the ride? Check. Its a Amazon Prime exclusive but I'm loving the hell outta this show.


Also the pilot has the highest production values I've seen in a cartoon in a long time, if not ever. Its gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!

I remember seeing a commercial for it on a Twitch stream, and I thought the princess character had a good design and voice, but the hero looked a bit annoying. Glad to hear it's good.

 

[Psxphile]

Not sure of the origin but Niko and the Sword of Light is flat out awesome. It's like Zelda story turned into a TV show. Magic Sword? Check. Trapped sleeping hero? Check. Magic Princess with special powers along for the ride? Check. Its a Amazon Prime exclusive but I'm loving the hell outta this show.


Also the pilot has the highest production values I've seen in a cartoon in a long time, if not ever. Its gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!

It's a Titmouse production so it's bound to be good. Don't have Amazon Prime, though.

 

[Xe4]

First reviews and impressions from The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey, Cartoon Saloon).

Looks good so far
The Wrap:

”The Breadwinner," which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, may well turn out to be the movie to test whether the Oscars' new rules for voting in the Best Animated Feature category are truly biased in favor of major studios over indies. A beautifully rendered work of animation that tells a powerful story, it is a standout in the field and would certainly have been a favorite to land a nomination at any point over the last decade.
...
The lead character is Parvana, a preteen girl who accompanies her father to the market in an attempt to make enough money to feed the family. She draws the attention of a Taliban soldier because she's approaching the age when women should be completely covered (or should preferably stay indoors), while her father is suspect because he's a former teacher who still respects literature.

The father ends up in jail; her mother can't safely appear in public without her husband; and Parvana finds the only way to support the family is to cut her hair, dress as a boy and find work with another girl who's doing the same. The scenes are stylized enough to reflect the culture they're depicting, but the animation style is also closer to realism than Cartoon Saloon, the Irish company responsible for ”Song of the Sea" and ”The Secret of Kells," usually provides.
...
These sequences bring a deliberately subdued film to life, and pay tribute to the force of storytelling and of tradition that can be outlawed but can't be quashed. And in the film's spectacular final sequences, when the story Parvana is telling meshes with the one she is living, ”The Breadwinner" is a glorious demonstration of the power of myth to deal with brutal reality, and the power of truth to animate myth.

http://www.thewrap.com/breadwinner-toronto-review-vibrant-animated-movie-may-force-oscar-attention/

Now Toronto (4/5):

The premise recalls Mulan but The Breadwinner is no Disney trinket. The animated film based on Canadian author Deborah Ellis's book grapples with violence and other abuses inflicted on women by the Taliban, ultimately finding hope in an 11-year-old girl's strength and resilience.

The story is set in Kabul, at a time when fighter jets regularly roar across the sky and broken-down tanks form their own graveyard in the sand – that's the closest thing we see to a playground.

Among so many other restrictions, females are forbidden from walking the streets unaccompanied by their menfolk. When her father is arrested by the Taliban for over-educating his daughters, Parvana (voiced by Saara Chaudry) chops off her hair and makes like a boy to get around town and put food on the table.

Things get dire and desperate, but director Twomey (half the team behind The Secret Of Kells) provides comfort in the warmth between Parvana and her family and friends, who still cling to humanity.

There's room for humour, too, especially within the magical stories Parvana narrates, a complementary storyline rendered with breathtaking imagery and packing an emotional gut punch.

https://nowtoronto.com/movies/tiff2017/the-breadwinner-review/

Scene Creek

Full of vibrant colour and beautiful animation that switches styles between two splendidly interconnected narratives, The Breadwinner is a tale of sacrifice, perseverance, and the power of femininity in the face of oppression. It pulls no punches, oftentimes testing the limits of what a typical family film is allowed to show to mesmerizing and jolting effect. But the film has its moments of levity via one of the interconnected narratives—a story about a boy who must recover golden seeds—and thankfully never becomes so heavy as to drown the viewer in hopelessness.

