Animato Anthroporphica is the first film from longtime animation producer, designer, manager and animation know-it-all, Mike Valiquette. The film was begun as part of the Bill Plympton School of Animation, however, the nine hour commute between Ottawa and New York began to eat in to the drawing time required to produce this 30 second effort.
The film itself follow’s Plympton’s Dogma: short, cheap, funny. Animation has long been populated by anthropomophic characters, funny animals usually half dresed in human clothes, acting in the most human of ways. This film relies on that tradition and turns it furtively on it’s ear, when the two main characters(one, despite his best intentions) act exactly like what they are, a dog and a cat.
The film already has commitments from a number of international festivals, music and sound are sorted, and the assembly and post are covered, but financing is required to cover the man hours invloved in the actual production. To this end, a target of two thousand dollars has been set.
Fingers crossed.