SEGMENT EPISODE! This week we also have a ‘special’ feature being that this episode is mostly UNEDITED; I mean I put in music and stuff but awkward pauses?… totally intact. We talk about studios skipping Comic-Con, Eric Goldberg’s awesome couch gag for “The Simpsons” and of course the fact that Comcast just bought Dreamworks Animation for $3.8bil! Taylor Armstrong, festival manager for Animation Block Party in Brooklyn, comes on to remind you all to submit your films to their awesome event, we talk about ALL your RubberOnionBattle submissions for April and cap it all off with your favorite segment… Rapid Fire! Enjoy the show!

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SEGMENT EPISODE! There’s so much to talk about this week: OpenToonz was finally released, Adam Phillips returns to Brackenwood with “Last of the Dashkin 2,” we have a Creator Spotlight on Alex Dudley of DToons and we get a cartoon character to give us a shoutout! The news stories this week was mostly trailers so we get to talk about the weird world of Voltron and LEGO saving Batman. Enjoy the show!

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HOLIDAY EPISODE! It’s Thanksgiving in the United States so we talk a lot about that – how we celebrate, what holiday specials we like to watch, etc. But this week we also finally get to hear what Pat thought about The Peanuts Movie!! We top it all off by saying what Rob & I are thankful for in the animation world. If you’re celebrating this Thursday, have fun and stay safe! If you’re not celebrating… same. Enjoy the show!

Listen for “All in the Hamily,” alternative modem, sparkling apple juice, and Dunkaroos.

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RubberOnion’s Thanksgiving Playlist (the good AND the bad… everything we talked about that I could find on YouTube is here)

Kung Fu Panda 3 trailer

Anomalisa trailer

Finding Dory teaser trailer

 

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HOT COCOA SHOW! This week we talk all about Copyright, Fair Use, Parody, Fan Art and more in a discussion that’s centered around a blog post I made on the topic a couple days ago (click here to check that would which ALSO has this episode embedded in it for good measure)! Creators on the internet mostly get the blame for using and sometimes abusing copyrighted material in their own creations. Sometimes they constitute something new and other times they’re not at all covered under fair use and are basically just stealing, whether intentional or not. As pointed out early in the show, ignorance is not a defense against copyright infringement. However! “Internet creators” are not unique in this area, there’s just a lot more artists sharing their work now than there used to be… and much of that work is the exploratory stuff nobody ever used to be privy to in the pre-internet age.

Because the copyright has been extended to such a degree that more of the art which is actually still relevant in our time is copyrighted (proportionate to in the past when the copyright term was much shorter), the risk of stepping into legal quicksand is actually even more probable now. More creators, being seen earlier in their careers than ever before, in a time of extended copyright on the pop culture that itself is uniquely used as a cultural reference point of expression… that’s complicated!! I aim to make things clearer for you by making it clearer for my co-host Rob in this episode of the podcast and help further in the companion blog post which I encourage you to check out.

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Night of the Living Dead in the public domain (16:59 and again in more detail at 35:00 and a shoutout to James Rolfe’s Cinemassacre commentary at 37:19)

Little Shop of Horrors (1960) in the public domain (20:13)

Rob’s first “Mr. P. Dawgy and Simon” short (47:25)

Baby Got Back mashup video (57:50)

Vanilla Ice “explaining” why Ice Ice Baby is different than Queen / David Bowie’s Under Pressure (1:00:45)

“Saturday Morning Watchmen” by Harry Partridge (1:11:54)

“Thought of You” by Ryan Woodward (1:35:10)

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We finally got to see what Chris Farley’s SHREK would’ve been like in an early story reel which surfaced this week. His passing in 1997 was a big shock to us so there’s a lot of discussion surrounding this topic this week. But that’s not all because there’s a “Bob the Builder” reboot with a new character design who looks… symmetrical, a new Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show coming to Netflix which is 2D (!) and the rights have been secured to make a Dungeons & Dragons movie. That last story also contains the skit this week is Stephen reading excerpts from Ice-T’s description of his experience recording the D&D audio book (starting at 1:03:24)… so enjoy that! There are technical discussions as well surrounding the new Windows 10 and a blog post which tried (and failed) to properly compare the budgets of live-action VFX to that of fully CG Animated Films. The questions this week comes from a listener wondering if we’re going to CTNx this year, which ticket we bought, and if that’s right for her. This is another 2hr podcast so let us keep you entertained while you trudge through the middle of another work-week!

