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(There are eight scenes to this documentary and this is the first one; the actual embedded flash is in the full post to avoid making people load a ~2MB file on the main page; the other scenes will be posted later)
Here’s the first scene of a school project I worked on earlier this year (it was a year-long project that most people procrastinated on; presentations were about two weeks ago). The project itself was pretty general; you could essentially choose any topic to research and present your research in a bunch of different media (short stories, lectures, documentaries, etc), and I chose to do a documentary, but with animation instead of filmed footage. So basically, it’s an animated documentary about animation, with an incredibly unoriginal title: “Animation.”
With that being said, there isn’t really that much actual animation in the documentary besides the motion-tweened arm movements and the lip syncing (which is incredibly time consuming and annoying to do), and the various things I reused from older animations I’ve made, which you will see at the end of this scene.
Oh, and this is an edited version, different from what I actually showed at school, with some slight name changes and omissions of last names. My voice was never in the original anyway (I got a friend to narrate in the later scenes after realizing how much I failed at narrating), so I didn’t really have to edit anything out for that.
It might be a bit weird watching this and hearing people’s voices considering the fact that I’ve never made anything with actual voices and lip syncing until now, but oh well.
Awesomeness
I’ve been pretty fond of american cartoons until I got into Japanese anime… Inuyasha in particular
Voices in Walfas?! Impossible!
*Ahem* That was quite entertaining, especially since I watched most of those animations as a kid as well.
The lip-synching was rather amusing.
Whoa…. this is really odd. But innocent? What about tom and jerry? The long snout part sounds really phalic. This is actually really interesting, can’t wait for part 2.
And yay Marisa~
All jokes aside I was hoping for a Doug reference when people brought up Nickelodeon.
Quite alot of anime there. I grew up with mostly Looney Toons. There was all those other stuff too, like the Nickelodeon, Disney, PBS and Hanna Barbera but yeah, it wasn’t until like, fourth grade or that I really got into some kind of Anime. I think. Later was Hamtaro, Card Captors, DBZ and Techi Muyo but…I was mostly into all sorts of Cartoons when I was younger. Mostly the American ones.
O__O!
テ・ママステ!!
Great Flash… I wonder… Will anyone say Touhou Musou Kakyou?
Hmm, interesting! (Also, yay for KirbyM’s voice/gender remaining ambiguous ;3)
@Anon Eemuhs: Better that than Touhou Project Side Story…
Cool!
I don’t mind Western animation much, but I hate Western cartoons that try to imitate anime (and fail).
“Barny counts as an animation right? oh ok nvm”
i freaken lol at that xDD
anywho, hooray marisa arrived 8D!!!
Wow…it was sorta..real. I almost forgot those were cartoon characters when i was listening to the voices.
@Chaos42
You do know that Eastern Animation was inspired by western animations right?
The japanese started making anime after america create a few, like snow white and others. But like usual, Japan always take it 3 or 4 steps ahead of america after a while.
Hmm… very nice…
I await the others
Sure ya get a pretty high note with this documentary! But I never liked the Hannah-Barbera work, and Disney musicals are simply annoying to me, except when Pixar is involved. I grew up with Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, Samurai Pizza Cats… and the epic shoujo animes of that time like Heidi, Candy Candy, a japanese version of The Secret Garden and Sandy Bell… ah, I want to go and shed manly tears now, excuse me
Whoa! So many people watched Digimon!
Pretty much nobody watched it around here do to it being a rip-off.
And the little movie is very good! Good job!
YES, Freaking Surfing Purple Dinosaur BarneyUh, oh, so, yeah, what happened to the good ol’ cartoons from back then? Almost everything I see nowadays is not very interesting and(ry
↑Why does many people always says that? Could it be true? Or do we just think they were good because we grew with them, and think the actual ones aren’t that good because we aren’t fond of them?
Will the next generations think the cartoons they grew with are good, and think the actual ones (in their time) aren’t that good anymore?
Oh my God, the characters aren’t bald.
Great work there~
Why, you are a Genius KirbyM D:
Really nice work, waiting for the others :D
wow, I cried at that Dumbo scene too =(
Really great work! Probably my only advice would be to add some background music. Yea, not all documentaries have them, but I think the subject Animation is playful enough to have benefited from background music, like the clips in this documentary (abit of foul-language btw). I guess it would have been extra work to find some instrumentals that would go well with the scenes, but its still pretty good regardless. =3 Hope you get an A!
Nice lip syncing!
