#JJ Villard's Fairy Tales

[nebulacritter]

why aren't these on the official adult swim website

I would watch them in a heartbeat. I don't wanna pay for all of their episodes on Amazon.

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New Rejected Disney Television Animation Pilots Unveiled "Odd Jobs" and "Portal Hoppers"

Recently we unveiled a a look to the rejected Disney TVA series Uncookedland, apparently Matt Danner ("Legend Of The Three Caballeros") worked as Director for the pilot.

As Danner was thanking the people for seeing the pilots where here worked on ("Shred Force", "MEGA, MEGA Whoosh" and Uncookeland"). Cartoon Network Studios creator Andrew Dickman ("Harmony In Despair") mentioned a pilot under the name "Odd Jobs" where he worked on.

Not many information for Odd Jobs or it's creator is available however based on it's title we can assume is a wacky episodic comedy about the mcs having multiple jobs.

Recently JJ Villard attended the Creative Block podcast where he commented about his career as cartoonist/animator that lead to create the Adult Swim series "King Star King" and "JJ's Villard Fairy Tales" and the Cartoon Cartoons short "Scaredy Cat" that according to him almost lead him to be blacklisted after trying to sell it to Nickelodeon since Warner Bros/Cartoon Network dosn't want to release it and apparently broke the NDA contract.

During the podcast Villard revealed that he had a small overall development deal with Disney Television Animation with a show under the name "Portal Hoppers" according to Villard the series was aiming to be for Disney XD, as it's name says the show would have been about multiverse dimension hopping alongside the likes of Star Vs The Forces of Evil by Daron Nefcy, Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero by Jared Bush and Sam Levine and Very Important House by Jenny Goldberg and Jhonen Vasquez this is the only information so far.

Likely "Portal Hoppers" was passed when Disney decided to bring back all DTVA series in development for the Disney Channel which made Portal Hoppers to feel out of place with the demographic Disney Channel is know for.

[adultswimshowspoll]

round 1

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https://twitter.com/swimpedia/status/1597652979422666752

Okay. super excited for ballmastrz!! You guys have no idea how this guilty pleasure show means to me. (Also it means that the metalocalypse and venture bros films are unlikely to get cancelled hopefully) but King Star king though??! and why does the animation look like jj villard’s fairy tales? 

[popculturebuffet]

Finally on Adult Swim originals, favorite character from the originals from 2019 - onward era (notably, live action slowed down at this point and shows reduced to just 1-2 premiering per year now): Tigtone, Lazor Wulf, Momma Named Me Sheriff, Beef House, Three Busy Debras, YOLO, Birdgirl, Tuca & Bertie, Teenage Euthanasia, Smiling Friends, Royal Crackers, Rick & Morty the Anime, and Invincible Super Girl (okay, it just came out but still)? Skipping Primal, Unicorns Warriors Eternal, and JJ Villard's Fairy Tales since the CN Studios miscellanous ask covers them. Also skipped My Adventures with Superman since WB Animation ask covered it. I know this is a lot but I'm positive you haven't seen a good amount of those so I got more comfortable just lumping all of 2019 onward in one era.

Also noticing by 2023, Adult Swim got more preferred between Cartoon Network losing their primetime hours of 5-8 PM to Adult Swim that year (meaning there's more Adult Swim hours than Cartoon Network hours now), stuff intended for Cartoon Network moving to Adult Swim such as My Adventures with Superman, Unicorns Warriors Eternal, and Invincible Super Girl, and even the nostagic blocks such as Checkered Past (showcasting the big CN originals from the Cartoon Cartoons era) and Toonami Rewind (throwback to the original Toonami from 1997-2008 with Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z Kai, and Naruto on the block) landing on Adult Swim over Cartoon Network.

ON the latter thing, yeah. I think Adult Swim is slowly eating CN, airing content that's fine for kids too, simply because WBD is carring less and less about cartoon network and children's cartoons in general. So it makes more sense to pivot to something that in their greasy eyes is making money. It's not all bad as checkered past and the shows mentioned are still fine for kids, but it is noticable.

Just going with what I did last time and wish I'd done sooner: If I don't mention something, I didn't see it. ALONSY!

