Where was it made, who did it and what are they doing since please post any known updates.

You guys are the first I've ever run across who remember those old Nelvana half hours. It warms my heart to hear you've favorable comments, 'cause (and here I go tooting my horn) I was a Directing Animator (or equivalent in those days) and a Sequence Director on all those old Nelvana TV specials.

Havent been able to find EAster Fever or Take me Up to the Ballgame yet.

Nice stuff. Some of it reminds me of the first HEAVY METAL movie style(s). Rest was as said by Winquist and Map,Just fun stuff.

For those of you who have seen "A Cosmic Christmas", there were lots of times back then I doubted that picture would ever see the light of day. For example: Nelvana's production manager was so green that (when she discovered the money budgeted for the production had been all used up) she started running around the studio telling the animators to use the other side of the animation paper they'd already used for rough poses. AND THAT WAS FOR PENCIL TESTS THAT WERE BACKLIT WITH UP TO 6 LEVELS! CHEESH! A bunch of us "pros" had to put our collective feet down and say "enough of this silliness!"

I wish Cosmic Christmas was on tape with the other Nelvana cartoons....There is something about them. I still like "Take me up to the Ballgame"

Yes, I animated on the Star Wars TV special and did all of Bobba Fett the Bounty Hunter plus some other scenes here and there. It was really a rush job all around -- Nelvana had a short schedule to do it in (6 weeks for animation or something like that). We worked on the animation right after finishing Devil and Daniel Mouse. Things were pretty hush hush about what we were doing and what I didn't know until I saw the one and only telecast of the TV special was that our section was plugged into the show as an animated comic book.

On Rock & Rule, I animated all of Officer Quadhole, Mylar the club owner, and Cindy Schlepper (the rollerskating giantess).

I kinda recently rediscovered it a couple years ago, and I was amazed that some of the animation was pretty decent. I think a lot of the animation suffered by lousy cleanup; the scenes of the goat-guy and the lioness jogging together (straight on view, you know the one) moved really well, but when I saw a cel of it I was all 'Eww.'

Some other scenes I thought were well done were when the jogger's coaches were fighting over the gold medal. I don't know why, but that scene reminded me of the soccer-playing animals in "Bedknobs & Broomsticks".

I think a discus-throwing polar bear and a relay-racing tiger were done by the same animator as the scene above, I liked it.

Also some nice bits in the sword fight between the falcon and the boar. I used to watch that part over and over.

Oh yeah, and when the joggers first come into the stadium...the shot is nothing but an animated background, and the camera is moving from the perspective of an actual joging person? Damn, that was some fookin' impressive animation. If I had to draw that I'd go nuts!

The parts I did NOT like...did you notice that the daschund, alligator and a panther I think all looked the same? Someone needed to take a char design class...sheesh. All had the same head structure, with a funky looong snout.

As far as famous people working on it, I think the Kroyers...and Brad Bird.

I dunno about you guys, but I really think that older Nelvana stuff rocks. I just saw the Star Wars christmas special, the animated bit, and while some parts looked like they were on drugs (funky explosions) I really thought it was well done, in that whole Rock and Rule style.

Whoops, have to finish up here.

You just named three of the best animated characters from the film. CLAP CLAP CLAP (Take a bow)

>Hey Van!
>
>Killer that you asked about Animalympics. That movie was virtually lost
>as a 'piece-of-70's-ephemera/needle-in-a-haystack' kind of deal until
>the internet came. Man! This world wide web business leaves nothing
>sacred or shrouded in mystery anymore.....this has got to be the Holy
>Grail. Anyway, to make a short story even shorter, Animalympics was
>produced by Steven Lisberger (Tron fame....but what happened to this
>guy?) and Bill Kroyer in Boston and Venice, CA as a spoof on the
>olympics, but was relegated to the 'lost-show' gallows when Jimmy Carter
>boycotted the 1980 Olympics. (Personally, I think they should do away
>with the olympics as a means for nations to come together.) This was
>Lisberger's only cartoon project (he did it when he was in his
>mid-20's), and was looking to use the profits to finance TRON which he
>then turned to Walt Disney Co. when all else failed. He has been
>concentrating on CGI since. On a side note, the great Tom Sito and Brad
>Bird had worked on this too!!!
> As a cartoon, the movie was amazing and hyper-original! It's best
>when looked at in a dream-like state induced by oodles of THC rather
>than with some snobby critic's evaluation. The movie was in another
>world in and of itself and bore no similarity to anything else off the
>top of my head. It had some kind of epic nature that seemed to coincide
>with Heavy Metal, Secret of Nimh, Rock and Rule, etc. etc....
> As a metal fan, these are the vibes I had gotten, whether they're
>true or not.
> Hope this sums up your curiosity.
>
>Will see you soon.
>Aesthetically yours,

I'm just appreciative that the effort put into those characters is appreciated in some circles.