Cartoon Network’s Imagination Studios Encourages Children To Create Original Ideas
Major network creators like Rebecca Sugar and Ben Bocquelet will participate and teach children how to create cartoons.
Major network creators like Rebecca Sugar and Ben Bocquelet will participate and teach children how to create cartoons.
Three fame-chasing, selfie-loving bears are coming to Cartoon Network.
Hundreds of hours' worth of animation is newly available to stream online.
What power-ups will Steven Universe bust-out of his trusty cheeseburger backpack?
Steven's uncle and grandpa visits him today on a special episode of "Steven Universe."
"Powerpuff Girls" is being rebooted by "Adventure Time" art director Nick Jennings.
The first creative casualty resulting from the Sony hack ("The Interview" notwithstanding) is a project that's not even being produced by Sony; it's the New Regency film adaptation of Guy Delisle's graphic novel "Pyongyang."
The Internet animation community is talking about one thing today: a series of tweets last night by "Adventure Time" storyboard revision artist Emily Partridge in which she identified artist Skyler Page, the creator of the Cartoon Network series "Clarence," as sexually assaulting her.
As long as I've loved animation, I've been fascinated with the personal stories of people who work in the animation business. Not simply, "What character did you make?," but WHY and HOW did you make it? I became actively involved in documenting those stories when I published the print 'zine "Animation Blast," and it's something I've never stopped doing. For me, it wasn't just about talking to a handful of familiar directors and animators, but to talk with everyone, especially those who had worked quietly in the trenches and whose stories hadn't yet been told.
Reading beforehand what this episode was supposed to be about, my mind completely went somewhere else. Steven’s at that age when boys want alone time for a very specific reason and while I was 99.9% sure Cartoon Network wasn’t going to go that far, I thought they’d at least allude to that idea of adolescence and growing up. Instead we dived into the real reason (sort of) that Steven wanted to be left alone, and dug a little deeper into the idea of his parental units via a room and a weird, very strange world created by said room.
While this week’s "Steven Universe" opened a lot of doors as far as characterization and parallels, it was simply okay. Mr. Pizza was comical relief but other than that you had to dig for the entertainment.
This week's "Steven Universe" dived into the whirlwind that is the mindset of an insecure youth, in ways that were similar to the episode “Lars and the Cool Kids.” At first, the episode didn’t really make any sort of impression on me. It took another viewing for me to grasp its depth—or at least theorize things in the whirlwind that in my own mind at 3am.
When we started offering recaps of Steven Universe last November, we were uncertain how readers would respond. Your feedback turned out …
It’s been a few weeks but the last few times in Beach City we witnessed a lot of growth in the series. Steven had an anger revelation after he hung with the cool kids and really showcased the father-son relationship thanks to little Onion. Now we’re back and "Steven Universe" went and explored the maternal dynamic within their group after Pearl took a blade through the chest.
There’s something about Steven’s dad Greg that doesn’t add up. Will we ever really know why Greg distances himself from his son? This week in “Onion Trade," we explored a dad’s horrible ability to remember things, witnessed Steven’s lack of male role models, and learned a lot more about Onion, a character who revealed quite a few new layers.
The Cartoon Network upfronts took place yesterday and the now Stu Snyder-free network presented its slate of upcoming shows for the 2014-'15 season to their advertising and promotional partners.
“So Many Birthdays” Written and Storyboarded by Raven M. Molisee and Paul Villeco. “Lars and the Cool Kids” Storyboarded by Lamar …
Last week Steven put Garnet on a pedestal"and quickly learned she has flaws. This week in “Giant Woman,” he was fixated on the idea of what Amethyst and Pearl could be if they fused and became the “ultra powerful being” known as Opal.
Admiration was the theme this week and it was only coming from Steven and heading towards Garnet. She can do no wrong – a point on which I think we can all pretty much agree.
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner will make Netflix's first adult animated series.