NEW YORK — In 1917, a man named Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a combination of projector and glass drawing board that allowed animators to trace over live-action film, one frame at a time.

Following on the high heels of the 2023 hit film “Barbie,” “Boop! The Musical” likewise aims to remake and rebrand another dated pop character for contemporary times and audiences. Unlike Barbie, who ...

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T-Pain wants to "resurrect the spirit" of Freaknik by debuting his cartoon "Freaknik: The Musical" on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim channel tonight. Though he wasn't old enough to attend the annual ...

Complex: How did Freaknik: The Musical come about? Carl Jones: It was an extension of an idea for a series that was being done by adult swim. They had a series in production called That Crook'd 'Sipp ...

Culture mavens don't like to admit it, but most people under the age of 50 learned everything they know about classical music from TV cartoons. The introduction to orchestras goes from Tom and Jerry's ...

The Simpsons are going to MusicVille! The show has released this week’s opening couch gag a few days ahead of its Sunday airtime, and it’s a charming homage to the 1930s Disney cartoon “Music Land,” ...

Steven Quincy Urkel, the geek icon portrayed with nasally glee by actor Jaleel White on Family Matters from 1989 to 1997, has become pivotal part of Cartoon Network and HBO Max’s animation plans for ...

The current sound of children’s television animation has expanded notably with composer Ego Plum’s score to the Nickelodeon series Harvey Beaks, in which electronics and guitars fuse with the sound of ...

If you can hum a few bars from the theme song for “The Flintstones,” “The Jetsons” or one of the more than 250 other cartoons made by Hanna-Barbera since the late 1950s, you have Hoyt Curtin to thank.

Following on the high heels of the 2023 hit film "Barbie," "Boop! The Musical" likewise aims to remake and rebrand another dated pop character for contemporary times and audiences. Unlike Barbie, who ...