Wikipedia:WikiProject Animation/American animation work group
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to American animation. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
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Title
WikiProject on American animation
Scope
This purpose of this project is to standardize the coverage of American animated cartoons within the Wikipedia. This includes deciding how pages should be formatted, which pages should and should not be created, designing templates, etc. This project is not yet completely defined, so feel free to make suggestions on the talk page.
Parentage
The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Films
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Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Anime and manga and WikiProject Comics are related projects.
Participants
To add your name to the list, type "*~~~" at the bottom of the list.
Tasks
- Standardize coverage of animated films
- Implement infobox for individual films
- Create infoboxes for series and characters
- Make decisions about individual cartoon shorts/episodes
Stub templates
Stub any general animation article with {{animation-stub}} to get this:
More specific stub tags:
- For articles relating to The Walt Disney Company, use {{disney-stub}}
- For articles relating to Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios, use {{Hanna-Barbera-stub}}
- This Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
- For articles relating to The Simpsons, use {{Simpsons-stub}}
- For articles relating to Transformers, use {{Transformers-stub}}
- For articles relating to Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies, use {{LooneyTunes-stub}}
Infoboxes
Theatrical animated shorts
For theatrical animated shorts, use Template:Infobox Hollywood cartoon:
{{Infobox Hollywood cartoon|
| cartoon_name =
| series =
| image =
| caption =
| director =
| story_artist =
| animator =
| voice_actor =
| musician =
| producer =
| distributor =
| release_date =
| color_process =
| runtime =
| movie_language =
| imdb_id =
}}
- Cartoon Name: The official title of the film, as spelled onscreen or in official production documents.
- Series: The short film series to which the short belongs. For blanket series such as Looney Tunes and Terrytoons, notate the starring character(s) of the short alongside the series title, for example Terrytoons/Mighty Mouse series instead of just Terrytoons series. This field is optional.
- Image and Caption: All you need for the image code is the name of the image file without the "Image:" at the front. Each image is automatically formatted to a maximum width of 230 pixels. The image for the infobox should be a poster, the main title card (if it has artwork depicting the characters), or a clear screenshot of the characters. The caption should identify the characters depicted, and explain where the image came from. These fields are optional.
- The credits for Director(s), Story(board) artist(s), Animator(s), Voice actor(s), Musician(s), and Producer(s) should identify the persons credited onscreen, as well as others who were not credited. It has not yet been determined if that the cast and crew should be credited as they were in the original onscreen titles (for example, Charles M. Jones instead of Chuck Jones). Voice actors and musicians are optional fields.
- Distributor: The company who released the film.
- Release date: The release date for each country, followed by the country name in parenthesis: February 15, 1991 (USA)
- Color process: Type of film stock used to make the film. For most cartoons, this should be filled only with one of the following choices: black and white, Sepia tone, Technicolor, Technicolor (two-color), Cinecolor, Polacolor, or Metrocolor. For more modern (post-1970) cartoons, "Color" will suffice.
- Runtime: The running time of the cartoon, followed by the number of film reels it was originally issued on (if it was released during the The Golden Age of American animation. Most cartoons will read as "8 min (1 reel)", something like Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor would read as "16 min (two reels)".
- Movie language: The language spoken in the film. If it is a silent film, type "Silent".
- IMDb ID: the numeric portion of the film's IMDb url.
Example
| WikiProject Animation/American animation work group | |
|---|---|
| File:Falling Hare.jpg Bugs Bunny and his Gremlin nemesis, in a scene from Falling Hare. | |
| Directed by | Robert Clampett |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Animation by | Robert McKimson Rod Scribner Bill Melendez |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Running time | 8 min (one reel) |
{{Infobox Hollywood cartoon|
| cartoon_name = Falling Hare
| series = [[Merrie Melodies]]/[[Bugs Bunny]]
| image = Falling Hare.jpg
| caption = [[Bugs Bunny]] and his [[Gremlin]] nemesis, in a scene from ''Falling Hare''.
| director = [[Robert Clampett]]
| story_artist = [[Warren Foster]]
| animator = [[Robert McKimson]] <br> [[Rod Scribner]] <br> [[Bill Melendez]]
| voice_actor = [[Mel Blanc]]
| musician = [[Carl W. Stalling]]
| producer = [[Leon Schlesinger]]
| distributor = [[Warner Bros. Pictures]] <br> [[The Vitaphone Corporation]]
| release_date = [[October 30]], [[1943]] (USA)
| color_process = [[Technicolor]]
| runtime = 8 min (one reel)
| movie_language = English
| imdb_id = 0035861
}}