http://scenecreek.com/tiff-2017-review-breadwinner/

The Film Sage (B+)

There's still a lot of humor (Shauzia hijacks Parvana's Elephant King story to welcome comedic effect) to complement the inspirational feats of courage and unfortunate shadows of hate bred from insecurity. The character of Razaq becomes important in this respect because he shows that change remains possible. It helps that he was married before the regime change and can appreciate a woman as more than the property this newest generation rejects them as. The Breadwinner thus becomes an empowering story of heroism under duress. It can be small (Nurullah's refusal to be harassed by someone driven by emotion rather than intellect) or large (Parvana transforming herself to shoulder responsibility well beyond her years), but it always demands a people be judged by their best elements rather than worst.

https://thefilmstage.com/reviews/ti...-an-empowering-story-of-heroism-under-duress/

[IMG]https://s26.postimg.org/zbpxdj85l/Breadwinner_1.png[/IMG]

https://twitter.com/totalfilm/status/906261511143903232

[IMG]https://s26.postimg.org/ueccsf66h/Breadwinner_2.png[/IMG]

https://twitter.com/melsil/status/906251166169825280
Also, the poster looks fucking stunning.

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJSmFLOXoAAEIo_.jpg[/IMG]

I'll post more as they come out, and eventually I'll make a thread when there's enough opinions to form a consensus. Assuming someone doesn't make one first.

 

[unknownstranger]

So I have no idea if this has actually aired before but on Nicktoons right now is a Fairly OddParents pilot episode or something. The coloring is more faded and Timmy's head is shaped differently. Looked through a list of episodes and it's not there.

 

[RedHoodedOwl]

So I have no idea if this has actually aired before but on Nicktoons right now is a Fairly OddParents pilot episode or something. The coloring is more faded and Timmy's head is shaped differently. Looked through a list of episodes and it's not there.

Cosmo wasn't a goofy idiot in the pilot.

 

[Zubz]

So I have no idea if this has actually aired before but on Nicktoons right now is a Fairly OddParents pilot episode or something. The coloring is more faded and Timmy's head is shaped differently. Looked through a list of episodes and it's not there.

I do recall they cheaped out for a few episodes & just compiled all the pilot episodes into regular episodes mid (Well, relative to when I watched it)-series. The first pilot was an origin story IIRC, but you might've saw one of the other pilots (The show started as a filler for a cartoon compilation block; I think there were 10 pilot episodes that aired on there?). The characters were less-goofily voiced, with Cosmo straight-up sounding suave, so if that's something else you noticed, you might've seen one of the old ones.

Either that, or the old episodes just look so different in comparison to the newer ones that they look like pilot episodes. I stopped by 2006-ish, but I'm assuming the art style changed a lot if the show ran for over a decade past that point. The old episodes also weren't HD, so that could explain them looking more faded.

 

[Bronx-Man]

So I have no idea if this has actually aired before but on Nicktoons right now is a Fairly OddParents pilot episode or something. The coloring is more faded and Timmy's head is shaped differently. Looked through a list of episodes and it's not there.

It might be one of the Fairly OddParents shorts from way back when it started on Oh Yeah! Cartoons

 

[unknownstranger]

It might be one of the Fairly OddParents shorts from way back when it started on Oh Yeah! Cartoons

This is what it feels like. I don't remember Oh Yeah! Cartoons but this is way different from what I remember the first episode being. This was in 3 parts with a weird comic transition with an announcer before commercials.

 

[Zubz]

This is what it feels like. I don't remember Oh Yeah! Cartoons but this is way different from what I remember the first episode being. This was in 3 parts with a weird comic transition with an announcer before commercials.

3 parts? Yup, that was absolutely one of the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts, then. As a kid, I recognized these episodes from being from OY!C back then & got irrationally angry that they were repackaging the old shorts as new episodes for several weeks in a row.

Strange what sticks with you.

 

[Tizoc]

First review and impressions from The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey, Cartoon Saloon).

