Welcome to the 3rd Animation Source Choice Awards! (the møøse crossed the road)

Each year, Animation Source hosts an awards show honoring the best in animation from the previous year. (a møøse bitte my sister once) This year, we will honor the best in animation from 2013, a wonderful year that included films such as Frozen, Despicable Me 2, and many others! (no, really. my sister was painting her knails and the møøse came up and bitte her hande) The way the ASCAs work is this: you, the members of Animation Source, look at the list [...]

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Merry Christmas, Animation Source! We've come to the end of the year, and this year I have made a very special Sourcecast episode to commemorate Christmas! If you don't celebrate Christmas, oh well, here's the episode anyway.

Click the video above to listen to Sourcecast's Christmas special! And be sure to come back next week for info on the Animation Source Choice Awards!

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

*Edit* The banner will be temporarly taken down, as it also has affected the French side. I'll put it back up once I've "disconnected" the English side to the French side*

The Christmas banner contest is over. It was a hard choice picking who's banner would win, and even the two runners up, but here are the results:

1st place goes to -DayDreamer- with her banner which you can see is currently used as the site banner. (Note: You may need to refresh the page to see the new site banner)

The runners up are Troll Berserker, with her banner:

And SilverBreeze:

Congratulations [...]

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The first official trailer, after the teaser, was finally released!

The releasing date of the movie had also been confirmed: it's the 13th of June! Are you excited now after seeing this trailer? What are your thoughts on it? Do you think this movie will be better than the first? You can share your thoughts down here on the comments! Enjoy the trailer!

Just a small update, from today will have a Christmas banner, this banner will be up till the 1st of January  GMT .

~Blaze

Note: you many need to press CTRL+F5

I've decided to run a Christmas banner contest here

If you win, your banner will be chosen as the official banner for a week. Though please remember that the deadline for the contest is just short of 2 weeks time. I hope you will join the contest

(Original contest idea was by Mightybalto1925, when she hosted it on LATTS)

DreamWorks has unveiled the first "official" How to Train Your Dragon 2 poster. Check it out below!

What's your favorite part of the poster? Post in the comments below! And be sure to check out How to Train Your Dragon 2 when it comes out in June!

Hello, I am Blaze you may or may not know but me and Rainbowkat are now builders for Lks .

We wish to update Lks  with new images and info, this will take time so don't expect anything like with in a week ect,But I will try to find copy's of the tv show and cap the episodes. Again this will take time.

The next order of business is one I have posted about on spirit source before and a Lks member has pmed me about and needs to be said here, please don't tag unrealistic characters as realistic,what counts is anything in the bio that isn't ,such as a cub being [...]

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How to Train Your Dragon's Facebook page has updated to include the official app for a brand-new game: "School of Dragons". This game lets you enter Hiccup's world and train alongside him as you raise dragons of your own!

To visit the app, click here.

And don't forget, just a few months now until HTTYD 2 comes to theaters! Who's excited?

It's that time of month again: Sourcecast 2.0 has just released its 6th episode, The Very Hungry Mailbag!

In this episode, I talk about the Balto fandub, review a few fun stuff, and then read all the feedback we've received in our mailbag! Remember, if you wanna help out with Sourcecast, just shoot me a PM! (To listen to the episode, click the video above.)

Be sure to check out the official Sourcecast website, hosted by Conay!

And the Sourcecast section on the Hub!

Among with Halloween also the winners from TBBS Halloween contest have been announced!

The winner is our Global Mod: Saske Italian Wolf! Congratulations Saske! 

And,as I stated on the contest, the winner's graphic would have been posted on my Halloween Article! Look how much accurate and well looking images and characters reflects the Halloween theme! Again, that's been a really good job,Congratulations! 

At the second place we have another member from the site: SarabiMirage123! Congratulations!

The idea of a Koda-Zombie, the phantom of his mother [...]

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The site "Total Media Bridge" just posted a very interesting interview of Jymn Magon about the creation of the show.

Read it now! http://www.totalmediabridge.com/interview-with-jymn-magon-talespin/

After much consideration, and encouragement from other members, I have decided to revive the Animation Source Choice Awards once more and see how it goes.

