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Old 09-04-16 | 07:43 PM
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As pagefrance has not claimed their prize, I will move to the next name in line (I draw a few more than I need for cases like this). This is ntnon! Congratulations! Prize pack #3 is still available: TV Toons To Go and Batfink: The Complete Series.

Please claim the prize (or decline) by Tuesday, Sept. 6th by 6pm central time.

I will be contact ntnon through the private message as well. Please remember that you do have to have an address in the United States to qualify.

Thank you!
Old 09-04-16 | 08:01 PM
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As pagefrance has not claimed their prize, I will move to the next name in line (I draw a few more than I need for cases like this). This is ntnon! Congratulations! Prize pack #3 is still available: TV Toons To Go and Batfink: The Complete Series.

Please claim the prize (or decline) by Tuesday, Sept. 6th by 6pm central time.

I will be contact ntnon through the private message as well. Please remember that you do have to have an address in the United States to qualify.

Thank you!


Thank you very much! I shall politely pass the buck, both because I already own the titles offered and because I was lucky enough to be chosen last month, too! (Surely karma will reward me in October.......)

Thanks! It was a very enjoyable month's viewing.
Old 09-04-16 | 09:12 PM
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Thank you very much! I shall politely pass the buck, both because I already own the titles offered and because I was lucky enough to be chosen last month, too! (Surely karma will reward me in October.......)

Thanks! It was a very enjoyable month's viewing.
You're welcome! Thanks for the quick response and I hope that your October wish comes true!

The next lucky winner is MrTerrific! I will be sending a private message, but please claim prize pack #3 by Tuesday, Sept. 6th by 10 pm central time! Please send your address either to me or GoldenWheels as well. (You do need to have a US address to participate). Thank you and Congratulations!
Old 09-05-16 | 07:04 PM
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And all of the prizes have been claimed! MrTerrific claimed prize pack 3 tonight!

Congrats again to all the winners and to all the participants for a great animation challenge! Hope to see everyone again next year!
Old 09-06-16 | 07:35 AM
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I just watched Pokémon Origins on Amazon Prime, all four episodes. As far as I know these were never shown on U.S. TV. It's like a version of the series aimed at adolescents and teens, definitely darker, more emotional and imbued with tragic undercurrents. It's quite good, but I don't know why they only did four episodes. Based on the Red and Blue games, the story content could have easily filled a whole season, but they crammed a lot of important stuff into quick montages at the beginning of each episode. Some characters from the main series make cameo appearances like Misty, or are supporting characters, like Brock, Giovanni and Professor Oak. The main character is Red, an older version of Ash, and his rival is Blue.

Aside from that I've been watching old Shaw Bros. movies, some of which don't fit any challenges. I own over 400 Shaw Bros. DVDs and I still have over 100 that I haven't yet seen. Plus I want to re-watch most of the ones I've seen. This could take years.
Old 09-06-16 | 08:03 AM
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Re: The 7th Annual Animation Challenge Discussion Thread!

Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
some of which don't fit any challenges.
Besides May perhaps? Or the possible new drama one? But I'm curious, give me a few titles and maybe I can make them fit somewhere.

Back on topic, I'm not sure how I feel about the last item I watched for this Animation Challenge, the Criterion BD of Fantastic Planet. I took me awhile to get into it, then it fully pulled me in, but I'm not so sure about the conclusion. Perhaps I'll flesh it out a bit this month with the supplements.
Old 09-07-16 | 12:08 PM
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Besides May perhaps? Or the possible new drama one? But I'm curious, give me a few titles and maybe I can make them fit somewhere.
THE YELLOW MUFFLER, a fluffy musical, and KING DRUMMER, a drama about a jazz drummer and a concert pianist, are two of the ones that are hard to fit. I didn't know about the drama challenge. When is that?
Old 09-07-16 | 12:28 PM
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And all of the prizes have been claimed! MrTerrific claimed prize pack 3 tonight!

Congrats again to all the winners and to all the participants for a great animation challenge! Hope to see everyone again next year!
Always fun and thanks for running this year's challenge LJG765!
Old 09-07-16 | 12:44 PM
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Re: The 7th Annual Animation Challenge Discussion Thread!

Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
THE YELLOW MUFFLER, a fluffy musical, and KING DRUMMER, a drama about a jazz drummer and a concert pianist, are two of the ones that are hard to fit. I didn't know about the drama challenge. When is that?
Just possible talk of it, or a Musical/Romance Challenge, for February. Conversation and voting in the Challenge Compendium thread.
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Old 09-07-16 | 02:00 PM
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All prize packs have been put in the mail! Congrats to all the winners and thanks to LJG for running the challenge!
Old 09-09-16 | 12:42 PM
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I saw KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS yesterday. Mix of stop-motion and CGI. I found the storyline too abstract. I never quite grasped it. I wish it had been done by the Japanese and been in Japanese with English subs. The American voice-actors and the modern slang and phraseology threw me off. In Japanese, any modern slang would be unknown to me, so I wouldn't be able to tell. The end credits are animated in 2-D in the style of Japanese woodblock prints and I wish the whole movie had been done that way. There are also story/character elements that struck me as distinctly un-Japanese.
Old 09-09-16 | 01:28 PM
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Re: The 7th Annual Animation Challenge Discussion Thread!

I watched The Killing Joke and Assault on Arkham too late to count for the challenge.
Old 09-09-16 | 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevor

Back on topic, I'm not sure how I feel about the last item I watched for this Animation Challenge, the Criterion BD of Fantastic Planet. I took me awhile to get into it, then it fully pulled me in, but I'm not so sure about the conclusion. Perhaps I'll flesh it out a bit this month with the supplements.
I watched that for the July Sci-Fi/ Fantasy Challenge, and its odd European sensibility still works for me. The ideal way to view it is to take a time machine ride back to the 70s, the days of art house theaters and cult movies shown at midnight. Being a teenage film fan in the late 70s was a glorious era in retrospect.
Old 09-10-16 | 03:36 PM
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All prize packs have been put in the mail! Congrats to all the winners and thanks to LJG for running the challenge!
Thank you!
Old 09-10-16 | 04:38 PM
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Re: The 7th Annual Animation Challenge Discussion Thread!

Pardon the interruption, but of interest to Challengers might be a discussion we're having in the Challenge Compendium thread about whether to add a new Challenge. Can everyone please take a second and vote in the poll? Thanks!
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-talk/63...ding-13th.html
Old 09-11-16 | 09:05 PM
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I apologize. I said I was going to post the updated list here and totally forgot to do it.

I basically did a little rearranging, some alphabetizing and mashed all the icheckmovies together. I also added a bonus at the end that I thought might appeal to some people. I have not added any names to the checklist but will post them after the list for people to think about till next year.

Please let me know if you spot anything off (I found a double name that made it through this whole challenge! Whoops!). Thanks, guys!

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Official Checklist:

*one wildcard is allowed

Watch works from 5 different studios:

--- Depatie-Freleng -
--- Disney -
--- Dreamworks Animation -
--- Famous Studios -
--- Fleischer Studios -
--- MGM Cartoon Studio -
--- Paramount -
--- Rankin/Bass -
--- Screen Gems -
--- Studio Ghibli -
--- UPA -
--- Warner Bros -

Watch works from 6 different directors:

--- Tex Avery -
--- Don Bluth -
--- Bob Clampett -
--- Gene Deitch -
--- Friz Freleng -
--- Hanna & Barbera -
--- John and Faith Hubley -
--- Chuck Jones -
--- Satoshi Kon -
--- John Kricfalusi -
--- Peter Lord -
--- Hayao Miyazaki -
--- Nick Park -
--- Brothers Quay -
--- Frank Tashlin -
--- Bruce W. Timm -

Watch 10 different actors/actresses:
--- Ed Asner -
--- Jim Backus -
--- Mel Blanc -
--- Clancy Brown -
--- Daws Butler -
--- Nancy Cartwright -
--- Dan Castellaneta -
--- Hans Conried -
--- Jim Cummings -
--- Dom DeLuise -
--- Bill Fagerbakke -
--- June Foray -
--- Paul Frees -
--- Mark Hamill -
--- Megumi Hayashibara -
--- Edward Everett Horton -
--- Kelly Hu -
--- Tom Kenny -
--- Maurice LaMarche -
--- Andrea Martin -
--- Ron Perlman -
--- Tara Strong -
--- Alan Tudyk -
--- Frank Welker -
--- Billy West -

Watch 5 Winsor McKay Award Winners from the Annie Awards:

