{"id":1290,"date":"2012-07-17T22:22:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T04:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2012-07-18T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T12:22:27","slug":"tom-hanks-electric-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2012\/07\/tom-hanks-electric-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks&#8217; Electric City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hanks created a new animated series called Electric City. The interesting thing about this series is that it will air exclusively online &#8211; on Yahoo&#8217;s video site, Yahoo! Screen. It is one of the first major animation productions specifically designed for online viewing (at least that I know of). Today, the first ten episodes aired, each one 5-7 minutes. Over the next two days, the remaining ten will be released. Below is the first episode:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/nl\/cbe\/electriccity\/player.html#browseCarouselUI=hide&amp;shareUrl=http%3A%2F%2Felectriccity.yahoo.com%2Fep1-en-truth-or-consequences.html&amp;vid=29363409&amp;repeat=0&amp;startScreenCarouselUI=hide&amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fd.yimg.com%2Fhn%2Fp%2Fi%2Fbcst%2Fyp%2Felectriccity%2F19697%2Fatlas_1014844.jpg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"464\" height=\"261\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The animation clearly has a decent sized budget, and the story concept is pretty interesting; however I think it&#8217;s a little underdeveloped and stalls at times. While I am mildly curious to see how the series wraps up, I am more interested to see what kind of impact, in any, it has on future online animated series. I&#8217;m not sure exactly what the business model is for this type of roll out, but it&#8217;s different&#8230; and that definitely catches my attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hanks created a new animated series called Electric City. The interesting thing about this series is that it will air exclusively online &#8211; on Yahoo&#8217;s video site, Yahoo! Screen. It is one of the first major animation productions specifically designed for online viewing (at least that I know of). Today, the first ten episodes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}