Beef House: I loved this one. Genuinely loved it. I don't have a faviorite character as it's been a while but Tim and Eric parodying a stock sitcom with a WACCKKKKYYYY premise is perfect. IT's a real shame this didn't get a season 2. It was funny, offputting and just my kind of nonsense.

Three Busy Debras: I like what i've seen, a bizzare series about three women all named debra and a stepford suburb. It's bizzarely perfect. I need to see more.

YOLO: YOLO is great, and it's not a huge suprise given it comes from smiling friends co creator micheal cusak. Season 1 is decent and it has this weirdly specific feel that makes for the best adult swim shows: it fits in well with weird cahos for the sake of it and what not, but is distinctly australian, and uses it's ugly animation perfectly. Like Smiling Friends after/alongside it, it LOOKS like it was made cheap but is actually incredibly intricately crafted. It's good fun.

Birdgirl: Was a disappointment. Paget Brewster was already having a hell ofa day voice acting wise with Ducktales, so having her return to this early role was a great idea in theory. In concept.. it didn't really work. Trying to do a sequel to harvey birdman but throwing all it's hannah barbera characters out was a mistake. Judy is more likeable here as she had about two gags in the original, but the show itself never really seems to come together all that well from the few eps i've seen. I just could not get into it.

Tuca and Bertie: Speckle. He's the best boy.

Tuca and Bertie is sadly done, but it remains one of adult swims best shows ever. I might have to list my faviorites when this is over. While WBD didn't keep it going as long as they should have, unlike a LOT of shows under their tyranny they at least gave it the second chance it deserved after Netflix cancelled it in less than a month, a trend that's continued and continues to make no sense.

So as a result of this monumentally dumb decision Adult Swim picked the show up and thus one of the best shows of the decade got a proper run. What we got was fantastic, a show that's creative and adult, but in a nuanced way tackling issues like sexual assault and workplace abuse with grace. The show feels like the warmer compliment to Bojack, the series sister show thanks to both having designs by LIsa Hanawalt.

While Bojack focuses on a more broken world with a seriously flawed main character, Tuca and Bertie is more optimistic. It won't hestitate to punch you in the gut repeatedly, but ther'es a light at the end of the tunnel. Things CAN get better. And given the truly awful shit that just happened, it's a message we need: things can suck: breakups happen, abuse happens, your world can be dark.. but you are loved and we can get through it together. It's also really fucking funny and has creative worldbuilding, taking the simple design choice of having plant people and playing around with as they go to the point Tuca is eventaully vociing a tree voiced by Matthew Rhys.. which is distracting and was for @jess-the-vampire as he uses the same voice for both characters. It's diffrent enough to still be good voice acting, but it's weird hearing that voice as a supportive loving boyfriend with a drinking problem.

Teenage Euthnasia; I could not get into this one.

Smiling Friends: Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself because I love youuuuu... yes I do. Alan, though Jombo is a close second

Smiling Friends is a masterpiece. I'm still mildly sore about this season due to the doug walker cameo as.. come on guys. Come the fuck on. You know what he's done. Come on. Come onn. But otherwise this season just made a great show greater and both seasons are some of adult swims best.

Smiling Friends was helpful in my growth as an animation fan as it showed things like how to use animation frames to make characters feel just slightly off, and is a wonderful blend of styles. Like I said witH YOLO the show looks like a cheap adult cartoon, and budget isn't everything as a lot of adult swims earliest shows were made on a paperclip an da piece of string and still are amazing, but uses every inch of it's budget in creative ways. It's weird as hell and you never know what to expect with an episode. The two leads are perfectly fleshed out: Pim being optimstic and naive, CHarlie being a mess with a messier extended family and a drinking problem, and the cast is perfectly supported by Alan and Mr Boss (And Glep but he's more of an accsorry), an uptight unplesant but hilarious type a asshole, and a weird goof.

The show is a near perfect string of jokes, creative concepts and punches to the face of black comedy and real genuine depth. It also gave us this gag

Which is so sadly relevant and useful and comes off twice as great coming from the same company that does this the worst and i'm damn certain Cusak and Hadel know that. A masterpiece I only hope gets better... just keep doug walker out of it.