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Chris Farley as Shrek from early story reel before his passing

 
Stephen’s favorite Chris Farley SNL Sketch “Colombian Coffee Crystals”

 
“Bob the Builder” reboot trailer

 
Explainer video for Disney’s Hyperion renderer

 
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With Stephen and Rob taking on this episode alone with only their wits to guide them, stumble they do into a discussion about how and when to charge for your animated content thanks to a Vanity Fair interview of Don Hertzfeldt. We also field a question at the end about whether a listener should go into Freelance, move to a different city for a salary job or both. It’s an all your-stories episode this week so strap in for the shoutouts and name drops!

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“Kung Fury”

 
“Cosmos Laundromat” pilot trailer

 
“Texas Rising” main titles by King and Country

 
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Another week FULL of stories and interesting topics… and I get a fantastic migraine during the recording this week, because why not? But that doesn’t stop us from recording an amazing episode for you all! Because we saw teaser trailers, Brad Bird’s would-be take on “The Spirit,” a 3D printed animated short, Toon Boom finally going subscription, and two new series (technically one new and one reboot)! Let me know the pain was worth it and leave a comment in this blog post (=

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Making of video for 3D printed animated short “Chase Me” by Gilles Deschaud

 
“The Brave Locomotive” partly finished opening sequence by Andrew Chesworth

 
Brad Bird’s 1980 test trailer for “The Spirit”

 
Teaser for DreamWorks’ “Dragons: Race to the Edge” on Netflix

 
“When Marnie Was There” trailer from Studio Ghibli (via Rapid Fire segment – Andrew Kaiko @1:05:50)

 
Unreal Engine Realtime Environment Render test animated short “A Boy and His Kite” (via Rapid Fire segment – Timothy Bergeron @1:16:40)

 
“Axe Cop” season 2 trailer (from Rapid Fire segment – Samuel R. Albro @1:32:53)

 
Andrew Kaiko’s edutainment series “TidBits with Norm & Cory” playlist (from Shoutouts segment @1:38:44)

 
Pat Ryan’s Let’s Play series “My Controller is Broken” playlist (from Shoutouts segment @1:40:19)

 
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The PIXELS trailer was the most popular conversation topic on the RubberOnion facebook page this week, so we lead with that. At the end we discuss the internet as a creative spawning ground and how traditional media fits in AS WELL AS addressing a question to me (Stephen) about being a freelance animator. We also talk about the ATTACK ON TITAN live-action teaser, INCREDIBLES 2 plot, and the announcements of a California Raisins movie as well as Joseph Gordon-Levitt starring in and producing a Fraggle Rock film. Also Rob went to an underwear party in Williamsburg (which, as a sentence, isn’t that weird because it ends with “in Williamsburg”). So enjoy the discussion and feel free to join in below in the comments section!

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PIXELS trailer

 
FROZEN/THE THING mashup claymation short by Lee Hardcastle

 
ATTACK ON TITAN clips (from Japanese talk-show, complete with distracting overlays)

 
ASTROBOY Reboot teaser

 
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Layoffs, lawsuits, and cats — OH MY! Stephen and Rob talk about the tough subjects of foreign VFX subsidies and the troubles fighting them, the abrupt closing of PDI/Dreamworks Redwood City campus, and a Kickstarter campaign so ridiculously popular it brings up the topic of how democratic is the internet really. But with all the negative subjects, we also got a few questions from you listeners so we end on some positive thoughts! Oh also, it’s my (Stephen) birthday and we totally didn’t mention it once… so there’s that. Enjoy!

