Sundance, YouTube and Animax

The Meet the Banes animation we did for Sundance Channel is also on YouTube. You can watch it here but don't forget to vote.

Happy Almost Valentine's Day

Mickey gives Minnie a little surprise in a new Disney ecard we animated for American Greetings.

The Coldest Winter

Cold Hard Flash covered our Sundance Channel Greenimation entry: Meet the Banes. Thanks, Aaron.

Featured Revver Creator

We're barely into 2007 and we're already full steam ahead. Animax Entertainment just made the featured creator list over at Revver - another home page tout for us. We've been using Revver to distribute some of our original animation productions like those profound missives from Arnold Schwarzenegger over at ArnoldSpeaks.com, our well received Christmas cards and then some of other animated content. If you are a content creator, the Revver model is a producer respectful one in that you get a cut every time someone checks out your content. Take a gander.

Animax on Sundance Channel

Hey there - Animax Entertainment is on the Sundance Channel - actually the Greenimation promo site for the Sundance Film Festival. Watch Meet the Banes and vote for us! You can vote once a day. If we win we get a series.

The Banes are the most despicable family on Earth. Enjoy!

And a special hello to Robert Redford!

The Great White North

Hello, from Canada. Animax Entertainment has folks up here this week working on a big project that we can't tell you about just yet, but it's a fun and different one for us. We're also meeting with some big muckity mucks. If you are a Canadian muckity muck we should be meeting with you too.

Healthy Kids

Wow - Animax Entertainment loves the new Disney site called Healthy Kids. The site helps kids understand the importance of healthy eating, the food pyramid, and the importance of physical activity. You get a chance to watch, train and play along with all of your favorite Disney characters including Mickey Mouse and his friends, The Incredibles, Lilo & Stitch and Kim Possible. There are a bunch of games mixed in with all the food information. What with all the news reports about kids and obesity, the site hopes to shrink the problem at least a little bit. We're doing sit-ups as we write these very words....

Animax Spawns French Speaking Siamese Bat Child

Looks like Animax Entertainment got roped into a little bit of a controversy. The wrestling tabloids have gone into gossip mongering hyperdrive over the cartoon we produce for Vince McMahon and WWE called Mr. McMahon's Kiss My Ass Club.

Yes, there are tabloids that cover the world of pro wrestling and in particular WWE. The journalistic integrity of these rags is mostly on par with Weekly World News, but then again, they don't really need any. They traffic in the sensational world of wrestling, so of course their reporting will be sensationalist. We were even more surprised though to see the "controversy" covered on Frederator, so we decided to issue a statement (we too feel Britney Spears' and Lindsay Lohan's tabloid pain.)

Yes, WWE was sued by the creators of Assy McGee. That's about where the truth in these articles ends and the rest of the assertions are baseless.

• Mr. McMahon has been doing the ass bit in the ring for years now.
  
• The initial idea for the cartoon came from WWE, but we wrote all the scripts and we designed the characters. (Only 2 episodes have been released but others are in the can.) Everything is original - Mr. McMahon's ass is 100% genuine grade A beef.
  
• We knew about Assy McGee. We were already in development and production on Mr. McMahon's ass when we saw the trailer on YouTube. We thought it looked interesting, but that, basically, it was boring. (Watched an episode on Cartoon Network recently - like the intro and that's about it.) But the existence or discovery of Assy McGee had no influence over the stories, look or anything done for WWE.
  
• The base level conception of the shows are very different. While they are both asses, they are as different as Mickey Mouse and Mighty Mouse.
  
• The WWE show launched before Assy did.
  

So where does that leave us? We're still transmedia. We're still funny. And, to be clear to our fans, even though we're getting the celebrity tabloid treatment, we're just like you.

Back to the Suture

The latest episode of Off-Mikes, Back to the Suture, is live on ESPN.com and continues to be very much alive in the hearts and minds of Animax Entertainment.

Extended Family Growing

Congratulations to boarder Mike Davis who just proposed to his girlfriend Ashley Hollenstein. And she said yes!

Amanda Visell Switcheroo

Animax Entertainment is a big fan of Amanda Visell so we wanted to let you know about a new solo art show she has at Gallery 1988, another favorite spot of ours.