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.


































Tuesday, February 19th 2008 at 11:45 pm |
they didn’t teach us this in history class, i wonder why?
Tuesday, February 19th 2008 at 11:50 pm |
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.”
Tuesday, February 19th 2008 at 11:57 pm |
I enjoyed that. Thanks, that was fun.
-Katie Couric, mastermind
Wednesday, February 20th 2008 at 6:45 am |
ummmmm- yeah
hmmmmm- did the Motion Graphics Guild go on strike as well?
Wednesday, February 20th 2008 at 8:56 am |
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!
Wednesday, February 20th 2008 at 10:32 am |
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.
Wednesday, February 20th 2008 at 11:53 am |
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.
Wednesday, February 20th 2008 at 9:15 pm |
wow I didn’t know this. our democracy is more of a fallacy than I already thought.
Thursday, February 21st 2008 at 6:37 am |
democracy? where? where?
Friday, February 22nd 2008 at 2:12 pm |
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.