Dingo Pictures is one of the low-budget animation studios working for low-budget video game publisher Phoenix Games; formerly it worked for Midas. Dingo Pictures animation studios resides in Germany.Some traits of Dingo Pictures cartoons:
Most of them have only two voice actors - one male and one female. In some cartoons, there's only 1 voice actor.
Numerous characters often start laughing randomly and silently.
Another "Hercules" cartoon (Legend of Herkules), not made by Dingo Pictures, was released by Phoenix Games, as were the works "Mighty Mulan", "Peter Pan", and "Cinderella".
These animations provide examples of:
Accent Adaptation: A dog with a Dutch accent in Animal Soccer World, for example.
Rasputin in Anastasia has one of the thickest Russian accents you can find.
Atlantis Is Boring: Their Atlantis cartoon. And that's gotta be one of the most boring depictions of Atlantis ever.
Anthropomorphic Shift: An interesting variation. Most (but not all) animal characters here usually walk on four legs except when doing certain tasks which humans do (e.g. play football) which makes them temporarily turn bipeds and get clothes.
Oddly enough, when the shift occurs, the characters' legs do not change shape into that which supports bipedal motion, hence you have scenes like a black panther running with wildly flipping hind legs in Animal Soccer World.
Artistic License - Biology: The raccoon character (usually named Wabuu) moves around like a kangaroo. Although on the other hand, maybe creators thought that there are enough anthropomorphic animals and decided to make a macropomorphic one.
Not only that, but the way in which he achieves kangaroo-like locomotion is the stuff of horror.
In Hunchback of Notredame, the Eiffel tower can be seen in one aerial shot, despite the story taking place in medieval Paris.
Bilingual Bonus: Sort of. These start off in German but any German-language background jokes won't be corrected, so the "Julius Cheesar" statue at the end of Mouse Police might go unnoticed by some.
Captain Ersatz: You've probably seen most of their characters before.
Captain Obvious: In Anastasia : "Nobody has survived. They must all be dead!"
Chocolate Baby: In Dinosaur Adventure, the main character's parents resemble Brachiosaurus. But the main character looks more like a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Conspicuously Light Patch: Especially conspicuous since the backgrounds appear to have been done in crayon.
Covers Always Lie: The box art and title screens often depict characters that don't appear in the cartoon... or characters with a different role than they actually have.
Dead Guy Junior: In dinosaur adventure, once the characters go to the place where the rest of the dinosaurs fled, Tio finds their parents had a second son, who was named Tio II, after his "deceased" brother.
Department of Redundancy Department: In Son of the Lion King, Robin asks Black Panther's son "Your father the Black Panther is your father?"
Downer Ending: The Toys Room, which ends with the implication that none of the toys will ever be loved again.
Genre Shift: The Toys Room has a different art style, has a different, better English speaking narrator, and is not a copy of Disney, but a sort of combination of Toy Story and The Brave Little Toaster. It is much darker than their other work, and cutesy artwork aside, is devoid of any happy moments.
Good Bad Translation: Sometimes played straight and sometimes averted entirely for not translating a few parts.
For an example, in Legend of Pocahontas, Pocahontas yells "NEIN! NEIN!" when an old man Shoots Quickspear while having three arms.
Signs and other things in the background aren't translated at all. That's why even in the English versions, there are "polizei" (police) cars or signs in front of an animal shelter that read "tierheim" (animal home).
When any of the characters start to sing, you can hear the original language in the background.
In the English dub of Animal Soccer World, the football anthem is sung in Dutch over the original German.
Hong Kong Dub: Just watch the lip sync in these animations! Often it's so off that sometimes one voice may play over other character. Often, the lip sync is wrong even in the original German!
In Name Only: Some of their cartoons which have only the title, character appearance, and box art looking similar to what they're ripping off, have a markedly different plot from the (usually) Disney source material.
For example, Countryside Bears (a sort of ripoff of Winnie the Pooh) has a plot altogether different than what you'd expect, and is even packaged with an altogether different work (Wabuu's eponymous story).
Jerk Ass: Wabuu, especially in his eponymous short.
Large Ham: Oro, the professor dinosaur in Dinosaur Adventure.
"'Ooouhhh are you as stupid as you always were? Haven't you LEARNED ANYTHING?! SCIENCE HAS MADE PROGRESS! One day we'll all be able to fly!"
Love at First Sight: In their Pocahontas cartoon, this trope was taken to the extreme, accompanied by a horrible song.
Off Model: In Pocahontas, one of the characters has 3 arms when firing a gun.
Similarly, a recurring goat has three tails. Rule of Three?
Not to mention that tree branches float in midair and a camel's neck is not connected to its body.
It's fair to say that this company's works are MADE of this, the above examples are only a few of the more egregious moments.
Rascally Raccoon: Wabuu. The creator intended him to be cheeky, but he's sociopathic.
Reclusive Artist: Credits do not seem to exist for the Phoenix Games and Midas Interactive English dubs for the movies, possibly out of shame. The people/person making Dingo Pictures seem to be completely anonymous. The lack of copyright info on the footage even makes it seem that the movies are created spontaneously.
Recurring Character: So many. Lots of dogs (including Dalmatians, a Spaniel), a cat with a red bow, blue birds, three vultures who are always sitting on a branch and found always together, an alligator, Wabuu himself, and many more.
Recurring Riff: There are about a dozen or little more pieces of background music used frequently in their different cartoons.
One of the more infamous pieces is the ominous "jungle" music featured in Animal Soccer World, which plays for almost the entirety of the movie even when other pieces of music play over it.
Most notable is the English dub of Animal Soccer World where ominous jungle music NEVER. STOPS.
Even when other songs start in Animal Soccer World, the jungle music continues underneath them.
Or some parts in Moses: The Prince of Egypt where punk rock music plays.
In Animal Soccer World, a band is practicing a soccer song. Background music consists of cheap MIDI with a banjo, 3 types of drums, and a violin. But the band is playing a violin, one drum, a cello, and a saxophone!
And to put the icing on the cake, a donkey tells the violinist that "guitar solo still needs a lot of work.".
Dinosaur Adventure starts with an industrial electronica track, which is about the most inexplicable music choice you could have in a movie involving dinosaurs.
Sssssnake Talk: Snake in Son of the Lion King and Moses: Prince of Egypt.
Stock Footage: The same parts of the film are often played over and over. Sometimes even the same backgrounds are used in different cartoons.
Too Dumb to Live: The Hydra (Pronounced Hedra for some reason.) in Herkules, how does Herkules beat it? he tells the heads that the middle one regrows, that the middle Hydra head is immortal, how do they test to see whether or not it is actually immortal? by dumping themselves into a nearby Volcano of course which instantly kills them.
is one of the low-budget animation studios working for low-budget video game publisher Phoenix Games; formerly it worked for Midas. Dingo Pictures animation studios resides in Germany.Some traits of Dingo Pictures cartoons:
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