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Simpsons intro by John K.

Cory Doctorow at 5:40 am Mon, Oct 3, 2011

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The sofa sequence in last night's Simpsons episode was created by Happy Mutant John Kricfalusi! Love it.

(via Super Punch)

Surprise [johnkstuff.blogspot.com]

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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  • http://www.geekforce.com Hugh Johnson

    One of the better ones.
    Between this and Brian’s bad mushroom trip, it was a full night of surreal animation at home.

  • http://serfer0.tumblr.com/ serfer0

    Only John K. could outdo Banksy for most disturbing Simpsons intro
    Well done sir

  • http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo

    OMGOMGOMG

    Awesome overload.

    Awaiting quality cap for great victory.

  • ghostfacemillah

    why not use this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=supC7YdR0ps

    • ghostfacemillah

      nevermind. that one doesn’t have dialogue.

  • Tony Howat

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=supC7YdR0ps
    - this version in non crapovision

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W3CAYTLL3HHODWO25OQNOHOEWA Howie Feltersnatch

    In the 21st century, with so many ways of extracting video, the best you can do is (badly) point a camera at the TV screen?

    • usonia

      It’s so true, and it seems to be a fairly new phenomenon: up until maybe a year ago, most video was a straight up copy. Too much closed-loop HDMI with no analog to record into youtube or whatnow?

  • annoyingmouse

    Cartoonbrew just put up some cool behind the scenes videos of various animatics.  Loads of information over there:  http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/exclusive-john-k-talks-about-his-simpsons-opening.html

  • cymk

    This makes me want to fire up my dvd player with some classic ren and stimpy eps.

  • Tommy Timefishblue

    The newly posted version  here doesn’t have the original audio. The old version was a better choice, I think.

  • benher

    One of the greatest animators ever, period… and certainly one of the hardest working in the field who still understands it as the craft that it is. 

    John Kricfalusi was a character designer for the seminal Galaxy High (Aimee Brightower and his Animated Bjork video are pretty much how I lost my innocence)

  • srothbell

    wheres the dialogue?

  • http://www.mrericsir.com MrEricSir

    Seems like John K’s style didn’t survive the jump to computer animation.  The herky-jerky nature of the animation has been replaced with a fluidity that’s hard to watch, and the sight gags aren’t timed or framed well.

    What a shame.

    • ChrisLeBeouf

      That’s not a result of working digitally. Its a reflection of the type of animation techniques he’s interested in now. It’s less about pose-to-pose extreme reactions and more experimenting with the inbetweens. It’s actually addressed in the behind the scenes interview at Cartoon Brew. 

  • liveinabin

    Superb. I’d forgotten what a truly amazing animator he is.

  • buster_friendly

    Aaaaaaargh, they pulled the dialog!

  • Gulliver

    Alas, if only the episodes were still so original…

  • http://twitter.com/Steven_Patz Steve

    2016?  Chris Christie of course.

  • Powellpenguin

    Can somebpdy point me to a site where I can see this video? It’s private on YouTube.