July 31, 2013
Wander Over Yonder - Opening Title Sequence
Storyboards: Craig McCracken, Dave Thomas, Vaughn Tada, Chris Houghton
Art Direction: Alex Kirwan
Animation: David Gemmill, Justin Nichols
Backgrounds: Chris Tsirigiotis, Alex Kirwan
Edit/Composite: Joe Pitt
July 30, 2013
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July 29, 2013
The Pixel Painter
Hal Lasko, better known as Grandpa, worked as a graphic artist back when everything was done by hand. His family introduced him to the computer and Microsoft Paint long after he retired.
Now, Grandpa spends ten hours a day moving pixels around his computer paintings. His work is a blend of pointillism and 8-Bit art.
Meet 97-year-old Hal Lasko, The Pixel Painter.
See more work at hallasko.com
Director: Josh Bogdan (joshbogdan.com)
Director: Ryan Lasko
Editor/Writer: Josh Bogdan
Director of Photography: Topaz Adizes (topazadizes.com)
Original Music: Jarrod Pedone
Original Music: Tyler H. Brown (thbproductions.com)
hallasko.com
July 28, 2013
July 27, 2013
Freelance Artists' Survival Reference Books
Via Guys With Pencils
- For Illustrators and Graphic Designers -
1. Talent is Not Enough: Business Secrets for Designers by Shel Perkins
http://www.amazon.ca/Talent-Not-Enough-Business-Designers/dp/0321702026/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1367289738&sr=8-2&keywords=talent+is+not+enough
2. The Business of Design: Balancing Creativity and Profitability by Keith Granet
http://www.amazon.ca/Business-Design-Balancing-Creativity-Profitability/dp/1616890185/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367289951&sr=1-2&keywords=business+of+design
3. How to be an Illustrator by Darrel Rees
http://www.amazon.ca/How-Be-Illustrator-Darrel-Rees/dp/1856695301/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367290013&sr=1-1&keywords=how+to+be+an+illustrator
4. The Graphic Design Business Book by Tad Crawford
http://www.amazon.ca/GRAPHIC-DESIGN-BUSINESS-BOOK-Crawford/dp/1581154305/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367290082&sr=1-1&keywords=graphic+design+business+book
5. G.A.G.’s Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines by Graphic Artists Guild
http://www.amazon.ca/Graphic-Artists-Handbook-Pricing-Guidelines/dp/0932102158/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367290172&sr=1-1&keywords=handbook+pricing+ethical+guidelines
(All the above books include sample contracts)
6. The Strategic Designer: Tools and Techniques for Managing the Design Process by David Holston
http://www.amazon.ca/Strategic-Designer-Techniques-Managing-Process/dp/1600617999/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367290316&sr=1-1&keywords=the+strategic+designer
7. The Designer’s Guide to Marketing and Pricing: how to win clients and what to charge them by Ilise Benun and Peleg Top
http://www.amazon.ca/Designers-Guide-Marketing-Pricing-Clients/dp/1600610080/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367290403&sr=1-1&keywords=designers+guide+to+marketing+and+pricing
8. The Designer’s Guide to Business and Careers: how to succeed on the job or on your own by Peg Faimon
http://www.amazon.ca/Designers-Guide-Business-Careers-Succeed/dp/1600611567/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367290459&sr=1-1&keywords=designers+guide+to+business+and+careers
- For Illustrators and Graphic Designers -
1. Talent is Not Enough: Business Secrets for Designers by Shel Perkins
http://www.amazon.ca/Talent-Not-Enough-Business-Designers/dp/0321702026/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1367289738&sr=8-2&keywords=talent+is+not+enough
2. The Business of Design: Balancing Creativity and Profitability by Keith Granet
http://www.amazon.ca/Business-Design-Balancing-Creativity-Profitability/dp/1616890185/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367289951&sr=1-2&keywords=business+of+design
3. How to be an Illustrator by Darrel Rees
http://www.amazon.ca/How-Be-Illustrator-Darrel-Rees/dp/1856695301/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367290013&sr=1-1&keywords=how+to+be+an+illustrator
4. The Graphic Design Business Book by Tad Crawford
http://www.amazon.ca/GRAPHIC-DESIGN-BUSINESS-BOOK-Crawford/dp/1581154305/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367290082&sr=1-1&keywords=graphic+design+business+book
5. G.A.G.’s Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines by Graphic Artists Guild
http://www.amazon.ca/Graphic-Artists-Handbook-Pricing-Guidelines/dp/0932102158/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367290172&sr=1-1&keywords=handbook+pricing+ethical+guidelines
(All the above books include sample contracts)
6. The Strategic Designer: Tools and Techniques for Managing the Design Process by David Holston
http://www.amazon.ca/Strategic-Designer-Techniques-Managing-Process/dp/1600617999/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367290316&sr=1-1&keywords=the+strategic+designer
7. The Designer’s Guide to Marketing and Pricing: how to win clients and what to charge them by Ilise Benun and Peleg Top
http://www.amazon.ca/Designers-Guide-Marketing-Pricing-Clients/dp/1600610080/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367290403&sr=1-1&keywords=designers+guide+to+marketing+and+pricing
8. The Designer’s Guide to Business and Careers: how to succeed on the job or on your own by Peg Faimon
http://www.amazon.ca/Designers-Guide-Business-Careers-Succeed/dp/1600611567/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367290459&sr=1-1&keywords=designers+guide+to+business+and+careers
July 26, 2013
July 25, 2013
July 24, 2013
On Departure
The very personal short film by Eoin Duffy about the loss of his younger brother.
