Animated Fun Facts

[shadyh8er]

The movies The Thief and the Cobbler and Redline were entirely hand drawn.

In The Lion King, two different voice actors sing Scar's parts in the song "Be Prepared." Jeremy Irons (the original voice) blew out his vocal cords after the line "You won't get a sniff without me!" The rest of the song is sung by Jim Cummings.

The art of rotoscoping (animating over a human actor's movements) was first used for The Blue Fairy in Disney's Pinocchio.

Most episodes of South Park are made six days before they air.

EDIT:

Spoiler: Gurren Lagann Spoilers

Kamina died a virgin.

 

[Casual Shinji]

- In The Prince of Egypt, the voice of God is by the same voice actor who does Moses (Val Kilmer). Which I still think is one of the coolest and most original voice castings I've ever seen. Instead of having some standard Morgan Freeman/James Earl Jones voice, God speaks to Moses in his own voice. Genius!

- The team at Pixar that made Up actually went to Angel Falls in Venezuela, and spent a good time on the plateau to get the look and feel of the area right for the movie.

- The guy who voiced Roger Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit wore an actual bunny suit on set.

- The voice recording of both Fantastic Mr. Fox and Rango were done not in a soundbooth, but by having the actors pantomime the actual scenes together.

 

[Redingold]

Lauren Faust, the woman behind Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, MLP: FiM, and Codename: Kids Next Door, is married to Craig McCraken: Who directed Dexter's Laboratory, and the Powerpuff Girls, and also worked with Lauren Faust on Foster's and the Powerpuff Girls.

Hang on, this is waaaay false. She was in no sense at all the woman behind Kids Next Door, nor did she create Foster's. The only work she did for KND was animating the walk cycles in the pilot episode, and it was McCracken who was the one that came up with Foster's, though the character of Frankie was at least somewhat based off her.

 

[Leemaster777]

In the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny appear on-screen together. Warner Bros and Disney agreed to this, on the terms that Bugs and Mickey had the same amount of lines, and that they were on-screen for EXACTLY the same amount of time, down to the frame.

Also, fun fact, some cheeky animator sneaked this in:

Another one I like relates to the anime Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. When it was being dubbed, Funimation held a contest for people to submit the dirtiest line they could think of, and they'd have one of the voice actresses for the dub say the line.

The winning line was from Party.MOV. Yes, the My Little Pony parody. Observe:

 

[Terminate421]

This guy:

Has the same voice actor as this guy:

(Dan Green is the man behind that voice)

 

[Diddy_Mao]

A surprisingly large number of well known children's show animators were given their start as part of "Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted festival of Animation".

Well known contributors include:

Ed, Edd n' Eddy creator Dan Antonucci with Lupo the Butcher


Courage the Cowardly Dog's John Dilworth with Dirdy Birdy


All around cartoon pimpmeister Craig McCracken with No Neck Joe and Whoopass Stew (the latter of which would serve as a pilot for a rare failure in the career of an otherwise popular animator...shame the idea never took off.)

 

[ohnoitsabear]

In the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny appear on-screen together. Warner Bros and Disney agreed to this, on the terms that Bugs and Mickey had the same amount of lines, and that they were on-screen for EXACTLY the same amount of time, down to the frame.

They also had that same condition for Donald Duck and Daffy Duck, which is, again, why they both appear onscreen together.

The Thief and the Cobbler has the longest production time of any movie, animated or otherwise, at over 30 years. Richard Williams, the director of both the Thief and the Cobbler and Who Framed Rodger Rabbit made Who Framed Rodger Rabbit just so he could continue making the Thief and the Cobbler.

Mel Blanc, the person who did almost all of the voices for Loony Toons, hated carrots. When he was first doing the Bugs Bunny voice, he tried to use a variety of other vegetables instead of carrots, but none of them came even close to having the right sound. So, what he ended up doing was chew on a carrot for long enough to do a line, then spit it out.

