# When animation goes wrong **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 10, 2008, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025 "2008-02-10T11:11:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/1 "2008-02-10T11:11:10Z")
Found this on another site - thought it was amusing enough to share with y’all. [Animation vs animator](http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf) ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/2 "2008-02-10T12:15:05Z")
That was very cute. There’s a lot going on in some places. ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/3 "2008-02-10T12:30:11Z")
😃 That’s awesome! ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/4 "2008-02-10T15:18:42Z")
There’s a [sequel](http://youtube.com/watch?v=RTPpbHueNJ4) as well. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/5 "2008-02-10T15:19:55Z")
That is a good one. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/6 "2008-02-10T15:44:33Z")
Reminds me of my experiences as a Flash beginner. The program can do so much that it really does seem to fight the newbie, tossing him from feature to feature and constantly knocking him down. There’s even a little moral in that =\> [Don’t Save] at the end. Only with a lot of waste motion and lost effort do we ever get really good at anything. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/7 "2008-02-10T17:03:10Z")
Nice to see an actual Flash version of it, rather than the scaled-down YouTube video. I could see a lot more detail. Anyone got a link to the Flash version of the sequel? ---
**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/8 "2008-02-11T02:38:36Z")
I found the [sequel](http://alanbecker.deviantart.com/art/Animator-vs-Animation-II-50891749) on deviant art. It isn’t fullscreen but the quality is better. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/9 "2008-02-11T02:55:02Z")
Yes! The details are clear! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/10 "2008-02-11T04:13:03Z")
I am shocked - SHOCKED! - that such a talented graphic artist uses Windows XP 🙂 You just don’t see that every day…hehe ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/11 "2008-02-11T10:46:34Z")
This one definitely qualifies as ‘when animation goes wrong’, but for very different reasons. WARNING: It’s only a cartoon, but some people may find it disturbing as it (literally)graphically depicts extreme violence and bloodshed. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MuOvqeABHvQ/hqdefault.jpg "Rejected - Best Oscar Award Winner Movie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuOvqeABHvQ) ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/12 "2008-02-11T11:07:34Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] This one definitely qualifies as ‘when animation goes wrong’, but for very different reasons. WARNING: It’s only a cartoon, but some people may find it disturbing as it (literally)graphically depicts extreme violence and bloodshed. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MuOvqeABHvQ/hqdefault.jpg "Rejected - Best Oscar Award Winner Movie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuOvqeABHvQ) [/QUOTE] What. The. Fuck. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/13 "2008-02-11T11:12:45Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] What. The. Fuck. [/QUOTE] A work of genius. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/14 "2008-02-11T18:40:28Z")
Can’t watch videos at work. But now I can find this thread when I get home. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/15 "2008-02-11T22:00:36Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] A work of genius. [/QUOTE] I thought it was fecking hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/16 "2008-02-11T22:04:12Z")
[QUOTE=Pushkin] I thought it was fecking hilarious. [/QUOTE] The comic timing on what the banana says is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/17 "2008-02-11T22:32:30Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] This one definitely qualifies as ‘when animation goes wrong’, but for very different reasons. WARNING: It’s only a cartoon, but some people may find it disturbing as it (literally)graphically depicts extreme violence and bloodshed. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MuOvqeABHvQ/hqdefault.jpg "Rejected - Best Oscar Award Winner Movie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuOvqeABHvQ) [/QUOTE] The only problem is that the title is wrong–it was not a “Best Oscar Award Winner”. It was definitely nominated for an Academy Award for animated short, but it didn’t win. However, [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSodM4pLGIs) **did** win the Animated Short Oscar a few years earlier (and fits the OP in the creator vs. creation genre). ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/18 "2008-02-12T02:11:19Z")
I wonder if he really submitted those commercials. To me the funniest thing was trying to imagine the reaction in the board room as they watched them. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/19 "2008-02-12T02:39:03Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] I wonder if he really submitted those commercials. To me the funniest thing was trying to imagine the reaction in the board room as they watched them. [/QUOTE] I honestly wouldn’t put it past him, but he didn’t. Don Hertzfeldt is…very rabidly against commercials. Odd man, but does some fascinating stuff. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-animation-goes-wrong/437025/20 "2008-02-12T02:47:02Z")
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