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Miyagi-Do Shrine

CRACKED.COM THE KARATE KID CARTOON THE CARTOON REVOLVES AROUND A MAGICAL MCGUFFIN. The protagonists search for the Miyagi-Do shrine all over the world, resulting in adventures so far-fetched that Cobra Kai doesn't take the cartoon as canon. — Wikipedia, CBR, What Culture

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South Park

S C Cartoon Bears PEETIE THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT PANDA IN SOUTH PARK IS SANTA CLAUS. Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed in a DVD commentary that the panda was actually Santa Claus, as both characters have red underwear and the same voice. CRACKED.COM — Source: South Park Archives

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Pangoro

Cartoon Bears PANGORO IS A STEREOTYPICAL JAPANESE PUNK. This Pokémon's demeanor and look is based on banchō, Japanese juvenile-delinquent leaders. That's why he's got a stick in his mouth, dangling like an unlit cigarette. CRACKED.COM — Sources: CBR, Tons Of Facts

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Toy Story 3

CRACKED.COM Cartoon Bears LOTS-O'-HUGGIN' BEAR GOT DISNEY INTO A LAWSUIT. The Toy Story 3 antagonist drew the ire of Diece- Lisa Industries, a company that owns a trademark to Lots of Hugs and licenses it for stuffed bears. They're still technically in litigation. — Sources: /Film, The Hollywood Reporter

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The Three Bears

CRACKED.COM COMICS Cartoon Bears THE THREE BEARS WERE ONE OF THE FIRST COMEDIC DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES. As traditional family values were being questioned in the 1940s, this creation of Chuck Jones was an early incarnation of the now standard sitcom trope. — Sources: ChuckJones.com, Looney Tunes Wiki

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Cartoon Network was really pushing it at the time.

40 Random Bits of Trivia About Animation, Stop-Motion and CGI — Source: These 34 Filthy Jokes Are (Somehow) In Family Movies & Shows

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JUSTIN ROILAND HAS THAT PERFECTLY DISTURBED VOICE. Through all the burping, vomiting, and screaming, Roiland has carved himself out a neat little niche. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Faces Behind Your Favorite Animated Characters

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Audrey in The Lorax was played by none other than Taylor Swift. In a film with musical numbers by Ed Helms, Betty White, Rob Riggle, and more, how many songs did Tay Tay perform? Exactly none. CRACKED CON — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Adam West Johnny Bravo CN Adam West made a cameo as himself in an episode of the 1997 show, which was aptly titled Johnny Bravo meets Adam West. The episode received a follow up called Adam West's Date-O-Rama, which saw the actor host a dating game show. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Care Bears

CRACKED.COM Cartoon Bears THE CARE BEARS MOVIE WENT TO THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL. While it was released months before the event, the movie was shown at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, with people dressed as bears promoting the screening. — Sources: Los Angeles Times, Mental Floss

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Inconspicuous CGI Crawl Of course, the alligators in this intense survival flick are all CGI - and so is the storm. The film was shot in a soundstage, and the intense waves of hurricane rain sweeping Florida were digitally added in post. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Wick

Inconspicuous CGI John Wick This scene is a synonym for absolutely unnecessary CGI. It's dog poop. That's it. When the puppy leaves John's house to poop in the lawn, the doggy waste can be seen as the little girl sprints back. They couldn't give her laxatives, so they added CGI poop, which probably cost a few hundred-wait, $5,000? CRACKED.COM — Sources: WatchMojo.com/YouTube, WhatCulture/YouTube
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Children of Men

Inconspicuous CGI Children of Men Remember American Sniper's plastic doll scene? This is the exact opposite of that. The newborn is all CGI, completely blending with the scene's lighting and even documentary feel. CRACKED.COM — Source: WatchMojo.com/YouTube
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Effects

Star Trek Then vs. Now From practical FX to CGI Before CGI, practical techniques like model photography and optical compositing were used for decades. Save some CGI shots early in The New Generation and especially the movies, the new times truly caught up with Enterprise and the Kelvin trilogy. Yeah, the excessive lens flare was annoying, but 2009's Star Trek has pretty flawless CGI. CRACKED.COM — Sci-Fi Online

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Star Wars: A New Hope

Star Wars Then VS. Now CGI evolution Ignoring the later, CGI-filled editions, A New Hope has some rudimentary (but state-of-the-art) computer work. With the prequel trilogy, Lucas pushed developing CGI to the next level. The sequel trilogy's CGI is probably just what Lucas always wanted. CRACKED.COM — Source: evltube/YouTube

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Independence Day

Amazing effects made without CGI Independence Day Ronald Emmerich's movie is right at the hinge between old-school techniques and modern CGI, and the destruction of New York is a wonder ofthe former. The wall of fire slowly enveloping the city is real fire, climbing up a vertical model of the city. CRACKED.COM — Source: 8 Movie Special Effects You Didn't Know Weren't CGI: Classic

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Blade

Superhero Movies Then vs. Now From Blade CGI to current CGI CGI has had its ups and downs. Compare the photorealism of the MCU or of Snyder's destruction scenes to the crappy, peak '90s CGI at the end of the first Blade. Awesome movie, hilarious effects. CRACKED.COM — Source: CinemaBattle/YouTube

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Dakota Johnson had CGI genitalia and a butt double

