YouTube Goodness

[Dacey]

Since Butch Hartman has his own animation studio (again?), reminder that this is one of roughly 10,000 failed pilots he produced, and they’re all of this “quality”…

[gaastra]

[Randall]

Sigh. I know it's gotta be a rights nightmare, but this film is a grail item for me.

[Ben]

I’d love to see this "properly" too. I guess WB has it now…? It’s on the Internet Archive for a view.

[Randall]

I was just thinking it might be on there. I should download a copy.

[Ben]

I didn’t link, as there are several of various cuts and quality so it might take a bit of time to go through and find a decent/best one.

[gaastra]

Another clip.

[Ben]

Mmm, 1080p and no scratches? Could it be someone is working on a resto? This would look and sound great in even HD and 5.1 (I won’t wish for 4K and Atmos yet!). Is this clip from a broadcast airing? You can see a logo has been "removed" in the bottom right corner. Maybe someone somewhere has access to good/restored elements on this after all…

[gaastra]

The lost media guy who is remastering kidd video and other lost media remastered it. The remaster is on internet achieve and from an american print of the movie looks like. Not sure if this clip is from that remaster or not.

[Ben]

Looks like it may be…apart from the logo removal — which admittedly most people wouldn’t notice — it’s a very solid image. He’s done a nice job to present this in a more watchable version. Do you have a link to that IA version?

[droosan]

This Dua Lipa music video is a couple years old .. but it just showed up again in my YT feed, and IMO it does an impressive job of capturing an authentic 'vintage 1980s anime' vibe. There's a little Urusei Yatsura, a hint of Minky Momo, sprinkles of Macross, etc.

[Ben]

Looks like they may have done a filmout for this, or at least have a great filter that mimics the photochemical magic that only happens with real film.

This has been mentioned before, but it reminded me — and I’m sure it was a bit inspired by — this, from really for real 1985…

[droosan]

A year ago, I posted the first two episodes of Punch Punch Forever! in this thread.

and now -- at long last! -- PPF! episode 3 has been released .. and it hasn't lost a step..!

however -- where the first couple episodes kinda skated to the edge of 'PG-13' content (and slightly past it, if I'm being honest) -- this third episode is very definitely "Outside the Lines," especially for foul language .. so, I decided to post it as a hyperlink, rather than an inline youtube video.

It's still got a high 'laughs-per-second' ratio .. and it's chock-full of clever anime tropes/in-jokes and over-the-top silliness. Even the faked 'vintage videotape' artifacts are enjoyable..!

But definitely only watch it without any kids around.

[droosan]

a very clever and fun ad for a 'stop motion' add-on for Blender.

.. worth a watch even if you're not a CG artist.

[droosan]

.. and here's a trailer for a video game coming next year which apparently utilizes actual for-real stop motion (for cutscenes, at least; not sure whether gameplay is also stop-mo).