Eoin is an Irish animator/director based in Vancouver, he has created a body of independent work that has won him multiple creative-grants and awards, as well as screenings at international film festivals globally along with numerous write-ups throughout the film community, both online and off.
Eoin is an Irish animator/director based in Vancouver, he has created a body of independent work that has won him multiple creative-grants and awards, as well as screenings at international film festivals globally along with numerous write-ups throughout the film community, both online and off.
Tezuka Osamu's "Tale of Street Corner" (1962)
The scene is set with a poster on a street corner, a girl who cherishes her teddy bear, a street lamp and a playful moth that is drawn to the lamp. These creatures and inanimate objects, each with their own dramas, get involved in a war that ends in tragedy.
"Tulkou" directed by Mohamed Falilou Fadera & Sami Guellai
Produced by Les Films du Poisson Rouge & Dailymotion
July 23, 2013
ACT Collaboration Project - Darius Milhaud's "La création du monde"
On Friday, July 12th at Grays Civic Hall, Essex, the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne performed a programme of music on the theme of 'rhythm'. The programme of music explored ideas of rhythm in classical music and in the celebrated jazz of the late Dave Brubeck. The director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne, Marc Feldman, challenged the CGAA community to work collaboratively to create an original work of animation designed to accompany his orchestra's performance of one particular example of early twentieth century music that blends classical and jazz rhythms to exciting effect. The animation was rear projected onto a large screen measuring 8.5m wide by 6.2m high, in front of which the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne performed live.
For lots more info go here.
Art Story
It's a story about an 11-year-old, meticulous boy, WALT, and his crazy, loopy GRANDPA -- two complete opposites -- who get stuck in a vast, imaginative WORLD OF PAINTINGS. Inside, they cross paths with a ruthless painted character determined to make it into our world. In order to get home and stop the villain, Walt and Grandpa have to set aside their differences, work together and navigate worlds where the rules can change around every corner.
It's structured like a hilarious, character-driven, buddy picture ("Planes, Trains & Automobiles," "I Love You, Man" etc.), but takes place INSIDE THE WORLD OF SOME OF THE GREAT MASTER PAINTINGS OF ALL TIME ... where the characters change their appearance to match the style of each painting -- and meet lots of wildly entertaining characters. It also explores and was inspired by that special relationship between a grandchild and their grandparent -- not something you see often in films nowadays.
Help contribute some funds to get the film made.
Go here.
July 22, 2013
Pardon My Dust - Perter han
Pardon My Dust, takes you into a world of art very much unexplored and discovers a unique sketch adventure that has become a very special art form. A canvas, many of us have seen, but never used, Peter Han has transformed into chalk art. Witness Peter’s incredible talent as he discusses how he achieves his calculated art of illustrating, he calls “Dynamic Sketching.”
Via OnAnimation
Via OnAnimation
July 21, 2013
July 20, 2013
July 19, 2013
July 18, 2013
July 17, 2013
DC uploads a slew of animated shorts to YouTube
If you haven't gotten a chance to watch DC Nation on Cartoon Network, you can now watch tons of the show's greatest shorts, including Super Best Friends Forever, Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld, and World's Funnest.
