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Longest-Running Children's Animated Series "Arthur" to End After 25 YearsThe iconic PBS children’s animated show “Arthur” is ending its run after 25 seasons. The cartoon, based on a book series by Marc Brown, has been on the air since 1996 - making it the longest running children’s animated series in the US. Screenwriter Katie Waugh first announced the news during an interview with “Finding DW'' podcast.“Arthur” revolves around 8-year-old aardvark Arthur and his family and friends. The show has been lauded for teaching generations of kids aged 4-8 about inclusion, kindness, and empathy. It has won four Daytime Emmys for outstanding children’s animated program. Executive producers Carol Greenwald said reruns of the show will continue to air on PBS Kids.Image: Arthur/IMDb#Arthur #cartoon #PBS

If Cartoon Characters Were Real PeopleBrazilian artist Hidreley Diao has been experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) to create photographic portraits that don't exist in real life. Recently, he's been turning characters from animated films and TV shows into real people! For example, the face above is a photographic rendering of Moe from The Simpsons. This person doesn't exists in real life, but he may well remind you of someone you know. Below is a portrait of Kristoff from the Disney film Frozen. Click to the right to see the original character.

The Sources of Old School Sound Effects May Surprise YouAdding sound effects to cartoons is fairly easy in the age of computers. Sound effects are recorded, used, shared, archived, sold, and used again. But in the early days of animation, production crews had to use whatever they could to reproduce the sounds they wanted. And they could get pretty creative! See Disney foley artists making sound effects and then be surprised at how they were used in the finished product.

Dungeons & Dragons Stats for Cartoon CharactersFor many years, TSR, the company that created Dungeons & Dragons, published a monthly print magazine about the game. It was titled Dragon. In addition to ads for TSR products, the pages of Dragon were filled with helpful suggestions and encounter ideas for Dungeon Masters to use. On Twitter, Robert McNees informs us that in 1981, Dragon published stats for eight cartoon characters if they were NPCs.Check out out how Popeye, Daffy Duck, Rocky, Bullwinkle, Marvin the Martian, the Tasmanian Devil, and the Jolly Green Giant are equipped below, or visit the original thread over at @mcnees. Donald Duck is, appropriately, a berserker who cannot be killed without enormous difficulty once he has gone into a rage. Would you throw your players into a fight against him?-via Super Punch#DungeonsAndDragons #BugsBunny #Popeye #DaffyDuck #DonaldDuck #RockyandBullwinkle #MarvintheMartian #TasmanianDevil #cartoon