Early computer animation Search

Trying to find an early (late 90’s?) computer animation but I can’t remember the title. There was a mad scientist/inventor type man who was playing Frankenstein with all sorts of animals. I remember a giraffe that had very short legs (as if it was half giraffe and half corgie) and some other animals wandering around this girl as she walked through a parklike/outdoor setting. I believe at the very end she met up with a huge white gorilla… The whole thing had a very rich feeling, though by today’s standards might seem a bit crude. I don’t believe there was any dialog. Please let me know if you know what I’m talking about :stuck_out_tongue:

Are you sure it wasn’t the feature film Spy Kids 2? That came out in 2002. The subtitle is Island of Lost Dreams, and it featured CGI of a Mad Scientist who had a cadre of miniature weird animals, one of which was half monkey. One of the titular Sky Kids is a Girl, and the island is a 'parklike setting". The CGI is pretty rich, and is obviously a tribute to animator Ray Harryhausen (the animated swordfighting skeleton is a dead giveaway).

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams - Wikipedia

It took me a while to realize it, but the “Frankensteinian animals” are all visual puns. They’re all hybrids of two animals. There a Horse-Fly, a Spider-Monkey , and so on

By the way, I wouldn’t call late 1990s or a 2002 film “Early Computer Animation”. Heck, Jurassic Park was a major Hollywood realease relying on CGI, and it had come out in 1993. It wasn’t even the first movie with extensive CGI.

I had been going to computer animation festivals in the mid-1980s, and they included a number of shorts by Pixar president-to-be John Lasseter (including The Adventures of Andre and Wally B).
To me, “Early Computer Animation” means things like the never-released The Works (1979-1986) or partially computer-animated films like Tron (1982)

Thanks for your reply-I know the Spy kids movie you speak of-this was definitely not a full length animation, nor part of one. I checked the other references, thank you for posting them, but “the Works” is not the one… I definitely remember a “Frankenstein” type moment at the beginning, and the whole thing was quite deep in texture, if that makes sense. I may indeed be off on the time line, I should have said I first saw it in the late 90’s, that may not be when it was made.

Please note that I was offered “The Works” as a true example of Early Animation, not suggesting that it was the film you saw. (As I say, it was never released, so I don’t think you could have seen it.)

I can’t think of anything besides the Spy Kids film that fits your description.