Remember that creepy bird cartoon?

[Drtooth]

You know what I'm referring to...

Well, I was looking at an Oddity Archive episode and at the beginning (3:16 to be exact) and I saw something pretty familiar looking.

Now, I don't know if it's indeed the same guy, the similarities are stark. The fluidity of the movements, the bizarreness of the visuals, the same, almost exact same movements when they swallow. And of course the creepiness of it. Those EYES! Those EYES!

So what do you think? Are we closer to unveiling the mystery of this creepy skit or what?

 

[fuzzygobo]

Looks like the mystery is solved. Drtooth, you meddling kid, you!

Actually the commentary throughout the whole reel was hysterical. Right up MST 3000's alley. Good stuff.

 

[mr3urious]

Looks like it could be the same guy.

 

[Drtooth]

I was on the fence about posting that, but that cartoon has the same level of movement and same disregard for what real objects look like in real life. I mean, I had to rewatch that segment twice just to make sure the opening cartoon was about lighters. It looked like surreal object saving surreal object. I'm surprised the food he drew at the end looked like food.

 

[mr3urious]

It seems that unlike the identity of Garrett Saunders, finding out who animated these surreal clusterfrogs will be a bit more difficult.

Oh, and here's a clean, higher quality version of the ad.

 

[Drtooth]

Didn't think it would be that easy to find, actually.

But yeah. The video unfortunately had no description about who animated it.

Still, I barely see how those are lighters. And what's the girl lighter getting run over by? More abstract shapes? That's not a train.

 

[mr3urious]

After doing some quick Google searching, I think I may have found out who did these: none other than our own Vince and Tee Collins. Check out something like the NSFW Malice in Wonderland on Vince's page and you can see a similar feel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXZhsdrSZhbWYoXhRlTDH1g

And what's funny is the Collinses are actually capable of drawing things that look like what they're supposed to! Those must have been some real good drugs they took doing that bird and those lighters!

 

[MelissaY1]

You know what I'm referring to...

Well, I was looking at an Oddity Archive episode and at the beginning (3:16 to be exact) and I saw something pretty familiar looking.

Now, I don't know if it's indeed the same guy, the similarities are stark. The fluidity of the movements, the bizarreness of the visuals, the same, almost exact same movements when they swallow. And of course the creepiness of it. Those EYES! Those EYES!

So what do you think? Are we closer to unveiling the mystery of this creepy skit or what?

OMG, this bird used to freak me out..who am I kidding it still does..

 

[Drtooth]

After doing some quick Google searching, I think I may have found out who did these: none other than our own Vince and Tee Collins. Check out something like the NSFW Malice in Wonderland on Vince's page and you can see a similar feel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXZhsdrSZhbWYoXhRlTDH1g

And what's funny is the Collinses are actually capable of drawing things that look like what they're supposed to! Those must have been some real good drugs they took doing that bird and those lighters!

Hmmmmmm... Maybe yes, maybe no. It's hard to tell, but there are similarities. The animation sort of matches up and then it doesn't then it sort of does. I need to give a deeper side by side to really make a yes or no judgement.

 

[ConsummateVs]

I would like to revive this very old thread (which, I'm aware OP will likely never even see this message) to let everyone know that I have solved the mystery behind the artist of this scary bird cartoon (and also that bic ad linked above which was indeed done by the same guy)!

It's Edward Bakst. He has done lots of TV ident and commercial work over the years and when you take a look through his portfolio you will recognize his extremely trippy art style right away:

https://ideaforia.com/animation/

I only discovered this when I was looking at early concept art for Cyberchase, and I thought what I saw was very interesting so I decided to take a look at the artist's other work, and I audibly gasped when I saw that the infamous bird cartoon from Sesame Street was in his portfolio.
I had been wanting to know who made this cartoon for such a long time and I'm so relieved to have finally solved the mystery.

Sorry for bumping such an old thread, I just got excited and wanted to share lol