Animation Artifacts &Commentary 14 Apr 2006 07:16 am
Good Friday
- The reviews for The Wild are much more positive than I would have expected given the pre-reviews. All of them mention the similarity to Madagascar, but they it gives them the chance to talk about the differences. Ice Age 2 dethroned? Here’s the NYTimes, The NY Daily News, the LATimes, Roger Ebert, and Emru Townsend.
– Everyone out there interested in insightful animation should have tuned into the last two episodes of South Park. It’s an absolutely brilliant take on The Family Guy, The Simpsons, and South Park, itself. No wonder this show won a Peabody – they deserved it. This show, particularly these episodes, feature some of the best writing on television. Hilarious and insightful.
The controversy surrounding the show revolves around censorship on television. An episode of The Family Guy, which plans on showing an image of Mohammad, has all of America burying their heads in the sand to avoid facing the censorship issue. Kyle and Cartman set out to save the day in a struggle of our civil rights in the US. Bart Simpson also gets involved.
Comedy Central actually did censor the image of Mohammad from South Park, and the creators, Stone and Parker, are livid with the censorship they’ve had to face. The episode aired intact in Europe. For more about it: NYTimes, or The Telegraph.
- The following is a continuation of the production drafts for Pinocchio. Hopefully, these are of interest to enough people out there. I have to admit it doesn’t make for the most attractive visuals, but what ho.