Not to be confused with the Animation Source Awards, which honor members of Animation Source and has been discontinued permanently, the ASCAs honor the best in animation from the previous year. The first year Animation Source hosted the awards, 157 people voted, and the winner of Best Picture was Rio. Last year, however, less than 20 people voted altogether, and I decided to cancel the awards. However, enough people have expressed [...]

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Did you know that a second set of the Disney Afternoon vinylmation series was planned for TaleSpin?

Well, guess what, it's on sale RIGHT NOW in the parks and online at the Disney Store!

http://www.disneystore.com

Hello spirit source, me again

I have a few bits of news today, but first I want to clear something up about the new tag, the tag Is over all not just coat so a realistic coat with unrealistic bio would be unrealistic and so on, unrealistic character are allowed.

Second, from today spirit related contest and projects can be advertised on the rolling banner, this is done by me ,please do not send banners to mods, if you have a spirit related contest or project  you can make a banner 750X100 and send it to me with a small info bit no more than two lines and the link to [...]

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A lot of you own an account over at DeviantART and that's great. Now you can join our official group on DA as well!

Post your fanart in our group and get even more feedback.

It's a friendly group where you can share your fan content, get in touch with other fans and simply have fun.

Please keep in mind that the group is just new and therefore it doesn't have many members, yet. It will grow, with each Rio fan who'll join.

Hello, Everyone, and welcome to Rio Source's official DeviantART group.

We welcome all fans to come and submit their fan work for the movie Rio [...]

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Are you Ready..?

Hello everyone! Finally October is here and we're all waiting for its famous holiday...Halloween!  We will all celebrate it remembering about the dead, the saints, telling scary stories and especially watching some Horror movies! So, Are your jack-ò-lanterns ready? Because there will be a lot of fun,news and...sweets!.

So, since also here on The Brother Bear Source we're going to celebrate this festivity, I created a contest about this theme and, heres the surprise: The best and most original image will be posted here as the [...]

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Hello Spirit source.

 You may or may not have seen, but we have a new tag for characters.

“Realistic or unrealistic/sparkle.”

Unrealistic characters are allowed. This tag is simply to make it easier for people who only want to see realistic characters.

What determines realistic or unrealistic?

If you can’t find a photo that match or are like the markings you give your character, then tag it as unrealistic.

I made this to help explain using a bay:


(thanks to wingsoffaith for making the rendered horses).
(note:this is for bay only,chesnuts with dark [...]

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Looks like Blu and Jewel weren't the last ones of their kind - by far.

The official Disney fan club, D23, has posted an article on TaleSpin a while ago. It's always nice to see an official Disney site acknowledging the show!

I can't access the article but it seems they've posted this cool art of the Sea Duck cockpit.

If you're a D23 member, the article is here : https://d23.com/tale-spin-concept-art/

Just found that painting of the Sea Duck on the web. Quite good looking, don't you think?

It doesn't seem on sale anymore though, quite a shame!

http://www.world-wide-art.com/Rob_Kaz/TaleSpin_Lazy_Afternoon_Original/vaid39416.html

According to BoxOfficeMojo's release schedule, Pixar films The Good Dinosaur and Finding Dory have had their release dates pushed back.

The Good Dinosaur, set to be Pixar's next major release, was due out next June, but now it has been pushed back to November 25, 2015. There may be several reasons for this, but the largest one might be the fact that Jurassic World (aka Jurassic Park 4) is being released during Summer 2015, and perhaps Pixar wants to release a dinosaur film immediately after, while audiences are still on a dinosaur high. Another reason might be because the film simply [...]

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We have some new insights on Don Rosa (the famous Duck comic book artist) involvement with TaleSpin.

Here's a modelsheet he did for the episode "I Only Have Ice For You" : (click to enlarge)

Also, a quote from the Don Rosa Collection book set :

"'TaleSpin' was an interesting show -- it was based on old adventure movies of the 1930’s which was certainly one of my interests! I soon was getting enthusiastic about giving it my best shot. I even did storyboards for my own scripts for free, trying to make myself valuable. A screenwriter who can also do his own storyboards was just [...]

