#theadventuresofandréandwallyb

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Mickey Mouse versus André

The following fan art that is meant to celebrate the centennary of The Walt Disney Company asks the following question, "What if Mickey Mouse as depicted in Plane Crazy meets André (André & Wally B.)?"

In my opinion, the result is a confrontation between two cartoon characters. Mickey Mouse (left) is seen staring at André (right), as the former appears to treat him like an outsider due to the fact that cartoon characters from the early 20th century are generally anthropomorphic animals.

It is wholeheartedly true that André is inspired by Mickey Mouse, specifically the design that was used for Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho. Aside of species, what differentiates André from Mickey Mouse is that the former debuted in a computer animated short film whereas the latter first appeared in a black-and-white traditionally animated short film?

And yes, this isn't the first time that there is a unofficial crossover of The Adventures of André & Wally B. with the Mickey Mouse universe. To sum up, I decided to post this piece of fan art to celebrate Disney 100 as well as Mickey Mouse's fate to enter the public domain.

Mickey Mouse © The Walt Disney Company (copyright and trademark holder), Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks (creators). However, older versions of Mickey Mouse will have entered the public domain by January 1, 2024. André > The Adventures of André & Wally B. © Pixar (formerly Lucasfilm Computer Graphics) and Lucasfilm (both owned by The Walt Disney Company)

UPDATE (occurred at January 2, 2024): Six days after this post was uploaded, I managed to fix some oversights that were found at the time it was originally posted. This is the first time I could edit a post that I had uploaded before.

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The first short film of Pixar called "The Adventure of André & Wally B" Is about when André sleep in the forest by himself, when woke up, he heard the bee buzzing, and so he ran away from Wally B The Bee. Wally B very angry because André ran so fast, and caught him.. But not yet, André threw his hat on Wally B, The End!

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The problem with two werewolf-themed YouTube videos

The following post is intended to complain about two YouTube videos in particular, which are "André (André & Wally B.) Turns Into A Werewolf" and its crudely made making-of companion "Message about the previous video". Although I refrain from making destructive criticism by using a Generation Z slang in particular (due to my stressfull experiences with Internet trolls and those that dedicate to commit copyright infrigement/art theft by posting art that I had made many years earlier on walls of shame, always doing agaisnt my will), I don't hesitate to express my resentment towards an underaged YouTuber who has been responsible for posting these two videos. However, in order to aim at the top of Graham's hierarchy of disagreement as I complain, I decided not to mention the uploader's name, not even his pseudonym.

On April 30, 2023, the cliché-ridden transformation video "André (André & Wally B.) Turns Into A Werewolf" and the behind-the-scenes "Message about the previous video" were uploaded on YouTube. The former is the first transformation video to depict an André & Wally B. character, but it does not mean that it is the actual first transformation media to depict such character. The first transformation media to insert André & Wally B. characters is actually a comic that was published on Instagram on late 2021, hidden as a easter egg that was just shy of two different comics made by different authors.

I discovered the existence of "André (André & Wally B.) Turns Into A Werewolf" on May 6, 2023, when I visited YouTube to check if there are more André & Wally B. fanworks. It had 168 views and two likes at the time I discovered this video. Despite its shock value, I reluctantly watched partially the video, up to the same still that the one that serves as the video's thumbnail. All scenes where my favourite character suffered this unexplained lycanthropy induced me secondhand embarrassment. As a result, I find "André (André & Wally B.) Turns Into A Werewolf" distasteful and it has been a disaster waiting to happen that went materialized since it was uploaded. That is to say, this YouTube video is one of the concerns I have when an unpopular character can receive potentially inappropiate content that in the worst cases can result in psychotraumatization. As this video goes to a slow but ongoing rise to status as a most-viewed YouTube video, I grow so tired of the video that I didn't hesitate to urge my paternal cousin to order YouTube to remove the video. The first thing she did is to report the video according to its shock value, only for the video to get off scot-free by receiving a simple study. After I learned the existence of "Message about the previous video" (and becoming aware of the still it attached which also induced me embarrassment), I wrote a complaint letter to the YouTube staff. However, instead of giving the uploader two strikes, the YouTube staff indolently ignored my complaints by merely giving me instructions. Not wanting these videos to become viral, I urged my cousin again, this time to order said video hosting website to take both videos down under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Nevertheless, the YouTube staff did nothing in practice, allowing "André (André & Wally B.) Turns Into A Werewolf" and "Message about the previous video" to get away scot-free again. That was my last straw, so I decided to post it to express my feelings on this YouTuber's now controversial videos.

