Top Hat Sasquatch

Oh great, it looks like Paramount has handed over the new TMNT live action movie to production studio Platinum Dunes. Dunes was created in 2001 by non-other than Mr. Lets-Ruin-Your-Childhood, Michael Bay, along with a couple other guys.

Thankfully right now Bay is just listed as a producer, but the prospect of a cool new TMNT movie is getting a lot more grim for me. Lets just hope Nickelodeon realizes the gold mine they have with Alex Deligiannis as an employee, and let him create an awesome 80s-throwback cartoon.

Via /Film

One of my many failed attempts at animation in my younger days involved the Simpsons Cartoon Studio. I was just thinking about it the other day and had to look it up on YouTube. It was a collection of backgrounds, animated sprites, music, sound effects, and props that let you create your own Simpsons “episodes.”

I never did much with it, but I was much more into creating horrible stop-motion animation with toys. Maybe someday I’ll dig some of it up just to further prove that I’m a dork.

There were lots of games like this in the 90s, did you have any? Mario Paint perchance?

Further Reading:

The Simpsons Cartoon Studio on Wikipedia

This has been a long-time coming, but I just recently got my hands on a copy of the Avatar Blu-ray/DVD Combo from Fox. It’s a bare-bones release with no special features (the “ultimate” edition is coming out around the holiday season this year) but if you’re a big Avatar fan, it’s still worth a purchase.

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TeeFury is the site that features one cheap shirt with a great design every 24 hours, and today’s is particularly awesome. S’MURDER by David Schwen depicts the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man made into everyone’s favorite campfire food, S’mores.

I don’t know where the Ghostbusters would find graham crackers or a chocolate bar that big, but if they did I’d be there.

In addition to making awesome Twitter Avatars, Joey Ellis has been busy creating this set of TMNT illustrations that I now badly want on the wall in my office.

Suggestions for future doodles: Ace Duck, The Rat King, and Fugitoid. Any suggestions from you?