 

[Dreadman75]

Lauren Faust, the woman behind Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, MLP: FiM, and Codename: Kids Next Door, is married to Craig McCraken: Who directed Dexter's Laboratory, and the Powerpuff Girls, and also worked with Lauren Faust on Foster's and the Powerpuff Girls.

Hang on, this is waaaay false. She was in no sense at all the woman behind Kids Next Door, nor did she create Foster's. The only work she did for KND was animating the walk cycles in the pilot episode, and it was McCracken who was the one that came up with Foster's, though the character of Frankie was at least somewhat based off her.

Fair enough. I guess this is what I get for going exclusively off of wikipedia. Although I had no idea she only worked on the pilot of KND. I should have been more clear, and I should have done more research. My mistake.

She was, however, a very big part of Foster's even if she didn't create it. Here's a rough list of what she did for the show (compiled from IMDb):
supervising producer, storyboard artist / additional storyboard artist, character designer / animation director, story supervisor / story editor.

Interesting tie-in to my original post. Phil Lamar also did the voice of Wilt.

 

[Eddie the head]

In the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny appear on-screen together. Warner Bros and Disney agreed to this, on the terms that Bugs and Mickey had the same amount of lines, and that they were on-screen for EXACTLY the same amount of time, down to the frame.

They also had that same condition for Donald Duck and Daffy Duck, which is, again, why they both appear onscreen together.

The Thief and the Cobbler has the longest production time of any movie, animated or otherwise, at over 30 years. Richard Williams, the director of both the Thief and the Cobbler and Who Made Rodger Rabbit made Who Made Rodger Rabbit just so he could continue making the Thief and the Cobbler.

Mel Blanc, the person who did almost all of the voices for Loony Toons, hated carrots. When he was first doing the Bugs Bunny voice, he tried to use a variety of other vegetables instead of carrots, but none of them came even close to having the right sound. So, what he ended up doing was chew on a carrot for long enough to do a line, then spit it out.

I think you meant "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" You said Who Made Rodger Rabbit.

 

[ohnoitsabear]

In the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny appear on-screen together. Warner Bros and Disney agreed to this, on the terms that Bugs and Mickey had the same amount of lines, and that they were on-screen for EXACTLY the same amount of time, down to the frame.

They also had that same condition for Donald Duck and Daffy Duck, which is, again, why they both appear onscreen together.

The Thief and the Cobbler has the longest production time of any movie, animated or otherwise, at over 30 years. Richard Williams, the director of both the Thief and the Cobbler and Who Made Rodger Rabbit made Who Made Rodger Rabbit just so he could continue making the Thief and the Cobbler.

Mel Blanc, the person who did almost all of the voices for Loony Toons, hated carrots. When he was first doing the Bugs Bunny voice, he tried to use a variety of other vegetables instead of carrots, but none of them came even close to having the right sound. So, what he ended up doing was chew on a carrot for long enough to do a line, then spit it out.

I think you meant "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" You said Who Made Rodger Rabbit.

You're right. I'm an idiot. Fixing that now.

 

[Eddie the head]

You're right. I'm an idiot. Fixing that now.

It happens. I just thought I would point it out to you. We all make mistakes.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Spoiler: The last episode of Tom and Jerry ended with them about to commit suicide on a train tracks :D

Wait... that wasn't fun...

 

[Serinanth]

Futurama has had a fairly large number of guest actors on the show.

They include.

Beck
Coolio
Donovan Teller
Hank Aaron
Buzz Aldrin
Pamela Anderson
Sergio Aragonés
Beatrice Arthur
Hank Azaria
Bob Barker
Roseanne Barr
Larry Bird
Nancy Cartwright
Dan Castellaneta
Dick Clark
David X. Cohen
David Cross
Mike Diamond
Snoop Dogg
Nora Dunn
Chris Elliott
Craig Ferguson
Jonathan Frakes
John Goodman
Al Gore
Matt Groening
Gary Gygax
Mark Hamill
Estelle Harris
Stephen Hawking
Phil Hendrie
Jan Hooks
Adam Horovitz
Penn Jillette
Tom Kenny
Walter Koenig
Dawnn Lewis
Rich Little
Lucy Liu
Seth MacFarlane
Mark Mothersbaugh
Brittany Murphy
Nichelle Nichols
Leonard Nimoy
Conan O'Brien
Bob Odenkirk
Patton Oswalt
Ron Popeil
Parker Posey
Bumper Robinson
Katee Sackhoff
Claudia Schiffer
William Shatner
Pauly Shore
Sarah Silverman
Patrick Stewart
Todd Susman
Wanda Sykes
George Takei
Bob Uecker
Sigourney Weaver

I had no idea the planet express ship was Sigourney!

