Post by Reynard on Jun 23, 2016 22:06:35 GMT
So I wrote this article on The Lone Cuke 3D animated series from 1993... (yes, 3D animation that old)...
Based on a surrealistic absurdist comic book series I liked to read as a kid...
The adventures of a cucumber wearing a mask ("so that nobody can recognize me!"), his friend who is a beet, he lives in an iron cactus on a floating continent in space... his catchphrase is "G".
I learned about the animated series development inside a kid magazine... never heard about it again.
And then, in a French nostalgic cartoon/kid-show forum, somebody pointed me to some footage inside an animation festival reel!!
I got the footage taken out and uploaded in a partner channel:
Dialogue translation:
Beet: What are you doing?
Cuke: Me? Nothing. I am watching the rocks grow.
Beet: No! I am sick of this! I want you to tell me what you are doing!
Cuke: Nothing! I managed to reach the knowledge of ultimate reality.
Beet: Hah yeah right! And what is ultimate knowledge for you?
Cuke: (swats fly) You see? This is it. Ultimate knowledge.
Beet: I see... we must SWAT... (swats fly)
Cuke: Wait, what are you doing? You are swatting my fly!
Beet: Your fly?
Cuke: Yes! You must find YOUR fly!
Beet: Ah okayy! But which one is my fly?
Cuke: This one is your fly!...
(Beet runs off trying to swat the fly)
Cuke: To each their fly!
You'll notice that it doesn't look very much like the watercolor concept art... well, this is kinda how French 3D looked at the time...
Still, I wonder why this animated series has never resurfaced since then...
Based on a surrealistic absurdist comic book series I liked to read as a kid...
The adventures of a cucumber wearing a mask ("so that nobody can recognize me!"), his friend who is a beet, he lives in an iron cactus on a floating continent in space... his catchphrase is "G".
I learned about the animated series development inside a kid magazine... never heard about it again.
And then, in a French nostalgic cartoon/kid-show forum, somebody pointed me to some footage inside an animation festival reel!!
I got the footage taken out and uploaded in a partner channel:
Dialogue translation:
Beet: What are you doing?
Cuke: Me? Nothing. I am watching the rocks grow.
Beet: No! I am sick of this! I want you to tell me what you are doing!
Cuke: Nothing! I managed to reach the knowledge of ultimate reality.
Beet: Hah yeah right! And what is ultimate knowledge for you?
Cuke: (swats fly) You see? This is it. Ultimate knowledge.
Beet: I see... we must SWAT... (swats fly)
Cuke: Wait, what are you doing? You are swatting my fly!
Beet: Your fly?
Cuke: Yes! You must find YOUR fly!
Beet: Ah okayy! But which one is my fly?
Cuke: This one is your fly!...
(Beet runs off trying to swat the fly)
Cuke: To each their fly!
You'll notice that it doesn't look very much like the watercolor concept art... well, this is kinda how French 3D looked at the time...
Still, I wonder why this animated series has never resurfaced since then...
