Hansel? HAN-sel?
One of my all-time favorite Looney Tunes cartoons. Best line ever: AHHHHH, YOUR MUDDER RIDES A VACUUM CLEANER!”
Archive for Animation
Meet the Greens
Artwork from Meet the Greens
Meet the Greens is a colorful—and I mean that literally—online project by the same producers that brought us Arthur, Curious George, and NOVA on television. Also Antiques Roadshow for the fogies among us who don’t have mandatory nap times.
From the Web site:
With THE GREENS, we want to get kids thinking about the world and their place in it. THE GREENS project is upbeat and optimistic. We’re encouraging kids to make informed choices and meaningful changes. Through the animated episodic adventures, a blog, kids’ mail, and regular updates, we will explore green living—sustainability, ecology, environmental care and social equity. We will nudge kids to research, to challenge, to discover, and to take action whereever and whenever they can.
They also have a kicky theme song.
Watch Episode 1 here. The cat coughs up a hairball in that one—wait, IS THIS BASED ON MY LIFE?
The Sims, World of Warcraft Explain Fair Trade
Learn more about how these shorts were made, and the company that created them, here. (Note: the fair-trade symbol you’ll see in the films are the U.K’s version of our little farmer dude.) Speaking of the U.K., fair trade has really taken off across the pond. Yay, Britain!
The BioDaVersity Code
Art by Free Range Graphics
Another flash-animation gem by the ever-excellent Free Range Graphics, and hosted at WWF Online: The BioDaVersity Code.
Learn about the greatest coverup in history and the diabolical PRIORY OF SPECIES!
The Unsustainables
Art by SustainLane
Meet the Unsustainables—a blended family (including a Joe Camel-esque goat in a Hawaiian shirt) that stars in a series of short animated episodes produced by SustainLane. They may not always choose green, but like the rest of us, they’re trying!
Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl
Art by Roman Dirge
Some kind souls have archived the Lenore flash cartoons from a few years ago on YouTube. Go … (re)experience her dark muffins.
The Golden Ocean
I didn’t know SustainLane had an animation studio, but, hey, there’s no time like the present to check out the trailer for its seven-part webepisode, The Golden Ocean, an eco-fable about “a young woman who sets out on a quest to find a mystical ocean.” The voice-over narration is somewhat tinny and grating, but the accompanying music is as lovely as the artwork.
Of course I had to find out who did the gorgeous animation, and it turns out to be illustrator Kai-Hua Cheng, one of SustainLane’s lead artists. Cheng interned at FableVision, which, if you haven’t already heard of, is truly the Happiest Place on Earth. (I charmed the hub by reading him The Blue Shoe when we were still a-courtin’.)
