Oink

[@inuken191]

Not even one line of dialogue and this animation tells a completely flawless story. Well done. :)

[@aldiakaroofus]

Wow, thank you very much! :-)

[@WeightGainingII]

i still have to keep coming back to watch this over and over its so terrific!!!

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

Just found this completely by accident - loved it. Brilliant. Animations loss is accountancy’s gain. But what a sad loss - would have loved to see more from you.

[@brollowz2912]

Rip piggy • cause of death: stabbing • born: 2007 • what led to death: other pig not getting enough weight • gender: male • burial: inside of a pig • home: in a farm • age estimated: 0 years • mother: unknown • father: unknown

[@MattStMarie-bm5sq]

why estimate the age 0 when it has to be at least 1 or 2 yrs.

[@LocalDudde]

​@@MattStMarie-bm5sqmonths wise

[@NessLover94]

This was made back in 1993.

[@Sassystarr112]

I can't believe how old this is

[@aldiakaroofus]

I can't believe how old I am! XD

[@Lerrinus]

If you have ever gotten an award for this, it was well deserved! Great work all around! 5 stars!

[@jasoncarpenter8761]

I like this animation.

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thank you!😃

[@chrisrj9871]

That got dark fast... REALLY fast...

[@SpiderBubblegumvideos]

3:49 I always laugh when that pig eats the farm. Very good work.

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thank you!

[@SpiderBubblegumvideos]

@@aldiakaroofus You're welcome. The scenario is funny, original and dark comedy at the same time. The animation process must have taken a lot of time and pencil strokes: genius 🐖

[@aldiakaroofus]

@@SpiderBubblegumvideos Thank you! Indeed, it was a lot of work. Some details are in the description.

[@aldiakaroofus]

Wow, thank you! I`m especially proud of the sound. I worked on traditional 16mm mag film, 8 separate tracks. I could only hear three tracks at a time on the Steenbeck (two with image) so I had to know what I was doing. I had Chris Hinton as a teacher and mentor, who was nominated for an oscar just the year before. He taught me to keep my drawings simple and focus on timing and movement instead.

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thanks! It took months of storyboarding and animating 1400 drawings (plus the 500+ drawings unused), 50 hours of sound editing (not including the actual recording job) and a whole night shooting on 16mm film one frame at a time.

[@UncleSqeaks]

Oh wow! XD This is one of the most imaginative animations I've ever seen.

[@Kips0]

No, I'm not searching animal noises in the search bar again...

[@ILoveMisty1985]

XD. I saw this short on the "100% Independent" video, and it was by far my favorite short in the collection, even more than the Oscar nominated film by Michael Mills. It was delightfully ironic and cruelly hilarious. Thanks for posting, and kudos to a fine job.

[@heyfs]

Its pretty funny! I love it especially the plot, quite creative !

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thanks! I liked that gag too! Although sound was lots of work the old fashioned way (16mm magnetic film spliced onto 8 or 9 separate tracks), I did use the school's QAR to line-test my animation, so that kinda counts like computer assistance. It really helped and was much easier to use than the antique Lyon-Lamb frame-by-frame VHS they also had.

[@BeesAR]

2019??? Anyone?

[@Lynxez]

yep

[@shottsy85]

OMG!!!! This is soooo funny and awesome! Great timing and smooth animation! I loved it and poor piggy after all that he still gets eaten LMAO. Thanks so much for linking me to these! I could learn a lot from you! I hope to talk to you more in the future :D

[@brollowz2912]

What a nice film! Finally we take a break off of CGI. I’m glad there is the old-style flipbook anamation.

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thank you! All hand made. Sound was recorded on 16mm-film-shaped magnetic tape and hand-edited on a Steinbeck editing table. Animation was filmed one frame at a time on 16mm film. 1400 drawings used in the film (not counting hundreds more scrapped).

[@brollowz2912]

aldiakaroofus your welcome and dang! You have strong hands!

[@Kcool1OO]

I didn't know YOU made this!!! This is great!!!

