Because of this, radiosity is a prime component of leading real-time rendering methods, and has been used from beginning-to-end to create a large number of well-known recent feature-length animated 3D-cartoon films.

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Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

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This development notwithstanding, cable networks directed at children have used the Saturday morning time slot as its version of prime time for its animated series ; Cartoon Network ( with " DC Nation "), YTV ( with Vortex ), Nickelodeon ( with " Nicktoons ") and Disney Channel ( with " Toonin ' Saturdays ") have emphasized their Saturday morning cartoon programming.

Prime time live-action shows were not the only genre to employ a laugh track, as the canned chuckles were eventually used in some prime time animated television series that would not employ a live audience.

Hanna-Barbera also used the limited laugh track when they produced Wait Till Your Father Gets Home in 1972, their first prime time animated television show since the demise of The Flintstones in 1966.

The show is the third longest running prime time animated series behind The Simpsons and South Park.

The BBC described it as " the first British animated sitcom to make it on to prime time US TV.

The series ran from 1961 to 1962, and was one of a small number of animated series to be shown in prime time on CBS.

The Little Mermaid premiered in the fall of 1992 with the animated prime time special called " A Whale of a Tale ," then moved to Saturday mornings.

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The series was originally shown in prime time, and not as part of an animated bloc for juvenile viewers, therefore certain more mature elements were present.

Phil Roman, veteran alumus of Chuck Jones Enterprises and Bill Melendez Productions, originally founded Film Roman in 1984 as a means to continue the production of the Garfield series of animated prime time television specials, since Melendez's own studio was unable to work on both the Garfield and Peanuts series of specials.

In 1985, CBS ' head of children's programming Judy Price had commissioned a animated television series based on the Garfield prime time special series, later ultimately titled Garfield and Friends, which took three years for Roman to decide developing and producing the program before it eventually aired on the network's Saturday morning time slot, premiering on September 17, 1988.

This is the period when he is in his prime, and the animated series is set during it.

It also becomes the fourth prime time animated cartoon, and the first cable TV series, to win the award, behind The Simpsons, King of the Hill and Futurama.

The show was created for the cable channel Bip and debuted in March 2004, becoming the first prime time animated series in Israeli television,

* List of animated spinoffs from prime time shows

The highly successful BattleTech line led to a series of video games, some of the first virtual reality gaming suites, called Virtual World ( created by a subdivision of the company known at the time of development as ESP, an acronym for " Extremely Secret Project ") and a Saturday-morning animated TV series.

An animated GIF file comprises a number of frames that are displayed in succession, each introduced by its own GCE, which gives the time delay to wait after the frame is drawn.

In 1987, Otomo continued working in anime, directing an animated work for the first time: a segment, which he also wrote the screenplay and drew animation for, in the anthology feature Neo Tokyo.

Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz had previous musical theatre experience and wrote songs for animated films during this time, supplanting Disney workhorses the Sherman Brothers.

* 1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.

It marks Paramount's return to having its own animated division for the first time since 1967, when Paramount Cartoon Studios shut down ( it was formerly Famous Studios until 1956 ).

The models were then animated one frame at a time, and incorporated into the CGI elements of the game through digital photography.

M ' Ress and Arex, characters from the animated series, appear in the Star Trek: New Frontier novels by Peter David, in which M ' Ress and Arex are transported through time to the 24th Century, and are made officers on board the USS Trident.

Having a running time of 163 minutes, Final Yamato retains the record of being the longest animated film ever made.

By the time the series ended in 1927, its focus was more on the animated characters and in particular a cat named Julius who resembled Felix the Cat, rather than the live-action Alice.

The instantaneous voltage is a function of both time and distance, so could only be shown fully by a three-dimensional or animated graph.

Graham Coxon recorded a string of solo albums, while Damon Albarn dedicated his time to Gorillaz, the animated band he had created with Jamie Hewlett.

The infected have slowly overcome their disease until they can spend short periods of time in sunlight and are attempting to rebuild society ; but they fear and hate Neville who has destroyed some of their people along with the true vampires ( dead bodies animated by the germ ) during his daytime excursions against the latter.

The 2001 animated film Metropolis, is based on an original manga by Osamu Tezuka, which is loosely based on the film, though Tezuka claims he had not seen the film at the time.

In 2003, another feature film was released, this time in an attempt to recapture the spirit of the original shorts: the live-action / animated Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

In 2003, the Online Film Critics Society ranked the film as the greatest animated film of all time.

At the time of its release, it was the third highest grossing animated film after The Lion King ( 1994 ) and Aladdin ( 1992 ).

* Saturday morning is a notable television time block aimed at children while generally airing animated cartoons.

On 21 May 2007, AOL. com claimed that this film is the lowest grossing animated movie of all time.

He composed the music for the 2009 anime Guin Saga ; this marked the first time he provided a full score for an animated series.

" In 2003, the Online Film Critics Society ranked the film as the 67th greatest animated film of all time.

Film critic Peter Travers commented that " If there was ever a time where an animated feature deserved to be nominated for Best Picture, it's WALL-E ".

In the season seven ( 1995 ) episode " Treehouse of Horror VI ", Homer was computer animated into a three dimensional character for the first time for the " Homer < sup > 3 </ sup >" segment of the episode.

But, at the time, on The Tracey Ullman Show, she was just an animated eight-year-old kid who had no personality.