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Worst. Disney Knock-off. Ever!
by jerry
September 17, 2009 12:30 am


I have no-idea what this really is. Is it really a Chinese Mickey Mouse knock-off? Or is it from that Beijing Amusement Park we wrote about here? Prepare for five minutes of horror:

(Thanks, Robert G. Schaad)

09/17/09  12:41am
Degeaffusunuman says:

Hasn’t this been posted here before?

09/17/09  12:47am

Degeaffusunuman - It’s so hilariously bad I couldn’t help posting it. If I did post it before, I couldn’t find the link.

09/17/09  12:48am
Mantichore says:

Why Chinese? It says right from the start this was made in 2006 in Valencia (Spain). It is rather hideous, though.

09/17/09  1:38am
Donald Benson says:

I’ll venture a guess that this was created as a bunch of bumpers to run in a variety or satirical show; thus the long takes of the mouse just talking to the camera and brief, repetitious visuals. Somebody thought they had the next Terry Gilliam.

The mock Disney title card and the entire soundtrack seem to have been added by somebody else. Maybe it was an animator’s sample reel that a prospective client decided to unleash on the world.

09/17/09  1:38am
Andre says:

Well, in a certain way we may say it’s ground breaking. LOL

09/17/09  1:57am
RODAN says:

Atrocious!

09/17/09  2:15am
amid says:

We’ve posted something similar, but I don’t recall this specific Mickey being posted. Anybody know for sure?

09/17/09  2:43am
Neil says:

Yeahm it’s definitely the same video from that old post - I should know, I liked the thing enough to download it for posterity last time round.

09/17/09  2:47am
John says:

It may have been on Reddit, but I have sat through this before, my word how it hurts…

09/17/09  2:56am
Mike Joffe says:

Man, that’s not Chinese. That’s by insane youtube animator Doctor Legua. I think he’s from Spain or something, nobody knows for sure. That’s not even the creepiest thing he’s done.

09/17/09  3:09am
VonLog says:

i’m scared…

09/17/09  3:14am
Adam says:

It has been posted before,it’s still seared into my brain last time.

09/17/09  3:42am
Doofus says:

I’ve seen this before. KILL IT WITH FIRE!

09/17/09  4:10am

I can tell exactly what this is. It was created using a program called IClone, which can be located at http://www.reallusion.com/iClone/.

Essentially, IClone provides some base figures that can be further manipulated using sliders to exagerate certain characteristics. All the animation in the Mickey Mouse clip was generated using MoCap actions that come with the program.

The technology is actually pretty fun to play with, as long as your expectations aren’t too high.

09/17/09  5:30am
Bob says:

That makes me laugh more than the actual mickey mouse cartoons. What kills me the most are those thigh tight bike shorts ROTFL!!!!!!!

09/17/09  6:06am
Hans W. says:

Best Mickey Mouse ever. Period.

09/17/09  6:19am
Em says:

Oh my word, that is terrifying. His eyes!

09/17/09  6:51am
uncle wayne says:

omg! My flapjacks just flipped!

09/17/09  6:56am
Dan Pinto says:

It’s like some kind of weird avant garde art.

09/17/09  7:00am

Wow… At least use IK on the feet…

09/17/09  7:12am
Danny R. Santos says:

Gees Louise, where did you find this thing, it is Atrocious!!!:{

09/17/09  7:40am
Paul N says:

Hee hee hee - “Battle Armor Mickey.” Love it!

09/17/09  8:24am
Ariel says:

Who cares. Anything else newsworthy in the field of animation?

:)

09/17/09  8:26am
Tom Minton says:

Doctor Legua is the Les Elton of CGI.

09/17/09  8:49am
Bone says:

This is awesome - Especially the cat on horse and the dancing guerrillas.

09/17/09  8:59am
Katella Gate says:

Horrifying. Truly a stinker in every sense of the word. But I just saw the “Gummibear” song last night for the first time, so I was ready for it.

09/17/09  9:45am
namowal says:

I’ve seen severed, writhing lizard tails that were more appealing and lifelike. Geez.

09/17/09  10:12am
uncle wayne says:

it broguth to mind that (archaic) “baby-dancing” animation on everyone’s computers yesteryears ago! Remeber him?

09/17/09  10:54am

OMG! Mickey is trying to tell me something. It could be very important! I tried to read his lips, but I can’t decipher the message. What is it? What??

09/17/09  11:09am
vzk says:

That’s not Mickey Mouse, it’s Bill Clinton!

09/17/09  11:10am
Jonah Sidhom says:

lol @ 2:05-2:25.

I would check out the site Pierre Fontaine posted, but if it produced something like this, I’m almost afraid it will give me a virus.

09/17/09  11:18am
Dapper Jim says:

So now the brewers are having a slight senior moment and don’t remember posting this in the past? Hah.

In a more adequate note, this is indeed a demo from Spain. If you look beyond the fuglyness of this, you will see all the different transitions done for this. The stop-mo puppets also look like something they where testing for…

The dancing scene, wouldn’t you say that it could be used for actual footage and a 3D publicity Render for an ad? Or a parody? I can see most of the footage tested being just that, tests for a small TV Station (Imagine one of your local channels).

Thats just me, I dont know why we would even bother at the brew to post reposts (Unless everyday is a repost day).

09/17/09  11:32am
Ridgecity says:

Actually, this piece is called “Mickey Sensibility” by Andy Warhol.