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The Walt Disney Company has released a brand-new game for the iPad: Disney Animated.

From the official description:

Discover how Disney animated films are brought to life. Explore pages packed with interactive images and multi-layer animated clips. Animate authentic Disney 3D character models, and control a Disney visual effects simulation. Browse a rich timeline of all 53 Disney animated feature films, and more. 

Dozens of top animators, artists, technicians, and designers contributed to making Disney Animated an unprecedented hands-on experience. Disney Animated gives you [...]

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UPDATE : Unlike what had been mentioned, internation shipping is not possible. Well...it's still a good news for the USA citizens who can order it now without having to register at the DMC.

Good news, the Disneystore.com site now has the TaleSpin Volume 3 DVD!!!

http://www.disneystore.com/new-arrivals-talespin-volume-3-2-disc-dvd-set/mp/1341276/1000995/

No need to get a membership at the Disney Movie Club.

Just bought it, they do international shipping but it's expensive ($35...) I still ordered, at least I'm buying from an official site. And so far it's the only way I've found [...]

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Sorry it's taken so long, but the next episode of Sourcecast 2.0 is FINALLY up and ready for your listening pleasure! 

In this episode, I call for help by way of a rotation staff, advertise the new site rules, and hand the mic over to Aaronwolf436 to review "Balto"! It's only a short episode, but it's an episode nonetheless - and with many more still to come!

For more information on Sourcecast, click here.

And to visit the official Sourcecast website, hosted by Conay, click here!

It was long overdue, but a few things are going to change on Animation Source soon.

As you may or may not know, the french side of the site has been running quite smoothly over the past years, but the same can't be said for the english side.
Which is why, the french moderators suggested to help and improve the english side, and they've recently dedicated a lot of time into it!

And here's their first task : "changing" the site rules! Actually changing is a big word, it's more : giving precise details and filling the blanks, the areas which were a blur for everyone.
You'll find the [...]

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Over the last few days there have been characters submitted that are against the rules. So here is a review of those rules again:

Hello Animation Source!

Original article

"Mods have noticed all the problems going on with characters and what is accepted.

The first and probably one of the most important rules is that sparkle dogs/horses/lion ect... are not allowed.  And if you aren't sure what a sparkle character is, it is any character that has an unnatural color that you would not find on the regular animal. So for almost any animal, that includes the colors blue, green, [...]

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If any of you remember the page I made awhile back on the true facts of Balto, I have since revamped the page completely. What I originally had there was minimal, and I felt that the page would be more complete if I included actual information on Balto verses just laying down a few random facts. You can view the page by clicking here.

This is all the page included originally:

The truth about Balto

Balto's breed:

A lot of people argue that Balto is part wolf due to the the animated movie. That's not the case, Balto never was part wolf. He was 100% Siberian Husky.

Balto's [...]

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Have you ever wondered what Balto would sound like if it had your voice as one of the characters? Now’s your chance! Animation Source member Fi verTheProphet (known as ClaireDeLuna09 on YouTube) is working on a project to re-dub the entire Balto movie, line for line, with voices from the fans! (This is called a fandub.) The first completed scene can be watched in the video below.

Currently, a LOT of voices are needed; pretty much, Jenna and Balto are the only ones that are taken. If you’re interested in voicing one of the other characters, contact Claire on either here [...]

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Disclaimer: I have received permission from a moderator to post this notice.

As of late there has been a lot of issues with users putting blacklists in their profiles and galleries. There is no reason for anyone to be creating these blacklists, all they do is cause problems. And actually, they're against the rules. So if you have one of these in your profile or gallery, then it would be advised that you removed it from your profile ASAP. Otherwise the mods will send you a warning, and if necessary, a ban.

Thank You

Hello source members! Blazetail here!
Last week, I got the DVD of Spirit (since I lost my last one), and I came across another character often overlooked: Sgt. Adams. Now I am currently watching for him, but he appears to get the same amount of screen time as the foals or Murphy or even Granite.

I have a simple question: would you like him on SS ? Please say what you think, and why or why not.

