1-28-09 Chaperon Rouge

Well, while we’re on the subject of Little Red Riding Hood… here’s a CGI short that I stumbled across today. It’s a fairly intense retelling of Little Red Riding Hood by four French students – Emeline Bafoin, Eric Le Dieu de Ville, Tristan Michel and Vincent Techer, with music by Eric Orbaf – as their final school project at Supinfocom Arles (movie site and free download here). The scenery and CGI work are imaginative and amazingly well done, especially the wolf… or wolves.

Courtesy of gemtracker.

Blue Riding Hood

Are you sure he was off meth at the time he animated that, Sean? The wolf singing “Mac the Knife” in Russian? Strange.

All this talk of Little Red Riding Hood reminds me of an old Stan Freburg number, though:

Little Blue Riding Hood – Stan Freburg

Yes, it’s Little Red Riding Hood meets Dragnet. “I made a note to book her on a 614 and turn her over to the psychiatrist. I tied her up, put her in the closet, put on the Grandma suit, and got into bed…” Great Stuff.

1-27-08 In Russian, “Seryi Volk and Krasnaya Shapochka” apparently means “schizophrenic breakdown”

Can you blame Disney for using fairy tales, though? They’re incredibly popular. I mean, who wouldn’t like watching a little girl in a red riding hood getting eaten out by a wolf?

And perhaps I shouldn’t have shared that with you.

Russian animators are a whole ‘nother thing, of course. For instance, animator Garri Bardin got his hands on the story of Little Red Riding Hood, called it Seryi Volk and Krasnaya Shapochka, and, as Russian animators tend to do, turned it into something special (“special”, of course, being Russian for “straight out of a three-day meth-and-psilocybin binge”).

Seryi Volk and Krasnaya Shapochka was made by Bardin in 1990, near the end of Soviet rule in Russia and, according to SapphireAMoerleva, it “serves as a metaphor for Communist takeover in Russia, as well as revolt (so I am told)”. To which I respond: Sure, dude. Whatever floats your boat.

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