Rick and Morty the Anime: I tried the first ep, didn't really gel with it and have too much piled up to really be intrested in going back

INvincible Fight Girl: I've only seen an episode and a half of this but DAMN do I love it. A wonderful tribute to shonen anime and wrestling, two things I dearly love perfectly smushed together. It fills the void in my heart left by OK KO , having that same nice mix of genine characters and a batshit insane world. I mean I already heaar ther'es a character named MBrandon. It presents this weird hyper world in it's own way, taking it, like ok ko did for the most part, earnestly, whcih adds to the comedy and allows us to feel for andy as she goes on her journey. This one has all the makings of a true classic

Overally I think the networks in a good place: it';s got some stacked shows, is doing renewals and like the dc sid eof things seems to be better than anything should be under WBD's thumb. There's still some bullshit like the uzumaki fiasco, but so far adult swim seems far safer than it has any right to be in this horrifying climate for animation and I welcome that and pray to god it dosen't change.

[hellyesadultswim]

Scenes from the opening sequence of JJ Villard’s Fairy Tales.

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[New Interview]

JJ Villard's Fairy Tails and King Star King [Adult Swim]

Hope I can do more interviews soon.

EVERY PODCAST EVER

EVERY VIDEO EVER

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[cnschedulearchive]

Again, here’s the Adult Swim schedule for Monday, March 30 to Sunday, April 5.

April Fools has come and went yet again, and this time, Adult Swim set out to air 3.5 hours of new shit!!! Hosted by Post Malone, Adult Swim basically went all out and aired one new episode of almost everything coming out this year, plus a new pilot and a new Rick and Morty trailer. It was a crazy night. Post Malone appeared in bumps and green-screened into small non-speaking cameos in the sneak peeks (that will absolutely get edited out once the new episodes actually premiere), and did a pretty good job! He made fun of Robot Chicken (”This shit’s still on?”) and got to sit in the Space Ghost desk, he’s doing basically everything I want to do with my pathetic life!

Rest of the week is still the same. New Three Busy Debras and Beef House, ATHF Forever marathon on Friday, Toonami continues as usual.

I usually do this stuff for CN only, but considering there’s just so much content that came out yesterday:

Here’s what’s new this week (Tuesday timeslots not exact):

Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal - SNEAK PEEK - Tuesday at 12:00a

Dream Corp, LLC - SNEAK PEEK - Tuesday at 12:45a

Tigtone - SNEAK PEEK - Tuesday at 1:15a

YOLO: Crystal Fantasy - SNEAK PEEK - Tuesday at 1:30a

The Shivering Truth - SNEAK PEEK - Tuesday at 1:45a

Robot Chicken - SNEAK PEEK - Tuesday at 2:00a

Lazor Wulf - SNEAK PEEK - Tuesday at 2:15a

JJ Villard’s Fairy Tales - SNEAK PEEK - Tuesday at 2:30a

12 oz. Mouse - SNEAK PEEK - Tuesday at 2:45a

Tender Touches - SNEAK PEEK - Tuesday at 3:00a

Smiling Friends - PILOT - Tuesday at 3:15a

Williams Stream - TWO new episodes - Friday at 4:00a

Toonami - SEVEN new episodes - Saturday at 11:30p

Three Busy Debras - Sunday at 12:00a

Beef House - Sunday at 12:15a

[seeksstaronmewni]

I checked JJ Villard’s Fairy Tales out last night, and I had no idea that it was from CARTOON NETWORK STUDIOS!

A gory, violent show, yes, but it’s much better designed—and animated—than the majority of Cartoon Network Studios’ current projects (including those SMIP-animated ones).

Episode: “THE GOLDILOX MASSACRE” [TV-MA-LV]

SUPERVISING ANIMATION DIRECTOR: KIMSON ALBERT

ART DIRECTION: JJ VILLARD

DIRECTED AND STORYBOARDED BY JJ VILLARD

STORYBOARD SUPERVISOR: WALT DOHRN

STORYBOARD REVISIONS: @dantebufordart

CHARACTER DESIGN: JJ VILLARD, MATT TAYLOR

COLOR STYLIST: BRIAN SMITH

BACKGROUND LEAD: ERIK CAINES

BACKGROUND DESIGN AND PAINT: KEVIN HONG

OVERSEAS PRODUCTION FACILITY: SAEROM ANIMATION, INC

Tweet version here.

