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The
animator of an AMAZING Scooby-Doo and Five Nights at Freddy's mashup
used AI to replicate the voices of the Mystery Inc. gang, and now the
voice actress of Daphne (Grey DeLisle) is publicly threatening him with a
Hollywood BLACKLIST.
When the gang visits Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they must investigate a mysterious case of the animatronics getting a bit quirky at night.
Created in Blender 3.5
A.I. DISCLAIMER:I am not a fan of AI. The only reason I used AI voices for Fred, daphne, Velma, and SG Kluger is because I can’t really afford to pay a ton of voice actors ATM, and it’s also difficult to find impersonators for the gang other than Shaggy and Scooby. This isn’t intended to make money, it’s honestly created as a portfolio piece and giant joke that took me way too long to animate. so I just used AI considering I’m a one man team and don’t have the means for many voice actors at the moment. If it counts for anything, the rest of the video is painstakingly designed, modeled, textured, animated, lit, rendered, edited, composited, and posted all by me, 1000% from scratch by hand with nothing other than my own brain and creative drive doing the work. I even learned to do a Scooby impression so I could voice Scooby myself! I have some original shorts in the works and I plan for those to be completely AI free, so consider this video a launch pad for my Patreon and my work so that i will be able to bring on more talent in the future. Thanks for the support everyone, it’s very much appreciated. This is a fan animation. I do not own the rights to any of the content in the video. Fair use permits the commentary, criticism, or parody of a copyrighted work without having a license from the copyright holder. -Eagan Tilghman
Fans are discovering the hidden gems found in past incarnations of our favorite teen detectives. Anything to cleanse the palate after what 'Velma' had served us.
VELMA is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and under-appreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang. This original and humorous spin unmasks the complex and colorful past of one of America’s most beloved mystery solvers.
VELMA is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley (voiced by Mindy Kaling), the unsung and under appreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang. This original and humorous spin unmasks the complex and colorful past of one of America’s most beloved mystery solvers.
When Scooby (Frank Welker), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard), Daphne (Grey Griffin), Velma (Kate Micucci), and Fred (Welker) travel to jolly ol' England, they come face-to-face with the evil sorceress known as Morgan le Fay (Griffin), who, using the magic of Stonehenge, transports them back to the age chivalrous knights, spell-casting wizards, and fire-breathing dragons. There, they meet King Arthur Pendragon of Camelot, whose appetite is as legendary as his sword, Excalibur. When Shaggy is suddenly kidnapped by Morgan, Arthur inducts Scooby, Fred, Daphne, and Velma into the Knights of the Round Table, relying on them to stop the witch and save his throne.
JOE RUBY (March 30, 1933 - August 26, 2020) Writer and co-creator of Scooby-Doo
[Source: Yahoo!] Joe Ruby, who has died aged 87, was an American animator, writer and co-creator of the cartoon favorite Scooby-Doo, the intellectually challenged talking Great Dane, who has entertained children over five decades.
The simple tales of Scooby and four teenagers hunting ghosts in their “mystery machine” van first aired on CBS in America in 1969. It soon became a huge success in the UK, too, and went on to become a global franchise worth billions of dollars.
Scooby and his gang, Norville “Shaggy” Rogers, Velma Dinkley, Daphne Blake and Freddie Jones, were dreamed up by Ruby and Ken Spears, Hanna Barbera’s head storymen, after Joseph Barbera had been approached by the CBS executive programme maker Fred Silverman.
Silverman wanted a child-friendly cartoon “mystery show” with the working title “Who’s S-S-Scared?” for the station’s Saturday morning slot. It was Ruby and Spears who suggested that a dog should be the star of the show. They originally thought of a creating a big, comically cowardly sheepdog, before settling on a Great Dane.
The dog was originally going to be called Too Much but, listening to music on a flight from New York to Los Angeles, Silverman misheard Frank Sinatra’s scat sequence at the end of Strangers in the Night: “As we’re going in for the landing, Frank Sinatra comes on and I hear him say ‘Scooby dooby doo’.”
At first the CBS thought the artwork for the Great Dane was “too frightening” for an intended audience of children, but Hanna-Barbera’s art director Iwao Takamoto saved the day by making Scooby comically big and clumsy, with a hump back, bowed legs and big chin.
