Tweedy and Fluff

Despite the very Instagrammable tone of this newer TV cartoon, Tweedy and Fluff is a remarkable example that animation don't need to own sadistic humor, painful violence, characters who violently chasing each other or butt/toilet/fart jokes for reach a solid impact to viewers. It went with heart, resilience and make a solid bond between the main characters. This is not a easy task for anyone who have made a job there on decades.

The synopsis on the official show's website is all related here:

Tweedy, a little fabric plush made from tweed cloth and Fluff, a ball of woolly fuzz, are inseparable! Though they are very different: Tweedy is tidy, loves sleeping in and enjoys taking care of the house, while Fluff’s favorite activities are rolling around, eating treats and playing all day…  Good thing sound and trusty Tweedy is always here to take care of mischievous little Fluff! These two make the perfect pair: a pure friendship full of softness, wonder and surprises!

This stop-motion program appealed first the preschool kids crowd, but it own already an Instant fanbase on social medias in the likes of Instagram and animation fans like me who grew tired of the bombardment of cynicism and monotony of the "genre" for the past years.

The show is also a recall to another show I liked before: Mighty Mike. Easily the most perfect reincarnation of classic slapstick animation by give it a fresh and new tone without just redo the past.

What is the most appealing of all this is its a BAFTA, Rockie Awards and British Animation Awards Nominee, which meant the stop-motion series left already a strong impression to critics and diehard fans.

Tweedy and Fluff are created by Corrine Averiss. Chris Randall is the director of this 40x5 content. Despite to be an Independent production from a home studio like Stitchy Feet and Second Home Studios, the whole thing is owned by MIAM! Animation, a Paris-based studio where its duties is to build contents that appeal to people of all ages with a source to learn to working together and be connected each other instead of our own individualism. This is what all animation studios have to commited instead to let cartoons fans and executives yelled all their turn that the idea of one is better than anyone else.

The studio also engage on actions that require equity, parity, diversity, inclusion, social fabric and to be ecoresponsible. Something that went like a pretty neat alternative of the American streamers/movie studios and their urging to produce more without thinking of our ecosystems.

This is what an animation studio that is responsible and concerned of its efforts to reduce the global carbon prints have to do. In France like in all normal countries, the effort to break the climatic crisis is a everydays job. Canada need to be inspired of it instead of this pointless feud between Provinces about the carbon tax or to travel six times a year by polluated Jet Set and airplanes.

Maybe Tweedy and Fluff is on Instagram for a large audience, but this is not so an Instagrammable thing, and a radical change of pace of the cynical temper of the animation industry and fans in our age.