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davey-jones-lock3r · 10 months

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Limbo the organized mind.

jim henson 1966

#jim henson #limbo jim henson #limbo: the organized brain #animation #bizzare animation #1960s #film #retro #weirdcore #mandela catalog #puppetry #horror animation #fun stuff #obscure animation #obscure film #art film

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arconinternet · 6 months

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It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown (Video, 1988)

“I wanted this to be my ‘Citizen Kane,’ but it’s not.” - Charles M. Schulz. You can watch it here.

Here's an article, a podcast episode, and a 1988 review from the New York Times.

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dorothydalmati1 · 1 month

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Obscure Animation Subject #135: Legend of the Three Caballeros

Hey look! Another collaboration between Disney and Atomic Cartoons! GREAT! That aside though, I do think its average. Haven’t seen all of the series yet but I heard it gets more interesting as it goes on. Will see what happens when I watch the rest of the series if I had the time…

#legend of the three caballeros #obscure animation #disney #donald duck #the three caballeros

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tezuka-brainrot · 4 months

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Psst.. Tenma fans I got a new awful dad for you.

I need some more people to know about this man please look.

#osamu tezuka #jetter mars #astro boy #doctor tenma #Doctor Yamanoue #dr. yamanoue #character appreciation #appreciation post #obscure characters #obscure animation #old anime #idk who to tag #just look at him #look how pathetic ♥️

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tumdownfarm · 3 months

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Found on Instagram.

Semi-forgotten Walter Lantz characters, 'Space Mouse' and 'Windy & Breezy' feature in a couple of Spanish Woody Woodpecker comics in 2004.

Could they have been proposed to return in the 1999 Woody Woodpecker animated series as well...? 🤔

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#Walter Lantz #Woody Woodpecker #Space Mouse #Windy and Breezy #Spanish Comic Books #Obscure Animation #lost media #Instagram

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yandeere2002 · 10 months

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Deedjee from Jet Groove (2007) This is a rather little known animation series from France and it has a pretty unique visual style.

Maybe it’s just me, but I even find this style somewhat similar to Team Fortress 2, I think if TF2 were a cartoon, it would look something like this. p.s. sorry for my bad english...

#jet groove #obscure animation #sketch #digital sketch #paint tool sai 2 #eueuuehhh #cartoon

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maxwellpaws · 7 months

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I’m only sharing this because of the mad hatter his expression are funny.

#youtube #anime #obscure animation #obscure media #alice in wonderland

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creathechiboi · 7 months

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PICT0034 / low poly bunny

fanart for TheVLIF's "PICT0034.avi" video.

#the vlif #art #my art #fanart #ink drawing #low poly #obscure animation #traditional art #bunny girl #kiss #screen tones

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garr9988 · 6 months

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So I Watched "Monster Force"...

After watching Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys (which I seriously recommend, it's pretty charming and decently written), a friend and I decided to watch other old and somewhat obscure cartoons. In between episodes of Action Man (1995), I found Monster Force.

Monster Force was a 1994 cartoon based on the Universal Studios line of monster movies. Only getting one season, although all 13 episodes are known to exist, only 9 of them seem to have been saved and uploaded online to be watched.

First and foremost: it's not good. Or at least, it's not terrible. But it's absolutely not well-written. In 9 episodes, I could not tell you anything about most of the recurring cast.

The writing puts too much emphasis on the "job" of the story, or the progression of events themselves. It's hard to describe, but it's like there's no time to breathe, no opportunities taken to explore the characters in any way beyond their job. It uses the characters as extremely shallow chess pieces to give exposition and advance the plot with next to no personality. Most of the characters talk too similarly to each other or just talk very flatly and clinically, and all in sarcastic quips and jokes, to stand out on their own in any significant way.

Of the embarrassingly forgettable recurring cast, only 3 stood out to my friend and I in a positive way:

Luke Talbot, descendant of Larry Talbot (aka The Wolfman), and one of the only two monsters on Monster Force (along with Frank, aka Frankenstein's Monster). His whole thing is that he's trying to find the werewolf that bit his grandfather Larry, with the intent of killing him so as to end his curse of lycanthropy.