The drawing that is attached to the post, titled "André (André & Wally B.) Can't Condone Lycanthropy Videos Featuring Himself as a Victim" or simply "André and YouTube's Problem with Content Moderation", is based on the real-life events when I discovered the video and what my thoughts on these videos in particular are. According to this comic, André discovered "André (André & Wally B.) Turns Into A Werewolf" when he searched for André & Wally B.-related videos. He winced when he partially watched the video, so André was convinced that "André (André & Wally B.) Turns Into A Werewolf" is uploaded to insult both André himself and the André & Wally B. fandom. What he did in response to this apparent anti-fan film? Take revenge. In order to remove "André (André & Wally B.) Turns Into A Werewolf" and "Message about the previous video" from YouTube, he attempted to urge YouTube to take down these videos. In spite of that, YouTube ignored his claims, much to André's frustration. Then, André contemplated complaining about YouTube's decisions and the videos in question in a non-Google social network service.

The reason why "André (André & Wally B.) Turns Into A Werewolf" and "Message about the previous video" deserve to be taken down from YouTube include, but not limited to, their status as shock videos (especifically being in the Elsagate category), lack of proper fair use on the description (which render them copyright infrigement as a result) and a blank description that doesn't justify these details (including the author's opinion on the 1984 animated short film) at all. The YouTube staff should have removed these videos due to their questionable content but, due to YouTube being owned by Google, the YouTube staff is so intransigent that they just want to make money with a high quantity of videos (and, as a result, a lack of content moderation). As a result, the underaged YouTuber should remove his own two videos under the consideration of the mental health of both children and neurodivergent fans of André & Wally B.

Message to the author of "André (André & Wally B.) Turns Into A Werewolf" and "Message about the previous video": If you are looking at this post, please DO NOT make a personal attack on me NOR make a reaction video to this post in particular. Your werewolf transformation videos, especially "André (André & Wally B.) Turns Into A Werewolf" and its companion "Message about the previous video", are in the crosshairs of controversy because these videos affect negatively on the mental health of both children and André & Wally B. fans. Please mind that not everyone likes these types of videos you upload, so certain ones like me will find your werewolf videos distasteful. While it is okay to post a transformation content featuring a human turning into André, media containing André turning into something else is totally unacceptable. Therefore, "André (André & Wally B.) Turns Into A Werewolf" and "Message about the previous video" are wrongdoings and your biggest mistakes, so they don't deserve to remain in YouTube indefinitely. In summary, don't take this post personally, but remove the videos in question from YouTube for goodness' sake.

I don't own the inoffensive screenshot of "André (André & Wally B.) Turns Into A Werewolf" that appears on the comic, as the use of this work-safe still is fair use. André > The Adventures of André & Wally B. © Pixar (formerly Lucasfilm Computer Graphics) and Lucasfilm (both owned by The Walt Disney Company)

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39th Anniversary of The Adventures of André & Wally B.

This is the first time I post in Tumblr. On July 25, 2023, my favourite short film, The Adventures of André & Wally B., turned 39 years and I, a fan of this animated short film, celebrated its anniversary by completing this piece of fan art.

This fan art depicts André, the humanoid boy, and Wally B., the bumblebee, celebrating the short film they debuted with a birthday cake. The cake in question is made of honey and cookies with cream and raspberry flavors.

