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After looking into TyrionLannister's answer, I found this on wikipedia:
Bugs Bunny's nonchalant carrot-chewing standing position, as explained by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Bob Clampett, originated in a scene in the film It Happened One Night, in which Clark Gable's character leans against a fence, eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth ...
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Performance capture generally refers to the practice of capturing very subtle movements from real actors and using those in animation. Movies like Ice Age are fine without performance capture because the characters aren't realistic.
The problem you run into when trying to make realistic human animations is that the human brain is wired to detect very ...
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The (co-)Creator of Bugs Bunny, Tex Avery, once said:
We decided he was going to be a smart-aleck rabbit, but casual about it, and his opening line in the very first one was Eh, what's up, Doc? And, gee, it floored [the audience]!
They expected the rabbit to scream, or anything but make a casual remark--here's a guy with a gun in his face! It got ...
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It may be that you have fallen for the classic effect called the Uncanny Valley.
The reason those humans seem creepy to you is that they indeed look pretty much like real humans and not like exaggerated caricatures of humans usually seen in other animated movies. This first sounds rather paradox, but when looking at arbitrary animated creatures (like toys, ...
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The Mouse and His Child is the one you're thinking of, I believe. I found it on YouTube. It ran on HBO in the early eighties I think. I watched it several times as a kid. I loved it but at the same time found it to be a little disturbing.
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I think performance capture is used to make animation that is more naturalistic through capturing movement from actors. This has been used with great effect where animation has to interact with live action - such as Gollum in the LoTR movies or King Kong (both using Andy Serkis as the actor), where a 'simply' animated character can be unconvincing. In this ...
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Mixing of real characters with animated characters is done in several ways (wiki link)-
double-printing two negatives onto the same release print.
More sophisticated techniques used optical printers or aerial image animation cameras, which enabled more exact positioning, and better interaction of actors and animated characters.
Example- In the penguin ...
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It would appear that this film is an Anime variant of Jack and the Beanstalk (orig: "Jakku to Mame no Ki" from 1974 (released in the US in 1976).
The Ogre was the Giant who was the child/stepson of a witch. He grow larger fueled by anger towards the end. The wedding guests are paper-cutouts which are animated by the witch. The wedding is scored with a very ...
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The first time Bugs uses the phrase is in the cartoon Wild Hare
1940. The rabbit walks up to Elmer Fudd who is hunting for him
with a large gun and casually asks, “What’s up Doc?”
Its their original phrase. May be inspired from What's up Phrase
Which appears previously
The phrase appears in Jack London's The Sea Wolf (1904), chapter 25
(-- ...
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Treehouse TV refers to both characters as 'he'.
Toopy is a mouse with a vivid imagination. He transforms reality into a series of fantastic stories brimming with amazing creatures.
Binoo, the tiny cat, is Toopy’s ideal companion. He shares in the adventures with absolute wonder and untainted innocence, often outdoing Toopy in imagination.
Ref: ...
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I asked a friend and his response was:
There was an episode that had a handful of the JOE team searching for the others. Steeler was really on the edge of insanity because nothing made sense. They found the old JOE base, and ran the records to find everyone else had been killed. I can't remember if it was one of those "skewed universes" or a secret COBRA ...
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It sounds like The Great Mouse Detective (1986). The villain was a rat (the appropriately named Professor Ratigan), the mystery concerned a kidnapped toymaker, and although it was in fact produced by Disney, it was during a period when the house style was quite different.
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This is Kidd Video:
The title sequence explained the plot; Kidd Video and his band of the
same name (played by live-action performers in the first half of the
title sequence) were kidnapped by a villain named Master Blaster, and
transported to Master Blaster's home dimension, a cartoon world called
The Flipside. They were rescued by a fairy named ...
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Wolf Rock TV
Description from Toonarific:
Born with a face for cartoons, deejay icon Wolfman Jack stretched
himself into two dimensions to portray a mentor to three teens-Sarah,
Sunny, and Ricardo-and a bird named Bopper in this short-lived show.