Bleeding Cool spotted the massive upload to the DC Comics channel on YouTube last week. Some of these were posted on Flooby before, but it's nice to see them online at a decent quality from DC itself.
Super Best Friends Forever
Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld
DC Nation's Farm League
Plastic Man
Thunder & Lightning
DC's World's Funnest
The Bat Man of Shanghai
Animal Man
Superman of Tokyo
Via iO9
July 16, 2013
July 15, 2013
Voice Actress - Cree Summer
In all, Summer has voiced over 100 animated characters between 1983 and 2006. These have spanned the realm of video games, cartoon television series, animated films and commercials. Among her most famous roles was in Inspector Gadget (Season 1) as Penny (a role she reprised in the Robot Chicken episode "Adoption's an Option"), and Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) as Elmyra Duff (which she reprised for Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain)
In the first season Drawn Together DVD commentary she stated that she was originally hired to do the voice of Meg Griffin on Fox's animated series Family Guy, but was fired by the producers.
Summer is a frequent co-star of Canadian-American actress Tara Strong, the two are childhood friends, both having grown up in Ontario.
See full credits list here.
Cree Summer's Official Twitter:
https://twitter.com/IAmCreeSummer
Want to see all of Cree Summer's role's in one click? Then click here:
http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Cree-Summer/
July 14, 2013
Voice Actor - Steve Blum
Among his credits include the voice of Spike Spiegel in the anime show Cowboy Bebop and Mugen in Samurai Champloo. He voiced Roger Smith from The Big O, Orochimaru and Zabuza in the Naruto anime, X-Men's Wolverine in numerous games, as well as in the animated series Wolverine and the X-Men, the animated movie Hulk Vs, The Super Hero Squad Show and Marvel Anime: X-Men. He also provided the video game voice of Jack Cayman, the main character of MadWorld, Tank Dempsey, the comic relief of Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Black Ops zombie modes, Professor Galvez in Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, and Grayson Hunt, the main protagonist of Bulletstorm and Gorim, Oghren, and First Enchanter Irving in the 2009 video game Dragon Age: Origins.In September 2000, Blum voiced the role of TOM, the robotic host of Toonami shown on Cartoon Network (replacing Sonny Strait), as the second through 4th incarnations of the character right up to the block's cancellation on September 20, 2008 delivering the final lines uttered on the block, echoing his early role of Cowboy Bebop's Spike Spiegel, to recent revival of the block on May 26, 2012. He is also the voice of Amon in The Legend of Korra and 7-Eleven's "Oh Thank Heaven" television and radio advertisements and for his work with Vic Mignogna in a scratch-made sound bite series parodying Anheuser-Busch's "Real Men of Genius" radio ad campaign, titled "Real Fans of Genius". Revealed by Blind Ferret Entertainment on November 15, 2012, it was announced that Blum will be playing Harry, "the Homeless Bum," in Least I Could Do: The Animated Series.
He is also well known in American-based animation; as the voices of Heatblast, Ghostfreak, and Vilgax in the Ben 10 franchise, Jamie in Megas XLR, Yakky Doodle and Clamhead in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Smytus in My Life as a Teenage Robot, and his voice portrayals of Starscream in Transformers: Prime and Count Vertigo in DC Showcase: Green Arrow as well as in Young Justice, The Red Skull, Beta Ray Bill and Wolverine in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and as Melbourne O'Riley in What's New, Scooby Doo?.
See his massive voice acting credits list here.
July 13, 2013
Voice Actress - Grey DeLisle
DeLisle plays a leading role in at least six current animated series. Harp has called DeLisle "golden-voiced" and recognized her for her roles in The Fairly Oddparents as well as Clifford the Big Red Dog and its prequel, Clifford's Puppy Days. She is the most recent actress to voice Daphne Blake in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. In addition to her numerous English-speaking roles, she also speaks Japanese as the character Yumi on Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. DeLisle has had voice acting roles in many computer and video games, such as Escape from Monkey Island, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Tomb Raider: Underworld and several Star Wars games. As a television voice actress, she portrays the Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress in 5 episodes of Star Wars: Clone Wars and reprises her role as Ventress in a bonus level in the Force Duel mode of the PSP version of the video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. She also portrays Frankie, Duchess, and Goo on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Azula on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Riley Daring on The Replacements, several voice roles (though mainly Mandy) on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Therese and Jeanette (Tourette) Voerman in the White Wolf RPG PC game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, Frida Suárez in El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Sam Manson in Danny Phantom, as well as Vicky and her sister Tootie in The Fairly OddParents in Xiaolin Showdown as Kimiko Tohomiko and also in W.I.T.C.H as Miranda. She currently voices agent Kitty Katswell in the animated show T.U.F.F. Puppy on Nickelodeon. DeLisle also voiced Nancy Suzy Fish from the second season on SpongeBob SquarePants.
