Here's a brand new trailer for ADHD, the Fox network's late night Adult Swim-esque animation block that'll be airing Saturday nights beginning July 27th from 11 to 12:30am. ADHD's main shows so far will be Axe Cop, based on the comic book created by a 5-year-old and with the voice talent of Nick Offerman, and Dino Stamatopoulos's High School USA! plus a bunch of short-run and one-off shows. Head over to ADHD's YouTube channel, which has pumped out over 20 popular videos over the past few months, for an idea of what to expect if the trailer leaves you wanting more.
Bill Plympton feels insulted. This despite the fact that the reigning guru of indie animation is celebrating the release of the feature-length documentary based on his life and artwork. Produced and directed by filmmaker/artist/actress Alexia Anastasio, Adventures in Plymptoons! will be available through Cinema Libre on September 18th.
There Plympton – with wide, tired eyes; sparsely tousled light-brown hair; and characteristically laid-back t-shirt and shorts – sprawls out on his couch in the corner of his modest one-room animation studio, politely arguing over the phone with a representative of whatever art show or film festival will be graced thisweek with the work of “one of the only [...]
Former Adult Swim VP of Program Development Nick Weidenfeld is working on a new late-night animation block for Fox's Saturday nights, and the whole thing is starting to take shape as the development process progresses. Here are the basics: it's going to be on Saturday nights from 11pm-12:30am, and it'll feature four 15-minute shows as well as "about 50 short-form shows of 1-3 minute each."
The first 15-minute show that's officially been picked up is Axe Cop, which is based on a downright delightful comic that's written by a five-year-old and drawn by his 29-year-old brother. It is as adorably absurd as it sounds and if [...]
Caution: after watching this video of the Bob's Burgers cast recording their voice overs, you may never look at Bob Belcher without seeing H. Jon Benjamin in blue eyeshadow. Conversely, every time I try to look at Kristen Schaal in this video I see phantom pink bunny ears. And sometimes I just see them floating in the air. Waving at me. Excuse me, I have some business to attend to on WebMD.
Matt Maiellaro, one of the co-creators of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, is developing a new animated comedy for FX, and Eastbound & Down's Danny McBride has signed on to voice a character. The show's about "a man recently released from prison," which, yeah, is incredibly open-ended (was he released from prison a changed man who's devoted his life to cooking free burritos for the homeless? Is he vengeful and determined to set his former cellmates free? Was he in prison for decades and now is terrified of the outside world like Brooks in The Shawshank Redemption?). But the track record of the people involved, plus FX's animation hot [...]
"Where's the Francis Ford Coppola or the Alfonso Cuaron of the [animation] field? … Why can't there be an Annie Hall? … Why does it always have to be cute?"
For the video for their new single "The Wind," the Zac Brown Band enlisted Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill as animator and director. What he created is this, a hilarious and great video about "Robo Redneck" that you should probably just watch, lover of down-home country music or not.
I'm not really sure why Next Media Animation keeps restricting itself to coverage of news stories. In just this one video about Dave Chappelle's joining Twitter, there are enough premises for like 8 movies. A standup comic who performs naked, the fight for territory between a bear and a reclusive comedian, forced suicide after a wise man tells you you don't exist. All solid entertainment ideas.
The first of the Community webisodes is here, and it's as fun as it can be while coming in at a scant one minute and 55 seconds. As much as you may love the Dean's instructions on "deaning," regrettable Tamagotchi parenting choices, and stern recitation of Britta's Britta-ish email address, though, be warned that this video may just leave you curled up in a cold corner like a junkie, shaking with the need for your next fix, until NBC parcels out the next miserly two minutes tomorrow.
Fox's new late-night animation block, FoxADHD, is getting closer to its July 2013 launch. There's now a new site for it that's debuting a new video every day along with a bunch of really nutso gifs. The first video is above, a straight-up disturbing take on the presidential debates. You can follow the site or their Twitter feed for more such craziness. This first video sure does seem like a planted flag, letting us know that the Adult Swim pedigree of the folks launching this block is shining through, and they're not toning down the weirdness for a major network. And thank goodness for that.
In Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, heroine Suzy Bishop takes a suitcase full of books with her when she runs away from home. None of the books are real — Anderson hired artists to create the different covers. But in this new short, narrated/hosted by the pretty much always perfect Bob Ballaban, six of the books are brought to life via animation, with Bishop reading passages from each. It's great, especially if you've seen the movie and just want to inhabit that world for another five minutes or so. The video is not embeddable because people are selfish, so head on over to EW to see it for yourself.
Devin Clark, the creator of Comedy Central's Ugly Americans, is doing a Reddit AMA right now. So far we've learned that his favorite line from the show is "Suck my balls," obviously – translated from the ManBird for "thanks for watching."
If you really and truly couldn't last one more week until Community comes back, relax! Hulu will air the first of three two-minute animated promos this Wednesday. All three are part of one story called "Abed's Master Key," in which Dean Pelton gives Abed a Greendale Master Key to serve as his assistant. Sounds like basically an extra Community episode, but animated, six minutes long, and cut into thirds. We'll take it.
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