icebox.com

In the world of entertainment a fact of life, for many years now, has been the dampening of creativity by a restrictive studio system. Studio executives are very well aware of how to achieve the best returns on their investments, and to do this they play it safe, meaning that off-beat, leftfield entertainment is either picked up by independents or left to fall by the wayside entirely. If a piece of entertainment does manage to be produced, however, by an independent group or company, then the major problem restricting the success of that entertainment entity is distribution. Major studios, which have both finance and long tradition on their side, have massive ...  Read the complete review

its only got flash animation. It doesn't really bother with an awful lot except being a broker for flash content - ie it doesn't have all the 'community' features that atomfilms.com would have. They has a mix on inhouse animators and independant animators working for them. I believe the main aim is to syndicate to other sites and to seed TV series - which is still the main earner for animation - banner ads and sponsorship still don't cut it yet. check out Queer Duck for the best Flash series I think i've ever seen - I think the creator is a former Simpsons writer who also does Hard Drinkin' Lincoln. also Spumco stuff (Ren and ...  Read the complete review