“Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning. Every epic starts with a hook-up between a brother and a sister who happen to have Force powers…” This is the first part in a new web series titled “Gree-Morr: The Inbred Jedi”.

Supernatural the Animation project is now streaming a 34-second teaser trailer. The acclaimed anime studio MADHOUSE (Death Note, Paprika, Vampire Hunter D, Summer Wars) is producing the previously announced 22-episode anime for Warner Brothers.
Shigeyuki Miya (Lupin III: Green vs Red, Aoi Bungaku Series, Buzzer Beater) and Atsuko Ishizuka (Aoi Bungaku Series) are co-directing the project. Warner Home Video will ship Supernatural the Animation on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan in two boxes on January 12 and April 6, 2011.

The original live-action series follows the Winchester brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) as they hunt creatures and other supernatural phenomena across the American landscape. The series premiered on The WB network in the United States in 2005, and it will enter its sixth season on The WB’s replacement network, The CW, this fall.
Padalecki and Ackles confirmed at Comic-Con International last month that they are contributing to the dubbing of the anime along with their Japanese dubbing counterparts Yuya Uchida (Soul Eater’s Dr. Franken Stein, Naruto Shippūden’s Rinji) as Sam and Hiroki Touchi (Trinity Blood’s Abel Nightroad, Bokurano’s Kokkpelli) as Dean.

Summer Glau, the actress from The Firefly and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles star is providing the voice for Supergirl in the upcoming animated movie Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (out September 28 on DVD, Blu-ray, on demand and digital download). In the film, the latest in a Warner Bros.-produced series based on popular DC Comics stories, Glau plays Superman’s cousin Kara, a mysterious survivor of the doomed planet Krypton who shows up on Earth. Tim Daly and Kevin Conroy reprise their roles as Superman and Batman, respectively, from the characters’ animated series in the ’90s and a previous DC movie, last year’s Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.

Apocalypse is based on a 2004 comic book arc, written by former Heroes producer Jeph Loeb, which reintroduced Supergirl into the DC Comics universe. ‘I thought in the comic that Jeph Loeb had done a really good job of sticking to the basics of the origin story, but putting enough twists on it to give it a fresh feel,’; says executive producer Bruce Timm, widely considered the dean of superhero animation. Unlike the rocket that brought her cousin to Earth, Kara’s pod was delayed in its arrival, leaving her in suspended animation until landing. When she wakes up she is not terribly happy to learn that Earth’s yellow sun gives her powers far beyond those of mortal women. Early on in the story she just wants to fit in,” Timm says. “Unlike most people who suddenly attain superpowers, she’s terrified of them. She doesn’t want to shoot lasers out of her eyes and be able to lift buildings with her pinky.”

Glau, an animation novice who is the fifth Serenity star Timm has worked with (following Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, Gina Torres and Morena Baccarin), quickly got a handle on the role. “It was a fun part for her to play because it wasn’t one-note, Timm says. ‘She could be young and bratty, like a typical teenager, and then show a little bit more maturity, then get feisty, then scared. She’s got quite a gamut of emotions to act out.’

The Cinema Today website reports that MADHOUSE is the acclaimed anime studio (Death Note, Paprika, Vampire Hunter D, Summer Wars) that is producing the previously announced Supernatural the Animation project for Warner Brothers. According to the website, this is the world’s first animated project from a Japanese anime studio that is based on a popular overseas drama series. Shigeyuki Miya (Lupin III: Green vs Red, Aoi Bungaku Series, Buzzer Beater) and Atsuko Ishizuka (Aoi Bungaku Series) are co-directing the project.

The animeanime.jp website reports that the anime will be a 22-episode season that will cover the storyline of the live-action version’s first two seasons. The first volume will ship on January 12 with the first two episodes. On February 2, the “Box 1″ set will ship with episodes 3 to 12. On April 6, the “Box 2″ set will ship with episodes 13 to 22. (There will be a different release schedule for the rental version of the project.)

The anime project will not only remake the best episodes from the live-action version, but also depict original episodes not seen in the live-action version. Those original episodes will include prologues of the Winchester brothers’ childhood, anime-only enemies, and episodes featuring secondary characters from the live-action version.

Supernatural creator Eric Kripke is credited as the anime project’s creator, and MADHOUSE co-founder Masao Maruyama is serving as executive producer. Naoya Takayama (Night Head, Liar Game) is supervising the series’ scripts, and Takahiro Yoshimatsu (Trigun) is designing the characters.

Tyson Hesse – “This was my graduating these film for my final year at SCAD. It turned out alright, I think. I would have liked to do something more ambitious, but being that I was working alone for the entirety of the film and had other projects in production at the same time I had to keep things simple. The animation is mostly very pose-to-pose and nothing too visually impressive, but at the very least I hope it to be entertaining to someone. Enjoy.”

Space…the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise, and this is how Star Trek should have ended!

The DVD edition of Avatar will feature a Na’vi sex scene. Well, a video has been released on youtube illustrating what that might entail.

A song about how womens rights have improved as the use of horses for transport has declined. Not kid friendly.

Lyrics:

Look at my horse.
My horse is amazing.
Give it a lick.
Mmmm, it tastes just like raisins.

I’ve a stroke of its mane.
It turns into a plane,
and then it turns back again
when you tug on its winky.
Oooh that’s dirty!

Do you think so?
Well I better not show you
where the lemonade is made.
Sweet lemonade,
Mmm sweet lemonade,
Sweet lemonade,
Yeah sweet lemonade.

(dance to horse playing keyboard)

Get on my horse.
I’ll take you round the universe,
and all the other places too.

I think you’ll find that the universe
pretty much covers everything.
Shut up woman get on my horse!

Marvel had tapped the famous animation studio Madhouse to create four anime series for release in 2010, the first two of which would be based on Wolverine and Iron Man. The anime projects will be written by renowned writer Warren Ellis, who most recently wrote the kick-ass G.I. Joe: Resolute web shorts. Now that we’re getting so close to the release dates we can finally catch a glimpse of these projects in action, and they certainly look interesting.