Cartoons

Again, interesting facts, only now on the cartoons:

SpongeBob

At first, the show was called SpongeBoy, but that name was already registered services, and then renamed sponge.

The 40 holes Sponge Bob.

The author and creator of SpongeBob is Stephen Hillenburg, a former marine biologist and teacher, who taught animation at art school. Like SpongeBob, he once worked as a cook in a restaurant, and seafood.





In the Soviet cartoon Winnie the Pooh voiced by Yevgeny Leonov. To achieve a greater comic actor it was accelerated by about 30%. If you reduce speed to this value, you can hear the usual Leonova.



Mickey Mouse

Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.

Mickey Mouse was a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The Walt Disney Company neprekraschenie fighting for the protection of copyright in the image of Mickey Mouse, the value of which in 2008 is estimated at more than three billion US dollars. Due to the company's activities aimed at periodic extension of the protection of property copyrights, because of which Mickey Mouse in 2008 and did not become public domain



Scrooge McDuck

In 2007, the city council of Glasgow Scrooge McDuck included in the list of prominent citizens.

Scrooge McDuck in 2007 headed the list of the fifteen richest fictional characters on the magazine Forbes. As explained by the drafters of the list, it was associated with an increase in the price of gold (in 2005 and 2002 Scrooge ranked sixth and fourth places, respectively)



Simpsons

Beer under the brand name "Duff" was produced in South Australia from 1990 to 1996. When it became clear that the name is borrowed without permission from The Simpsons, the release stopped. The price of this beer comes from now to 10 thousand dollars per box, while the manufacturer of the box cost 24 $.

The premiere of "The Simpsons" in Angola advertised using the image of "African" the Simpson family. Local advertising agency changed the look of the characters, so that they resembled the Angolan family. On the advertising posters on the first show "The Simpsons" African broadcaster, all family members painted "dark-skinned" and shod in slippers.

Homer has repeatedly hinted that the drugs are stored in the home, usually after Marge follows the phrase "But we have no drugs!", To which Homer, the reason the eyes, answers, "Well, of course. Neto ».



Shrek

When writing acknowledgments actors have never met - each of them working separately, and their partners replica pronounced assistant.

Movement Jackass movie animators were modeled based on the movements of the dog - except chase scene early in the film, in which the motion of a donkey were modeled based on the movements of the rabbit.

Before the release of the screens showed a picture of a group of lawyers who had to determine whether the Walt Disney Company to sue for non-traditional use of images of their cartoons.



Kung Fu Panda

The names of the main characters are selected from the actual words of the Chinese language. "Shifu" means "teacher", "Tai Lung" - "the great dragon", "Ugvey" - "Turtle».

In the Chinese localization of the movie Master Crane voiced Jaycee Chan (son of Jackie Chan)



Madagascar

Budget - 78 million $

Russian version voiced by Oscar Kuchera (Marty), Masha Malinovskaya (Gloria), Alexander Cekalo (Melman) and Konstantin Habensky (Alex).

In the original, zebra Marty is voiced by an African American, a voice which, according to the director, had to make many of his phrases certain "Negro" and notes the American sense of satire. The Russian version of Marty voiced Oskar Kuchera, so some jokes at first appeared incomprehensible to the Russian-speaking people



Volt

To create the appearance of Volta use images of various breeds of dogs, but the basis for the designers was taken American White Shepherd.

Somewhere in two or three months before the end of work on the cartoon animators few men decided not to shave until it's finished. From the idea of ​​Solidarity was supported by all the men who worked on the cartoon, including directors. By the end of this "action" many men have got respectable beards.

Inventing the characters, the filmmakers found the first actors to voice, and then their voice to create characters.

Three-dimensional model of a hamster in a plastic ball Reno multipliers created in the image of domestic chinchilla producer John Lasseter.

In the English version of the cartoon Volt is called "Bolt" (translated as "Lightning"). In the Russian version of "Bolt" is pronounced pretty rough, so the authors of Russian dubbing had to change the name of the main character in the "V". Lightning, painted on the side of the dog only confirmed the correctness of the choice



Well, wait a minute!

His famous hair and characteristic appearance Wolf acquired only in the second edition of the cartoon. In the first issue of his hairstyle and looks different from the usual audience option.

Wolf knows how to play the guitar (as well as the harp, though in a dream) and sing in a hoarse voice in the manner of Vysotsky. Thumbs up dancing. Properly skiing and ice skating. Poor drives a car and a motorcycle. Much better controlled crane, harvester and other similar mechanisms. Judging by the style of life of the Wolf (his clothes, furnishings in his room, etc.), Constant work, he has not, but occasionally well earns "shabashki", so it can afford quite expensive in those days things (beautiful new motorcycle "Java" ), although it happens and penniless periods



Zhiharka

Zhiharka - cartoon created by the studio "Pilot" in 2006. Based on the Ural tales. From the series: "Gem Mountain».

The film participated in the competition program of the festival "Suzdal 2007". Cartoon created in the technique of "reruns».



Return of the Prodigal Parrot

The plot of the cartoon child psychologists use to resolve conflicts with teenagers.

Parrot Kesha has long been a commercial brand that actively unwound owners and pirates. For example, set up a video game (such as "Freedom for parrots!" And "Kesha in the world of fairy tales"), coloring, and so forth.

The popularity of the cartoon inspired A. Kurland writing a book, which included the story "You have not been to Tahiti?", "And we are here well fed" and "Charming!»



There was a dog

The bronze monument Wolf weighing about 200 kg was built in Tomsk in 2005. Authors - foundry Maxim Petrov and the consultant-artist Leonty Usov. Wolf can say the eight phrases ("Right now, sing!", "God help you!" "Well, you come on, if that!" And others.).

The filmmakers tell Wolf features character creation. At first he was in a cartoon drawn not so, as we know it. However, in voicing the role of the hero A. Dzhigarhanyanom appeared that depicted the character is not suited to the voice of the actor, and then Wolf was redrawn, and there was the hero of the cartoon, which saw the audience.



Ratatouille

Remy traced 1, 15 million hairs, while Colette at 115 thousand hair. The average person has about 110,000 hair.

To create a realistic view of a garbage pile, artists photographed and researched the real products of decay. Fifteen different types of products, such as apples, berries, bananas, mushrooms, oranges, broccoli and lettuce, were left to rot and then photographed them.

During the initial character design sculptor created nine clay sculptures Remy

Cartoon nominated for 5 nominations "Oscar", including "Best Animated Feature in 2007».



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