MyToons

Last updated
MyToons
Product typeOnline Animation Community
Country San Antonio, Texas, USA
MarketsWorld-Wide
Website http://www.mytoons.com

MyToons was an online business that developed a free online community for animation that supported content sharing and social networking. [1] MyToons.com was headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. [2]

Contents

The site was founded in 2006 by Paul Ford, Stacey Ford and Dan Kraus as a spinoff of Bauhaus Software. [3] The Texas Emerging Technology Fund supported it with a $500,000 grant. [3]

After four months of private beta, the site launched publicly in March 2007 during the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, and began distributing member-created animation videos to Internet audiences worldwide. Three weeks after its launch, MyToons had received more than 1.5 million unique visitors. [4]

Milestones

In June 2008, MyToons.com became the first global animation community to offer users the ability to upload and view animations in High Definition. [5] At this time, the HD animation contest Get With the Times! was also launched. [6]

In January 2009, MyToons laid off a large part of its staff.

In April 2009, MyToons closed down completely after venture capital funding ceased.

Affiliates

Related Research Articles

Adobe Flash is a multimedia software platform used for production of animations, rich web applications, desktop applications, mobile apps, mobile games, and embedded web browser video players. Flash displays text, vector graphics, and raster graphics to provide animations, video games, and applications. It allows streaming of audio and video, and can capture mouse, keyboard, microphone, and camera input.

Syfy is an American basic cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal through NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. Launched on September 24, 1992, the channel broadcasts programming relating to the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres.

Adobe Shockwave is a discontinued multimedia platform for building interactive multimedia applications and video games. Developers originate content using Adobe Director and publish it on the Internet. Such content could be viewed in a web browser on any computer with the Shockwave Player plug-in installed. MacroMind originated the technology; Macromedia acquired MacroMind and developed it further, releasing Shockwave Player in 1995. Adobe then acquired Shockwave with Macromedia in 2005. Shockwave supports raster graphics, basic vector graphics, 3D graphics, audio, and an embedded scripting language called Lingo.

Flash animation Animation technique

Adobe Flash animation or Adobe Flash cartoon is an animation that is created with the Adobe Animate platform or similar animation software and often distributed in the SWF file format. The term Adobe Flash animation refers to both the file format and the medium in which the animation is produced. Adobe Flash animation has enjoyed mainstream popularity since the mid-2000s, with many Adobe Flash-animated television series, television commercials, and award-winning online shorts being produced since then.

Anime USA (AUSA) is an annual three-day anime convention held during October/November at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.

Chinese animation refers to animation made in China. In China and in Chinese, donghua(simplified Chinese: 动画; traditional Chinese: 動畫; pinyin: dònghuà) describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. However, outside of China and in English, donghua is colloquial for Chinese animation and refers specifically to animation produced in China.

Animax Japanese anime satellite television network

Animax Broadcast Japan Inc., stylized as ANIMAX, is a Japanese animation satellite television network, dedicated to broadcasting anime programming. The channel also dubbed other cartoons in Japanese language. A subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, it is headquartered in New Pier Takeshiba North Tower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with its co-founders and shareholders including Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan and the noted animation studios Sunrise, Toei Animation, TMS Entertainment and production company Nihon Ad Systems.

Cartoon Orbit Childrens online gaming network

Cartoon Orbit was a children's online gaming network created by Turner Online to promote its shows and partners. Created as an addition to the Cartoon Network website, Cartoon Orbit opened to the public in October 2000. Its main attraction was a system of virtual trading cards called "cToons", which generally featured animation cells from programs broadcast on the network, though advertisement-based cToons were also common. Added in October 2002 was the popular head-to-head strategy game gToons.

<i>Kappa Mikey</i> 2006-2008 American animated TV series

Kappa Mikey is an American animated television series created by Larry Schwarz. The show was created by Schwarz's studio Animation Collective. The series premiered on February 25, 2006 and ended on September 20, 2008. 52 episodes were produced.

Babelgum

Babelgum was a free-to-view Internet television platform supported by advertising. The project was set up in 2005 by Italian media and telecommunications entrepreneur Silvio Scaglia and scientist Erik Lumer, with the aim of developing interactive software for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Internet.

