Calvin and Hobbes animation - YouTube
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Calvin and Hobbes, animated. Simply and brilliantly.
Would be wonderful if Bill Watterson would approve a full series of shorts like this.
There's another great animation by the same person here:
http://pandawhale.com/post/16535/calvin-and-hobbes-wash-dress-comb-done-gif
There's more discussion of the animated gif on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1amylu/awesome_animated_calvin_hobbes_strip/
From that discussion are the words of Bill Watterson himself:
Actually, I wasn't against all merchandising when I started the strip, but each product I considered seemed to violate the spirit of the strip, contradict its message, and take me away from the work I loved. If my syndicate had let it go at that, the decision would have taken maybe 30 seconds of my life...
This is why (so far) there has been no official animated short.
I also added a bunch of Calvin and Hobbes animated gifs here:
http://pandawhale.com/post/9237/calvin-and-hobbes-gifs
Enjoy!
5:45 PM Mar 20 2013