About a year ago I came across a VHS at my Church's rummage sale of a cartoon titled "The Christmas Light." The style looked crude and claims to be "the first computer animated christmas story" on the cover and states "if you liked Toy Story you'll love The Christmas Light." I bought it and quickly noticed there to be no uploads of the movie online, or at least from what I can find. Back then I discovered an Amazon listing for the VHS and I can find some eBay listings, but other than that there's nothing online for the movie itself other than a mention of it on the Wiki page for Simitar Entertainment, its distributor. The back of the sleeve is dated 1995, but an eBay listing had its release date as 11/11/1997. Today I finally got around to getting the VHS put onto a DVD so I could upload it online. It appears Simitar has gone out of business since then, but another company, The Music Bakery is credited at the end. Just to be sure, I called to receive a proper permission to upload it and the man I spoke to, Jack had no hesitation to approve me doing so. It's pretty bad, but it's only about 22 minutes long and good for laughs. Although, if what the cover claims is true, then it's a piece of animation history.
At least it has the excuse of being done in the mid-90s... which is more that can be said of Rapsittie Street Kids!
I glanced through it... honestly, it is even more appealing to the eye than Rapsittie Street Kids! Sure, it's not Pixar quality or whatever, but it feels at least kinda serviceable, on par with an early 90s children PC game cutscene.
Anyway, thank you very much for helping preserving a piece of old lost animation! It is always a good thing!
At least it has the excuse of being done in the mid-90s... which is more that can be said of Rapsittie Street Kids!
I glanced through it... honestly, it is even more appealing to the eye than Rapsittie Street Kids!
At least this movie is actually done with fully 3D environments, as opposed to "animating" the characters, rendering it, and then superimposing them on a pre-rendered background with Adobe Premiere, which is pretty obviously what RSK did. Thank you Zakitaquito for sharing this!