In celebration of Disney’s one centesimal anniversary, the studio launched a brand-new animated brief that includes one of many firm’s oldest and most incessantly forgotten characters, Oswald the Fortunate Rabbit.
If you happen to’ve heard of Oswald, it is perhaps as a result of the character was featured within the 2010 recreation Epic Mickey. Walt Disney and animator Ub Iwerks designed the spunky rabbit in 1927 whereas their fledgling animation studio was below contract to Common Footage. Oswald starred in a sequence of well-liked shorts, however when Common 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 substitute that his firm would personal.
Oswald returned to the Walt Disney Company’s possession in 2006, and whereas the character subsequently appeared in video games, merchandise, and across the parks, that is his first look in an animated brief since then.
“Oswald is such a plucky scamp. We needed to convey Oswald again, and within the brief, he actually returns to his authentic dwelling, the film display screen,” says director Eric Goldberg. “We needed to have Oswald do all the ‘squash-and-stretch,’ ‘rubber hose’-animation model, celebrating that first technology of Walt Disney’s artists.”
The brief is at the moment out there on YouTube.