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DODUDINDON made its debut at the Annecy International Animation Festival today.
It’s the fourth of a series of films by students from the Gobelins School of Communication, in Paris.

The production crew, Lucrèce Andreae, Julien Chheng, Tracy Nowocien, and Rémy Schaepman, have concocted a story of a plucky young turkey who wants to woo a buxom lady turkey twice his age and more than three times his size. His pursuit of ecstatic happiness takes place in a sumptuous art nouveau ballroom.

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Some beautiful lines of action on view here

There’s some masterly physical animation in all these films, and these two mismatched fowl bend the laws of physics in a frantic chase sequence.

The young whippersnapper is almost completely enveloped by her quivering embonpoint.

A marvellously exuberant frolic, all in all. What’s more, it sticks to the brief of making reference to dance, although any reference to Germany remains vanishingly slight.

Here’s the link to the film, which requires QuickTime on your ‘puter.

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