Simpsons intro by John K.

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

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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
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OMGOMGOMG

Awesome overload.

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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?
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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…
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Powellpenguin

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