The Mask animated movie?
 

I was trying to look up The Mask animated series episodes on Youtube and I found this...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KFw6jTlKtF4

I never heard of it. I'll only watch it if Rob Paulsen plays the mask/Stanly Ipkiss. I liked his version more than Jim Carry's!

Juding by the one frame of art, that teaser is either fake or it's going to have the worst animation ever.

Looks like the kind of animation seen in the Higlander prequel "The Methos Chronicles"

Yes, sadly, animation like this exists. I still think it's fan-made though

You can tell those are just images drawn in ink and colored on the computer...I mean specifically, someone not in any field of art. Its fill tool use and the use of black on the outlines are grey, which is what happens when you scan in an image and dont mess with the contrast at all.

Fake.

I actually did enjoy the two Ace Ventura crossovers (the second one not as much, though) solely for how bizarre it was to see the characters interact.

Having been a fan of the original Dark Horse comics, I've never been too keen on the kid-friendly interpretation of The Mask (trust me, read the comics, they will blow your mind). I do appreciate that the cartoon series imported Big-Head's (that's his name, folks, not "the Mask") nemesis, Walter (Frankenstein motif and all).

I got the TPB of that Joker/Mask mini series. One of the coolest Darkhorse/DC collabarations. Did the yellow suit come from there or another case of movie influence on source material?

The zoot suit was taken from the movie. The Joker/Mask crossover was more like a blend of the Mask cartoon and Batman TAS. A few ideas from the Mask comics shined through (like Stanley being dead), but not very many.

The initial three Mask storylines have been collected in trades (The Mask, The Mask Returns and The Mask Strikes Again) and they're all very good. There were other story arcs written afterward, but those are the only three that were done by the original creative team of Doug Mahnke and John Arcudi and are the only ones that really matter.

Definately ought to check them out. Very gory, ultra-violent and a real fun series of stories.

I'll make sure to do that. So if Ipkiss is dead, does that mean the mask has had other hosts over it's run? Like changing from comic to comic?

Yep.

The host of the Mask is insignificant almost, as Big Head's personality remains the same no matter who wears it.

Lt. Kellaway wore in the most through-out the arc and was the most prominant host for Big Head. Stanley's girlfriend (Cameron Diaz's character in the movie, though she wasn't a club dancer) worse it for a little while, too.

The third arc was particularly cool, as a group of four teenagers got to wear the Mask and it had a different effect on each. One kid keeps his personality intact while wearing it but sees everything through Big Head's eyes, which is really crazy.

And does the mask still have an origon on Norse mythology? Because I'll admit that while Son of The Mask was family fun dribble the part Loki played in it's creation was interesting.

I haven't sat all the way through Son of the Mask, but I actually thought the origin presented for it in the first film (as an avatar of Loki, the Norse God of Mischief) was one of the film's better concepts.

As far as the comic goes, I haven't read all of the later material which was done after Mahnke and Arcudi left, so if those have any expanded origins, I couldn't tell you.

However, as Mahnke and Arcudi presented it, the Mask was used by African shamans for ritualistic purposes. For instance, the shaman would put on the Mask and then sever his own head. Then he'd hold his own head up and show it to the other tribesman around the fire and then place it back on his shoulders. An explorer stole the mask (replacing it with a fake) and took it to American where it wound-up being traded among various owners and ending up in the pawn shop that Stanley Ipkiss bought it at.

Or it could have been slapped together at the last minute by the company, having nothing actually finished.
That's what a teaser is... basically something to show to execs and such before they even get a script made (much like the Simpsons or Spongebob movies). I really hope this one doesn't suck, and they can release the ACTUAL cartoons on DVD.