#Couch Gag

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Stan Lee will always be The Man!

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A continuation of my post about Jean-Pierre Jeunet and his influence over Little Nightmares: I want to talk about another French creator with a very unique and distinctive visual style.

Now, he is not a live-action creator, but an animator, and he has not been any influence over Little Nightmares as far as I know... But his strange, bizarre view of a twisted, borderline-surrealistic mundane world is similar in many ways to the one offered by Jeunet, and they both seem to reflect a sort of... specific, unnamed aesthetic that you find regularly throughout some French works.

You might have heard of Sylvain Chomet before - especially since he was one of the guest-animators for a Simpsons couch gag. He created the "French Simpsons couch gag" from the "Diggs" episode:

You might also have heard of him through his feature-lenghth animation movie, that was quite famous in France and is still remember as his main work ; and that Youtube has recently "re-discovered" and sold as an "underrated" animation movie. Les Triplettes de Belleville of course! This strange animation about a little Franco-Portuguese grandma and her obese dog crossing the Atlantic to Belleville to save her grandson, a member of the Tour de France mysteriously kidnapped to America ; and how she teams up with a trio of elderly singers performing concerts with everyday items, in order to fight the French mafia...

Already you see everything that makes Chomet's unique style. Caricatural designs with exaggerated bodies, a very deep Frenchness often confronted with foreign culture, an almost-silent dialogue usually done through gestures and words, unnatural ways of moving that make some characters look like puppets or robots, a focus on elderly people, deep and dark secrets buried under what seems like a goofy comedy...

Most of these elements can be found for example in what was Chomet's previous "main work", a very famous short of his called La vieille dame et les pigeons (The Old Lady and the Pigeons). Starts out as a comedy, becomes a light-hearted horror ; a bizarre absurd tale in the heart of the old Paris about a gendarme dying of hunger due to his poverty, and in order to be fed disguising himself as a giant pigeon to eat at the house of an apparently senile but wealthy old lady...

Continuing on the topic of the Little Nightmares style, you can definitively see something in common between Chomet's aesthetic and the one of the game. From the strange feasts of The Old Lady and her Pigeons, to the bizarre characters of The Triplets (like the waiter's unnatural movements), you definitively see a Little Nightmares-feel in these pieces.

Chomet is one of France's famous animators, and thus he has done a lot of works. Ranging from a specific Titeuf short (Une aide) to a Stromae clip (Carmen).

He also did a lot of comic book works. His other most famous feature-lenghth movie, right after the Triplets, is L'Illusionniste. This movie isn't actually entirely his - it is adapted from an unmade scenario by the famous French movie-creator Jacques Tati. Set in the 50s, between "the death of the music-hall and the birth of rock 'n roll", it talks of an aged Parisian stage-magician who decides (and kind-of-fails) to start a new career in England ; until he meets a Scottish young girl who believes he is a real magician...

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The Simpsons couch gag intro by Don Hertzfeldt is one of the greatest animation shorts of all time. It goes from ridiculous to haunting and right back to ridiculous again in less than two minutes.

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And he's doing pretty well sofa.

Even the couch prefers the bear.😄

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3D Fay Tay Adventures!

Your obligatory big November video, featuring 10 minutes, yes, 10 MINUTES worth of skits!

Features the wonderful @RainbowBlosso16 doing the voice AND even collaborating on one of the thumbnails.

Premieres next Saturday. Be there!

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From the mind of visionary director Guillermo del Toro comes this impressive couch gag for The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXIV !

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Kirby Animation - donut (The Simpsons)

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sliding puzzle couch gag