Post by lumberingdinosaur on Jul 1, 2018 23:04:46 GMT
Sorry if I'm not allowed to make a thread about multiple pieces of potentially lost media, I couldn't find any rules or faqs.
There are three separate animated shorts that I've been looking for years to find. Two were from my time in Vancouver Film School and one was something I caught on late night TV.
The two from Vancouver Film School were animated shorts shown to the class by an instructor from his private collection. I don't think either of the shorts I'm about to describe ever got a wide release. I'm not sure of the names so I'll do my best to describe them.
The first I believe was either a student film or a passion project criticizing limited animation. It was traditionally animated and only had the pencils completed. The instructor said because of the short's use of copyrighted characters it was never given a full release. It was about limited or badly animated characters being rounded up and sent to 'bad animation' prison. I remember seeing quite a few Hanna Barbera characters, specifically Fred Flintstone stood out to me. The protagonist was an original character and I believe he was a bird, possibly a penguin. The short revolved around the bird realizing he was poorly animated and trying to train himself out of his limited movements. I specifically remember a scene of the bird reading a book on walk cycles and trying to imitate what he was reading. Short itself is very amusing and well animated.
The second short was an animated music video revolving around the Midnight Star's song "Operator". I can't remember if it was colored but I know it was traditionally animated. I believe there was numerous things happening in the short, but I definitely remember it contained a werewolf and a girl trying to outrun the wolf.
The third was something I caught on late night TV in the mid to late 2000s. It was like 3am and I was up drawing and I'd left the TV on (I think) either the channels Showcase or Bravo. I cannot remember if the short was part of an anthology or a standalone. The animation looked like it came from the late 70s or early 80s and it was limited. It was incredibly WTF. It was either a video on puberty or some kind of adult humor animation. It was about a preteen boy obsessed with breasts and after he finally sees them in person he can't stop, to his embarrassment, imaging them on everything he sees. He sees them on trees, everyone on the street, mailboxes, etc. He freaks out and runs home and then sees a pair on his big, old dog and has a "oh no, not you too!" moment. That's all I can remember.
I know the first two would be near impossible to find online. But if that third one rings any bells it'd be nice to know I wasn't alone in witnessing that insanity.
There are three separate animated shorts that I've been looking for years to find. Two were from my time in Vancouver Film School and one was something I caught on late night TV.
The two from Vancouver Film School were animated shorts shown to the class by an instructor from his private collection. I don't think either of the shorts I'm about to describe ever got a wide release. I'm not sure of the names so I'll do my best to describe them.
The first I believe was either a student film or a passion project criticizing limited animation. It was traditionally animated and only had the pencils completed. The instructor said because of the short's use of copyrighted characters it was never given a full release. It was about limited or badly animated characters being rounded up and sent to 'bad animation' prison. I remember seeing quite a few Hanna Barbera characters, specifically Fred Flintstone stood out to me. The protagonist was an original character and I believe he was a bird, possibly a penguin. The short revolved around the bird realizing he was poorly animated and trying to train himself out of his limited movements. I specifically remember a scene of the bird reading a book on walk cycles and trying to imitate what he was reading. Short itself is very amusing and well animated.
The second short was an animated music video revolving around the Midnight Star's song "Operator". I can't remember if it was colored but I know it was traditionally animated. I believe there was numerous things happening in the short, but I definitely remember it contained a werewolf and a girl trying to outrun the wolf.
The third was something I caught on late night TV in the mid to late 2000s. It was like 3am and I was up drawing and I'd left the TV on (I think) either the channels Showcase or Bravo. I cannot remember if the short was part of an anthology or a standalone. The animation looked like it came from the late 70s or early 80s and it was limited. It was incredibly WTF. It was either a video on puberty or some kind of adult humor animation. It was about a preteen boy obsessed with breasts and after he finally sees them in person he can't stop, to his embarrassment, imaging them on everything he sees. He sees them on trees, everyone on the street, mailboxes, etc. He freaks out and runs home and then sees a pair on his big, old dog and has a "oh no, not you too!" moment. That's all I can remember.
I know the first two would be near impossible to find online. But if that third one rings any bells it'd be nice to know I wasn't alone in witnessing that insanity.