I really like how Mickey dances with the monkey, is it salsa?

09/17/09  11:37am

I had to laugh when he did his little skip jump in the air. Walt would be spinning in his cryogenic capsule if he knew.

09/17/09  12:16pm

He looks like the bastard son of Mickey Mouse and Jay Leno!

09/17/09  12:44pm
Mike Lucy says:

This screams mocap. Terrible on many levels

09/17/09  1:47pm

i dont know about you, but i love this stuff. purely artistic, in a sad, sadistic/masochistic, acid-trippy sorta way

09/17/09  2:02pm
Stumped says:

Scary, yet I can’t keep my eyes off of it. Btw Jerry, where does it say it’s Chinese made?

09/17/09  2:03pm
Stumped says:

Oh nvm, who ever uploaded it on youtube said that. My bad.

09/17/09  2:04pm
Zack Mays says:

Kill it, kill it now before it’s tolate !!!

09/17/09  2:13pm
Chris Sobieniak says:

Yeah I remember seeing this a few years back and wanted to erase that out of my head!

09/17/09  3:29pm

My eyes are BURNING!!!!!

09/17/09  3:43pm

Stumped - The person who posted this in YOU TUBE (not I) labeled it “Chinese Mickey Mouse”. I simply asked if it’s really such a thing. Here’s the original YOU TUBE page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNrPcWT540

09/17/09  4:18pm

Well, at least he’s not encouraging little kids to kill Jews this time. That’s probably the only good thing you can say about this piece.

09/17/09  5:45pm
Robert Schaad says:

Intentionally terrible? That’s the big question. ;)~

09/17/09  6:17pm
Michelle says:

Color it blue and it might resemble what Zemickis has in mind for Yellow Submarine….

09/17/09  6:24pm
Chris Sobieniak says:

That’s OK if you didn’t know Jerry. Too many YouTubers have the IQ of a blender not to know where things came from and just assume based on rumors or scant information someone told them.

09/17/09  6:25pm
George says:

Why am I not surprised that this version of Mickey would direct Polar Bear Porn…

09/17/09  6:43pm

Tragic.

09/17/09  7:33pm
Niki says:

Well you all must have never seen Bible School Musical. Think this but an extra 2 hours.

09/17/09  9:22pm
H park says:

Hey, we’re getting annoyed about how Chinese copy off Mickey Mouse now? Everyone has done that before internet age and that’s nothing new, people. Wait few decades and those copycats come up with their own characters in their own right that could rival Disney characters. Internet is sometimes an annoyance , but it’s the reality.

09/17/09  9:52pm
Max W. says:

yes! my dreams have become a reality.

09/18/09  12:13am
Colin says:

Perfection doesn’t come overnight. We must all remember it takes time to achieve this level of greatness… http://www.freakyflickers.com/showtime.htm

09/18/09  12:39am
William Wallace says:

Minnie is saying “you never really loved me”…………….couldn’t DC sue?

09/18/09  4:57am
keez says:

Has anyone got these archived? the original author deleted them all, he had Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny ones that were just as creepy.
This one is the only one left.

09/18/09  6:23am
Tommy says:

Yeah you guys posted this a couple years ago, because then I made a blog post about hating motion capture, and included an image of that Mickey in this intentionally bad photoshop.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blueawesome/3905974681/

09/18/09  6:45am
Daniel J. Drazen says:

Ugly AND pointless … buries the needle on the WTF-ometer. Gave up on or about the 2:55 mark where Mutant Mouse is doing his kung fu moves and his arms disjoint and even disappear momentarily. At the risk of sounding paranoid, nothing is this bad by accident.

09/18/09  7:36am
Keith Paynter says:

“No, I’m a totally original creation, just like ‘Rickey Rouse or Ronald Ruck!”

Still, better mo-cap than “The Polar Express”!

09/18/09  9:15am
Roland says:

“Ronald Ruck” must be Scooby Doo’s retarded mallard pal. That right there is worth nine more crappy direct to DVDs from Warners.

09/18/09  9:21am
Lucy says:

I wish I’d had my camera on, so I could have captured what I could only assume was a look of terror as I watched this….

David Lynch presents Mickey Mouse.

09/18/09  1:28pm

Memo to the CIA:

Forget waterboarding. Hire Dr. Legua instead.

:-}

09/18/09  3:06pm
vzk says:

“lol @ 2:05-2:25.”

Speaking of which, anyone know what song are they playing during that scene? I cannot get it out of my head!

09/18/09  7:37pm
Cynthia says:

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s back!

Oh yes indeed, you posted this back in 2007. Then the YouTube link was removed, so I am so excited to see it again! It IS the worst thing ever and what a treasure it is because of that. The dancing babies and monkeys..and of course the wedding at the end! WOW.

*gleam!*

09/19/09  9:59am
street says:

its only slightly worse than Robert Zemeckis’ abominations..

09/20/09  1:15pm
the music lover says:

vzk asked,”Speaking of which, anyone know what song are they playing during that scene? I cannot get it out of my head!”

I know that song. It is called ‘levan polkka’, sung by Loituma.

09/21/09  1:15pm

Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Gorilla Man, Baboon Kid, and Cat Horse Rider all rendered in stunning VIRTUAL REALITY…I need to see a demo reel by whoever created this. Capitol A Awesome.

On a side note, if one of my students turned submitted something of equal awesomeness I would give them an A. Maybe an A+ if there was more Cat Horse Rider…

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