This also seems a good time to ask, which book characters do you want? It’s a given that Rain and spirits family and Paco, but what about say about Tally the lead mare of the herd Bonita [...]

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Just as the title says, a new promotional trailer for Rio 2 appeared.

But just see yourself:

(Click the image to watch the video)

I know I'm a bit late on this (by 12 hours), but the teaser trailer for How to Train Your Dragon 2 has officially been released! The trailer reveals little to nothing on the plot, but gives us a first look at a significantly-aged Hiccup, and some GORGEOUS shots of Toothless in flight.

The film releases next year. Let's hope we get another trailer or four between now and then.

After 6 years of waiting, Disney finally decided to release the last DVD set of TaleSpin in the USA!!! And it's AVAILABLE NOW!

It might not be easy to get it, though : this is a Disney Movie Club exclusive, meaning that you must be a member to see it listed.

If you live outside of USA, you're out of luck (registration isn't possible), and you'll have to check out Amazon.com regularly because they sometimes put some of these on their site.

If you live in the USA : you might be interested to join the club, especially if you buy lots of Disney DVDs, because the offer is [...]

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There was a forum topic on this, but it wasn't getting much attention, so here's a news.

Sourcecast has an interview lined up for voice actor Robbie Rist. Most of you might know him as the voice of Star in "Balto", but he also has a lot of other credits, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Naruto, and Doc McStuffins.

You are free to ask Mr. Rist any question you wish, and as many as you want; we really want this to be worth his time. The interview has not yet been scheduled yet (but IT WILL HAPPEN), so get to commenting with your questions!

It has been too long since a new Sourcecast episode has been released - almost a full year, actually. But never fear, for a new Sourcecast episode is on the horizon! And now it's YOUR chance to decide what comes next!

The typical Sourcecast format includes news on current and upcoming animated films, news regarding Animation Source, maybe an interview with an AS member, a Plugged-in Review of older films, a review of someone's fan works on the sites, and reading the mailbag. In this next episode, I'll be doing an episode [...]

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Anyone who's interested to know on the UK/Germany of Talespin on DVD, we have the episode listings that are included on the 1st collection.

Volume 1

1. Plunder & Lightning Part 1

2. Plunder & Lightning Part 2

3. Plunder & Lightning Part 3

4. Plunder & Lightning Part 4

5. It Came From Beneath the Sea Duck

Volume 2

6. Time Waits for No Bear

7. Mommy for a Day

8. I Only Have Ice For You

9. Molly Coddled

10. Polly Wants a Treasure

11. The Idol Rich

Volume 3

12. Stormy Weather

13. Bearly Alive

14. Her Chance to [...]

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This cool video game project on "indiegogo" (a similar site to kickstarter) has just been funded, but as it's still running for a day, I thought some of you might be interested into it!

As the author says, "Among the inspirations I could quote Disney's "Robin Hood", the fables of La Fontaine, "Redwall", "Winnie the Pooh", "The Secret of Nimh", "The Dark Crystal", the paintings of Alan Lee, John Howe, Paul Bonner, John Bauer, and many, many others..."

Project link : http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ghost-of-a-tale?c=home

This is the official teaser trailer for Rio 2 which will be released in 2014. Enjoy.

(Click the image to watch the video or click here)

Well, I wasn't going to do this, but I found something that I'm sure I'm the LAST person to find out but...hey, for those of you who are fans on this site, here it is. (Click the image below to view the trailer)

First of all, MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC is getting a theatrical film, which will open up the Los Angeles Film Festival in June and receive a limited theatrical engagement beginning on the 15th. The film, called "Equestria Girls", focuses on Twilight Sparkle traveling through a magic mirror and appearing in an alternate universe where all the ponies are [...]

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The new screenshots are now up on the site! Have fun looking through 22 pages if you have the time. lol

Enjoy!

So it has been nearly two years ago now that I updated the screenshots for Balto 1. I know that wasn't that long ago, but I'm starting to think that the screenshots could use some refreshing. So I ask, do you guys want new screenshots, or are you happy with what's available now?

