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Toon Crowd-Funder Anipipo Previews
Japanese / Thai I.T. service development company Goopa has launched a preview of its crowd-funding service Anipipo on Thursday, Anime News Network reports. The site will be available in English and Japanese and is being developed to exclusively fund animated projects through individual contributors. Anipipo is being led by Hiroaki [...]
Disney’s Swampy the Gator Gets His Own Show
This past week, Disney Interactive premiered its first online short-form animated series based on its own popular game franchise. Swampy the Gator, the star the popular Where’s My Water? mobile game is now featured in Swampy’s Underground Adventures, which can be seen on Disney’s YouTube channel www.YouTube.com/DisneyShows. The studio will also [...]
Adult Swim, Former Onion Crew Launch Thing X
Adult Swim has launched a new digital comedy site called Thing X (www.thingx.com), which is lead by former The Onion editor Joe Randazzo and several other staff from the popular humor site. Thing X satirizes all things Internet through exclusive videos, columns, interviews, reviews, e-mails, blurbs, bleeps, cybersnips and podcasts. [...]
SVoD Kidobi Invites Mondo TV to Play
Italy’s Mondo TV has partnered with Kidobi to distribute several preschool series in North America on the youngster-targeted SVoD platform. Bug’s Adventures (13×13), Jurassic Cubs (26×13), Toy Toons (26×13) and Turtle Hero (26×26) will become available in the coming weeks on Kodobi.com as well as the platform’s mobile apps for [...]
SunnyBoy’s ‘Politicats’ Offers Special Debate Episode
Delivering over a million hits in less than a month, SunnyBoy Entertainment’s web series, Politicats, continues to attract toon fans to SMOSH’s Shut Up! Cartoons YouTube channel. The hit animated series will premiere a debate episode between President Black Cat and Mittens 2.0 that goes live on Tuesday (Oct. 2) [...]
Toon Goggles: Smooth Streaming Ahead
Los Angeles-based Toon Goggles continues to build its children’s animation library and expanding its global multiplatform reach. It seems that for the past few months, online kids platform Toon Goggles has been snapping up new partners and expanding its tablet reach almost every week. A few weeks ago, the Los [...]
Political Parodies: ‘Simpsons’ Premiere, ‘Drive-In Religion’
If you’re at all like us, there’s two things you can’t wait for: The end of the election season and the start of the 24th season of The Simpsons! The good news is they overlap, producing the opportunity for a great jab from one to the other. Take a look: [...]
Rauch Bros, Wray Animate ‘Facundo’ StoryCorps Short
Animation vets Mike and Tim Rauch and Bill Wray have animated a new short for StoryCorps. The short, titled Facundo the Great, is one of many stories adapted to animation by the national nonprofit oral history organization. The short tells the tale of Ramòn “Chunky” Sanchez, who was raised in [...]
Bakshi Pokes Fun at Politics in ‘Trickle Dickle Down’ Short
Legendary animator Ralph Bakshi has released a new, political short film called Trickle Dickle Down on YouTube. Baskhi, who is best known for directing such adult-oriented animated fare as Fritz the Cat, Wizards, The Lord of the Rings, American Pop, Fire and Ice and Cool World, uses the short to take [...]
Forte Launches Goon Cartoons Channel on YouTube
Animator and comics artist Frank Forte has launched Goon Cartoons, an original animation channel on YouTube. Forte says Goon Cartoons will be a YouTube partner channel. “I’m really excited to be part of the YouTube partner channel family,” says Forte. “We’ve got some really funny cartoon shorts that we’ve been [...]
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