Much better than what I did, which was make keyframes with different mouth sizes, and just copy-pasted a set of 10 or so keyframes of mouth movements. >_>
I actually grew up on Western animation. I didn’t see any anime until I was about 8 or 9. Most of what I watched before that were Disney cartoons, both full movies and animated series, Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry and Nickelodeon cartoons. And of course, there were a lot of other animated movies that I can barely remember now, except for a few. I really liked The Land Before Time (I still do; the death of Littlefoot’s mother was the first time I cried at a movie).
Wow… this sure was nice… can´t wait for the other parts…
This is so funny XD
It just feels so real that I want to laugh my head off!and I think this is an AWESOME idea!
Boy I remember when I saw…
Ahaha. Princess Mononoke. If I remember, that’s the first anime I ever watch. It’s like when I’m 4 or 5. It’s really good. It’s weird how I can still remember it though, since I’m really bad at remembering stuff. And it’s also weird how can I understand the story cause English is not my primary language. Anyway, great job KirbyM. Can’t wait for the rest.
There are way too many animated series for me to list in one post. I could go back to when I was born in 1983 and list every single animated series that I have watched up to this very day. From the well known series like He-Man, Jem (I admit it, I liked Jem), and Rainbow Brite (to this day, I still have a pillowcase of Rainbow Brite) to really obscure series like Ring Raiders where Peter Chung of Aeon Flux and Reign: The Conqueror did the art design. Ring Raiders was a fun toy line too; you get these rings that had detachable planes on them, like wearable micro machines. When I got into college and met fellow 80’s friends, bricks were set when I found out that some of the shows I have seen were actual anime series.
I really cannot remember this one anime movie (all I remember out of it was this one scene where this girl is waking up from a peapod type chamber) but the other two movies I am fond of are Lensman and Venus Wars. Classics.
Oh the memories of Teddy Ruxpin…WOW KirbyM, you have literally dropped an h-bomb of nostalgia on me. I hope that I can feel up to writing about all the series that I have watched.
I personally grew up watching anime like Astroboy, Gundam, Doraemon, Mahoujin Guru Guru, Lets&Go, Lucky Man, Dr. Slump, Gegege no Kitarou, etc. I had a number of Disney flicks too, I suppose.
I watched Evangelion in like, 1997, when I was like, 6 or so.
Voices in MY Walfas? No Wai Thats Impossible! :O
So, the first animation (khm cartoon) I’ve ever seen is Dumbo. Then there were three periods of cartoon watching for me. The first was the “whatever was on TV”, what included random western animations, French version of Dragon Ball Z (what wasn’t censored, but the OP song was about “Love and Friendship” and in the next scene we saw Frieza killing everyone. Oh yeah.), awful French version of Sailor Moon. And stuff.
The second period was “OMFG POKEMON W00T! Gotta catch ’em all!”, what also included Digimon, what I watched on some German channel and I haven’t understood a word.
In the third period I’ve degraded to “OMG I have CABLE TV” and Nickelodeon. So yeah. Fortunately I’ve got better, and now I only watch good anime. Like Aria!!
@Jay
Let’s and Go? Did you watch Dash Yankuro? Same topics, but more absurd than Let’s and Go.
I watch both Eastern and western animation…
The most vivid cartoon memory of childhood I have was waking up at 7:00 AM every Saturday to watch Robotech on our local UHF station, followed by Galaxy Rangers at 8:00. Does anyone remember Galaxy Rangers?
I remember Sailor Moon and stuff. Of course I had no idea it was anime. And I also remember when Cartoon Network had quality shows.
And it was actually “Cartoon” Network. You don’t put reality *read as: fake reality* shows on >>>Cartoon<<.>)
(I blame the above post on angle brackets. I will type the rest of my post now…)
you don’t put reality shows on Cartoon Network.
@Chaos42 yes, so true. they did a good job subbing pokemon, but this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ5mQPVQmZ8 just confuses me to no end. (a warning to hardcore keroro fans who hate dubbing and would explode at the sound of it. god knows I did T.T)
Naruto, what the f-, hahahaha, wasn’t he answering “What are some animations you remember from your childhood?”
Anyways, you know where it’s at? Schoolhouse Rock, that’s where it’s at. Conjunction Junction, The Tale of Mr. Morton… gonna go watch that now.
Also, if you grew up with Saturday morning cartoons in their final days in the 90s, you’re cool like me.
I saw numerous animated Disney films as a child, of course. However, the earliest animation I can remember watching on TV was shows like Speed Racer, Sinbad, Jr., Popeye, Underdog, Rocky & Bullwinkle, and a variety of the old Warner Bros. cartoons—not just Bugs Bunny and company, but their Merrie Melodies and similar, like the ones with book or magazine covers coming alive and interacting with one another.