 

[Soviet Heavy]

The art of rotoscoping (animating over a human actor's movements) was first used for The Blue Fairy in Disney's Pinocchio.

False. Disney had been employing Rotoscoping ever since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and even they were not the first to use it.

 

[soren7550]

- The pilot episode of South Park was done entirely with stop motion animation with construction paper, and took six months to complete. After that, South Park would be computer animated, frequently having episodes completed within a week.

- In The Incredibles, the superhero costume designer Edna Mode is played by director Brad Bird because they couldn't find someone to do the right voice for her.

- Christian Bale immediately agreed to play any role in Howl's Moving Castle after seeing Spirited Away.

 

[aba1]

I actually know almost all of these already though I know a good bit of animation trivia in general. I guess one that I came by more recently that I found really interesting was that Disneys 3rd ever full length animated feature "Fantasia" was edited over the years and has had a few scenes cut out one of the most notable was a scene depicting a Black cenetar as a slavish type character and was highly stereotyped. They have refused to ever release the full unedited version of the film since the 60's. In the newer versions they don't even have the original voices either and some of the scenes have been rearranged mostly because there used to be a intermission.

Some of the deleted scenes.

Spoiler

Also Snow White was the first ever colour cartoon ever created.

I know a ton of little facts and such though I don't really know what to say off hand

 

[The Wonder of the net]

The voice actress that played Asuka from Evangelion is one of the few people to come back for the remake. Seth Mcfarlen's voice always sounds like brian from family guy. Mat and Joel from rooster teeth played roles in a episode of Code Monkeys.

 

[InsanityRequiem]

This dude? You know this dude? Tim Curry? He voiced someone I doubt many of you know.

Tim Curry voiced this dude! Sir Nigel Archibald Thornberry!

 

[Squilookle]

Well since this seems to be mostly about music and animation...

What does the 80s dance hit 'love shack' have in common with the theme to 'Rocko's Modern Life'?

They're both sung by the B-52s.

Most episodes of South Park are made six days before they air.

Correction: they start making them six days before they air. They're fast, but not that fast.

In the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny appear on-screen together. Warner Bros and Disney agreed to this, on the terms that Bugs and Mickey had the same amount of lines, and that they were on-screen for EXACTLY the same amount of time, down to the frame.

Also, fun fact, some cheeky animator sneaked this in:

I love it. One frame, no dialogue, and Bugs effortlessly steals the show from Mickey. Just as it should be.

Mel Blanc, the person who did almost all of the voices for Loony Toons, hated carrots. When he was first doing the Bugs Bunny voice, he tried to use a variety of other vegetables instead of carrots, but none of them came even close to having the right sound. So, what he ended up doing was chew on a carrot for long enough to do a line, then spit it out.

That's funny, I heard that carrots didn't give the right noise at all, tending to just 'snap', and so the bite sound was done with an apple.

- Christian Bale immediately agreed to play any role in Howl's Moving Castle after seeing Spirited Away.

Poor guy. Of all the Miyazaki's to be in, to get put in that one...

Tim Curry voiced this dude! Sir Nigel Archibald Thornberry!

He also played (and sang) as the Slime in Ferngully: The Last Rainforest.

 

[Vault101]

- Christian Bale immediately agreed to play any role in Howl's Moving Castle after seeing Spirited Away.

he was also thomas (red headed british kid with the berret) in Pochahontis...I swear I can see a resemblence
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in retrospect Rocks Modern life as ALOT of "adult" references...not surprising really