WAdventure Time: Distant Lands is the collective name of four hour-long streaming television specials based on the American animated television series Adventure Time, which was created by Pendleton Ward and originally aired on Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2018. The specials are produced by Cartoon Network Studios and Frederator Studios; the first special was released on HBO Max on June 25, 2020. The second special followed on November 19, 2020.
WAngry Kid is a British 1-minute short live action and stop motion adult animated comedy web series created, directed, written, and designed by Darren Walsh and produced by Aardman Animations for Series 1 and 2 and by Mr Morris Productions for Series 3 and 4.
WBaahubali: The Lost Legends is an Indian web television animated series that is a part of the Baahubali franchise, produced by Arka Media Works and Graphic India. The series revolves around the young princes Amarendra Baahubali and Bhallaladeva in the Mahishmati kingdom. The series is set before the incidents happened in Baahubali: The Beginning and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion. First season aired on Amazon Prime Video from 19 April 2017 to 11 August 2017. All episodes of season 2 were released on 16 February 2018, Season 3 on 28 April 2018 and all episodes of Season 4 on 10 April 2019 and all episodes of Season 5 on 10 April 2020.
WBee and PuppyCat is an American animated web series created and written by Natasha Allegri and directed by Larry Leichliter. The series revolves around Bee, an unemployed woman in her early twenties, who encounters a mysterious creature named PuppyCat. She adopts this apparent cat-dog hybrid, and together they go on a series of temporary jobs to pay off her monthly rent. These bizarre jobs take the duo across strange worlds out in space. The show is produced by Frederator Studios and is animated by Dong Woo Animation in South Korea and OLM, Inc. in Japan.
WBravest Warriors is an American animated series set onwards from the year 3085, that follows four teenage heroes-for-hire as they warp through the universe to save adorable aliens and their worlds using the power of their emotions. It was created by animator Pendleton Ward, also the creator of Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, and written, show run, and directed by Breehn Burns. Fred Seibert's Frederator Studios produced the series for their Cartoon Hangover YouTube channel. Fred Seibert, Burns, and Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi are the show's executive producers.
WBusou Shinki is a 12-episode mecha, action/adventure, anime television series produced by Eight Bit and broadcast on TBS in Japan in 2012. This TV series is based on the Busou Shinki franchise by Konami Digital Entertainment. Sentai Filmworks licensed the TV series for distribution in North America in 2012.
WCartoon Hangover is a Frederator internet television channel and adult animation division, part of the YouTube Original Channel Initiative, launched in February 2012.
WThe Cyanide & Happiness Show is an adult animated comedy web series created by Rob DenBleyker, Dave McElfatrick, Matt Melvin and Kris Wilson, based on their webcomic Cyanide & Happiness. Each episode consists of a few short stories that have little to no connection to each other. The creators described the goal of each episode to be "to extract the human excretion known as laughter from your face hole via fast-paced weird comedy."
WDead and Buried is an animated webcast based on the Doctor Who spin-off series Bernice Summerfield. It was released free to watch on the official Big Finish YouTube channel on 31 August 2010. It's set between the stories Secret Origins and Resurrecting the Past.
WDick Figures is an American adult animated comedy web-series created by Ed Skudder and Zack Keller. The series, featuring two humanlike stick figures named Red and Blue who are best friends, aired for the first time on November 18, 2010. Episodes, which are typically under 4-minutes in length, are distributed on YouTube by Mondo Media. The series is aimed at mature audiences. In 2012, Keller was nominated for an Annie Award for Directing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production for the episode titled "Kung Fu Winners".
WGo! Cartoons, stylized as GO! Cartoons, is a series of animated shorts produced by Frederator Studios and Sony Pictures Animation. The series premiered on November 7, 2017, with the short The Summoning. It features 12 shorts, airing on VRV and Cartoon Hangover's YouTube channel. Go! Cartoons is Frederator Studios' sixth cartoon "incubator" series since 1998.
WHappy Tree Friends is an American adult animated web series created by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, and Kenn Navarro, and developed by Montijo, Navarro, and Jeremy Viet Duong for Mondo Media. The show had achieved a cult following on Mondo Media, G4 and YouTube. Montijo, Navarro, Graff, Ankrum serving as showrunners.
WHomestar Runner is an American Flash-animated surreal comedy web series created by Mike and Matt Chapman, also known as The Brothers Chaps. It mixes surreal humor, self-parody, and references to pop culture, in particular video games, classic television, and popular music.
WHoops and Yoyo are a pair of animated characters featured on Hallmark Cards. The characters were created by Bob Holt and Mike Adair on September 11, 2003, who also voice the duo. The characters have a website that features E-cards, animated episodes, an "Ask hoops & yoyo" section, desktop and phone wallpapers, audio snippets, IM icons, fan photos, interactive monthly calendars, a blog, a podcast, games, and merchandise available for purchase. The story lines center around two main characters: Hoops, a pink cat, and Yoyo, a green rabbit, and also feature a few other humorous characters joining them. Hoops and Yoyo tend to get overexcited and commonly start yelling or talking really fast. They both love coffee, cookies, and any treat. They're always happy, and always try to have fun no matter what happens.
