Ashton Kutcher introduced his web startup, Blah Girls, at the TechCrunch50 today.
As NewTeeVee’s Liz Gannes puts it, “Not only is this one a celebrity-driven startup, but it’s about celebrities. It’s an animated web video show with interactive elements.”
It’s also dead on arrival.
Everybody seems to be so wowed by the Ashton Kutcher angle that they’ve missed [...]
We’ve highlighted several amazing new video software apps in the last few days - but the demo video above, from Image Metrics, is jaw-dropping.
It features a Emily - a computer graphic illustration produced using a new modeling technology that enables the minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated. For the first [...]
Big Buck Bunny is an animated short, released under the Creative Common Attribution license.
The film is about “a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps… and the rabbit ain’t no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a [...]
Excited about the new version of Speed Racer?
Hulu has a collection of classic Speed Racer episodes available on demand as streaming video.
Family media firm Entertainment Rights has announced deals that will bring a variety of classic cartoons to the Web via YouTube, Joost and Babelgum.
The launches will see Entertainment Rights provide all three platforms with a selection of retro programming, including:
He-Man
She-Ra
Trapdoor
Felix the Cat
Rocky & Bullwinkle
The Archies
Fat Albert
Casper the Friendly Ghost.
“Entertainment Rights wants to be where the [...]
RingTales has announced the debut of a new podcast featuring animated New Yorker Cartoons. Subscribers to the podcast will receive three new animations of The New Yorker “RingTales” each week.
RingTales has the exclusive license to animate and distribute The New Yorkers library of over 70,000 cartoons. “In making the transition from page to screen, were [...]
Warner Brothers has introduced a Justice League Heroes podcast and video podcast. the podcasts feature the prequel story to a Justice League Heroes videogame that is available on the PlayStation2 and Xbox game systems.
The game features features an original story from award-winning comic book and animation writer Dwayne McDuffie (Static Shock, Justice League, Teen Titans, [...]
Noah Kalina, a New York photographer, has published a video that provides a unique self-portrait. Kalina took 2356 photos of himself, a photo each day for six years, and then combined them to create a a sort of stop-motion or time lapse self-portrait.