Speed Racer was, without a doubt, the first anime I ever saw (I never lived in an area that broadcast Astro Boy, Kimba or any of the other concurrent Japanese imports), though I didn’t realize it until years later. In later childhood/early adolescence, I got to see shows like Star Blazers and Battle of the Planets, as well as much of the standard H-B fare: Scooby Doo, Jabberjaw, Flintstones, Hong Kong Phooey, etc. (I could keep listing ones that come to mind, but I’m not going to subject people to a wall o’ text here.)
Stuff like Sailor Moon, Pokémon, Digimon and the Nicktoons stuff came much later for me.
Yay voices!
But…naruto from his childhood?
o.o
You know, I grew up watching cartoon like Looney Toons and Garfield, and Batman, and its only now that I’m older I appreciate them more.
hahahahah barney????? xD
nice animation! I don’t understand much English spoken, but at least I understand of what they said a little
naruto from his childhood? i don’t think so
First animations … um, Ninja Turtles. And both Sonic cartoons.
Ah, back in the days when the Genesis games were what people thought of when they thought of Sonic. Before the Dark Times. Before the *brick’d*
I watched Arthur because it was awesome. You’re never too old for Arthur, y’know. Oh yeah and the Sonic cartoon, not the one with the sadistic Robotnik but the other one, the one with the… er… pingas.
Also lawl Marisa. I’m expecting her to get frozen by Cirno by Part Nine.
@The people who are all like “wtf naruto”: Maybe that guy’s a time traveler? :3
Missing the last day of 7th grade just to watch the first episode of Sailor Moon that was showing for the nth time…
FANTASTIC.
I remember… Thundercats (yay for 80’s Cartoon) Sailor moon, Pokemon, Digimon, Cybborg 009, Yu-Gi-Oh, Inuyasha, Shaman king….
Now with Touhou…
No one has said anything still about Mazinger Z o.O!
Well, I did actually grew watching both eastern and western, i saw a lot of Merrie Melodies, Disney old(i mean really old, B/W ones) shows, Hanna Barbera (what I most liked) and for the time being I still like them and don’t think i would never forget about them.
Remember some anime, I did actually know they were japanese, like Dragon League, Robotech, Captain Tsubasa, Saint Seiya, Mazinger, Ultraman(don’t count but still), Candy, Heidi, Speed Racer, Dragon Ball, Ulises 31, Ranma1/2, Rurouni Kenshin, Magic Knight Rayearth and more stuff from aeons back in time XD
Then I got Locomotion, I saw a lot of anime there, but still in my favorites there is always things like Pink Panther, Godzilla, Huckleberri Hound, Looney Tunes, Thundercats, Silverhawks, Chip n’ Dale… They will never remain in the darkness of oblivion.
Looney Tunes taught me important life lessons, like how you can never die to silly things like explosions and anvil’s dropping on your face as long as it was done in a comical manner.
That animation was pretty damn awesome
Does Blue’s Clues count?
This was quite an interesting flash~
I look forward to more things like this in the future. ^^
NO WAI THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE! :O VOICES IN THE WALFAS :O
Plus, I see you reused the Marisa pulling from one of the flashes in that so-called DVD.
Before I was in school, a few of the shows I remember watching regularly were shows on Nickelodeon were The Little Koala, Noozles, and one of my favorites, David the Gnome.
Whatever was on the Disney Channel, I don’t remember too much except for just random cartoon shorts.
I mostly watched Nickelodeon, some I also remembered they had Count Duckula and Looney Toons (with the Merry Melodies as well, AND the black and white cartoons as well), and that before they got most of their original shows, there was some sort of “show” where they had a different animated movie each week. One I remembered was The Legend of Manxmouse (thankfully I remembered that title even after almost 20 years), I know a number were based on somewhat obscure stories (they better be! I’ve never heard of any of them before or since) including one about a soldier who made a deal with the devil after shooting a bear where the guy had to wear the bear’s skin for I forget how long, but his pockets would never run out of money, and the guy was not allowed to shave, wash, or pray. I don’t remember what that story was called, but I know that was part of that movie thing they had.
When I was in school, (obviously not during school) Ninja Turtles, the Super Mario Bros. Super Show (with the Legend of Zelda showing on Fridays), Captain N the Game Master. Forget what years, but there was a Disney block of shows after school that included Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck, Tail Spin, Aladdin, Gargoyles (which was more when I was in middle school)
There was also the Nickelodeon shows like the first three Nicktoons, Doug, Rugrats, and Ren and Stimpy.
