Robin Williams, long-time friend to and lover of animation and a comedic and dramatic role model for many left us this week. We talk about what impact his life and career had on us and the field of animation as a whole. Other stories we cover in this episode are a survey which shows that YouTube stars are more popular than mainstream celebs among US teens, Golden Globes changing the animation rules, and what's going on with the Legend of Korra.

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Annotations: (11:10) RIP Robin Williams (36:10) YouTube Stars More Popular Than Mainstream Celebs Among U.S. Teens (56:06) Ghibli Update: Miyazaki’s Potential New Project (1:00:58) Golden Globes Change Animation and Foreign-Language Rules (1:16:39) ‘Turtles’ and ‘Guardians’ duke it out for top spot (1:26:16) Final episodes of Legend of Korra book 3 to be web only

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