WThe Idhun Chronicles is a Spanish anime-style fantasy web series produced by Zeppelin TV for Netflix. It is based on The Idhún's Memories book saga by Laura Gallego.
WInferno Cop is a 13-episode Japanese original net animation, directed by Akira Amemiya with Hiroyuki Imaishi serving as series production director and produced by Trigger and CoMix Wave. It was streamed via the Anime Bancho YouTube channel from December 24, 2012 to March 18, 2013. The main theme is "Die Höllen Polizei" by Juriano Hagiwara. A second season has been announced. However this has been complicated by the passing of Inferno Cop's voice actor Junichi Goto in February 2020.
WThe King of Fighters: Destiny is a Japanese-Chinese-Malaysian CG animated series in The King of Fighters media franchise, produced by the Chinese studio iDragons and the Malaysian studio Animonsta Studios for the Japanese company SNK. Focused on its title tournament, the plot shows arriving in South Town, Kyo Kusanagi, an invitee to KOF, among other formidable fighters who have join with other two fighters to form a team and face each other. The series run between August 2017 and January 2018.
WKit and Kate is a Russian-French-American series of animated shorts produced by Russian company Toonbox, in conjunction with a team of American, French and Russian artists.
WOver the years, many web series have featured LGBTQ characters, appearing on streaming platforms like YouTube and streaming services like HBO Max and Rooster Teeth, competing with those on Netflix and LGBTQ representation. This has includes series such as Bravest Warriors, My Pride: The Series, Helluva Boss, and Hazbin Hotel on YouTube, Nomad of Nowhere, gen:Lock and RWBY on Rooster Teeth. In December 2020, Amy Friedman, head of programming for Cartoon Network and HBO Max Kids & Family stated that they are looking "at ourselves across the inclusion and equity spectrum" including LGBTQ+, to evaluate projects in production, development, and which have been greenlighted.
WLong Gone Gulch is an American 2D animated adventure-fantasy Western comedy web series created, directed, written and produced by Tara Billinger, of The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse shorts, and Zach Bellissimo, of Victor & Valentino and Rick & Morty, based on a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2016. The pilot episode premiered on January 11, 2021. Unlike other series in 2021, it debuted on YouTube. The beginning of the pilot has a content warning saying that the animation contains scenes with cartoon violence, images with flashes, and "scary content" not suitable for those under age 7.
WMeta Runner is an Australian adult computer-animated anime cyberpunk drama action web-series created by Kevin and Luke Lerdwichagul, who are known for creating the Super Mario 64 parody web-series SMG4. Set in a futuristic society that is centered around video games and esports, the series follows a cyborg girl named Tari who comes across and helps an undercover group, called MD-5, in their attempt to expose the corrupt and abusive company TAS Corp.
WMighty Little Bheem is a computer animated children's television series, Netflix's first animated series from India and the fourth spin-off of the Chhota Bheem series, following Mighty Raju, Arjun - Prince of Bali and Super Bheem. It follows an innocent but super-strong toddler, Little Bheem, on his mischievous adventures in a small Indian town. The toddler is a baby version of the mythological-inspired 9-year-old character from the popular Indian series action comedy animated series Chhota Bheem which has aired on Turner Broadcasting’s Pogo TV channel from 2008. Chhota Bheem is in turn based on Bheem, a character in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.
WMr. Freeman is a Russian animated web series named after its main character. The series appeared on YouTube on September 21, 2009 and got considerable popularity in Runet. The main content of the series is monologues which in a harsh manner criticize the lifestyle of modern everyman. As of July, 2019 there are 24 episodes published, with a total of 42 uploads to the channel. The total number of views is more than 76 million.
WNomad of Nowhere is an American 2D animated web series released on the website of Rooster Teeth on March 16, 2018. The show, which was created by Georden Whitman, is a western-fantasy hybrid focused on a mute wanderer hunted for being capable of using magic to give life to inanimate objects.
WS.A.L.E.M.: The Secret Archive of Legends, Enchantments, and Monsters is an upcoming animated fantasy and mystery web series created by a queer woman named Samantha "Sam" Sawyer. It is based on an unpublished comic of the same name by Sawyer and was funded by a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The show's exact date has not been announced, but official sources anticipate that episodes will begin airing in Spring 2021. In a February 2020 interview, Sawyer described the series as "about someone who was different," said that she is aiming to produce a series of episodes that are 11-12 minutes long, and stated that the whole series is mapped out. Sawyer also said that the show is influenced by The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Invader Zim.
