Yeah too much of a thing is always bad.
It could be a thing of timing, who knows, anyway that is didn't got #1 doesn't makes it less awesome.
Yeah in the end neither audio nor images are really free to be used.
Well, you know i just got an idea what if the animation is not yours? for example Weeklytubeshow makes dub parodies of anime, which is animation but is not his animation, and what is his is the hilarious audio i still remember his Rapeman video (talking about that i still cant believe there is an anime called Rapeman haha): http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/319994 talking about that there is even a song with it haha.
In that case the thing lacks real life footage, but in the end it will be deleted just the same. Under the pretext of copyright, probably as prevention for other people.
By the way i finished watching Pingpong, it was quite good, it had more eh... how do i say this, emotion? sentiment, feeling instead of action, it was quite a good adaptation but it was missing that feeling of madness, that drive that makes Peco quite the crazy character, nevertheless that "I can Fly! yes! you can fly!" scene was great, things that i didn't like, is that the movie omits the part when Peco tries to drown himself on the sea and Akuma has to get him out of there, i guess they lumped that one with the one in the bridge, on the other hand the part when Akuma talks with Sakama in the bathroom was quite good, specially when he tells his girlfriend "There's more than diarrhea that drives a man to the toilet." i will add that to the list of tidbits of life advice.
Doomroar
Yeah the really popular ones have music created just for the project itself, or have permission from the original creators, but that is besides the point.
Anyway i know that the staff is not at that point (yet...) of censoring creations just for some copyright before they even get a notice by some greedy company, but my point is, if someone can use copyrighted audio to accompany his original images, then is not equally fair for someone to use copyrighted images to accompany his original audio? and that is when it gets counter-intuitive because neither audio or image/video is fine to be used anyway in this nasty world, so for it to survive, it needs to remain under a certain level of obscurity, and that takes away motivation from the one making such project, but my question is:
Under this criteria, could a series of parodied dubs be able to exist on modern NG? i mean, other than the pesky copyright the only issue that i see here is that the thing is not an animation.
Cyberdevil
Aha, was that really what you were wondering earlier on? I must've missed the point by a mile. As for copyright images, they're used all the time, especially in spam flashes where the authors just snatch random images from the net, and it doesn't seem like that bothers anyone. Probably because the original content authors never find their file when it's embedded in a flash, but maybe also because some images are just used so much it's just impossible to do anything about it. Images are so easy to spread, and not as profitably exclusive as music either. Once they're posted they're pretty much public gain... though for things like ripped image resources from games it's a bit different, Nintendo had a bunch of Nintendo parodies removed a while back. Real shame, but they owned the copyright sooo... what can you do. Yeah, the world's unfair...
If it could be able to exist under the radar? I don't know, that issue of animation has become quite the big thing in trying to make this place have its own appeal outside of the giant video portals. I'd say probably not. Staff/mods would use copyright as an excuse to enforce their views on how this should be the base of animation and not real-life footage.