Outside of his built-in plot device goal, Luke has little personality, just like most of the cast. And given he uses his lycanthropy so much, his textual loathing for his curse comes off as forced and without depth. The only reason my friend and I like him is because we find his werewolf form hot.

Like come on. If this show were more popular and better I feel like this image would be on a lot of backgrounds and edits.

Count Dracula was absolutely a stand-out character. His voice performance by Robert Bockstael was likewise a stand-out in a show full of phoned-in, flat acting from everyone else. He's got drama, charisma, cruelty, and an accent. And similarly, unlike everyone else's ugly and overdesigned dieselpunk mechsuit (EMACS) designs, his was actually simple, yet well-made, pleasing and dramatic.

Aside from those crazy side-goatees??? Granted, they look like spider pincers, which may be intentional, so I guess that's cool?

The very first episode had him try to force Luke to embrace his lycanthropy and join his forces of evil as a full monster (which we enjoyed bc Gayyyy). He also tries to recruit Frank and other actually evil monsters to his cause, but in the 9 episodes was never successful.

Commander Honor Santiago, a security officer working for Hyper-Gen. She mostly stood out because she was sooooo butch lesbian-coded. Strong square face, short & slicked hair, earrings in one(?) ear, and she seemed torn between her duty to recapture the escaped Bride of Frankenstein('s Monster) (who had escaped the facility she worked for) and being disturbed by her mistreatment at the hands of her superior, Dr. Ducaine.

Honestly, I feel like there was a lot of potential for Honor and The Bride to get together, but of course The Bride ends up rejecting both Frank (and other monsters) and humans alike in favor of living alone, and Honor ends up as a love interest for de facto male lead Reed Crawley (the guy she's looking at). I have no clue if this was intentional coding that got comphet'd because it was the 90s, or just a bunch of coincidences. But if more young girls saw her, I'm sure she'd have been lots of girls' awakening.

Of the 9 extant episodes, there were only 3 episodes I could decidedly call "character-focus episodes" - episodes that focus on one character of the cast in particular. Which is funny, you'd think they'd do that for every main character at least once (there are 6 main characters, so there should be room). Of those 3, two of them are only ostensibly in this category because they still didn't feel focused enough, and only one of them I "liked" - because it focused on Luke going after the source of his curse, and so there were lots of nice Werewolf Time.

The one episode my friend and I regard fairly positively is not among those 3 focus episodes: Episode 7, "Dark City"

After 6 shallow, empty episodes, this one (written by Mary Crawford and Alan Templeton) was actually pretty interesting and freaky! The premise of the episode is that the gang are stuck in a living town that's a grotesque monster (the whole thing!) that every so often pops out of the aether to lure entire nearby populations into itself to eat.

The episode doesn't really explore that premise in a way other cartoons would/it should have (i.e. the gang falling under its allures for more than 2 minutes, or spending more time investigating recent disappearances, or the strangeness of the town longer before it reveals itself... y'know, things you'd do in competent writing). Where it excels is purely in the visual execution of its concept.

The background/environmental artists for this episode did a really nice job of making this place so gnarly and disturbing in its monstrousness. A living city with eyes, teeth, horns and tentacles built into buildings and walls, how normal environments can transform into something horrifying and organic in the blink of an eye (like this stairwell). It's awesome, and calls to mind Queensland from Alice: Madness Returns.

Now, of course, this show was among the litany of cartoons made toys-first and everything else came afterwards as a glorified commercial. It just wasn't successful at making an attractive commercial of itself at all. It's rather baffling and embarrassing how a crew of people being paid to write managed to do so poorly, even if they must have had very little time to write and review/update drafts.

To cap off a slew of mediocre with some inside jokes:

"You better not be a Cunty Frankenstein when I get there!"

