Animator Gifts

"For Heaven's sake, why don't you go outdoors and trace something?"

William Wallace & Gromit.

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

'Action!...Cut!...Right, everything else is CGI'

Dot to Dot

The first animation.

Pop goes the weasel.

"As much as I love stop motion animation, it just doesn't transfer well to the stage."

"Cave painting is dead. I'm into Claymation."

"I'm sorry, we're looking for the voice of a spunky animated turnip and your reading is more fruit than vegetable if you understand what I mean."

Amimated illuminated Manuscript

'I AM a three-toed sloth, but cartoonists always draw us with two toes.'

'It's all done with computer animation now.'

3D business card

"Well for the last 50 years I've mainly been working as a cartoon cliche."

Help! Replaced by computer animation.

'You can be replaced with CGI ya know!'

'Do you guys ever do real art or just cartoons?'

It's all done by stop motion photography, don't you know!

BIC TAYLOR MAKES A HORRIFIC DISCOVERY IN THE CHILLING CLIMAX TO 'PLANET OF THE PENCILS.'

Ever notice if you speed-read these cave drawings you invent animation?

'The idiot's drawn us in the wrong aspect ration!'

"When they make a movie of my life, I can't decide if I want it in anime or CGI."

Nicolas 'The Croods' Cadge

There's not a lot of work for Sidewaysman.

Los Angeles, 1928: Mickey Mouse Emerges from the Primordial Ooze.

"Your movements are stiff and you lack energy. I'm going to refer you to a top animator."

Walt Disney

". . . I called this meeting to communicate that I had dinner Noah..."

In his final moments, Peter understood one thing - that cartoons had lied to him.

"Disney will flip!"

"I've never had the chance to harass my actresses because I'm a producer of animated cartoons."

'The Polite Lions' - a new sim game - "We've already got chairs, thank you."

"I think I like this computer animation program."

"It's been hell since you went into animation."