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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

charisma. animators who extraordinarily stand out, as ben ettinger used it web.archive.org/web/20120716...

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

evergreen tony mines post. second paragraph is the truth of all media nerds web.archive.org/web/20210515...

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

incredible stuff from harlock ep 9. directors are masayuki ozeki and johei matsuura, but i don't know who did which half

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

animation is saved www.classicflix.com/products/cop...

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

i can't spoil CITY episode 5's best trick, but suffice to say minoru ota (director and storyboarder) is a genius and this is truly revolutionary tv anime

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

i've long been kinda on the fence about kyoani's arawi adaptations--i've found their love for naturalism kinda at odds with arawi's surrealism and hilariously UN-natural pacing and emphasis, and both kinda cancelling each other out in the process--but not anymore!

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

we've come a long way from the simple days when the school principal merely suplexed a deer

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

not many shadows but brings to mind the notorious toy story 2 posters

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

the trick of course is that it's quickly established as inconceivable that the tiny, gentle, and/or adorably ineffectual characters in this show could ever do any harm to each other, in spite of their most diligent efforts

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

the anime "risky/safety" (1999-2000) displays a working prototype of the kyoani ideal of therapeutic moe, despite it opening on a scene of a shinigami appearing before a despondent young lady and declaring her intent to send the latter to hell.

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

those famous screen lovers

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

going to stream r.o. blechman's "the soldier's tale" at 7 PM PST tonight in the world animation discord, arguably one of the best animated films made in the USA. check out this stellar sequence animated by fred burns! www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/87...

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

in honor of various "fan lyric" videos to instrumental songs that never had lyrics, here is my own "fan lyric" video for my favorite cartoon theme song, the 50s BARNEY BEAR intro

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

when osamu tezuka saw the daicon iii animation, he famously said "there certainly were a lot of characters in the film...there were also some that weren't in the film." akai and yamaga, realizing the implication of tezuka's remark, made sure that daicon iv did not omit muttley.

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

we think we'll get a momentary reprieve from all the violence--no such luck, with a one-frame puppy jump scare. i like how the music cue isn't even given time to finish

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

by the end the confounded cat drops all attempts at subtlety and opts for more direct measures

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

lovable pup scenes contrasted with calculated malice. note the cat-shaped shattered glass on the mirror, which is a callback to an earlier accident i hadn't noticed til this viewing

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

jones renders claude as an emotionally manipulative psychopath. look at that disarming innocence! it's "sincere" animated character acting weaponized and demonstrated how easy it is to fake

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

brilliant scene from chuck jones's "two's a crowd" that conveys the extent of the director's funny cynicism--claude cat's acting is entirely convincing and observant of heartwarming interactions with cute puppies, while in fact only murder is on his mind!

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

ernie kovacs is probably the greatest artist to work in the medium of television (thanks @nobaddy.bsky.social for the dvd copy)

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

grumpy old marxist daffy, for whom time hasn’t passed since the 70s

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

cartoon is "lighter than hare" (1960), a slightly bizarre late bugs/sam outing

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

friz freleng should have written his own cartoons more often

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

i think the very first might be johnny appleseed, of course he is deservedly forgotten

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

an evergreen quote from the great william hanna himself! www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=1755

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

it's hard to capture the effect in stills but the final animation actually feels like it moves less than the board panels do

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

a mysterious feature of the hanna-barbera animation system was that you could drop any sort of wonderful material in it and it would come out on the other end as the exact same slop

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

the final product mostly follows the board verbatim but...the babysitting subplot is entirely excised and the black character just ends up standing around silently in the background with nothing to do through much of the cartoon

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

interestingly one of the characters in this 1970 show is a black football player who is given the duty of looking after the main (white) couple's baby girl, and the boards give them some cute and fun business together

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

you can clearly see how the hanna-barbera studio empowered its layout artists and animators to take these wonderful storyboard drawings and uh, punch up the humor and expressions in the final product?

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

hanna-barbera "board plussing"

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

storyboard art is by iwao takamoto, jerry eisenberg, and willie ito (per mark)

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

some years back mark christiansen posted a story reel for the pilot of the 1970 hanna-barbera show "where's huddles," allowing us to compare the board drawings to the final ep and get some fascinating insight into the h-b creative process youtu.be/WGCJ66WHTbE archive.org/details/wher...

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"shape ahoy" has an impressively striking visual identity, yellow to blood orange skies, white and yellow sand, some green vegetation and a vivid flat blue ocean

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

these muted pastels bring to mind some BGs in cardcaptor sakura

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

gorgeous, evocative BG art!

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

i like the billowy clouds in these early color popeyes

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

it’s a beauty! i still have it framed on my bookshelf! (which is used to hold tons of cartoon dvds and maybe 5 books)

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

which cartoon fan are you

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

wow, great stuff! thanks! evidently she went into early computer animation too? that’s awesome! www.lambiek.net/artists/t/te...

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

it’s refreshing to see well-crafted and cute and stylish cartoon teenagers NOT drawn in manga style after being inundated with the latter for so long. who'da thunk there was another way to do it??

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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

the punchlines tend to be kinda anodyne “tom and jerry teenage babysitter on the phone” stuff but the linework and compositions are beautiful!

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