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@gsavage14 @Disniversity @BenSTravis Not sure about official collabs, but he did make ‘cameos’ in a bunch of Mickey cartoons
The absolute best is Mickey’s Polo Team where the gang play against Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy and Harpo Marx
Basically Space Jam: An Old Legacy
One of the earliest examples of this style is the 'A Few Quick Facts' series (1944-45). These were instructional videos made for US military personnel by UPA and other studios
The stripped-back look and use of symbols and diagrams was both cost-effective and easy to understand
This 'Mid-Century Modern' take on animation is most closely associated with United Productions of America (UPA)
Fudget's Budget (1954) is most reminiscent of the Loki scene, with its mock-educational tone and graph-paper backgrounds
@Disniversity You could even use the time for some extracurricular reading
Right, let's do it:
THREAD ranking each year's crop of Best Animated Feature #Oscars nominees
In which years did the academy get it right, and in which did they get it so, so wrong?
RIP Christopher Plummer, who absolutely crushes it in multiple animated movies:
A genuinely menacing baddie in Up, the narrator of The Man Who Planted Trees, the caustic but warm lead in My Dog Tulip, and turning it way past 11 as the Duke of Owls in the ludicrous Rock-A-Doodle
This wouldn't be unheard of! It would put him in the rarefied company of various real-world celebrities who've had kids' multimedia franchises built around fantasy/sci-fi/superhero versions of themselves
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