modmad:

bogleech:

sgthoggin:

bogleech:

Alfred J. Kwak is a cartoon about a duck that does not fuck around

Yep. This anime goes into all sorts of issues, from the sad themes of loss of family, adoption and growing up as an orphan, into far more real issues such as facism, abuse of power, apartheid and much much more. Also, the main antagonist character is literally a crow version of Adolf Hitler. Good show, gets real the more it goes on.

(and yes it is anime, it was co-produced between the Dutch and Japanese)

We’re just halfway through the series (all of it is on youtube in at least both Dutch and English) and it’s amazing how plainly it lays out these things. While newer cartoons might use vague metaphors (stuff like ”the blue aliens are mean to the green aliens, for being green!”) Alfred J. Kwak bluntly shows exactly how things like this work.

That first three-episode arc with Dolf (the crow) rising to power did a clearer and more comprehensible job explaining how fascism occurs than any history class I’ve ever taken. The monarchy is lazy, greedy and barely more than a figurehead and here comes this very wealthy, very clever public speaker obsessed with power and petty vengeance. The more people like him the more shit he can get away with, plain and simple.

I also appreciate how the HEROES in this show will resort to trickery, sabotage, espionage, theft and more when it’s truly necessary to save lives, and there’s never any “oh no, we can’t do this, we’ll be just like them” bullshit. Alfred is realistic and practical about what has to be done for the greater good. Without a thought he’ll break any rule, take advantage of anything possible to save innocent people. He defeats Dolf that first time by just straight-up robbing him blind of all his money so he can’t make good on any of his deals. That’s so contrary to the morals pushed by most American media that it’s no wonder it never aired here.

I’ve been trying to find this show and what it was called for years, I remember seeing a very few episodes when I was young on television and it was so compelling and brutally honest that it stuck in the corners of my tiny brain and has stayed there ever since, I’m so glad it’s popped up on my dash so I can rediscover it.

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racebentdisney:

coelasquid:

snoozlebee:

leidis:

penciltests:

“Lilo and Stitch” 2002

Deleted Scene

Lilo plays a trick on the tourists.

IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU’D UNDERSTAND

I desperately need to understand

WHY

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

Was this scene cut from the movie??!!

Fucking christ, do you know what this would have done? What this would have meant to SO MANY people??  The truth of this is devastating. And to think it almost found it’s way into a DISNEY film??

The inclusion of this scene alone would have made it the greatest animated feature the company ever produced. Easily. And if you think that’s hyperbolic clearly you don’t understand.

No, really, if anyone knows why this was cut PLEASE let me know. 

oh man WHY WOULD they cut this, this is so great, holy MOLY

It was clearly something the crew was very reluctant to get rid of if it made it all the way to rough-clean (and in a few scenes clean!), fully inbetweened animation. That is like, thousands and thousands of dollars and weeks (months?!) of labour. Maybe a reluctant producer decided they would alienate their white middle-class American audiences by making them feel “too guilty” and pressed them to drop it? It’s unfortunate, it’s one of the most honest accounts of racism in a Disney movie (which is why it’s believable that someone got uncomfortable and made a case to get it chopped)

Designing entertainment by committee for maximum marketability is probably the most heartbreaking process in Hollywood.

I’ve been seeing this around my dash and think it deserves some more recognition!

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thiscrypticworld:

There’s a Man in the Woods

When I was in elementary school, the older kids started a rumor that quickly made recess a terrifying experience. I’ve been wanting to make this film just so I had a place to put some of the details of that rumor.

I animated this in flash, and did my backgrounds in photoshop. After Effects for compositing, and Protools for sound. 

(by Jacob Streilein)

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