* 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.

This is a list that Warner Bros. Entertainment owns primarily by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. itself and by ownership through acquisition of companies such as Turner Entertainment Co., New Line Cinema, and Hanna-Barbera.

The Powerpuff Girls is an American animated television series created by animator Craig McCracken and produced by Hanna-Barbera ( later Cartoon Network Studios ) for Cartoon Network.

Although the Hanna-Barbera name remains on the copyright notices of new productions based on " classic " properties like the Flintstones, the Jetsons and others, the studio that produces these works is Warner Bros.

Today, Hanna-Barbera is currently an in-name-only unit of Warner's animation division.

Scrappy Cornelius ( Dappy ) Doo is a fictional Great Dane puppy created by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1979, with the famous catchphrase Let Me At ' Em and is the nephew of Hanna-Barbera cartoon star Scooby-Doo.

The Jetsons is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in primetime from 1962 – 1963 and again from 1985 – 1987.

* The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera ( ride ) Elroy Jetson is kidnapped by Dick Dastardly and Muttley and it is up to ride guests to save him.

The most prominent of these is Weldon's Yakky Doodle for Hanna-Barbera.

Though there is some debate on the intended audience, later non-educational children's television programs included the science fiction programmes of Irwin Allen ( most notably Lost in Space ), the fantasy series of Sid and Marty Krofft, and the extensive cartoon empire of Hanna-Barbera.

This occurred during a time when rival stuido Hanna-Barbera shifted from saying in the final production credits ( immediately before the production logo appearances ) " A Hanna-Barbera Production " to " Produced in Association with: Wang Film Productions / Cuckoo's Nest Studio " which is located in Thailand.

Many of the sounds and explosion effects used in its cartoons are also very familiar, the majority of them being recycled from Hanna-Barbera ( though this was, and still is a common trait among animation companies ), though the company's DC Comics cartoons of 1966-7 used more realistic sound effects.

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.

The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley is a 1988 animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera starring Martin Short's Ed Grimley as well as other characters and actors from Second City's SCTV.

" Brutus " ( often pronounced " Brutusk " by Popeye ) appears in the 1960 – 1962 Popeye television cartoons ( with his physical appearance changed, making him morbidly obese rather than muscular ), but he is again " Bluto " ( and back to his original muscular physique ) in the 1978 Hanna-Barbera Popeye series and the 1980 live-action Popeye movie, as well as the 1987 Popeye and Son series also by Hanna-Barbera.

* February 25-Gene Kelly stars in Jack and the Beanstalk ; airing on NBC and produced by Hanna-Barbera, it is the first TV special to combine live action and animation.

Boomerang, a spin-off channel of Cartoon Network, currently specializes primarily in reruns of Saturday morning cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s ( the majority of which come from Hanna-Barbera, which, like Boomerang, is owned by Time Warner ).

The Huckleberry Hound Show is a 1958 syndicated animated series and the second from Hanna-Barbera following The Ruff & Reddy Show, sponsored by Kellogg's.

The Huckleberry Hound Show contributed to making Hanna-Barbera a household name, and is often credited with legitimizing the concept of animation produced specifically for television.

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

One of the main characters of the 1969-1971 animated cartoon The Ant and the Aardvark is a blue aardvark voiced by John Byner, doing an impersonation of Jackie Mason.

* 1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.

He is animated by Milt Kahl.

Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series created and designed by Mike Judge.

Boudicca is a character in the animated series Gargoyles.

Examples include Oshii Mamoru ’ s 1984 animated film Beautiful Dreamer, which is based on an episode of Rumiko Takahashi's manga Urusei Yatsura ( 1978-1987 ) that depicts the baku as a tapir.

In northern and central Sardinia, the dance is lively and animated with leaps and agile movements and usually accompanied by a choir of three or more singers in the center of the circle.

The idea of an artifact made conscious is an ancient theme of mythology, appearing for example in the Greek myth of Pygmalion, who carved a statue that was magically brought to life, and in medieval Jewish stories of the Golem, a magically animated homunculus built of clay.

This is usually the case when a large number of frames need to be animated.

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.

Though the coyote is the basis for the character of Wile E. Coyote in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated cartoons, especially about the Road Runner, coyotes have not been known as yet to attack greater roadrunners for prey.

By far, the best known representation is the animated Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, whose popularity has spread the three-syllable Spanish pronunciation of the word coyote throughout English-speaking North America.

Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics.

A popular amateur approach to animation is via the animated GIF format, which can be uploaded and seen on the web easily.

Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated movies, " cartoon " came to refer to animation, and the word " cartoon " is currently used to refer to both animated cartoons and gag cartoons.

This personality is typically described as " mild-mannered ", perhaps most famously by the opening narration of Max Fleischer's Superman animated theatrical shorts.

Corum is then killed with his own sword by his animated silver hand, thereby fulfilling the prophecy.

He is also a respected composer of orchestral and sacred music, and wrote soundtracks for television such as Mr. Broadway and the animated mini-series This Is America, Charlie Brown.

For animation such as computer-generated imagery or animated cartoons, dialogue is recorded to a pre-edited version of the show.

Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is an umbrella term for a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language ( such as HTML ), a client-side scripting language ( such as JavaScript ), a presentation definition language ( such as CSS ), and the Document Object Model.

The 1973 Canadian animated short, The Family That Dwelt Apart, is based on his short story of the same name and is narrated by White.

However, there is a very short section of the film where things are made to appear to move by altering the drawings themselves from frame to frame, which is how standard animated cartoons have since been made up to today.