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Adi Shankar Castlevania miniseries, Nintendo coming back to movies and Rovio cuts workforce by a third

Stephen BrooksSeptember 3, 20151 Mins read1.3k Views

We’re talking all Video Game related stories this week but start with a question: is “Animations” a word? Nintendo said they want more control over their movie properties, fan-film producer Adi Shankar (Judge Dredd: Superfiend, Power/Rangers) and Fred Seibert (Frederator) want to make a dark Castlevania animated mini-series, and Rovio cuts a third of their work force. This week we also play a game where Stephen reads out all the video game movies that have been made thus far and Rob and Pat try to guess what their Rotten Tomatoes rating is… I know this is cliche, but the answers may surprise you! The audience question this week is a great one about what animated series we would cancel in order to revive another.

Annotations:

(10:21) Do you say “animations” with an S?

(21:52) Nintendo may return to the movie world, on their own terms

(37:12) There’s an Adi Shankar Castlevania animated miniseries planned

(48:06) Rovio to cut 230 jobs off workforce

(1:05:47) AUDIENCE QUESTION: “You are given the power to cancel any animated series to revive another – which do you pick?” ~Samuel R. Albro

(1:19:01) RAPID FIRE!!!!!!!!!

(1:35:20) Recommended Reading/Viewing: making of “Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit”

Original video for The Cardigans’ “Lovefool” music video (referenced at 6:32)

Viral image of NY animator Pilar (referenced at 11:12)

Uwe Boll angry rant video (referenced at 34:17)

Jeremy Polgar Demo Reel 2015 (from Andrew Kaiko’s shoutout in the Rapid Fire segment at 1:26:05)

SUPER TURBO ATOMIC NINJA RABBIT mock VHS opening credits (referenced in the Rapid Fire segment at 1:34:14)

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Stephen Brooks

Stephen Brooks is a freelance animator in NYC that specializes in a hand-drawn style. Being a professional since 2005, he also produces indie shorts with self-made music, sound fx & voices. Lately Stephen has taken to introducing others to animation with production VLOGs, a podcast, instructional videos and is writing a book on traditional principles in a digital world. View his animation work www.rubberonion.com