Last night my SO and I were looking for something lighthearted to watch and we stumbled across The Last Belle. The animation is buttery smooth and contains a sequence by none other than Roy Naisbitt (The Thief and the Cobbler) which was IMMEDIATELY obvious.

On reading more, I learned this was the last cel animated movie to be screened. (Of any commercial project? Big claim wikipedia, maybe someone here knows if that’s still true 14 years after release.)

It also took 15 years to traditionally animate and it shows. I think that this is a fantastic example of the heights a human animator can reach and any animation fan should take notes from this goofy cartoon style executed masterfully.

Happy wednesday!