{"id":3179,"date":"2014-10-22T09:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2014-10-22T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:13:19","slug":"those-500-new-peanuts-animations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/those-500-new-peanuts-animations\/","title":{"rendered":"those 500 new Peanuts shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 500 new short Peanuts animations being created by Normaal in France have been getting some attention of late. There are at least a couple of examples out there, floating around in the wild; I&#8217;m not going to link to them here because they appear to be unauthorized. But this French TV report will give you at least some sense of them:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gckY57w7XL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I like that the visuals seem to be trying more to be Schulz than to be Melendez (although not without that influence).\u00a0<em>Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with how Melendez brought the material to the screen!<\/em> But that doesn&#8217;t mean that it&#8217;s the only right way to interpret the strip for animation. There are some moments where the mechanicalness of computer-aided animation comes through in arm swings and the like, but all in all, quite reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>They may be only 90 seconds long, but with 500 of them, that makes 12.5 hours. That&#8217;s like a season-and-a-half of a sitcom. It&#8217;ll be a lot of material to watch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 500 new short Peanuts animations being created by Normaal in France have been getting some attention of late. There are at least a couple of examples out there, floating around in the wild; I&#8217;m not going to link to them here because they appear to be unauthorized. But this &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animated-peanuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}