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PerfectLand by Ben Meinhardt
May 2, 2008 2:06 am
PerfectLand is an oddly appealing series of Flash-animated shorts created for MTV by Ben Meinhardt. I’ve embedded the first one below and the other three episodes can be viewed on MTV Overdrive. The shorts have an undeniable “green” theme—peaceful nature-loving creatures are constantly attacked by a heavy polluting, industrial villain—but the concept is saved from typical heavy-handed environmentalism because of Meinhardt’s wildly creative imaginary creatures and his skillful animation, which becomes really impressive whenever the cuddly creatures exact revenge. I’m looking forward to seeing more work from Ben. |
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RECENT BREW TV EPISODES By Sitji Chou. A man tries to understand the futility of creating human connections when they’ve been impeded by the microcosmic void between material particles.  By Nikolas Ilic. A story of a Scottish sheep farmer who shears his sheep and tosses them cliff side…  By Dylan Hayes. Lesson 1: Everyone gambles, not everyone loses. Lesson 2: The world is full of traps. Lesson 3: You cannot win if you don’t take risks.  By Jean Yi. A personal and humorous exploration of being the ‘Nice Girl’ and coming to terms with the label and all its different meanings.  By Ferg Brennan. A lonely fisherman catches an unusual fish, which he decides to keep as a pet. |
That’s odd, people used to be much happier when the steel and tire factories were capable of offering full employment, even though the Cuyahoga River would catch on fire sometimes.
I really liked it. Although coming from MTV, it feels kind of hypocrite.
Of course, that’s something Meinhardt cannot control.
GREAT timing in the animation… Flash-done-right, me thinks! ;)
His film from Vancouver Film School called “Dancing Animals in Love” is one of my favorite flash shorts of all time. I think you can see it at VFS.com somewhere under Showcase.
the design is like something Winsor McCay might have drawn if he had grown up in the 80’s, but you’re right, something oddly fascinating about it, and great flash animation.
Pretty good, although the plot to all of them is pretty much the same. Threat to nature changes peaceful species into violent destructive force that destroys boss-robot. The end.
Overkill in morality
Ironic that there’s a Philips 66 gasoline banner ad above it….
I saw the Egg Factory one in animation class a few months back. Really great animation & concept behind it, but it sure creeped the hell outta me!
I just watched the rest of them. They do have the same plot structure, but that’s OK with me. Besides, it’s nice to know beforehand that the cute little tortured creatures mutate (adapt?) and beat the bejesus outta that Big BossBot & that things turn out OK in the end. It’s kinda like a Road Runner cartoon, except the fact that even though you know what’s gonna happen, but don’t quite know how it’ll get there.
disturbing yet well done
I absolutely LOVED these! Thanks for the post! They have a sort of Invader Zim vibe. Awesome!
I thought the whole point of the internet was it was to allow anyone in the world to see your stuff, without country restrictions. Stupid MTV web videos…
With ya, Gagaman. Canadian animator, schooled in Vancouver, and we can’t see his stuff here in Beaver-land becuz of those freakin’ post-strike copyright laws. Are ya flippin’ serious?
try this one outside of canada, worked for me….
http://secure.mtv-q.mtvi.com/overdrive/?id=1586120&vid=227205
Bravo, but where did these go? Is this an MTV cartoon I somehow missed?