Classic Sesame Street - Man/Dog discussion

[setheurovision94]

Fabulous animation, a great clip, I can't believe this was on Sesame Street! The animation there tends to be more 'experimental' but this is pure professionalism and brilliant. 5 stars!

[Thatmainchick]

Actually this is not a student film. It was done by former Disney animator Dan Haskett. He also did the animation with the hungary cat waiting for it's owner to feed it cat food whiles the owner is on the telephone. Dan Hasket was the Character Designer for Ariel on the little mermaid and worked on shows like looney toons, tiny toons and animaniacs.

[setheurovision94]

Thanks for that info, very informative. This clip indeed looks very professional to me.

[moatguy]

I think that dog is a Dashaund

[Marbles471]

You're right that this is a great example of character animation---and unusually good animation for a Sesame Street film, to boot.

[Crackrzz]

The man sounds a bit like Jon Lovitz.

[glowworm2]

That was amazing! Just plain hysterical. I love the dog!

[Lectronimo]

Of course I could be wrong, but something about it screams "mid 1980s CalArts student film" to me. The lack of color - just animating it without the added expense of painted cels - the full animation, and the voices which I bet were either the people working on it or friends. That's my guess: Student film sold to CTW.