In celebration of Disney’s one centesimal anniversary, the studio launched a brand-new animated brief that includes one in every of the firm’s oldest and most often forgotten characters, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
If you’ve heard of Oswald, it is likely to be as a result of the character was featured in the 2010 sport Epic Mickey. Walt Disney and animator Ub Iwerks designed the spunky rabbit in 1927 whereas their fledgling animation studio was below contract to Universal Pictures. Oswald starred in a collection of in style shorts, however when Universal asserted that it owned the character and continued producing Oswald shorts with out Disney, he retired the rabbit from his personal animation character steady, and created Mickey Mouse as a alternative that his firm would personal.
Oswald returned to the Walt Disney Corporation’s possession in 2006, and whereas the character subsequently appeared in video games, merchandise, and round the parks, that is his first look in an animated brief since then.
“Oswald is such a plucky scamp. We wanted to bring Oswald back, and in the short, he literally returns to his original home, the movie screen,” says director Eric Goldberg. “We wanted to have Oswald do all of the ‘squash-and-stretch,’ ‘rubber hose’-animation style, celebrating that first generation of Walt Disney’s artists.”
The brief is at the moment out there on YouTube.
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