hippo & dog

[athena]

I found this animated short on YouTube which is titled there as The Evolution of Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKYAT2p8ygI&mode=related&search=) ... it stars a hippo and a dog, with the hippo singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"... it's really quite cute, but it looks like only a portion of a longer video--plus there's no opening title or end credits so I can't even be sure that's actually what it's called.

Does anyone else recognize it and/or have any idea if a longer version exists?

[GrafSpee]

A search on the web found that the hippo and dog (Pat and Stanley) are characters created by Pierre Coffin. His web site (http://www.pyercoffin.com/) lists them as part of a TV series. None of the link that I downloaded from the site seem to be longer than the one on YouTube, so I don't know if these are just sections of larger videos or whether that is all that there is.

[GrafSpee]

I found a full-length video of this at http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=116842&fr=
(02:36 in duration)

[athena]

well, I bow to your superior Googling skills... I spent forever last night looking for animated hippos and dogs.

I think I know why only the first chunk of that clip is the one being shown the most. If you look at the longer version on yahoo, it's just recycling the earlier animation so that it matches the remainder of the lyrics and music... could very well be that that video was created by a fan just to finish the song.

[KloKei07]

Yep, he recycled the animation, but... it's so funny!! :D

[GrafSpee]

well, I bow to your superior Googling skills... I spent forever last night looking for animated hippos and dogs.

I did a quick & dirty search and I found some clues in comments left at some other sites that had the original short film that gave me info to expand the search. Eventually, it led to Pierre Coffin's name and his web site then came in the next search iteration.