[@aldiakaroofus]

An award-winning student film. If you didn't like it, tough shit.

[@pumkin610]

I love this

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thank you! This summer is the 30th anniversary of this film winning the Norman McLaren award at the Canadian Student Film Festival!

[@joebert423]

Oh my god, I never realized that YOU'RE ALDI! And I've seen this video many times! That explains why it's so good :p

[@MrDessy]

I think it's wonderful. ^^ I could never make something like that, and I'd certainly never be able to get myself to draw that much. Very impressive~!

[@NessLover94]

Can't say I liked the ending. THERE! Now I've said it 8 years after watching it for the first time.

[@aldiakaroofus]

No. CBC rejected it for its ending "inappropriate for children". In Canada, it aired on Radio-Canada and on TV5 in the 90s.

[@porkerthepig]

So sad it made me shed a tear

[@bucketlips572]

found this video two days ago... so amazing!

[@aldiakaroofus]

@lastgarlicfinger I never thought of a specific audience when I made the film. The CBC was the only potential customer to reject it for those reasons. Italy also rejected it becuase they were offended by the "O Sole Mio" bit.

[@aldiakaroofus]

@waterbabytay *giggles* Thank you! Yeah, I may have made the pig too appealing.

[@Nhinocerous1]

awesomest pig vid i have ever seen....my friend at school has a pig nose and this vid makes me think of him its flippin funny he even snorts

[@aldiakaroofus]

@lastgarlicfinger It's been in the 1993 Toronto Animated Image Society contest (it won 2nd prize) and in the 1993 Canadian Student Film Festival where it won the Norman MacLaren grand prize, but that's all I can remember. Maybe it was entered in a third one but I don't remember which one.

[@shannondurrant3363]

I was bored AND TYPED IN OINK AND WTH!

[@Lynxez]

Same xd

[@pumkin610]

Yeah i look up random words i guess im not the only one eh!

[@ILoveMisty1985]

Yey! I wrote about this film in my animation blog! Even though the blog is about Oscar nominated short films, I thought it was worthwhile to talk about Oink!

[@MagestyMaster]

that is a good film, so you are good director, animator and soundeditor.

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thank you! That means a lot to me!

[@lastgarlicfinger]

How about in theatres? As in film festivals? Was it shown at any film festival? I apologize if I seem to be bugging you, I'm just curious.

[@scoonie1]

thats a lot of ham...good animation! I like your style

[@bigdogmc1]

Poor pig. After all that hard work, he still ended up dinner. Nice vid though!

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it, even the ending! :)

[@lastgarlicfinger]

When my mother said that pigs eat anything, she wasn't kidding! XD

[@Dragonlover690]

aw man, i thought the giant pig was gonna explode, good toon though

[@lastgarlicfinger]

Sorry if I'm bugging you about info of the film's production, but how did you achieve the editing process?

[@aldiakaroofus]

At the time I guess TV stations didn't care for anything non-U.S., and Expanded Entertainment turned it down because they said the timing was too slow.

[@nabbitgohome9672]

I like to imagine or think that this isn’t the farmers first rodeo and knew this will happen and so with his money won via the fair for the biggest pig he buys a new farm and animals and intentionally have the achievements front and center that another pig (potentially one scared pig and along another pig without a care in the world aside from food) and so the cycle repeats.

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thank you! This is the most original comment I've ever gotten for my film! :)

[@ThePoltergust5000]

Wow. That's one hard pig contest. Over 16 tons!?

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thanks! It's been on TV in many countries in the 1990s as an interlude, but not in the U.S.

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thank you! Good luck with your future films!

[@Psychopat12]

Really good. The animation reminds me of Bill Plympton

[@aldiakaroofus]

Gosh, thank you!

[@aldiakaroofus]

Cool! Glad you enjoy it that much!

[@aldiakaroofus]

*giggles* Thankies!

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thanks for the comment! I think it's the evil side of the smart piggy that makes you feel that way. ;-)

[@IXSS7]

4:22 KNIFE BLOOD!!😦

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thank you for the kind words! :)

[@DaFoxQc]

nice video! super bon! bravo!