A web series is a series of scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet, which first emerged in the late 1990s and became more prominent in the early 2000s. A single instance of a web series program can be called an episode or "webisode", however the term is not often used. In general, web series can be watched on a range of platforms and devices, including desktop, laptop, tablets and smartphones. They are different from streaming television, which can be watched on various streaming platforms.

Toon Boom Animation Inc. is a Canadian software company that specializes in animation production and storyboarding software. Founded in 1994 and based in Montreal, Quebec, Toon Boom develops animation and storyboarding software for film, television, web animation, games, mobile devices, training applications, and education. It was acquired by Corus Entertainment in 2012.

Filipino cartoon and animation, also known as Pinoy cartoon and animation, is a body of original cultural and artistic works and styles applied to conventional Filipino storytelling, combined with talent and the appropriate application of classic animation principles, methods, and techniques, which recognizes their relationship with Filipino culture, comics, and films. It also delves into relying on traditional and common Filipino "sense of going about things" or manner of coping with Filipino life and environment.

Toon Goggles

Toon Goggles is an American on-demand entertainment service for children that provides animated cartoons, live-action shows, games and music worldwide via the web and mobile applications on smartphones, OTT devices, smart TVs and tablets, led by CEO and co-founder Stephen Hodge.

DLE (company) Japanese animation studio

DLE Inc. is a Tokyo-based animation and entertainment company founded in 2001 by former Sony executive producer Ryuta Shiiki. DLE has gained notoriety in Japan for their flagship animated television and film series Eagle Talon, a surreal sitcom created entirely in Flash animation by popular creator Frogman. DLE has now produced over 30 properties and has business and creative partners in Shanghai, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Singapore, India and North America where Hasbro is a stakeholder.

Adam Phillips, also known by his online alias Chluaid, is an Australian filmmaker, animator, and former freelancer. He is best known for his animation work, consisting of flash animation compositions published on his website, Bitey Castle, and on the flash portal Newgrounds. His animation work on the latter has over 16 million views, making him one of the most-viewed artists on the site. Phillips created the fantasy animation shorts series, Brackenwood, the first of which was posted on Newgrounds in March 2004.

References

  1. About the MyToons Online Animation Community Mytoons.com
  2. MyToons.com Invited Animators and Artists to Share Their Wares, Business Wire, March 14, 2007
  3. 1 2 MyToons.com lays off some staff Archived 2009-02-02 at archive.today San Antonio Express-News online, January 29, 2009
  4. Streamingmedia.com: Limelight Networks Tapped By MyToons.com To Provide Flash Delivery Of Animations
  5. New HD Animation Technology Provides Highest Quality Experience For Animators And Fans Around the World On MyToons.com
  6. 1 2 MyToons.com to Deliver High Definition Online Animation Contest Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine , Business Wire, June 24, 2008
  7. "MyToons.com Delivers Animations to Viewers On New Adobe Media Player"
  8. Mytoons.com co-sponsors MonsterJam animation contest
  9. WarnerBros Archived 2008-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
  10. Animation Book Festival Brings Artists and Authors to Sherman Oaks, CA Archived 2008-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
  11. MyToons Animation Site Signs on with Google Search Appliance
  12. MyToons Animation Site Inks Deal With YouTube Channel
  13. The Briefing Room » London Gallery Exhibits Drawings by Animation, Tattoo, Urban and Skateboard Artists
  14. 1 2 The Briefing Room » MyToons Celebrates Simpsons’ Creator’s Birthday And Opening of Spiderwick Chronicles IMAX Movie
  15. Annie Awards Welcomes You
  16. ANIMATION ARMY - The LA Social Networking Group for Everyone who's into Animation!
  17. New MyToons.com Animation Contest Launches With $7000 in Cash Prizes
  18. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2008-07-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  19. About LAAF 2007 Archived 2008-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
  20. MyToons.com Contest Offers Artists iPhones, Motion Tablet PCs, and Cash Prizes | Business Wire | Find Articles at BNET
  21. Ottawa 07 International Animation Festival – 2007 Sponsors Archived 2009-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
  22. eigoMANGA – Anime Expo 2007 – Anime News Network
  23. Kalamazoo Animation Festival International Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
  24. MyWire | PR Newswire: Limelight Networks Tapped by MyToons.com to Provide Flash Delivery of Animations
  25. Draw Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine