The Bear's Island (a French cartoon with a lost English dub)
Jul 5, 2021 18:43:12 GMT
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Post by extremewreck2000 on Jul 5, 2021 18:43:12 GMT
The Bear's Island was a French animated series produced by Pixibox in 1992. For that time, the animation is really impressive! Seriously, I can see some full on CGI with cel shading, & the 2D animation seems to have been done digitally instead of being hand drawn. At that time, most cartoons on television were still being hand drawn, even around the early 2000s. It wouldn't be until 2004 where fully digitally animated cartoons became commonplace(aside from fully 3D cartoons like ReBoot, VeggieTales, Beast Wars, & War Planets: Shadow Raiders), which were probably expensive to make back in those times.
There's a channel that seems to have most of the original French version called "ile ours":
www.youtube.com/channel/UC-bk0xXpKKF1D95VYX_d0og/videos
However though, only one episode of the English dub has ever surfaced:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ek076NK6Rw
This dub seemingly aired in the UK if the voice acting, & the logo at the beginning are hints. Not much information about it exists, but I thought I'd share you this because, hey, it looks really advanced for this time. I also know of another French cartoon with digitally done 2D animation from the late 1980s that I might consider sharing here as well.
There's a channel that seems to have most of the original French version called "ile ours":
www.youtube.com/channel/UC-bk0xXpKKF1D95VYX_d0og/videos
However though, only one episode of the English dub has ever surfaced:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ek076NK6Rw
This dub seemingly aired in the UK if the voice acting, & the logo at the beginning are hints. Not much information about it exists, but I thought I'd share you this because, hey, it looks really advanced for this time. I also know of another French cartoon with digitally done 2D animation from the late 1980s that I might consider sharing here as well.