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Stephen and Rob are back again to talk about the creepy “Thunderbirds” character designs, the Oscar nominations AND those left out in the cold. A stop-mo animator rigged the Nintendo Power Glove for use in animation and “Underdogs” (Argentina’s “Metagol”) gets an English language trailer thanks to the Weinsteins… and it’s… a thing.

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THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO! character designs

 
“Underdogs” English trailer

 
Animator Dillon Markey uses the Nintendo PowerGlove to assist his stop-mo work

 
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I like to call these episodes “classic.” We’ve got news from the animation world and an interview with one of our #RubberOnionFanArt competition winners (Andrew Kaiko)! Lucasfilm surprised us with a new movie coming out in 2 months, new point-and-click game by The Neverhood creators is coming soon, and we talk a whole bunch about the PEANUTS hi-res images (this was one-day before the trailer leak!)… and we have a new segment: RAPID FIRE! Here we take the stories that you suggested which we didn’t have too much to say about and we blast through them with out little derisive or supportive comments.

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Andrew Kaiko’s new series “Tidbits: With Norm & Cory”

 
“Armikrog” trailer

 
RAPID FIRE stories…

 
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Stephen teaches food chemistry, a video of Pat is unearthed, Rob & Pat flirt over text message, a couple fans get in a Facebook fight on our page, and we all do impressions of Ray Romano. We also talk about Alan Becker’s new short “Animator vs Animation IV,” the strangely infamous new “Rocky & Bullwinkle” clip, and much more! We’re getting close to our one-year anniversary and things are starting to ramp up. Enjoy the insanity!

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Alan Becker’s “Animator vs Animation IV”

 
Pixar’s “Inside Out” teaser

 
“Justice League: Throne of Atlantis” trailer

 
The Lion King 20th Anniversary Tribute by Eduardo Quintana “The Madness of King Scar”

 
“Rocky & Bullwinkle” animated short clip

 
“Asterix & Obelix” teaser

 
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We have a monster of an episode this week! Two weeks of stories jam packed into one awesome episode with the entire crew: Stephen, Rob, & Pat. We talk about an email exchange between a writer and a producer, Glen Keane’s new animated short “Duet,” and some kid made a Kickstarter campaign to make potato salad and for some reason has earned $70,000+ (as of this post). Oh also, Rob met Shaggy and made a new animated short (not related)! Enjoy this delicious 2 hour episode… we hope it’s as fun to listen to as it was to record!

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BATMETAL

 
Rob Yulfo’s new short “Wait for it…”

 
Guillermo del Toro’s Special Message about Pacific Rim

 
Glen Keane’s new animated short “Duet”

 
Asterix & Obelix teaser trailer (in French)

 
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It’s Rob’s Birthday!! It was Pat’s Birthday last week!! And I still make them talk to me about cartoons! This week, we actually start the discussion with the Angry Video Game Nerd movie, because as Indie creators ourselves we’re happy when one of our own (same medium or not) breaks ground on a huge development like this. And you know what? It doesn’t stop there, Signe Baumane is another Indie creator who is making her first feature length animated film, “Rocks in my Pockets” and it’s got a trailer! Ari Folman is making a jump to a western screen wide release with his hybrid movie and it’s got a trailer too… and “Bojack Horseman” is the first original adult animated programming on Netflix and it’s got a trailer. Oh and Rocky & Bullwinkle disappoint us. But before all of that… we must sing to you one of the great 90s cartoon anthems. Behold.

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Rocky & Bullwinkle on GEICO commercial

 
Ari Folman’s “The Congress” trailer

 
Signe Baumane’s “Rocks in my Pockets” trailer

 
“Butter Ya’Self” by Julian Petschek music video

 
“Bojack Horseman” trailer

 
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