On April 18, 1983, 30 years ago today, The Disney Channel began broadcasting all over the world. In the last 30 years, it has aired numerous Disney movies, television series, and everything in-between. If you were born anytime after that date, chances are you watched Disney Channel a LOT growing up. It's awesome to see such a milestone from the company, considering their original reliance on ABC to broadcast their content. (They now own ABC. Coincidence?)

Below is a compliation of original promotions for The Disney Channel. It sure has changed a lot in the last 30 years, hasn't [...]

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Every year since 2007, the Animation Source Awards have taken place to honor members of Animation Source. However, the popularity the awards once had is definitely not quite there anymore; last year, only 10 people total voted in the final tally, and most of those went to one category instead of the potential dozens offered. Due to this, there is consideration to cancel the awards show this year.

^ Animation Source Awards banner from 2011, where Conay hosted^

Another reason for this consideration is the fact that, despite the best intentions, the awards have ended up almost [...]

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You know, I still haven't posted every piece of official stuff I own. For example, here is an interesting paper for a recording session of an episode, which lists the actors and the time of record :

I've always thought that all the main characters had to be there at the same time at the moment of the recording, but it seems not! For "Grual & Unusual Punishment", R.J. Williams (Kit) and Sally Struthers (Rebecca) both did their recording at a different time than the others! Fortunately, this wasn't noticeable at all in the final episode.

I find this interesting, anyway [...]

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Yes, folks, Pixar's rolling out another sequel. This time to 2003's Finding Nemo. The sequel? Finding Dory.

Not much is known about this sequel, except that portions will take part around the beaches of California. Most of the cast from the first film will be returning except for Alexander Gould, whose voice of Nemo is too adult-like now to allow him to reprise.

This will be the sixth Pixar sequel, after Toy Story 2 and 3, Cars 2, Monsters University (coming out this summer), and Planes (a Cars spin-off, coming to theaters this Thanksgiving). Finding Dory is currently looking [...]

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Happy Easter to the those of you who celebrate it!

Fanart:

By Artic Wolf, a wonderful drawing of Aniu for a collab being held by Aniaya Kopa. Click here to take a look!  If you're interested in joining a contest, click here to view Aiyana's Balto Source collab. 

Images:

By Black mataki94, a collage nice called "Balto's Dreams" using Balto II screenshots. Take a look! 

Contests:

Want to join a contest? Then perhaps you would be interested in joining Hecate's Behind the story. The conest is about what became of the characters before/after the [...]

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Yesturday, there was a totally unexpected news that shocked all the video game industry...

After nearly 25 years, the Ducktales NES video game is getting a remake!!! Coming this summer, on Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U!

Take a look at any of the news sites comments, to be honest I've never seen gamers being so unanimely positive about a game announcement! Uncle $crooge will make millions again!!!

Now let's hope all this positive buzz will be noticed by Disney and will bring new opportunites for the Disney Afternoon shows overall! Maybe we could see them re-aired? [...]

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Part of the fun about being a fan site is having the resources we do -- we have a dedicated place, just for the characters we create! But as with everything there is an unnecessary "evil," or something to cause an ache of some kind. In this specific post I'm going to remind you all of a very important point concerning naming your characters.

While we all strive for "unique" and "recognizable," some members have gone as far as to include "not to copy" their character name(s), even if the name is common. While there is no rule regarding this on the website it does take away from the [...]

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It's been YEARS since Disney has pushed out new short films, particularly ones starring Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Pluto - you know, the old gang. This was practically ALL Disney made back in the 50s and 60s, but very few have come out since. In fact, the last short they produced was "How to Hook Up Your Home Theater", which saw its premiere in 2007 - 6 years ago.

But now Disney's decided to go ahead and produce a total of 19 new Mickey Mouse short films. In fact, the very first one is already available to view! (Embedding is not allowed with this video, so click the image above to [...]

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A fan has sent me a remastered version of "Home Is Where The Hearts Is", aka the song that was tragically cut from the syndicated version of Plunder & Lightning!

You can watch the video here on Youtube :

Or get a better quality sound file directly here :

https://www.animationsource.org/sites_content/talespin/download/Home_is_where_the_heart_is.flac

Thanks to Majike!