You might have noticed on the news that Pixar’s [1] Toy Story 3 is due for release soon (19th July in the UK actually). Believe it or not the original was released way back in 1995.

This wasn’t Pixar’s first film to win awards. Their first recognition was for a short called Luxor Jnr which won an Oscar in 1987 and is the reason they use a lamp as their logo. It’s well worth watching, not only is it very good but it changed the way the film industry thought of computer animation.

Once Pixar, (who are now owned by Disney but have had both George Lucas, of Star Wars fame, and Steve Jobes, as in Apple Computers, as former owners) let the computer animation gene out of the bottle, others have followed suit. One from amongst my favourites has got to be a rather inept, accident prone Polar Bear from South Korea (with French and Spanish input) called Backkom or Bernard in English.

The video below gives a fairly accurate example of just how painful it can be if you are a bear!

Further exploits of Bernard can be found on YouTube including this one of [2] Bernard at the Gym.

Try not to waste too much time with the bear.