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The MTV Animation brand was briefly revived from 2006 to 2007 as part of a push to produce animated series for MTV2. In 2011, MTV would return to adult animation. Its first production was a relaunch of Beavis and Butt-Head , which premiered in October 2011; this was quickly followed by Good Vibes , starting later in the same month.
The influence of the MTV logo's chameleon-like look can be seen today. As a result of their association with MTV, Manhattan Design became highly sought after for all sorts of "hip" design projects, working with such notables as The B-52s , The Cars , Billy Idol , Duran Duran , R.E.M. , Sting , 10,000 Maniacs , Suzanne Vega , and others.
Colossal started producing computer animation in 1983, when they collaborated with Pacific Data Images to produce a commercial for the Atari game Joust and a network ID for MTV. In 1986, Colossal began working with Western Images using a Quantel Harry unit, resulting in Colossal being able to create state-of-the-art computer graphics.
Disney entered the 1980s facing an uncertain future, despite the respectable $39,900,000 gross and some good reviews for The Fox and the Hound, [12] and the animation department faced more jeopardy and pandemonium in 1985 with The Black Cauldron, which was the Disney studio’s first PG-rated animated film and the most expensive animated film ...
In 1980, he had a role in the music video for David Bowie’s “Fashion” a year before MTV launched. After a chance meeting with MTV’s CEO, he became a VJ, and stayed with the channel until 1987.
MTV, originally an initialism of Music Television, is an American cable television channel that launched on August 1, 1981 by Warner Communications. It is currently owned by Paramount Global, and is one of the company's flagship brands. MTV's original focus was on music-related programming, including blocks of music videos.
At midnight on Aug. 1, 1981, Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson stood inside the Loft restaurant in Fort Lee, N.J., to watch ...
The advent of YouTube put virtually every music video in history at your fingertips, making MTV—so radically inventive just a generation earlier—as obsolete as FM radio.