Eventually we got Cartoon Network, (when it was great), Dexter’s Lab, Two Stupid Dogs. I remember when Toonami first started. While I did see anime (when I knew it was anime [didn’t know Noozles and The Little Koala were anime until recently]) until middle school) before then, it was the first time I knowingly watched it regularly. Man, the good(?) old days when it was dubbed and edited heavily like Robotech, Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing (my first Gundam). And that’s the anime. There was also The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (which I didn’t get to see as often as I wanted since I had karate lessons when it aired).
I’ve also seen G.I. Joe and Transformers, but I don’t remember Transformers being a regular thing I saw. Since I was really little, I also remember watching Care Bears. Actually, before I went to school, and maybe for the first year or two, I would stay up all night Fridays, wait for my parents to go to bed, and go downstairs in my house to the only TV that had cable and stay up all night watching TV waiting for the Saturday morning shows. I actually remember seeing an episode or two of the Dragon Warrior (Quest) anime! And while flipping through the channels, came across Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z before it became really popular in the US, even one time on one of the Spanish channels.
Almost forgot, also watched Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and Earthworm Jim. There was also the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, where Steve Urkel was the voice of Sonic :D only saw the first two shows regularly (though there was another one before Sonic X)
I don’t remember all of the shows I’ve seen, and I haven’t really gone over too much of the Saturday shows either. But two last things, I remember also on Disney they had various animated movies too (that may or may not have been Disney, or not completely Disney) like one about Puff the Magic Dragon, another one about the teddy bears’ picnic, and Unico in the Island of Magic (which is a very rare anime in the US unless you get a bootleg)
And if the system allows me to submit this post in its entirety, I will be very very surprised.
wow… sorry for the Great Wall of Text… 20+ years of watching cartoons can do that…
haha nice :D
>Naruto
>Childhood cartoon
We have a Peter Pan there.
Now that I remember there were the X-men, Spider-man, Batman, Hulk, Iron-man, Droopy, Felix… there was a Megaman I think, Legend Of Zelda, Garfield (how could It be possibly that I forgot about it?).
In CN, there were some animes I must talk about like Popolocrois, it was really awesome, then there was Corrector Yui(?), Super Doll Licca Chan and Tokyo Mew Mew, were something like mahou shoujo I think. One that I most likely have forgotten of was Mon Cole Knights, I didn’t watched it full but it was really good. And, as the cherry on top, all of the Digimons, the one I most liked was the first one, indeed.
I miss old cartoons like that. Kids these days are growing up with such… Lame cartoons. I remember discussing cartoons a lot with my brother and even people I met in basic training.
We all agree it’s pretty sad the state of kid’s cartoons nowadays.
the lip syncing absolutely blew me away
I must be in the same age group with Sprocket & TyrannoRexaur judging from the cartoons they mentioned ( unless they watched them on cable, then I’m older). I remember seeing a commercial for Battle of the Planets when I was 3 and wanting to see it, but didn’t know enough about using the television to do so until I was about 5. I spent my weekday mornings watching Popeye, Mighty Mouse, and Casper, and my Saturday mornings watching Fat Albert, Superfriends, and The Blue Falcon. It was a while before I realized that many of the anime I watched during the 1970’s & 1980’s were called anime and came from Japan: Battle of the Planets, Speed Racer, Marine Boy, Voltron, Starblazers, Tranzor Z, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, and Robotech.
My very first anime was either Shaman King, Rurouni Kenshin, Yu Yu Hakusho, Zodiac Knighs, Shinzo, or Pokemon or Digimon. One of those started my anime obsession. lol.
My personal favorite animations growing up would have to be Bambi, Little Mermaid, Spirited Away….(All Miyazaki movies.), and Shaman King.
Growing up, maybe when I was in sixth grade… younger… maybe…. I remember watching Bonkers, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Gummy Bears(Don’t remember much just the fact they drunk this juice and they were like bouncy balls). I still watch constant cartoons. XD
Kids these days needs to watch the classics like Bugs, Droopy, Dexter’s Lab, PPG…. ones that one can’t turn on the tv and watch. The ones you can’t find anymore unless you have Satelite.