Sorry for having posted it many days latter than expected, but I hope everyone likes this André & Wally B. fan art I have made.

André and Wally B. > The Adventures of André & Wally B. © Pixar (formerly Lucasfilm Computer Graphics) and Lucasfilm (both owned by The Walt Disney Company)

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A fan art depicting André in a rare pose, a rare picture of André & Wally B.

In this post in particular, I have decided to post two André & Wally B.-related pictures simultaneously: a fan art that is made 100% by myself and a rare picture.

The first attached picture is a piece of André & Wally B. fan art, titled "André lying back in the grass". As its name implies, it literally depicts André lying on the grass as he breaks the fourth wall. I remember that most fan arts featuring André himself depict him either standing or sitting. I guess I may be the first artist to draw him lying while his back is visible.

The second one is a bonus. This one is a rare picture, namely a concept art of The Adventures of André & Wally B. that explains how a geometrical shape called "teardrop" was created in order to model André's torso. It was found in the official website of The Pixar Touch, a book about the animation company in question. More specifically, it was found in a blog article titled "Art challenging technology". However, as of 2022, nearly all links that use its domain have been deprecated and currently redirect to the article about the book itself in the author's personal website. Luckily, I managed to save the high resolution version of this concept art two years earlier. Thereby, I (re)publish this concept art under fair use for preservation.

That's all what I wanted to tell about both pictures. Isn't André adorable?

The concept art depicting the creation of the "teardrop" shape (left) and the comparisons of using different shapes to make André's torso (right) © John Lasseter André > The Adventures of André & Wally B. © Pixar (formerly Lucasfilm Computer Graphics) and Lucasfilm (both owned by The Walt Disney Company)

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The Portrait of André (2024)

"Still André, but he's cute." —Alvy Ray Smith, creator of André and director of The Adventures of André & Wally B., during a lecture titled "Design at Large - Alvy Ray Smith, From Pixels to Pixar".

I really miss some genuine André & Wally B. fans, such as Daniel Slade (also known as DanSlade2004 and StinkyOneDan; best known for creating near-perfect models of André & Wally B. characters and producing computer-animated fan-made short films prior to February 2022) and DoggmanJake33 (also known as Jake the Second, CrazyTrainJake22 and a few more aliases; notable for being the creator of the lost, cancelled fan-made animated series André & Wally B. The Series!). Some André & Wally B. fans lose interest on The Adventures of André & Wally B. by either getting obsessed on a more popular franchise (e.g. Sonic the Hedgehog and VeggieTales) or simply making this interest transient. How about my status as an André & Wally B. fan? I had been obsessed with André since mid May 2020 until September 23, 2023. As of this day, I am no longer obsessed with André, but that doesn't mean that I have lost interest on The Adventures of André & Wally B. In spite of having become a fan of an indie game that uses a similar cartoonish style, I will keep posting André & Wally B. fan labor to avoid disappointing the remaining André & Wally B. fans that seek fan labor.

Speaking of André & Wally B. fan labor, if anyone asks me where the current profile picture of my Tumblr account (i.e. the one that has been in use since January 16, 2024) comes from, here is another fan art of The Adventures of André & Wally B. As its title implies, this is a portrait of the humanoid character that I have made in anticipation of the upcoming 40th anniversary of the animated short film. I acknowledge that this fan art's flaw is in the character's right arm. In compensation of this, I have also done a headshot/user avatar version of this fan art:

Thoughts on this fan art that I have made about this cartoon character? I have made this to prove that I am still an André & Wally B. fan after all.

In the end, for every animatophile, the Pixar fans, and even the André & Wally B. fans, stay tooned tuned for more fan labor, including the short's upcoming 40th anniversary.

André > The Adventures of André & Wally B. © Pixar (formerly Lucasfilm Computer Graphics) and Lucasfilm (both owned by The Walt Disney Company)