--- Tex Avery -
--- Ralph Bakshi -
--- Mel Blanc -
--- Don Bluth -
--- Tim Burton -
--- Walt Disney -
--- Max & Dave Fleischer -
--- Fritz Freleng -
--- Matt Groenig -
--- Bill Hanna & William Barbera -
--- Ray Harryhausen -
--- Sterling Holloway (actor) -
--- Ub Iwerks -
--- Chuck Jones -
--- Mike Judge -
--- John Lasseter -
--- Wolfgang Reitherman -
--- Genndy Tartakovsky -
--- Bruce Timm -

Watch 5 different options from iCheckMovies:

---Annecy Festival's 100 Films for a Century of Animation -
---ASIFA's Top 50 Animated Short Films -
---Golden 100 of Russian Animation -
---Filmspotting Top 100 Animated Films -
---Annie Awards Best Animated Feature winners -
---Japan Academy Awards' Excellent Animations list -
---The Animated Movie Guide: Top 60 Animated Features Never Theatrically Released in the United States (from Jerry Beck's book The Animated Movie Guide) -
--- Watch a Saturn Award for Best Animation Film winner -

Watch animation from at least 9 different decades:
--- 1900 -
--- 1910 -
--- 1920 -
--- 1930 -
--- 1940 -
--- 1950 -
--- 1960 -
--- 1970 -
--- 1980 -
--- 1990 -
--- 2000 -
--- 2010 -

Watch animation from at least 4 different ratings:
--- G -
--- PG -
--- PG-13 -
--- R -
--- NC-17 / X -
--- Unrated -

Watch animation from at least two languages other than English:
--- First language -
--- Second language -

Watch at least 8 of these:
--- Watch an animated movie that spawned a TV spin-off OR an animated movie that was based on an animated TV show -
--- Watch a work of animated non-fiction [i.e., Waltz with Bashir, etc.] -
--- Watch an Academy Award Best Animated Feature winner -
--- Watch an Academy Award Best Short Subject (Cartoon)/Animated Short winner -
--- Watch an anime movie or series -
--- Watch a US kid's show that originally aired on Sat mornings -
--- Puppet show -
--- Mostly or all CGI -
--- Watch 90+ minutes worth of shorts (i.e Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny) -
--- Cartoon based on a newspaper comic strip -
--- Motion Comic -

Watch animation from at least 6 different genres:
--- Action -
--- Comedy -
--- Adventure -
--- Fantasy -
--- Science Fiction -
--- Horror -
--- Mystery -
--- Western -
--- Drama -
--- Crime -
--- Romance -
--- War -

Bonus points: Watch a full Animated series (at least 12 episodes long)


Names for consideration: Will Friedle, Alan Oppenheimer
Studio: Filmation

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Old 09-11-16 | 09:15 PM
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I think you have caught the spirit of the suggestion quite well. I don't have any adjustments to it.
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Add Filmation to the studio list? The documentaries on the He-Man sets showed me how influential they were with cartoon violence, keeping animation jobs in America instead of overseas like other companies were doing, creating the concept of syndicating He-Man and getting everyone else to try and copy their success, and the toy/cartoon connection, among other things.
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Originally Posted by The Man with the Golden Doujinshi
Add Filmation to the studio list? The documentaries on the He-Man sets showed me how influential they were with cartoon violence, keeping animation jobs in America instead of overseas like other companies were doing, creating the concept of syndicating He-Man and getting everyone else to try and copy their success, and the toy/cartoon connection, among other things.
Can do!
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Laika might not have enough titles to be a checklist studio.
Old 09-12-16 | 02:32 PM
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I received my prize package in the mail today. I know I will keep the Plymptoons for next year's challenge but I am debating on whether to watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit for the Academy Awards Challenge or keep it for next year's Animation Challenge also. I love having tom make decisions like that! Thanks again to GoldenWheels for their contributions!
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Originally Posted by The Man with the Golden Doujinshi
Add Filmation to the studio list? The documentaries on the He-Man sets showed me how influential they were with cartoon violence, keeping animation jobs in America instead of overseas like other companies were doing, creating the concept of syndicating He-Man and getting everyone else to try and copy their success, and the toy/cartoon connection, among other things.
I'll second this. While cheaply done they have a very distinctive style and produced quite a few "important" animation programs.
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Laika might not have enough titles to be a checklist studio.
I'm only seeing 4 (Boxtrolls, Kubo, Coraline and ParaNorman) so I think I agree with you. I think in the future, however, that they may well be added to the checklist. Out of the 3 I've watched, I really enjoyed 2 and was impressed by the look of the 3rd. I still want to see Kubo before it leaves theaters but just haven't had time yet.

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