In case I haven't made it clear, the entire "Happy Family" is on YouTube in the Spanish dub, which is pretty obviously a bootleg version filmed in a theater off the screen -- you can see people's shadows walking in front of it. I expect it to be taken down from YouTube soon. But while it's up, I have seen it (and I can understand Spanish, while I can't understand German), and I did enjoy it.
I'm also pretty impressed by it as a work of CGI animation. I never heard of Rothkirch Cartoon-Film in Berlin before, but it does good work.
It used to be, in about the 1940s through the 1980s or 1990s, that only the Walt Disney studio could make an animated cartoon feature. Every attempt by someone else to make an animated feature looked pathetic in comparison ("Fritz the Cat", the Rankin-Bass features that were done in Japan, Korty's "Twice Upon a Time" -- okay, that at least imaginatively disguised its lack of a real animation studio). Don Bluth was at best an imitation Disney.
Today there are high-quality CGI animation studios all around the planet. Studios of other types of animation, like Aardman Animations' stop-motion in Bristol and Laika's stop-motion in Portland, and independent work like Wes Anderson's, are getting funded. It's a great time to be an animation fan.
In case I haven't made it clear, the entire "Happy Family" is on YouTube in the Spanish dub, which is pretty obviously a bootleg version filmed in a theater off the screen -- you can see people's shadows walking in front of it. I expect it to be taken down from YouTube soon. But while it's up, I have seen it (and I can understand Spanish, while I can't understand German), and I did enjoy it.
I'm also pretty impressed by it as a work of CGI animation. I never heard of Rothkirch Cartoon-Film in Berlin before, but it does good work.
It used to be, in about the 1940s through the 1980s or 1990s, that only the Walt Disney studio could make an animated cartoon feature. Every attempt by someone else to make an animated feature looked pathetic in comparison ("Fritz the Cat", the Rankin-Bass features that were done in Japan, Korty's "Twice Upon a Time" -- okay, that at least imaginatively disguised its lack of a real animation studio). Don Bluth was at best an imitation Disney.
Today there are high-quality CGI animation studios all around the planet. Studios of other types of animation, like Aardman Animations' stop-motion in Bristol and Laika's stop-motion in Portland, and independent work like Wes Anderson's, are getting funded. It's a great time to be an animation fan.
Fred Patten