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thank you!

[@aldiakaroofus]

*blushes* You already know... :-)

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thanks for the comment!

[@aldiakaroofus]

Gosh! Thank you very much! :D

[@aldiakaroofus]

*giggles* You're right, but I wanted the most unexpected ending possible. ;-) Thanks for the comment!

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@xlimegreen2x]

That was great, but a little sadistic hahah

[@aldiakaroofus]

Wow, thanks for the compliment! I wish I could draw half as well as he does! :D

[@programmer4561]

I'm not spamming to you,what did you use to make the voice just curius please comment back ;)

[@POCTIK_YouTube]

Почему "ЭТОТ!" "Мультик" (1993) года?!

[@aldiakaroofus]

I can't translate your question ....?

[@POCTIK_YouTube]

@@aldiakaroofus Yes. ///Да.

[@AlexM112973]

very cool cartoon, sorta "survival of the fittest until you're food" or "exercise or overeat, either way, you STILL die!" LOL

[@TheyCallMePhilip]

Amazing!!

[@aldiakaroofus]

I doubt it'll ever happen. Studying accounting is taking all of my time. I can't even draw regular sketches of my own characters on FA as it is. Plus, drawing someone else's character is very hard for me, which is one of the reasons I couldn't become a professional animator.

[@superpadave2]

Yeah, they're great !

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thank you very much! :)

[@aldiakaroofus]

Wow, thank you very much! Yeah, the ending took a while to come up with. :)

[@aldiakaroofus]

Wow, thank you!

[@MrJerseygirl69]

I cannot believe my mind can actually follow some of this

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thank you for your deconstructive criticism.

[@CriselleCaliGang]

KILLED!

[@aldiakaroofus]

Wow, cool! Thanks alot!

[@aldiakaroofus]

@heyfs Thank you! Writing 5 drafts of the storyboard really helped!

[@aldiakaroofus]

*giggles* they were both doomed from the start, they're pigs after all! ;-) Thanks for commenting!

[@aldiakaroofus]

Merci!

[@aldiakaroofus]

Cool! Thank you!

[@Vanny22ify]

Tu as une bonne façon de dessiner les cochons . Je trouve qu'ils sont trop drôles et trop mignons . Et encore merci pour ton chouette court-métrage . Bonne journée !

[@lastgarlicfinger]

What's the cartoon's intended audience? I believe you mentioned CBC rejecting the cartoon because the bit where the worried pig gets made into food, knife flying by, drops of blood, was inaproppiate for children.

[@ErickaNicholeG]

That was a great and funny video I even subscribed your channel for the video by the way how did you make this animation

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thanks for the comment! Read my description, it's all there.

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thanks a lot!

[@lastgarlicfinger]

Was it shown on TV in Japan?

[@aldiakaroofus]

Wow, thanks alot! Where can I find this blog?

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thanks!

[@aldiakaroofus]

@Vanny22ify C'est la morale de l'histoire, c'est tout. Avec le recul, j'avoue que le gros n'avait pas besoin de mourir aussi...

[@aldiakaroofus]

I'm intrigued. Where is that "Meow" you mention?

[@TheGothSeries]

i thought it was cute at first, but then i saw the end...

[@aldiakaroofus]

Merci beaucoup et bonne journée aussi!

[@apemagic]

i enjoyed it :)

[@aldiakaroofus]

It took two school years to make. After the 1st year, I scrapped the film (500+ animated drawings unused) and started from scratch, including the story. Over the second school year, it took months of storyboarding (5 attempts) and animating 1400 drawings, 50 hours of sound editing (not including the actual recording of the sounds and voices) and a whole night shooting on 16mm film one frame at a time.

[@pizzahut4390]

Oink!

[@Vanny22ify]

Merci c'était pas mal du tout . Mais le cochon à 0.08 , c le gros ?

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thanks! *laughs* TV dinner!

[@Vanny22ify]

Bonne année a toi aussi!

[@Mishi45]

Who sang O Solo Mio? :)