Landscape with Duck

About the Film: A wayward duck misses the migration south and struggles to catch up to his companions.

Production: The hand-drawn, black and white style is directly inspired by George Herriman's "Krazy Kat" comic strip of the 1920's and 30's, as well as the Fleischer Bros. and Ub Iwerks cartoons of the same period. Many of the spare backgrounds were homages to Edward Hopper paintings. The short took several months for animator Patrick Neary to complete, with the character animation and backgrounds drawn with pencil on paper, then scanned into a Mac and finished in Toon Boom, After Effects (for compositing characters and backgrounds), and Final Cut for editing and sound work.

Film Festivals: Landscape with Duck premiered at Durango Independent Film Festival, was chosen for Portland's Best of NW Animation Festival, and has been selected/invited to 10 festivals and distributed on IndieFlix.

See more hand-drawn animation: Smackasaurus and Code: Bigfoot C.I.A.