While Nasreddin is mostly known as a character from short tales, whole novels and stories have later been written and an animated feature film was almost made.

While working on Jayce, Straczynski was hired to come aboard the Len Janson and Chuck Menville project to adapt the movie Ghostbusters to an animated version called The Real Ghostbusters.

While Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic proved that adult-oriented animation could be financially successful, animated films were still not respected, and Bakshi's pictures were considered to be " dirty Disney flicks " that were " mature " only for depicting sex, drugs and profanity.

While much of the focus in an animated cartoon is on the visuals, the vocal talents and symphonic scores that accompanied the images were also very important to the cartoons ' success.

While computer generated characters have become acceptable to moviegoers, there have yet to be any fully animated films featuring virtual human actors, or " synthespians ".

While production times and costs were undeniably higher with animated programming, the cost of talent was far less ( voice actors Daws Butler, Don Messick, Mel Blanc and in later years Frank Welker and Rob Paulsen became known for their ability to hold several roles at once, sometimes even on the same show ) and networks could rerun children's animated programming more frequently than most live-action series, negating the financial disadvantages.

While animated production is still present on a couple of broadcast networks on Saturday mornings, it has been noticeably reduced.

While Transformers ended poorly for the US market, the same can not be said for the UK, Canada, and Japan markets as they went on to produce their own continuing series between 1991 to 1993, despite the UK market in particular missing a substantial amount of figures prominent in the comics and animated series throughout the line's run.

While working on the album Lynch directed a music video for the Foo Fighters ( UK version of " Times Like These "), worked on DVDs for No Doubt, Tenacious D, and Eagles of Death Metal, Sarah Silverman, Queens of the Stone Age and finished composing music for the MTV animated series, Clone High.

While Marvel's X-Men animated series was being produced by Saban, Spider-Man was produced by the newly formed Marvel Films Animation ; it was the only series that in-house studio produced, but was animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha with Korean studios.

While his peer, George Méliès was awarded the Legion of Honor medal in 1931, scant attention was given Cohl's pioneering work in animated film.

While rotoscoping is generally known to bring a sense of realism to larger budget animated films, the American animation company Filmation, known for its budget-cutting limited TV animation, was also notable for its heavy usage of rotoscope to good effect in series such as Flash Gordon, Blackstar, and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

While this is rather low for a Disney animated feature, it still classifies it as " fresh ".

While the Legion of Super-Heroes television series does not share the same continuity as the Justice League Unlimited series or its predecessors, the version of Brainiac which appeared on the show is also voiced by Corey Burton and shares the same musical leitmotif from his DC animated universe appearances.

While most tentacle erotica is animated, there are also a smaller number of live-action movies featuring this theme.

While working on George Lopez, Lusha also voiced the role of Nina for four years on the children's animated series Clifford's Puppy Days.

While other productions might animate figures or characters to the music, the animated models in Animusic are created first, and are then programmed to follow what the music " tells them " to.

While in Toronto ( 1970 – 1972 ) he designed, directed and animated television commercials for Sesame Street and Educational Television, and segments for longer films.

While charming, the short failed to receive much notice, and so Walt Disney decided to abandon producing animated films, and left Kansas City to become a live-action film director in Hollywood.

While The Rebirth brought the American animated series to an end, across the Pacific in Japan, it was decided to keep the series alive.

While many animated shows are represented, a high number of non-animated shows are also promoted by studios and the networks.

While in the comics the characters are portrayed in their late teens to early 20s ( resulting in the comic series at one point even dropping the word " Teen " from its title to reflect its older characters ), the animated series characters are all depicted as being in their actual mid-teen years.

While majoring in illustration and visual design at Auburn University, Holbrook served as art director of the student newspaper, doing editorial cartoons and a weekly comic strip.

While the idea that human beings and dinosaurs coexisted is sometimes portrayed in popular culture in cartoons, films and computer games, such as The Flintstones, One Million Years B. C.

While many networks followed the show's success by scheduling other cartoons in the early 1960s, including Scooby-Doo, Where Are You !, The Jetsons, Top Cat, and The Alvin Show, none of these programs survived more than a year ( save Scooby-Doo, which, despite not being a primetime cartoon, has managed to stay afloat for over four decades ).

While in Lucerne Holbein also designed cartoons for stained glass.

While the initial cartoon of an adult black bear lassoed by a handler and a disgusted Roosevelt had symbolic overtones, later issues of that and other Berryman cartoons made the bear smaller and cuter.

While the following does not represent the WB view of society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as to claim these prejudices never existed.

While Ray was a homemaker and later an inhalation therapist, Ben was a co-owner of Aura Recording, Inc., a recording studio in Manhattan where cartoons and commercials were produced.

While Disney was finishing the remaining cartoons for Mintz, Disney and his staff secretly came up with a new cartoon character to replace Oswald — Mickey Mouse.

While studios gave up on the big-budget theatrical short cartoons that throve in the 1930s and 1940s, new television animation studios would thrive based on the economy and volume of their output.

While expecting her first child, she drew single-panel cartoons for the ceiling of her obstetrician's office.

While in the 45th Infantry Division, Mauldin volunteered to work for the unit's newspaper, drawing cartoons about regular soldiers or " dogfaces ".

While the production of the cartoons had become more refined with more structured stories, the level of the content was more juvenile, largely influenced by Paramount's front office, which was changing the tone of their films to reflect a more family-oriented audience by producing films more of the nature of MGM.

While at Disney, Freleng worked on the Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons for producers Margaret Winkler and Charles Mintz.

While these cartoons were tame compared to her earlier appearances, their self-conscious wholesomeness was aimed at a more juvenile audience, which contributed to the decline of the series.

While none of the shorts included on the discs are part of the Censored Eleven, many of the cartoons that were included were routinely censored on television, but were included uncut on DVD.

While the last KOKO films were being produced, the Fleischers returned to producing sound cartoons with a revival of the song films named Screen Songs, which were released to theaters starting in February, 1929.

While such material has earned Hustler much criticism from feminists and other critics, Flynt and his supporters defend the cartoons as bawdy social satire.

While in high school and then in college he began drawing some cartoons for the Evanston News-Index, mainly for the pleasure of being published.

While most people would have difficulty recognizing Gossec's Gavotte by its title, the melody itself remains familiar in the United States and elsewhere because Carl Stalling used an arrangement of it in several Warner Brothers cartoons.

While the television catalog has largely changed hands over the years, the theatrical cartoons continue to be owned by their original distributors: United Artists ( via its current corporate parent, MGM ) for the Mirisch Company cartoon library and Warner Bros. for the Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies cartoons.

While still in high school, his cartoons were published regularly in many major magazines, including Saturday Review, The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger ’ s Changing Times, Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Weight Watchers, Reader ’ s Digest and New Woman.

While in service, Fisher kept a daily cartoon diary of his experiences and drew cartoons for his regimental newspaper.