She can also be heard on each of Frederator Studios' vanity cards, as she shouts "Frederator!". She also had a role in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as the Arcee triplets. Also, she had a role in the critical acclaimed game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker as Amanda Valenciano Libre, a female character that supports Big Boss. Delisle also stars as "Tabby" in the internet animation series It's Fred!.
See her full credits list here.
July 12, 2013
July 11, 2013
Voice Actor - Bill Farmer
In college, he found work in radio and TV and then moved on to stand-up comedy as an impressionist until he moved out to Hollywood, where he began voicing Goofy in January 1987. In 1982, while he was still doing stand-up comedy, Farmer worked at a comedy club called the Comedy Corner in Dallas, Texas. He continued to work there until his move to Hollywood in 1986.
Farmer's decision to move to California came from a Dallas commercial agent who suggested that, given his talent for voices, he should try his luck in California. He was recently married, but he and his wife talked it over and came to an arrangement. She stayed back in Dallas while he commuted for a year after he got an apartment. Then four months after his moving out to Hollywood, his agent asked him if he could do any Disney characters. His very first animated character audition was for Goofy. When he auditioned for the voice, he studied all the cartoons with Goofy in them, especially the ones released in the 1930s. He studied the hilarious laugh and the distinctive "gawrsh". He inherited the voice of Goofy (as well as Pluto and Horace Horsecollar), around the same time Tony Anselmo inherited Donald Duck, and Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor did likewise for Mickey and Minnie Mouse, respectively.
Farmer believes that cartoon voices are not about funny voices, but rather acting. His mentor was Daws Butler, the voice behind many of the Hanna-Barbera characters. Butler put it in Farmer's mind that when doing cartoon voices, you're not merely doing a funny voice, you're an actor and the acting is premier and that you have to think like the character you're doing.
Farmer's bigest roles were in voicing Goofy in A Goofy Movie (1995), and its sequel, An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000. a
Voice Credits List:
| Animated American (2008, Live Action / Animated Short Film) | Bogie Bear | |
| Astro Boy (2003, Anime Series) | Detective Tawashi | |
| Baldur's Gate (1998, Video Game) | Brunos | |
| Irlentree | ||
| Yeslick | ||
| Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000, Video Game) | Demson | |
| Dermin | ||
| Garren Windspear | ||
| Beauty and the Beast (1991, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm (2006, Animated Film) | Tyler the Candlestick Maker | |
| Brother Bear (2003, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Bug's Life, A (1997, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Cars (2006, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Cars Mater-National Championship (2007, Video Game) | (additional voices) | |
| Cars Race-O-Rama (2009, Video Game) | (additional voices) | |
| Cars: The Video Game (2006, Video Game) | (additional voices) | |
| Cats Don't Dance (1997, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Crash Tag Team Racing (2005, Video Game) | Old Man | |
| Park Drones | ||
| Dead Rising (2006, Video Game) | (additional voices) | |
| Cletus Samson | ||
| Floyd Sanders | ||
| Jeff Meyers | ||
| Ryan LaRosa | ||
| Death Becomes Her (1992, Live Action Film) | (loop group) | |
| Destroy All Humans! (2005, Video Game) | Narrator | |
| Rural Male | ||
| Disney's House of Mouse (2001, Animated Series) | Goofy | |
| Horace Horsecollar | ||
| Pluto | ||
| Practical Pig | ||
| Sheriff of Nottingham | ||
| Epic Mickey (2010, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Horace Horsecollar | ||
| EverQuest II (2004, Video Game) | Bartender Berrystein | |
| Bhaelthrezish | ||
| Blight Sage Destroz | ||
| Commissioner Dogweed | ||
| Davish | ||
| Felderin Beddleknops | ||
| Generic Floating Skulls | ||
| Generic Ghosts | ||
| Generic Male Dwarf Enemy | ||
| Generic Male Gargoyle Enemy | ||
| Generic Water Elemental | ||
| Gren Stiles | ||
| Grozmag the Trainer | ||
| Kai Vhri Jah | ||
| Karg Icebear | ||
| Lodo Bightn | ||
| Pelle Shinkicker | ||
| Phen Dominson | ||
| Rukir Pineleaf | ||
| Sashra Thaltalis | ||
| Sir Thothur Dorarr | ||