My experiences were mainly the same as jimbobwolfman’s: watching the awesome Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons that came on Cartoon Network back when they were a proper cartoon network, as well as Tom and Jerry. Some of my other favorites were on Nickelodeon back when they weren’t retarded: Aah! Real Monsters, Rocko’s Modern Life, Angry Beavers and Invader Zim, to name a few. I also used to love watching the Toonami block on Cartoon Network. My big favorites back then were probably CardCaptors and Tenchi Muyo. Other favorites of mine were Pokemon, Digimon, and most of the old Cartoon Cartoons. I miss Courage, Dexter, and Samurai Jack ;w;
one cartoon I liked a lot as a kid was “the twins of destiny”, the english dub of a french cartoon called “Les Jumeaux du Bout du Monde” (it was one of a number of french cartoons that was animated in japan), too bad it only ever aired twice (and the second time, it had parts cut out, as it was just before the idea of cartoons being able to be made for more mature audiences was widely accepted). You can find episodes on youtube from the various dubs (orginal french, italian, possibly german, tagalog and a few early episodes in english).
I also watched a whole lot of nickelodeon cartoons, plus a number of the early anime imports such as sailor moon, cardcaptors (in australia, we got to see all the episodes and in proper order) teknoman (the first english dub, the one that had all episodes dubbed, and they were far less cut and closer to the original japanese version), robotech, and of course, pokemon, digimon, dragon ball z, yugioh and other anime from that period. (we have had anime playing on weekdays here in australia for ages, so even though we wait longer to get new episodes, we go through them 4-5 times faster, depending on whether the show plays on friday on the channel the episodes get first run on).
and just to add a little more, I also watched classic looney toons cartoons on VHS tapes hired from the video store.
Wow, interesting to see how different the type of cartoons people watched in their youth are for Americans and for me. Almost all of the cartoons mentioned in these comments are ones I never saw, some I never even heard of. I think the majority of them never even aired over where I live. Or maybe there’s a big age difference between me and the people posting here (I’m 28)? Interestingly though, the animation I also recall seeing as the first one was Dumbo. If I’m correct, I must’ve been 3-5 years old or somewhere around that age when I saw it. I can’t believe I even remember something from that time. I remember him getting drunk and seeing pink elephants. And also that scene described in the flash. I don’t think I have ever seen that movie again since I saw it as a kid. Amazing that I still even remember stuff from it — that’s how much impact cartoons made on me as a kid! Of course, it could also be because we taped it and if I’m not mistaken (going by what my father said) I played back the tape so many times it nearly turned gray.
I could make a list of the cartoons I saw when I was young, but nobody would care so I’ll just leave it at this.
Yeah, I don’t really know why he said Naruto either. But I guess it depends on how you define “childhood.” If you define it as being under 18, then technically, almost everyone I interviewed would still be considered a child, so anything they’ve seen would work. Technically. But that’s not really what I intended.
Stupid CartoonNetwork for getting rid of Toonami and Sailor Moon.
Sailor Moon was one of my favorites, along with Hamtaro.
Over 50 responses and not one mention of Socialist Men Under Red Father? Blasphemy!
Can’t wait to see the rest.
All your friends are asian
except for the caspar and shamar
This is amazing, did you work on this project with a team or by yourself?
This will touch upon the (pardon the TVTropes terminology) Animation Age Ghetto, will it?
Holy crap. This whole thing just made me shake my head sadly.
I’m serious. Watching this just made me weep for humanity.
I’m not saying particularly, that these people sound unintelligent or anything… I’m just saying that , well…
No, sorry, I just can’t find a polite way to say it. These people you’ve interviewed makes driveway gravel sound like genius nuclear physicists.
I just cannot tell you how appalled I was by the complete ignorance on display. Absolutely no mention of early grondbreaking Disney shorts, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, no one talking about the prominence and boom of American animation as an artform in the golden age of the 30’s-50’s, the Warner Brothers, Disney and MGM days, or any show that actually contributed to the history of Animation.
Instead rattling off names of popular (and mostly terrible) mainstream anime produced in the last 10 years, and most of them recent and still running now. And Naruto? What kind of idiot could say they grew up with Naruto? The show isn’t even 5 years old, as far as I know! Arthur? Mentioned twice? That just made me want to slap myself out of the sheer idiocy.
To say nothing of someone actually having to think and question whether Barney The Dinosaur was animation or not. Oh good gravy.
Quite honestly, you could have retitled this documentary as “Human Stupidity: Genetic or Environmental?” and it probably would have fit the subject matter at hand more accurately than being about Animation’s history and future.
Really, this just made me hang my head in shame for the sad state of not only our generation, but even past generations.
The only reasonably intelligent part of this entire thing was the lady’s Dumbo story, and that was about it.