The eponymous Great Dane
Don Messick, the voice of Muttley on Wacky Races, was picked to speak Scooby-Doo’s lines and decided to add to the comedy by introducing rolling r’s into Scooby-Doo’s speech pattern. The dog would frequently say “Ruh-roh, Raggy” as he jumped into the arms of his hapless sidekick Shaggy.
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? was an instant hit on CBS, and the early programmes created a formula for several revivals as well as film adaptations, numerous spin-off series and lines of merchandise. Scooby-Doo routinely features in polls of the best cartoon characters of all time.
The series also spawned suggestions of inner meanings. The way that Shaggy was always giggling in the back of the Mystery Machine, and was constantly suffering from “the munchies”, fuelled rumours that the character was a hippy “pothead”, while there were claims that “Scooby Snacks” were not really dog biscuits, but cannabis brownies.
Scooby and the gang, l-r, Velma, Shaggy, Daphne and Fred - PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy
However, in his memoir My Life With a Thousand Characters, Iwao Takamoto denied there were any veiled drug references in the series: “Drugs of any kind were an anathema to Joe Ruby; he hated them.”
Joe Clemens Ruby was born on March 30 1933 in Los Angeles, where he attended Fairfax High School. During the Korean War he served in the US Navy as a sonar operator on a destroyer.
He began his career at Walt Disney Productions as an assistant animator, before moving to Hanna-Barbera Productions, where he met his writing partner Ken Spears in 1959.
As well as Scooby-Doo, the pair were credited with creating cartoon characters including Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, Jabberjaw, The Barkleys, and The Houndcats.
In 1977 they founded their own production company, Ruby-Spears, which created Alvin and the Chipmunks, Mr T, Superman and Thundarr the Barbarian.
Ruby also wrote the sci-fi thriller series Planet of the Apes (1974) and the horror film Rumpelstiltskin (1995).
Joe Ruby is survived by his wife Carole, whom he married in 1957, and by two sons and two daughters.
The first full-length animated Scooby-Doo adventure for the big screen is the never-before told stories of Scooby-Doo’s origins and the greatest mystery in the career of Mystery Inc.
“SCOOB!” reveals how lifelong friends Scooby and Shaggy first met and how they joined with young detectives Fred, Velma and Daphne to form the famous Mystery Inc. Now, with hundreds of cases solved and adventures shared, Scooby and the gang face their biggest, most challenging mystery ever: a plot to unleash the ghost dog Cerberus upon the world. As they race to stop this global “dogpocalypse,” the gang discovers that Scooby has a secret legacy and an epic destiny greater than anyone imagined.
Starring in “SCOOB!” are Kiersey Clemons (“Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising,” TV’s “Angie Tribeca”) as Dee Dee; Zac Efron (“The Greatest Showman,” the “Neighbors” franchise) as Fred; Will Forte (“Booksmart,” TV’s “The Last Man on Earth”) as Scooby-Doo’s best friend, Shaggy; Jason Isaacs (the “Harry Potter” films, TV’s “The OA”) as the infamous Dick Dastardly; Ken Jeong (“Crazy Rich Asians,” “The Hangover” trilogy) as Dynomutt; Tracy Morgan (“What Men Want,” TV’s “30 Rock”) as Captain Caveman; Gina Rodriguez (“Deepwater Horizon,” TV’s “Jane the Virgin”) as Velma; Amanda Seyfried (the “Mamma Mia!” films, “Ted 2”) as Daphne; two-time Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg (“The Fighter,” “The Departed”) as Blue Falcon; and Frank Welker (the “Transformers” franchise) as Scooby-Doo.
[Source: Syfy] Actress Heather North, who voiced Daphne Blake for the animated Scooby-Doo franchise for more than 30 years, has passed away at the age of 71.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, North died on Nov. 30 at her home in the Studio City area of Los Angeles after a long battle with an undisclosed illness.
North's acting career -- which included a stint on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives and parts in movies like Disney's 1971 The Barefoot Executive, opposite Kurt Russell -- took a turn into pop culture immortality when she replaced Stefanianna Christopherson as the voice of Daphne on the second season premiere of Scooby Doo, Where Are You! in September 1970.