"They pick her up like the fútbol."

#monster force #obscure cartoons #obscure animation #90s cartoons #90s #universal studios #universal monsters #original #obscure cartoon reviews #adventures into obscurity

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callistos-posts · 7 months

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Mr. Greenrind when Coconut Fred:

#coconut fred's fruit salad island #coconut fred #obscure animation #nikocado avocado #warner bros #wb kids #nikocado #nikocado crying #memes #i need so much help

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clyde49 · 10 months

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GA - The Mascot of the obscure and Short lived Saturday Video Entertainment System (SVES) Cartoon Network programing block (2003-2004). (X)

#cartoon network #toonami #Saturday Video Entertainment System #sves #obscure animation #cartoon network bumper #pixel animation #animation history

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arconinternet · 1 month

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Dinosaucers (Videos, 1987)

You can watch the entire extremely 80's animated series here.

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dorothydalmati1 · 2 months

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Obscure Animation Subject #121: Motorcity

Created by Titmouse co-founder Chris Prynoski with his company producing in collaboration with Disney Television Animation, it’s a short-lived series that was cancelled after a single season of 20 episodes. It aired on Disney XD from April 30, 2012 to January 7, 2013 and takes place in a dystopian Detroit named Detroit Deluxe owned by evil billionaire Abraham Kane, which is built on the top of the old Detroit. Enforcing strict laws in the city, the heroes are a gang of rebels living under called the Burners.

Now this a cult classic to behold! The characters are filled with so much personality to them, while this show only had 20 episodes it managed to give us plenty of depth to a lot of these characters and made them more intriguing. The storytelling only gets better as it goes on too when it puts characters in more riskier situations. There aren’t many Disney cartoons out there that have great tension like this. Oh, and the animation, my goodness is it beautiful. The action, cinematography and design choices are all well made and not like any other Disney show. In the earlier episodes some of the characters could move too slow in non action packed scenes and poorly shot in some chase scenes but this issue disappeared after a few episodes and honestly that’s the only thing I could come up with to say something bad about this show.

It was unfortunately cancelled too soon, there’s a ton of great stuff to explore in this world and its amazing set of characters. If you want to watch something Disney related that’s different and short but sweet, then look no further.

#motorcity #obscure animation #Titmouse #disney television animation #disney xd

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this-is-where-i-hide-my-bullshit · 4 months

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Every now and then I'm reminded of this animated short that was featured on the Ice Age dvd we had when I was a kid. It was animated by Blue Sky, and it's called Bunny.

Watching it made me feel a bit disturbed and sad, but the ending always felt bitter sweet.

Warning, there is death in this, so if that's not something you can handle then I wouldn't recommend watching. But if you can handle it, then I'd recommend giving the short a watch.

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It's an interesting and somewhat dark piece of children's media that I've never seen people talk about before, and I think it deserves to be remembered and discussed. The musical score is also worth mentioning.

This is definitely one of the first pieces of media to give me an existential crisis as a child, it's up there with Fleetwood Mac's Landslide on the list of things that made me confront my own mortality in elementary school.

There are is no spoken dialog in this short, and yet it helped me understand death in a way that words never did at an age before I lost anyone or anything.

#dark cartoons #forgotten media #obscure animation #ice age #children's media #animation #animated shorts #blue sky #bunny #existentialism #Youtube

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ultra-nohai · 5 months

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The Minimighty Kids was one of the weirdest cartoons in France ever made, thanks to the book of the same name that started it all back in 2003.

#the minimighty kids #les minijusticiers #cartoon #animation #zep #tf1 #obscure animation

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dobescrusher2 · 1 year

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Quick digital painting fanart of the 1982 Bulgarian animated sci-fi film The Treasure Planet. Imperfect and very maligned because of the budget issues it ran into during production, but still very unique and interesting.

#the treasure planet #bulgarian treasure planet #sci fi #science fiction #artists on tumblr #obscure animation #old animation #science fiction art #sci fi art

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