Monday, December 14, 2009

Mutilator, Et all.






Mutilator: Hero Of The Wasteland was an animated short by Eric Fogel. Made while at NYU Tisch, it was deemed "inappropriate due to its violent content" by a professor. Mutilator would go on to win NYU's Award of Excellence in Animation and become a cult favorite of Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation.

Episode 1


Episode 2


If this looks a little familiar it was done by the guy behind The Head.


The Head was part of MTV's Oddities, which also featured The Maxx.
It was in part of a short lived series of experimental cartoon shows in the 1990's, that began with Liquid Television. From Wikipedia:
Liquid Television is an Emmy Award winning 1990s animation showcase that appeared on MTV. The first season of Liquid Television also aired on BBC Two in co-production with MTV. Ultimately, MTV commissioned three seasons of the show, which was produced by Colossal Pictures. It has served as the launching point for several high-profile original cartoons, including Beavis and Butt-head, Æon Flux, Cartoon Sushi, and The Head. The bulk of Liquid Television's material was created by independent animators and artists specially for the show, and some previously produced segments were compiled from festivals such as Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. Mark Mothersbaugh composed the show's theme music. It was broadcast in New Zealand on TV3 and in Australia on SBS.


After Liquid Television's relatively short run was Cartoon Sushi.
From Wikipedia:
Cartoon Sushi was an animation showcase program that aired on MTV from 1997 to 1998. It was produced by Nick Litwinko. As a collection of animation shorts, Cartoon Sushi was of similar concept and format to MTV's own Liquid Television.


Both of these shows spawned so many classic cartoons from the 90's, Beavis and Butthead, Celebrity Deathmatch, Robin and Aeon Flux to name a few. These shows really marked a moment and gave a lot of young animators and writers their start.
I wish that shows like this were still around. I guess the internet and YouTube has replaced them as a proving ground for short films and animations.

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