North continued voicing "Danger Prone Daphne," one of the two female members of the teen detective team, in The New Scooby-Doo Movies from 1972 to 1973, and many other versions of the cartoon property in the years to follow, including TV series and direct-to-video movies. Aside from Scooby and Shaggy, Daphne made the most appearances out of all the regular characters. North voiced Daphne for the last time in 2003's Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico.
The Pasadena native's other TV credits included Gidget, The Fugitive, The Monkees, My Three Sons, Adam-12 and more. Her husband of 44 years, H. Wesley Kenney, was an Emmy Award-winning producer and director who directed every episode of the classic sitcom All in the Family's 1974-1975 season. Kenney died in January 2015.
North is survived by a son, two stepchildren, and a granddaughter... and decades of Scooby-Doo cartoons that will remain her lasting legacy.
Crystal Cove is attacked by a Man-Baby called Crybaby Clown. Mayor Fred Jones Sr.'s successor Janet Nettles is approached by a mysterious figure who gives her the files on Mystery Inc. while stating that she has to get Mystery Inc. back together. She starts by picking up Scooby-Doo from a farm, introducing herself to him and telling him of her mission. At a military school, Shaggy is being scolded by his drill sergeant for not shaving the hairs on his chin until Scooby crashes into the barracks in a tank and gets Shaggy out of there. Fred (now resembling a hobo) is still looking for Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves and is convinced by Shaggy and Scooby to give up his search for them for now. Upon driving back to Crystal Cove, Fred tells Shaggy and Scooby what he knows about a Man-Clown. Upon finding Crystal Cove deserted, the three are attacked by Crybaby Clown. Fred is then chased by Crybaby Clown until he is saved by the mysterious figure who turns out to be Velma, as Shaggy and Scooby catch up. Upon being briefed by Velma on the Crybaby Clown attacks sometime after Mayor Fred Jones Sr. was arrested, Scooby tells Shaggy, Fred, and Velma that Professor Pericles survived. Velma later shows Fred from outside the Bloody Stake restaurant that Daphne is seeing a guy named Baylor Hotner. Mayor Nettles and Sheriff Bronson Stone bring Shaggy, Scooby, Fred, and Velma into City Hall where the rest of the citizens are waiting for Mystery Inc. to come and stop Crybaby Clown. Colton and Paula are surprised that Shaggy and Scooby are out of the military school and farm. Just then, Crybaby Clown crashes the assembly and traps everyone inside. After the group escapes from City Hall, they go to Daphne's house and try to get her to rejoin with no avail. Fred comes up with a doughnut shop-themed trap in order to trap out Crybaby Clown. The trap doesn't work and Crybaby Clown escapes, planning to use one of his bottle bombs to blow up Chen's Fireworks. Fred is depressed that the bad guy got away and states that Mystery Inc. won't be whole again since Daphne is never coming back.
The Latest Scooby Movie has Everything a Slasher Flick does...
an axe wielding Woodsman and sexy young women to chase. The animators took their time enhancing the, um... characteristics of Velma, Daphne, and Jessica (the hot camp counselor from across the lake). See for yourself if the Scooby movie got the girls just right. Click on the links for screenshots from the movie.
[Source: Wikipedia] Scooby-Doo and the gang travel to Camp Little Moose, Fred's old summer camp, to vacation and serve as camp counselors. But when they arrive they find the camp empty save for Burt, the head counselor, and the local Forest Ranger, Ranger Knudsen. They discover that one of the camp's old legends, the Woodsman, has come to life and scared the kids away. Ranger Knudsen suggests Burt close the camp before leaving. Burt is about the heed to the Ranger's advise when three kids, Luke, Trudy, and Deacon, arrive at the camp. Fred convinces Burt to keep the camp open until the Mystery Inc. gang discover what's going on. But the gang and the kids are soon attacked by the Woodsman. The next day, everyone decides to spend the day at Big Moose Lake, home of the rich and modern Big Moose camp. The gang is enjoying their time at the lake until they are attacked by the Fishman, another camp legend come to life. During the chase, Scooby-Doo discovers a building at the bottom of Big Moose Lake. Everyone is now very scared, especially Deacon.