The Wolfman, who built his reputation in the 50's and 60's for playing
banned songs over Mexican ...
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Cossacs. Looks like story about Cossacs.
Russian wiki link
It's Soviet cartoon and there are a number of episodes, actually.
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Yay, at least I found it : Happily Ever After :) It's about Snow White, and what happened after Evil Queen has died. It's from 1990.
The Evil Queen is dead and Snow White is on her way to see the 7 dwarves when Lord Maliss, the Queen's brother, sees her in the looking glass. He attacks her in the form of a dragon, taking Snow White's prince to the Realm ...
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I knew it, it must be Sitting Ducks(2001).
The show takes place in a town called Ducktown and focuses on a Duck
named Bill and his best friend Aldo, an Alligator from the neighboring
town of Swampwood.
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That may be the case because Polar Express is made using motion capture Technique, Which is not used in Shrek, Toy story etc. Motion capture Technique are generally used to present real emotions or live movements. Or may be the case that its animation is not made that playful as toy story or shrek to make it more realistic. In general Polar Express is got ...
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I'm fairly certain that the cartoon you're talking about is The Bluffers. In this show, a bunch of talking animals defend their forest from Clandestino, an evil hunchbacked human. Here's a the into from Youtube.
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Those Films Make Money
Tangled earned $559 million word wide from box office sales, not including merchandising profits. It cost $260 million to make. So doubling your investment isn't bad.
Red Riding Hood (2011) was a live action story based upon a fairy tale. It cost much less $42 million, but only did $89 million. That would be counted as a success, ...
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Found it. The name of the short is "Cannon Fodder" by director and screenwriter by Katsuhiro Otomo, who is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation.
In a walled city perpetually at war, everyone's livelihood depends
upon maintaining and firing the enormous cannons that make up most of
the city. Nearly every ...
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From Hollywood history:
1937
Disney releases “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” – the first animated feature – using the new Three-Strip Technicolor process.
From Wikipedia,
Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film in history, the first produced in full color, the first to be ...
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I think you're looking for the film Cool WorldFrom wikipedia:Cool World is a 1992 American live-action/animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi, and starring Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne, and Brad Pitt. It tells the story of a cartoonist who finds himself in the animated world he created, and is seduced by one of his characters, a comic strip vamp who wants to ...
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There is no clear answer to that. Ive researched it myself and even the original french characters are never defined as male or female. Toopy most often comes across as a male, but in more than one episode has dressed up as a girl and talked about kissing princes or being beautiful in dresses etc. The voice is a male for sure, but as far as I can tell, the ...
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There are automatic hair generation and physics-based animation bolt-ons available for most common commercial CGI creation/rendering packages, these have been around for a long while really.
That said Pixar do tend to write their own software and will probably have done so for 'Brave'.
Essentially you define the area on the head where hair is to be, you ...
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I'm almost tempted to say it's "Warriors of the Wind", which is a bastardized version of the anime classic Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Everything sort of matches your description, though I'm having trouble with the Tabasco ice cream. In the original Japanese version there was a scene where Nausicaa and Asbel are eating nuts inside an underground ...
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Could it have been Jim Henson's The Storyteller from 1988? John Hurt was narrating the stories, along with a talking dog puppet. The episodes had some animation, but were mostly live action and realistic puppets. Here are some Youtube clips:
Hans my Hedgehog
The Soldier and Death
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The correct short is actually A Fox in a Fix, one of the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Robert McKimson (creator of Foghorn Leghorn and Speedy Gonzales among others). It can be found on YouTube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pFAdJPYmNk
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I think you're talking about an episode of Grim Tales, where Rik Mayall is the narrator of children's stories. He sits in a leather chair in a dim-lit room, wearing a red gown.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19_K9zIeehs
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The older style of combining animation with live-action is called rotoscoping.
As TylerShads says, the newer method is to dress the actor in a "Capture Suit" which tracks the 3D position (in the room) of various spots on the body.
There is an older method of motion capture, where the actor wears a simple suit of a solid color, and the spots to be tracks ...
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