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Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. Originally, pre-recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator. This projection equipment is called a rotoscope, although this device has been replaced by computers in recent years. In the visual effects industry, the term rotoscoping refers to the technique of manually creating a matte for an element on a live-action plate so it may be composited over another background.

TimesOnline tried to get Disney to comment on this, with no luck.

A Disney spokeswoman refused to confirm that the movie giant used the technique today, telling Times Online that “it’s not something that we comment on”, but the company is thought to have used the tracing technique for decades.

South Park slams Disneys teen sex marketing

In the recent episode of South Park, titled The Ring, Kenny takes his new girlfriend to a Jonas Brothers’ concert where they each get purity rings. Somehow this turns into harsh criticism of Disney that went completely over my head, which makes me think it was bullshit since not much goes over my head besides hats and maybe a fez on a Sunday afternoon.

I thought the episode was misplaced satire, even though I don’t know very much about the band. The thesis appeared to be that Disney is a big hypocritical fraud by promoting a band whose members don’t have sex, yet are sexually appealing. Huh? Where exactly is the hypocrisy beef? Did I miss something? They don’t prance around without a shirt (like I do) or have suggestive lyrics in their songs and I’ve never seen the brothers hump the air or pump around suggestively like the South Park versions of them did.

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So wtf? The South Park guys seem to just really hate the idea of teenagers not having sex whenever they feel like it. I’d get it if the Band appealed primarily to 17-23 year olds cuz then I’d be all duh – screw the purity ring and screw me. But aren’t the Jonas Bros 10 to 14 year old territory primarily? And eh… Isn’t this a group that maybe should probably not be encouraged to banging? Why is role modeling a no-sex policy to kids and young teens such a bad thing to deserve scorn and ridicule? The South Park kids are in 4th grade.

Combined with what I said earlier about the secondary charge against the Disney Corporation who peddles these sexy no-sex boyzes not making any more sense to me than targeting kids who aren’t having sex – wtf was with this episode? If it was all just an excuse to show Mickey Mouse beating the fuck out of someone and cursing then okay, fine, but we’ve come to expect a little more depth and meaning behind the crudeness of South Park gags.

This episode seemed 8 years too late and should have been about Britney Spears. She was much more obviously marketed on a foundation of sex from her outfits to her music videos to her orgasm moans in every other song. But the Jonas Brothers? really? It seemed like South Park was just attacking them simply because young girls like them. Therefore something sinister is going on behind the scenes? Maybe I’m missing something but it didn’t make any sense to me.

Parody War: Beck vs Colbert

Two weeks ago, Glenn Beck turned a Friday edition of his show into an hour long special titled the “War Room“, covering possible disaster situations and how we would/would have to/should deal with them. The full show is here below, and a decent watch, but if you’re only interested for purposes of the Colbert relation then hit play and then you can move along after the first minute.

Naturally, Stephen Colbert thought it was over the top and parodied it with his bigger, scarier alarmist special: the “Doom Bunker“. (go here if the video below becomes unavailable)

SO… in what is a unique occurrence – a parody reply to a parody reply – Beck parodied Colbert parodying HIM with Beck’s new faux segment with the shows “Fear Consultant” coming to him live from the “Doom Room” (a padded room within the Doom Bunker). I loled…

Black Holes are “crushingly dense sucking things, like giant Paris Hiltons”?…. Dude… Colbert’s been zinged with funnier writing…by FOX NEWS…..

Norm Macdonald on wiley Leno

Play by Play from the WasPot, cuz I’m too lazy to type something in a video contained in the same post, especially when someone else has already done it for me:

“I had to come back to show the respect, man, because I started ‘Saturday Night Live’ the same year you started this show,” MacDonald started.

“That’s right,” Conan answered.

“Yeah. . . . we’d all watch and go, ‘I don’t think it’s gonna work,’ ” MacDonald continued, warming up to his subject.

“It’s not gonna work,” Conan echoed.

