This was the original plan for the Paul King movies - he’d demonstrated the technique worked on the big screen in Bunny and the Bull, deliberately - but the studio weren’t keen on using the 2D/3D blend, as the Ivor Wood animations have zero nostalgic recognition outside the UK.
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Captain Howdy
Paddington, the Peruvian Psychopomp, made his BBC debut on this day in 1976. The mixture of 2D supporting characters with a 3D Paddington still works incredibly well and made it feel like you were seeing the character coming to life from the pages of his own books.
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Just shows that on a long enough timescale good ideas don't end up on the cutting room floor, they just go into the scrapbook for later