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A while back I watched through the entirety of Squirrel And Hedgehog, the North Korean cartoon whose more recent episodes did the rounds in memes and fan art. Turns out NK used to have a goodly animation industry, and stuff for domestic audiences was partly used to train animators for profitable outsourced work.
The early episodes are charmingly crude, but I noticed a tendency to be more willing to draw characters' bare feet as the art and animation quality progressed over time, rather than it being nothing but boots. After all, a brave squirrel can't nimbly climb trees to defend his homeland against weasels, foxes and field mice* without the aid of his toes ;3
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*who are honestly a lot more characterful and charming than the good guys!
The early episodes are charmingly crude, but I noticed a tendency to be more willing to draw characters' bare feet as the art and animation quality progressed over time, rather than it being nothing but boots. After all, a brave squirrel can't nimbly climb trees to defend his homeland against weasels, foxes and field mice* without the aid of his toes ;3
Adorable stuff by
CyberGothWolf*who are honestly a lot more characterful and charming than the good guys!
Category Artwork (Digital) / Paw
Species Squirrel
Size 2070 x 1780px
File Size 442.6 kB
DailyMotion has them all subtitled, thankfully https://www.dailymotion.com/SquirrelAndHedgehog
I honestly came to the same conclusion, watching it. The "good guys" are obliged to be perfect Juche warriors - which means being either saccharine sweet or a stone-faced badass - while the "evil" ones are allowed to have foibles and vulnerabilities. I guess emotional depth is counter-revolutionary.
I had difficulty telling the two main squirrel characters apart, even. I found it kinda funny in a way how cartoonish and unrealistic some of the action was for something that was so heavily military-themed and relatively "gritty". It reminded me of accounts of Americans trying to train Afghans to fight effectively against the Soviets in the 80's, and how it didn't occur to the people being trained that you had to actually aim a firearm if you wanted to hit anything, because it's not a magic death ray that causes enemies to fall over dead just by pulling the trigger and waving it about like in films.
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