| Tilzak N'Lim | ||
| Urban Ratonga Chef | ||
| Wiseman Oluran | ||
| Extremely Goofy Movie, An (2000, Animated Film (Direct-to-Video)) | Goofy | |
| Full Throttle (1995, Video Game) | Gas Guard Pilot | |
| Horace | ||
| News Anchorman | ||
| Goof Troop (1992, Animated Series) | Aunt Goofilla | |
| Goofy | ||
| Goofy Movie, A (1995, Animated Film) | Goofy | |
| Happily N'Ever After (2007, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (2000, Animated Series) | Secret Squirrel | |
| Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (2008, Video Game) | Secret Squirrel | |
| Higglytown Heroes (2004, Computer Animated Series) | Janitor Hero | |
| Jasper | ||
| Home on the Range (2004, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Horton Hears a Who! (2008, Computer Animated Film) | Willie Bear | |
| Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1996, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Innoventions (Attraction) | Alec Tronic | |
| Invictus: In the Shadow of Olympus (2000, Video Game) | (voices) | |
| Iron Giant, The (1999, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Kinect Disneyland Adventures (2011, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Pluto | ||
| King's Quest: Mask of Eternity (Video Game) | King Gryph | |
| Weirdling Tradesman | ||
| Kingdom Hearts (2002, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Pluto | ||
| Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (2009, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (2012, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Kingdom Hearts II (2005, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Pluto | ||
| Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories (2008, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Kingdom Hearts Re:coded (2011, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (2009, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Horace Horsecollar | ||
| Sleepy | ||
| Kung Fu Panda: The Video Game (2008, Video Game) | (voice) | |
| Lion King 1 1/2, The (2004, Animated Film (Direct-to-Video)) | Goofy | |
| Loonatics Unleashed (2005, Animated Series) | Mr. Leghorn | |
| Looney Tunes Racing (2000, Video Game) | Foghorn Leghorn | |
| Lorax, The (2012, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (2006, Computer Animated Series) | Goofy | |
| Mickey's House of Villains (2002, Animated Film (Direct-to-Video)) | Goofy | |
| Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001, Animated Special) | Goofy | |
| Pluto | ||
| Practical Pig | ||
| Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004, Computer Animated Film (Direct-to-Video)) | Goofy | |
| Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004, Animated Film (Direct-to-Video)) | Goofy | |
| Pluto | ||
| Monsters, Inc. (2001, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Over the Hedge: The Video Game (2006, Video Game) | Lou | |
| Rottweiler | ||
| Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998, Animated Film (Direct-to-Video)) | (additional voices) | |
| Porco Rosso (1992, Anime Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Prince and the Pauper, The (1990, Animated Short) | Goofy | |
| Horace | ||
| Pluto | ||
| Weasel #1 | ||
| Raw Toonage (1992, Animated Series) | Goofy | |
| Robot Chicken (2005, Stop-Motion Animated Series) | Bugs Bunny | |
| Daffy Duck | ||
| Lots of Laughs Bear | ||
| Pubertis | ||
| Rover Dangerfield (1991, Animated Film) | Farm Voices | |
| Shrek 2 (2004, Computer Animated Film) | (ADR group) | |
| Space Jam (1996, Live Action /Animated Film) | Foghorn Leghorn | |
| Sylvester | ||
| Yosemite Sam | ||
| Surf's Up (2007, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Tales of Symphonia (2003, Video Game) | Dorr | |
| Theodore Rex (1996, Live Action/Puppet Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Toy Story (1995, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Toy Story 2 (1999, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Ty the Tasmanian Tiger (2002, Video Game) | Captain Wedgewood | |
| Frill Lizard | ||
| Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue (2004, Video Game) | Captain Parrotbeard | |
| Johno | ||
| Squeaver | ||
| Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald (1998, Live-Action/Animated Series (Direct-to-Video)) | Knight #2 | |
| Mob Leader | ||
| What-A-Mess (1995, Animated Series) | (additional voices) | |
| Yakuza (2005, Video Game) |
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