North Korean Animation

[Insignificant person]

What bugs me with SEK's animation at times is some jarring inbetweens in its domestic (and especially the outsourced) animation, when characters are moving their legs and hands all over the place f.e.

A short production that in my opinion stands out from the rest is 새로 사귄 동무 (2004). It was included on Happy Adventures as episode 9, under the title Animate Toys. Since it's SEK's first computer-animated short and revolves around toys, I guess it's a rip-off of Toy Story. The Korean title also translates to A new companion.

Spoiler

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QYMgnLdhn2Uhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=LORapl_yRi0

I re-checked a list of SEK's in-house animations to see whether or not there is a previous CGI short before that one. Turns out that there was another CGI short produced in 2004, called 꿀벌형제의 날개옷 (Bee Brother's Wings); it's also featured on Happy Adventures, as episode 3, "Moon Mountain".

Some previous films, namely 환상속의 세 동무 (2002) and 두번째 경기 (2002) feature what I think is a mixture of CGI environments with stop-motion characters. (actually, it's kinda hard to tell whether or not the characters are stop-motion or CGI in the first one; maybe a hybrid of the two?) There are also some CGI shots on Mondo TV's The Legend of Titanic from what I remember.

There's also this CGI short from 2011; it features slightly improved animation. It feels the same as with the animation in the previous shorts, except the characters have better facial expressions.