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Simpsons Lead Artist Looks To Launch Animated Web Series Through Kickstarter

Erick Tran has been the lead artist on the blockbuster TV series The Simpsons for 15 years.  Now, he looks to get funding for his new animated web series, "Urban Reggie," through Kickstarter, a site where people can learn about a creative project and decide ...

GoAnimate Lets Video Marketers Create Political Humor, Satire, and Entertainment

In response to the current election environment and just in time for the big GOP Debate on CNN (October 18), GoAnimate today released 20 unique (and amazingly accurate) animated character depictions of all the major political players in the Presidential race.  This includes eight of ...

Adobe Edge: Animated Web Content With HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript

Adobe is all about Flash, or are they? While supporting their existing products, they are also taking on an approach to allow it [Flash] to co-exist with HTML5. Gaming, media and data-driven applications are all done in Flash already, so in HTML5 they want to ...

5 Tips to Help Maximize the Impact of Animated Web Videos

With Common Craft, RSA and other explainer videos going viral across the web, animated videos have gained popularity as a fun and effective way for businesses to quickly explain their product or service. Video alone already has a big advantage over plain text - we ...

Free Video Cartoon Animation Tool, Xtranormal, No Longer Free

Xtranormal has been getting a lot of good press lately, and was even featured in a recent YouTube blog post about free and easy ways to create your own holiday video greetings.  But if that blog post were written today, it would come with a ...

Best Online Video Ad Campaign: Google's Nexus S Unboxed By Ninjas

I love video advertising that skewers the typical YouTube experience. I love when ads like this one for The Expendables or this one for Tipp-Ex appear on the surface to be standard YouTube videos, only to then make use of the entire screen, revealing themselves ...

Screencasting: Screencast Video Tips From TechSmith - Look To Hollywood

Mark had the opportunity to speak with TechSmith's Chief Evangelist, Betsy Weber, during Blogworld last month.  TechSmith is the maker of the popular screencasting software, Camtasia, Snagit and Jing, so naturally their conversation turned to screencasting's place in the explosion of online video and as ...

Viral Video Marketing With Dilbert

You know your computer technology-focused industry is uber-popular when it makes the frames of Dilbert. And so, we now have proof that viral is the way to go. Right Dogbert? In the strip published yesterday, Dilbert is asked to approve a viral video marketing project.

List of Royalty Free Online Resources for Video Production

We here at ReelSEO like to do things on the cheap when we can. Not because we're cheap but often because video production costs can spiral out of control if you're not careful. Here's a list of available resources on the web for royalty free ...

Using Animated Flash Cartoons As A Video Marketing Tool

Mark asked me to take a look into GoAnimate.com and see if there was any sort of marketing potential, as in, could you use what you make there for video marketing. I started poking around tentatively and realized there probably is some interesting ways that ...