“But then, it worked and it was great and we’re all really proud,” MacDonald continued. “And so, that’s great. And also, it’s stunning how Jay Leno outfoxed you again.”

“Yeah, he’s good,” Conan said, laughing uncomfortably, as the story started to veer off-script.

“He’s very good. . . . He’s the shrewdest guy,” MacDonald continued, in re Leno. “He outfoxed — you’re in good company — he outfoxed Johnny Carson, David Letterman. Every 10 years, some redheaded rube shows up,” MacDonald plowed on.

“I’m like some clown off the bus with a cardboard suit: ‘Gee, golly! This is going to be great!’ ” Conan joked-but-not-really.

Here’s where MacDonald broke into his Leno imitation: ” ‘Yeah, you can come after me!’ And you go, ‘Hey, thanks, Jay!’ ”

“Uh-huh,” said Conan, still not looking completely happy.

MacDonald is now in high gear: “Your agent is like, ‘There’s good news and bad news. You are doing “The Tonight Show,” it’s true. But remember that discussion we had when you said, “I will never have to [:O] follow Leno again?” ‘ ”

More Conan laughing uncomfortably while the audience cheers and applauds.

“Yeah, yeah. It’s so nice to have you back, Norm. It’s so very nice to have you back — and you bring joy to so many people,” Conan said, and then he tried clumsily to change the subject: “And, you know what, I’ll tell you something, Norm. These are tough times, people need to laugh now. Because — it’s the economy.”

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The bikini chick from American Idol was hated on for looking good

American Idol contestants try to get noticed by things other than their alleged talent like costumes or signs or costumes. It usually just serves as a way to mock the attempt but this is clearly the best attention getter stunt of the series.

Of course the new chick on the panel had a problem with it but bikini girls talent was just as good as any of the others and her sexable body was slightly more appealing to watch than Ruben Studdard or Justin Guarini’s so I approved of the fluff that makes this otherwise mediocre talent show a predictable slog. The lady judge had an immediate problem with the stunt because of the innate sense within the chick brain that desires to “nest” and seek safety. A younger, attractive female is a threat to this safety and her youth must be mocked and her attractiveness derided in order to neutralize the perceived threat. In this case the threat is psychological, as her presence and the inevitable attention it gets shifts the power dynamic away from the hippie core of the feminist-with-something-to-prove mindset. It’s an interesting case study in gender psychology and the sociological reactions to evolutionary defaults. Plus bikini.

UPDATE: Katrina Darrell, the bikini girl, returned to Idol for some…thing. idk. but now sporting a new set of boobs (breast implants). What a heart warming lateral-moving Cinderella story. or something.

Sorry body-shamers, but this move was a definite improvement.

Shocker: Movie that sounds like “Dildo”, not a box office hit

Shocker: Mediocrely (not a word, but you can figure it out) animated movie with ugly characters voiced by C list actors in an unfamiliar storyline and a title that sounds like “Dildo”, not a box office hit.

While the scrappy determination that led independent animation house Fathom Studios to bring an animated feature to the big screen is admirable, the box-office results were not so commendable. It turns out that Delgo bares the distinction of having the worst wide opening in box-office history. Over the weekend, it earned just $511,920 in 2,150 theaters for a dismal per-theater average of $237. The record was previously held by last year’s parking-garage thriller P2, which bowed to $2.1 million in 2,131 venues.

Several factors play into Delgo’s poor theatrical performance. The film was essentially self-distributed through Freestyle Releasing, a for-hire distributor, a costly endeavor which apparently left little money for marketing as the film slipped into theaters with a whisper. The producers made good use of free publicity by stringing out their casting announcements with a series of press releases a few years ago, but there was little ink for the movie in the days leading up to the release. Reviews were largely unkind, and it didn’t help that it had to compete with big-studio animated releases Bolt from Disney and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa from DreamWorks Animation, which are still drawing in family audiences.

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