[mrawkweird]

Adult Swim is just nightmare fever dream central.

[adultswimshowspoll]

loser’s [bracket] round 1

please reblog after voting

[stalkerkyoko]

Boypunzel is stranger things Finn Wolfhard

yep sublimal message part the show

ep 2 is the show we saw on Apirl fools

[popculturebuffet]

For the second half of the bonus Cartoon Network Studios produced stuff (being miniseries, Adult Swim stuff, and Max stuff), favorite character from: Over the Garden Wall, Long Live the Royals, Primal, Black Dynamite (Technically they produced only season 2), JJ Villard's Fairy Tales, Adventure Time Distant Lands, Close Enough, Unicorn Warriors Eternal ( I hear it was supposed to be for Cartoon Network until it got moved to Adult Swim), and Fionna & Cake?

I appricate you finding new ones of these to do. Okay we can skip Long Live the Royals, Primal (Though I have a high opinon of what animation i've seen from it I just procastinate), and JJ Villard.

Over the Garden Wall: I never finished this one back in the day but I did love it's moody atmosphere. It's excellent stuff. My faviorite character was the lead kid Wirt. Elijah Wood did a fantastic job.

Black Dynamite: DYNO-MYTE, DYNO-MYTE: That frog Curtis. He's a fucked up kermit parody. I.. really need to cover that episode and it's sequel. As for the show I loved it. Still do and need to rewatch it. It perfectly captures the charm of the film and takes it one step further, while also having a lot of neat points about black culture my white ass never knew about. IT also has Richard Nixon as it's main antagonist, what's not to love?

Adventure Time Distant Lands: I've only seen Obsidan and Together Again, both absolute bangers. The former gives us allt he gay we'd been missing and is a truly touching tale with some truly awesome music, while Together Again is the finale we deserved and serves as a nice evergreenf inale: they can keep the franchise going, but this serves as a proper finale to the series core. A lot of the cast isn't present.. but that's okay with me. It's the end of FINN'S life and afterlife, and his story. The others don't seem to be over just yet.

Close Enough: Alex. I made no secret of it during the shows running and make even less of one now it's dead and sadly buried. I love Jason Mantzokus in most things and while his viking obession never clicked, I related to a harry man not being quite where he wants to be in his life whose kind of a disater. More of one than me but still. This show is one of my faviortes of the 2020's and if I make it to the end of this cursed decade, and do a proper best shows of the decade list, it'll likely stay that way. It was the best evolution of regular show possible, a spiritual sequel scooting the premise ahead, going from 20 somethings dicking around to late 30 somethings trying to deal with the stress of adult life: a complicated divorce, raising a child, and having to rescue said child from a birthday dimension and talk to a Kate Miccui present monster that makes out with the dimensions god when you leave. So fairly relatable grounded adult scenarios.. still given the insane JG Quintel touch: from logans run as a night club, to your papa having to both help you escape hell and explain why you shoudln't fear the hosptial, to a small child conquering her pre school and turning it into a post apocalypse because of breakfast for dinner. It was a true masterpiece and should be remembered.

Unicorn Warriors eternal: I need to go back and finish this one as I only watched three episodes but it';s a gorgeous, unique fun as hell series with a great premise. Faviorite character is hard to say with what little iv'e seen.

Fionna and Cake: Simon. Loved him in the og and tom kenny really gets to flex. I loved this show. It made a few slots on my best of list last year and will likely do so again whenever season 2 drops, as even with me shortening it from 20 to 12, it's still a standout. An emotional story about accepting your life where you are and not wallowing in your regrets, that creatively uses the what if scnearios to create a ton of good worlds, from a seeming swap with a sinister secret to seeing what it'd be like if the lich really won. It's a masterpiece and I look forward to seeing how they follow this up.

Also since we're in the cn lands and I don't THINK we've done this one yet.. why not adult swim? It's original shows and some of it's aquireid shows.. i.e. make sure mission hill and the oblongs are included as while fox shows, they feel more like Adult Swim. Baby blues

[izanamiwitch666]

Hahahaha Fairy Tales

JJ Villard’s

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