March on prime video March 15 All three 50 shades films Dakota Johnson stars in the movies, but her genitals don't - neither does her butt. CGI covered for the first, and a butt double covered for the latter. CRACKED.COM — Source: The New York Times

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Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

The chocolate river in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory wasn't CGI. CGI wouldn't just cost more, it would really limit what they could do on set, so they went with practical effects. Tim Burton's note was just to Make sure it looks edible. CRACKED COM — Source

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Coraline

Coraline's visual effects aren't all physical. There are a few CGI scenes -for example, in the Starry Night dream, most of the animation is CGI. CRACKED.COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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THE LEGO MOVIE The film was made with CGI, not stop-motion animation. But they went out of their way to add thumbprints. CRACKED.COM

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Claymation

CLAY ANIMATION 1912 CRACKED.COM Modelling Extraordinary was released in 1912 and was one of the first clay animation movies to use stop motion. It was met with great critical acclaim. — Stop Motion Central

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The Nightmare Before Christmas

A SEQUEL TO The Nightmare Before Christmas WOULD'VE SEEN JACK VISITING Thanksgiving World AND THE STOP-MOTION WOULD'VE BEEN DITCHED FOR CGI. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Titan Maximum

Titan Maximum 2009 By the people who brought you Robot Chicken, this stop-motion show depicted what would happen if the Power Rangers disbanded.

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The link between stop-motion and CGI.

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects 1963 Ray Harryhausen influences the next generation His Dynamation layered stop-motion and live- action film. His 4.5 minute skeleton battle in Jason and the Argonauts took 4.5 months to complete, and laid the groundwork for actors interacting with animations - whether clay, cartoon, or CGI. CRACKED — Columbia Pictures
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Visual Effects

Dinosaurs in movies Then vs. Now The FX wizards The wizards to whom we owe our cinematic visions of dinosaurs can be summed up in five names: The visionary, decades-long stop-motion work of Willis O'Brien and then Ray Harryhausen-and then the quantum leap that Phil Tippett's modern stop- motion, Stan Winston's animatronics, and Dennis Muren's CGI brought to Jurassic Park. CRACKED.COM

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Jon Favreau

Famous People’s Voices (Secretly) In Your Favorite Movies - Jon Favreau voiced the stop- -motion character in the opening credits of Elf — Source: Film School Rejects

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Aliens (1986) The Alien Queen was originally going to be stop motion. Due to time constraints, they had to build the biggest marionette in motion picture history using rod puppets, hydraulics, radio controls, and wires. Miniatures of the queen and Ripley in the Power Loader were also used during the — Film School Rejects

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Historical Firsts in Practical Effects The first full-length 1925 stop-motion animation Stop-motion pioneer Willis O'Brien developed several innovations for The Lost World that are still used today. Не created a technique that joined stop- motion and live-action onscreen at the same time. CRACKED — Source

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El Hotel Electrico

STOP-MOTION 1908 CRACKED.COM Segundo de Chomón was a Spanish filmmaker who pioneered the use of stop-motion technique in 1908 with his film El hotel eléctrico. Actors held their positions while small objects were moved slightly between frames, creating the illusion of movement. — Source

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Animation code from Frozen was used to solve a 63 year old, erm, 'cold' case. CRACKED.COM The Dyatlov Pass incident left nine Russian hikers dead in 1959. Engineers recently relied on animation codes in Frozen to prove a long- standing theory that an ava- lanche resulted in the deaths of the nine hikers. — Source

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Maya The Bee CRAGKEDCOM In 2017, a clandestine dong was noticed in the background of a scene in this Netflix kids show. — Source

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Cinderella

Cinderella CRACKEDCe COM Disney made in 1950, but animation innovator Lotte Reiniger had made the first animated version almost three decades earlier.

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Animation

Dinosaurs in movies Then vs. Now Animation 1914's Gertie the Dinosaur was the first cartoon ever, and also an interactive vaudeville act. From there, dinosaurs in animation have come a long way. Fantasia's segment was terrifying, and The Land Before Time was terrifying and adorable. With the coming of CGI we got Pixar's The Good Dinosaur, which was, erm... a movie someone saw, probably. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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Animation

ANIMATION DATES BACK TO THE PALEOLITHIC AGE. 21,000 years ago, artists drew rows of cave images that, when lit by flickering firelight, gave the illusion of motion. CRACKED.COM — Source: 'Recent' Things That're Actually Older Than Dirt

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John Carradine did THE SECRET NIMH the voice of the Great Owl on painkillers. The Shakespearian actor was suffering from. acute crippling arthritis, and he arrived at the studio high on pills. After feeding him black coffee for an hour, he sobered up, and delivered every line in one take. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Vivo JUNE 4 SONY PIcrREs JIVO ANIMATION Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the songs for Sony Animation's first foray into musicals.

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Animation on animation hate

Eric Cartman isn't the only one who hates Family Guy. Turms out, his hatred of the show comes straight from Matt Stone and Trey Parker. The duo says they genuinely hate the show and its type of gag comedy. — YouTube

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Two and a half years of CGI animation for Gravity had to be thrown out. Alfonso Cuaron had animators doing animation for two and a half years before h — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Wauf DisNey ANIMATION STUDIOS In 2017, Disney settled a $100 million lawsuit for making secret anti- poaching deals with its competitors. Anti-poachin

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