Weird-News: Bizarre "Tom & Jerry" short remake..

[cresent34]

How bizarre; you ask?

This a Japanese fan-made experiment in which the 1956 Tom & Jerry short Down Beat Bear is remade in CGI with anime girls in the roles of Tom, Jerry, and the dancing bear. The characters don’t appear to be random and likely represent some part of fandom of which I’m not aware. Even lacking that context, I still think it’s a fascinating piece of work, not so much for its animation or technical merit as for its resurrection of (and reverence for) classic theatrical animation in a completely unexpected setting.

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[Bill K.]

OK, that was odd.

And it demonstrates the superior movement and color contrast perception of the Hanna-Barbera crew, even given the semi-UPA-style animation they were working in. There were times when the CGI just couldn't duplicate the fluidity of movement the hand animation had.