Looks good so far
The Wrap:

http://www.thewrap.com/breadwinner-toronto-review-vibrant-animated-movie-may-force-oscar-attention/

Now Toronto (4/5):

https://nowtoronto.com/movies/tiff2017/the-breadwinner-review/

Scene Creek

http://scenecreek.com/tiff-2017-review-breadwinner/

The Film Sage (B+)

https://thefilmstage.com/reviews/ti...-an-empowering-story-of-heroism-under-duress/

[IMG]https://s26.postimg.org/zbpxdj85l/Breadwinner_1.png[/IMG]

https://twitter.com/totalfilm/status/906261511143903232

[IMG]https://s26.postimg.org/ueccsf66h/Breadwinner_2.png[/IMG]

https://twitter.com/melsil/status/906251166169825280
Also, the poster looks fucking stunning.

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJSmFLOXoAAEIo_.jpg[/IMG]

I'll post more as they come out, and eventually I'll make a thread when there's enough opinions to form a consensus. Assuming someone doesn't make one first.

This is an interesting movie, looking forward to watching it.

 

[Choppasmith]

For the Disney fans, I thought this was too cool not to share, but not thread worthy.

Bob Schooley (Kim Possible creator working on Big Hero 6 The Series) posted this that's up at the WDTVA Offices.

 

[PSqueak]

That's amazing, im surprised about the time span that pattern covers!

 

[Xe4]

That's pretty cool. I've been anxiously waiting the Big Hero Six series because I loved Kim Possible.

 

[Choppasmith]

That's amazing, im surprised about the time span that pattern covers!

Yeah, when I first saw it, I thought it was just modern shows and thought "Oh crap! This confirms Darkwing!" But then I started to see all the other shows represented and realized it was spanning access the whole history.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Say, meltingparappa, do you have any information to share about the Hanazuki short that will be in front of the MLP movie? Is it animated the same way as the web shorts, or was it spruced up a bit? I was meaning to ask this for a while, and the release date is coming up.

On the subject of the movie, I think a lot of you guys would be interested in The Art of My Little Pony: the Movie. It goes into a ton of detail with concept art, old ideas, and the logic behind their decisions. I don't believe many major animated films get books like this, so it should be worthwhile even for those not into the franchise. Official preview pages, and there's far more interesting stuff not shown there.

 

[MisterGrey3000]

Cosmo wasn't a goofy idiot in the pilot.

Yeah, he was actually really suave and Daran Norris was basically doing a Phil Hartman impression.

Dang man...thinking about the early Fairly Odd Parents shorts makes me a little sad though...poor Mary Kay Bergman.

 

[zulux21]

the creator of the loud house has been fired for sexually harassing people.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...creator-sexual-harassment-allegations-1050485

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1449584

 

[SigmasonicX]

It's worth noting that Chris Savino has a pretty extensive career, having worked on Powerpuff Girls and even My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, so this new information about him could really put a damper on a lot of things.

 

[zulux21]

It's worth noting that Chris Savino has a pretty extensive career, having worked on Powerpuff Girls and even My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, so this new information about him could really put a damper on a lot of things.

yeah i didn't look into that to much, as i mostly was wondering what effect this would have on the loud house (which despite him creating it, it seems unlikely it will have a huge effect on it, though it depends how much work he did behind the scenes.)

I'm curious if we will hear more about this soon.

 

[MisterGrey3000]

It's worth noting that Chris Savino has a pretty extensive career, having worked on Powerpuff Girls and even My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, so this new information about him could really put a damper on a lot of things.

Yeah...as I said in the other thread the influence of showrunners in animation (especially those as experienced as Chris Savino) runs DEEP.
They're involved in so many parts of the production at almost every given time that it's quite noticeable when they end up leaving the program.

This whole thing with Savino is just a huge fuckin' bummer...-_-
I need a bucket of ice cream or somethin...
Hopefully the current crew can keep everything together T.T