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ZombieAladdin
Since: Nov, 2010
7th May, 2018 08:44:27 PM
Huh, is it that obscure? (I am pretty certain it was an indie film, but I can't remember for the life of me where I saw it. It was not online, however.)
There was this short film I saw many years ago that I haven't been able to track down, and Google gives me a lot of unrelated results. But here's what I remember about it:
This is set in a world where Toons and live-action humans coexist, like with Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Cool World. The protagonist is a human Toon (a Viking, I believe, but it was never made that important), who sees a gorgeous Toon woman on TV and tries to seek her out to meet her in person. Much of the story is him getting directions and information from people, and he finally tracks down the studio in which her cartoons are made, only to discover he was led to an animation studio, with people at their desks drawing frames on cels—they are animating the cartoon shorts about this Toon woman, and he finds out she never existed as a living being in the first place.
Has anybody seen this? I thought it was a nice deconstruction of the Toons-and-live-action premise that I haven't really seen addressed again.