WSherwood is an American-Irish-New Zealander computer animated science fiction web series created by Diana Manson and Megan Laughton that premiered on March 6, 2019, on YouTube Premium. It is a new telling of the Robin Hood legend. Some reviewers have noted the focus on socioeconomic class, as Robin lives among "the improverished 99%," leading rebels who will overthrow the Sheriff, who lives in an Upper City housing "the wealthy citizens of Sherwood." Others also noted the focus on class difference, with Robin and her comrades trying to "overcome inequality and fight for justice." Apart from this, others said the series has a cyberpunk feeling to it.
WSong Machine is an audiovisual project by British virtual band Gorillaz. It is a music video web series consisting of a collection of music videos and singles that are released monthly by the band as episodes of the series, with each episode featuring additional guests. Each episode is released with accompanying interludes called Machine Bitez, a series of skits consisting of short conversations and interviews with Song Machine's guests from Gorillaz' virtual band members. The project was officially launched on 30 January 2020. Season one of Song Machine consists of 9 episodes and was released as an album titled Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez on 23 October 2020. Season two is set to begin in early 2021.
WStan Lee Media (SLM) was an Internet-based creation, production and marketing company that was founded in 1998, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2000, and ultimately dismissed from bankruptcy in November 2006. In its early years, the company created Stan Lee branded super hero franchises for applications in all media. Its 165-man animation production studio was based in Los Angeles from 1998–2001. It won the 2000 Web Award for the best Entertainment Portal on the World Wide Web, but the company failed in the same year and the corporate shell has been involved in numerous lawsuits in the years since. The company has been characterized as "a sleazy Internet start-up that could function as the poster child for the excesses of the turn-of-the-century era." Stan Lee himself cut ties with the company long before his death.
WSuperFuckers is an American comic book series created by James Kochalka and published by Top Shelf Productions between 2005 and 2007. The series revolves around a collection of crude and rude superheroes who never actually do any superhero work. A collection was published on May 18, 2010, including four issues along with a new Jack Krak one-shot. The first issue is numbered #271 An animated web series based on the comic, produced for Frederator Studios' Cartoon Hangover channel on YouTube, was streamed between November 30, 2012 and May 4, 2013.
WToo Cool! Cartoons is a series of animated shorts on the YouTube channel Cartoon Hangover. It was created by Fred Seibert and produced by Frederator Studios. The series premiered on April 4, 2013, with the short Our New Electrical Morals. It was planned to feature 39 shorts but ended up releasing only 11 shorts.
WVillainous is a Mexican animated web series created by Alan Ituriel, a veteran of the animation industry in Mexico. It is based on a 2012 web series of the same name which he had previously created and was initially picked up by Cartoon Network Latin America as a miniseries of ten one-minute episodes for the Cartoon Network Anything app. The series is co-produced by CN and A.I. Animation Studios. The Villainous concept was pitched by Alan Ituriel at a contest run at the Pixelatl Festival in Cuernavaca, called IdeaToon Summit, in 2014. He met some Cartoon Network executives there and the concept was judged to fit the 6-11 year old demographic for CN Anything original content. Villainous has garnered very positive reception on Cartoon Network's online platforms, like the Cartoon Network's Anything application in 2016. leading CN to decide to continue their own "Pitch Me" competition through at least 2017 in an aim to find more web original shows. Villainous is the first of what CN hopes to be many successful short projects for their app and YouTube channel. A TV pilot was released on June 8, 2019, with the Spanish-language version released seven days earlier. Ituriel later confirmed that season one is currently in production, while also announcing a new character, with a backdoor pilot later debuting as the Victor and Valentino episode "Villainy In Monte Macabre."
WXDragoon is a series created by in 2008 by Brazilian artist Felipe Marcantonio. It is based on Japanese comics style, featuring the adventures of an alien race of dragons fighting enemies that threaten Earth. Since its debut the webcomic earned a considerably large number of fans in their original country, besides having published printed special editions, and manga magazines.
WYear Hare Affair is a Chinese webcomic by Lin Chao (林超), initially under the pen name "逆光飞行". The comic uses anthropomorphic animals as an allegory for nations and sovereign states to represent 20th century political, military and diplomatic events. The goal of this project was to promote nationalistic pride in young people, and focuses on appreciation for China's various achievements since the founding of the People's Republic of China. It was originally not intended for foreign audiences, but when the animated series gained popularity after its first season, the creators stopped planning episodes in strict chronological order so as to be able to portray countries with the most screen time in a positive light more often.
WSuper Mario Bros. Z is a British Flash-animated fan crossover action-adventure web series created and produced by Mark Haynes, which debuted on Newgrounds on April 22, 2006. Using video game sprites to illustrate, the series's story and style is inspired by Dragon Ball Z and features characters from the Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog franchises. The series follows five heroes: Mario, Sonic, Luigi, Shadow and Yoshi, as they race to find the seven Chaos Emeralds before Metallix, a robot bent on becoming the most powerful being in the universe. The original series ran for eight episodes before being canceled in 2009, with the incomplete ninth episode being released in 2012.