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Fast Draw on CBS News

Josh Landis and Mitch Butler combined some bad green-screening, a whiteboard and After Effects to explain the mystifying concept of super-delegates. Katie Couric loved it. How about you?

Said Landis in this New York Times story: “Animation allows us to take complex topics and explain them in very simple ways.â€? I couldn’t have said it (or drawn it) better myself.

Posted on 19 February 2008 |

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10 responses to “Fast Draw on CBS News”

  1. Comment by martz:

    they didn’t teach us this in history class, i wonder why?

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  2. Comment by Douglas:

    Kind words from the Gawker crowd:
    http://gawker.com/5003148/katie-couric-just-loves-these-new-cartoons-on-her-news-show

    “Who the hell are these two pandering ass clowns? By far, the worst thing ever created on cable television.”

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  3. Comment by jarratt:

    I enjoyed that. Thanks, that was fun.

    -Katie Couric, mastermind

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  4. Comment by mrpeter:

    ummmmm- yeah

    hmmmmm- did the Motion Graphics Guild go on strike as well?

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  5. Comment by brandj:

    Pretty interesting that this was on CBS News, but not great from any standpoint. It does show where the visual essay could go. Only up I think! This would be a lot cooler (to us) if they let someone with decent illustration and animation skills have a go at it. CBS Motionographers, step up!

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  6. Comment by Marc B.:

    Who cares about animation?
    Don’t you see how much this electoral system blows? We the people? Nah, it’s the few super-delegates. God knows what crooks they are and most likely they will pick a candidate according to certain interests but not those of the people. As if the two party system wasn’t already bad enough.
    As of now Clinton’s got 234 and Obama only 161 s.delegates.

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  7. Comment by monovich:

    I think it was great. I couldn’t give ten cents about the animation quality, its about explaining something most people don’t get, and nobody else stepped up to do it, so nobody has a right to bitch about its un-slickness.

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  8. Comment by david:

    wow I didn’t know this. our democracy is more of a fallacy than I already thought.

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  9. Comment by kmfix:

    democracy? where? where?

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  10. Comment by Top100:

    Anytime I learn something, I like it, sucky graphics, or not. The two guys were kind of tools, but that doesn’t really matter. Hope to see more in the future.

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