Animation from India: a critical look for furry fans – by Fred Patten.
by Patch O'Furr
Sent in by Fred:
“Dear Patch- Are you interested in samples of recent Indian anthropomorphic TV commercials? Most are in Hindi or a combination of Hindi & English.”
“Hi Fred- I suspect that this work doesn’t get much traction in the USA, and there are few furry fans caring about animation specific to India. Besides, I think that you can run into a common bias: people are unhappy with the glut of generic CGI style animation and they like seeing traditional drawn art. That’s a bias from young people in art school, North American fans with strong nostalgia for older cartoons… and cheap overseas work making it harder to produce. I just wanted to put it out, that bias is there. I’m sure some good work may be missed because of it, but I haven’t seen a lot from India, even at film festivals that actively curate obscure stuff. I DO like focus on animation – the stuff I post is very creator-centric. But if you include such material in a broad topic, that’s a way to share it. – Patch”
Readers: is this story missing good work by not giving it a chance? There are a few furry fans for the Bollywood animated movie Roadside Romeo. One blog calls it the ultimate furry movie, highlighting “how unapologetically sexy it was for a talking animal movie” (A good or bad thing? Up to you.) One furry on a “foreign animated animal movies” topic calls the movie “actually REALLY good”:
