Aardman Animations, the studio behind Creature Comforts and Wallace and Gromit, have been putting the rest of us Flipnote Studios artists to shame for the past few months with their original animations on the service. I always thought it was weird for such a high profile animation studio to be throwing stuff out for free on a relatively small system like the DSi, but now it's all starting to make sense.
Nintendo is paying Aardman to make these films! Duh!
This wasn't as clear with past Aardman flipnotes, which were generally short, silly, and without an overt message. This one is different. This one is a commercial for the DSi, nothing more, nothing less. Thing is, it's a really good commercial for the DSi. Showing how the cool the DSi is by making a commercial with the DSi was a brilliant idea. If Nintendo of America is smart (which is debatable), they'll start airing this one on TV pronto.
Speaking of TV, any of you see the commercials for New Super Mario Bros Wii that are making the rounds right now? They're nothing mind-blowing or anything, but they do show exactly how a Super Mario movie should be done, with the "Mushroom Kingdom logic" naturally integrated into the real world.
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Thanks, Nintendo. The Aardman animations are short and inane, but I love watching them over and over again. They just have this magical charm that outdoes nearly anyone else anyone else on Hatena. That ad is pretty fly too.
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1:00 PM on 11.26.2009
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Someone needs to get the guys at Bones to use Flipnote.