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The Aristocats is a 1970 Disney animated musical about Madame Bonfamille, who leaves her fortune to her cats, and the scheming butler who kidnaps them to steal it. The piece, as preserved here, is largely a film listing: a plot synopsis, cast and runtime details, and a stream of fan reviews praising Thomas O'Malley and the jazz-playing alley cats. What makes it worth keeping is the affectionate fan response, which treats the film as a comfort watch and a cult favorite.
Anthropic's announcement introduces Claude Dashboards (live, query-backed dashboards built from company data platforms and CRM tools, in beta on paid plans) and Claude Motion (code-based explainer animations that can be edited and exported as MP4, in beta on Team and Enterprise), while graduating Docs, Slides, and Design out of beta for all plans. It also covers the retirement of the standalone claude.ai/design site, with a December 14 cutoff and a migration path for design systems and chats. What sets it apart from other launch posts is the emphasis on transparency and control: each chart exposes its underlying query, animations are editable code rather than generated video, and admins decide which features are enabled.
Maurice Noble's design work was essential to the success of What's Opera, Doc? (1957), transforming Chuck Jones's initial concept from a stagey theatrical production into an over-the-top operatic satire through experimental color choices, dramatic layouts, and innovative techniques like the spotlight effect. Working collaboratively with Jones, Noble adjusted his background designs to support the story and emotional tone rather than overwhelm it, making each of the film's 100+ shots visually distinctive while maintaining narrative clarity. Though the production was more ambitious and expensive than typical Warner cartoons, What's Opera, Doc? initially received little critical attention before eventually becoming regarded as a masterpiece, largely through the success of Noble's visual approach and his willingness to take design risks.
This piece identifies six classic films that have faded from modern audiences' collective memory despite their quality: The Iron Giant, From Russia With Love, Frantic, Capricorn One, Sorcerer, and Once Upon a Time in the West. For each film, the article briefly describes the plot and explains the specific circumstances—box office failure, overshadowing by contemporaries, or shifting genre popularity—that caused it to be overlooked or forgotten. The underlying argument is that contemporary moviegoers should seek out these forgotten masterpieces as a corrective to nostalgia for older cinema and as alternatives to endlessly debating the same canonical favorites.
This Lifehacker roundup by Ross Johnson highlights Hulu’s strongest original programming, arguing the platform’s output reaches far beyond headline hits to include bold dramas, comedy, animation, and genre fare. The list surveys recent and legacy titles—from sci‑fi prequel [[Alien: Earth]] and legal drama [[Reasonable Doubt]] to suburban thriller [[Paradise]] and true‑crime adaptation [[The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox]]—alongside lighter entries like sitcom revival [[King of the Hill]], workplace comedy [[Deli Boys]], queer ensemble [[Mid-Century Modern]], teen fantasy [[Spellbound]], and family animation [[The Bravest Knight]]. Johnson emphasizes standout performances, creative showrunners, and Hulu’s appetite for both serialized prestige and smaller, risk-taking series, recommending viewers explore beyond the platform’s buzzy hits to discover diverse voices and unexpected gems. It mixes 2024–25 releases with older favorites while flagging renewals and binge‑friendly picks.
[[Netflix]] has commissioned a wide range of original science fiction films, and this Shortlist roundup surveys twenty standout titles spanning cerebral art-house pieces, blockbuster spectacles, bleak dystopias and genre hybrids. Highlights include the time-travel bromance [[The Adam Project]], [[Alex Garland]]’s mind-bending [[Annihilation]], apocalypse thrillers like [[Bird Box]] and political satire [[Don't Look Up]], plus international hits such as China’s grand-scale [[The Wandering Earth]] and South Korea’s stylish [[Space Sweepers]]. The article focuses exclusively on Netflix originals, weighing inventive premises (robotic mothers, cloning conspiracies, cryogenic claustrophobia) and thematic variety — family, class, ecological crisis, surveillance, and AI — to argue that the streamer now supplies a rich, varied sci‑fi catalogue that can satisfy mainstream and niche tastes alike. It includes both polished crowd-pleasers and risk-taking auteur projects that expand the boundaries of genre filmmaking.
Snabbt.js is a lightweight JavaScript animation library optimized for 60 FPS performance by limiting itself to animating only CSS transforms (position, rotation, scale, skew) and opacity—properties that browsers can render cheaply without triggering page reflows. It provides a simple API for creating, chaining, and sequencing animations with support for various easing functions, spring physics, manual control, and multi-element animations using matrix transformations. The library is designed as a minimal (~5kb gzipped) alternative to heavier animation frameworks when you only need to move, rotate, or fade elements smoothly.
This guide explains easing functions—mathematical formulas that control how animations accelerate and decelerate over time to mimic natural motion—and demonstrates how to implement them across CSS, PostCSS, and TypeScript. It provides practical examples of applying easing to properties like size, position, and transparency, along with the underlying mathematical code needed to calculate animation progress at any point from start (0) to finish (1).
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Marka - Beautiful icon transformations #javascript
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One Page Scroll is a jQuery plugin that enables full-page scrolling animations similar to Apple's product marketing websites, where each section fills the entire viewport and transitions smoothly as users scroll. The plugin requires minimal setup—just wrapping sections in a container div and calling a single jQuery method—and offers customization options for animation timing, selectors, and easing effects. Pete R. released it as a free, ready-to-use tool available on GitHub for developers wanting to create Apple-style one-page scrolling experiences.
This UI pattern embeds loading indicators directly into the button or form element that triggered the action, replacing the need for separate loading spinners by having the element itself animate and expand to show processing is underway. The approach provides immediate visual feedback to users during form submission, eliminating confusion about whether their action registered, with practical implementations visible on slides.com and customizable through various animation directions (expand, contract, slide, zoom) and optional progress bars.
This tutorial demonstrates how to build an interactive hover effect where a semi-transparent overlay slides onto thumbnail images from the direction the user's mouse is entering, then slides out in the same direction when the mouse leaves. The technique combines jQuery event handlers to detect mouse direction by dividing the element into four triangular zones, CSS3 transitions to animate the overlay movement, and fallback jQuery animations for older browsers that don't support CSS transitions.
303 Truly Animated Vector Icons #jQuery
This appears to be an archive listing of web design and development tutorials from 2011, organized chronologically by month. The entries cover interactive UI components and visual effects built with technologies like CSS3, jQuery, and HTML5, including carousels, accordions, image galleries, hover effects, and animated menus. The collection represents typical front-end web development techniques from the early 2010s era.
A Collection of Page Transitions #css3
LivIcons - Exclusive Truly Animated #Icon Pack! #jquery #bootstrap - Very Cool
★★ · rewatch · watched 24 Jan 2021
The Aristocats was the final movie that Walt Disney greenlit prior to his passing. It has the same problem as most of the animated Disney movies from this era, it lacked a great story and memorable characters. Like many of the Disney movies of the time, it also lacked a bit of cultural sensitivity that makes it a bit of a tough watch 50 years later. While it isn’t Song of the South bad, it does have some moments that don’t play well today.
The movie clocks in at 1:18 minutes according to IMDB, and I have to say I felt every minute of this movie. The animation was OK, and there were a couple of scenes that were better than others but overall, it was generally bland. I do appreciate the Parisian styles of the backgrounds, and those did add to the mood. “Everyone Wants to Be a Cat” was the catchy song from the movie which is replaying through my brain as I write.
I wish there was more to this movie. I probably watched it in my youth, but I honestly don’t remember anything about it. I remember many cartoons from that time, but not a single scene from this watch was familiar. My guess is if I watched it again in a year from now, I’d wouldn’t remember much more than the train scene. It was lazy animation, lazy writing, and lazy performances.
There was a moment on the train tracks where the animation made the sparks from the train to look like blood. It was a little bit disturbing when taken out of context, but I thought to myself, “at least this is getting interesting”.
Obviously, there are some less than sensitive moments in the movie. That said, it seemed like they went out of the way to get a dig in for every culture. They represented most in the “Everyone Wants to be a Cat” montage, but a couple of scenes later there was a “WigWam” reference out of the blue. What was that about?
It was pointed out from the person I watched with that the mouse from this movie looks exactly like the mouse in “The Rescuers”. I know it isn’t a sequel, but Disney really didn’t put forth much of an effort to be creative for a while. I have the greatest respect for the work it takes for a release, but… oof.
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