Is it bad for me to say that I actually genuinely like this? I mean, on the one hand, it’s so flat, visually dark, and monotone that it’s actually kind of relaxing and easy to fall asleep to :)
I love how the narrator describes everything in present tense! It's like he's not even actually narrating the story! He's just reading the non-dialog parts of the script! XD
"He's gone. Burton's gone, Poor Burton." Could we redo that take, and maybe just try to sound like you just saw your co-worker DIE right infront of you? Also the award for "Most spontaneous super villain transformation," goes to The Snowman!! Wtf?
I'll make a list of my favorite highlights: - Santa's complex includes a full scale Washington monument replica and stadium lights. - Santa's office is a very normal room at the top of said replica. - Isaac's hairdo - Santa's barely taller than his elves - Burton's mental crysis and subsequent death - Burton's rebirth as an evil snowman, cleverly named Snowman. - Every character's fixed pupils - SLED 2 - 11:48 - 13:14 Sled-2's computer already had a Snowman alert programmed into it. How did Isaac know about Snowman when he created Sled-2? This reeks of conspiracy. - Snowman's most powerful weapon is turning into a fist. - Rap battle
Brilliant. A complete eclipse over the inferior sun that is Toy Story. Gorgeously scripted, charmingly performed, lovingly orchestrated. Solid 1 out of 10.
Despite never having seen this until I was 23, it feels very nostalgic for me. Reminds me an awful lot of very early VeggieTales with these ultra-simple backgrounds and strange music.
@@hopemueller2658 yeah, the first veggietales episode definitely has a bit more of a liminal, sparse feeling to it. it's infinitely more engaging to watch, though, imo
Yeah but early Veggietales had way more effort put into it. The animation had awkward fast movements, but it wasn’t slow and clunky like this one. The facial expressions too also gave it more charm, in this though they have the same dim expression nearly the entire time. Veggie tales also had some very catchy music, and a lot of good humor at times. Veggietales gets a bad rap a lot, but keeping in mind Toy Story came a few years after and was animated by veterans in the animation industry. Veggietales was made by rookies who cleverly experimented with a unique software.
I might need to recreate this soundtrack and put it on the internet, geez is it good. What a hidden gem of complete and utter chaos this is. Love hilarious low budget films like this.
I appreciate the effort that must have went into this, doing CG animation in the 90s on what must have been an abysmally low budget. But the story, the story is what killed the entire film.
I don't know... I find something appealing about these visuals. So simple and primitive. I know it's bad, but something about it draws me in. Like with demoscene, or psx pre rendered cutscenes.
I can see this being something a parent might put on for their kid to occupy them so they can go to the bathroom in peace. lol. There IS something oddly charming about it.
6:22 “He’s gone, Burton’s gone. Poor Burton.” Just how, JUST HOW did no one in the recording studio ever say: “How about we do another take and this time, let’s make it sound like you literally just saw your coworker DIE right in front of you.”
Best watched at 2x speed. Reasonable animation for 1995. Beast Wars was made one year later on a budget of $300,000 per 20 minute episode. I doubt this had that budget.
I've never heard of cursed animation, but yeah this pretty much fits. Also "you'll rue the day you had your way with me" totally means something else to everyone sane watching this
Lessons I've learnt are Santa runs a prison complex with a Washington Monument replica Santa's barely taller then the elves Fight evil snowmen by literally melting them with the power of song
That little girl murdered the snowman ⛄ he's full of hot air when he says wants to destroy her than Santa basically admitting he wanted to murder Burton.
Thank you for this!!! I've been looking for so long! I had weird memories of the scene where Burton falls and turns into the snowman and then when he melts. I kept trying to google descriptions of this movie but was unsure if I had just dreamed of it.
i found a vhs of the sequel "the christmas brigade" on amazon which costs $3. if you ever buy it, will you ever upload it please? i want to see the continuation of the story of the christmas light and its brigade!
Hi Penny, sorry for the late reply, but I did end up buying the VHS. I had no idea there was a sequel. I've digitized it and the video will be published on this channel December 25th. Thanks for the heads up!
People will say that this isnt a very good film it doesnt have a good story, acting and has flat visuals...but this was from 1995, and cgi was still pretty early, sure not that early but still early in a sense. Like an old 3d pc game. In fact as Im watching this I sorta enjoy this
I think if someone were able to assemble a team of animators, better voice actors, change the script a little bit, and add in some better instrumental, maybe they could make this a bit better. Not Disney good, but better than it was.
@@mackenzieperrault7382 do you know what type of chimes? I keep hearing they're keyboard chimes, but I can't find any information on which type of keyboard chimes they are.
i'd guess it's some old digital soundeffect. I think they used them or something similar in some tracks of the Home Alone soundtrack, and maybe a handful of other christmas specials from the '90s
The cg reminds me of something out of a budget game or tycoon game from the 90s, like the civilian models in Pizza Syndicate or the prerendered characters from Theme Hospital.
@@lindinle Given that Isaac is "inventive" enuff to make a fighter jet, a robot capable of mass destruction called "Twitter", and not to mention Burton's machine works fine if fed with organic matters. I'd say Santa hired war criminals and weapon designers for his little sweat shop and all other elves have been used for target practice or died from Burton's machines.
Huh. This is a rather interesting short film, even with how primitive it is. I've been playing around with the idea of writing a remake of this movie. Do you guys wanna hear my ideas?
@@Deform-2024 Not just updated animation, but an updated story, writing, and characters! First of all, I would change the dynamic between Burton and Santa. Instead of just saying that the other elves don't like him and him just being kind of a jerk, I would have it so that he just _thinks_ Santa and the other elves don't like him, and, as a result, he's an antisocial shut-in. In reality, Santa does like him, but he is rather off-put by his strange ideas. Second, the toy machine and why Santa doesn't want to use it. Instead of it just being a toy-making device with a bug that causes the toys it creates to explode for no discernible reason, I would have it so that it's actually a very dangerous toy-making device that runs on dark magic, and that unstable dark magic is what causes the toys to explode (much more violently, I might add). Third, the Snowman. Instead of him being an actually snowman with a jagged mouth, an echoing voice, and unexplained powers that kinda come out of nowhere, I would make him a malevolent, ghastly phantom made of snow and freezing arctic wind with a jagged mouth that would look much better on him like this, a deep, booming voice, and powers that make much more sense coming from a vengeful ghost than from a snowman. And those are just three of my ideas. I have quite a few more.
Ugh... For a Christmas special, this was way too boring... I came here because of Saberspark, btw. Homer3 and Toy Story came out the same exact year, and the animation in both of those looks so much better than this.
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From this day on I am no longer Burton Lemon.
I am forever more, *Snowman* .
And you WILL rue the day you had your way with me.
they keep using that word. i don't think it means what they think it means
All the characters in this film give off the same aura as those smug looking vintage Garfield plush toys and I think that's just splendid.
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You're absolutely right-
Burton: fucking dies
Isaac: [in the least affected tone ever] Burton's gone. Poor Burton.
Is it bad for me to say that I actually genuinely like this? I mean, on the one hand, it’s so flat, visually dark, and monotone that it’s actually kind of relaxing and easy to fall asleep to :)
Same. It's got a lot of problems but it's actually pretty enjoyable, I haven't finished part 2 yet and the story is a step up.
if anything those qualities make it unsettling for me
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I love how the narrator describes everything in present tense! It's like he's not even actually narrating the story! He's just reading the non-dialog parts of the script! XD
Tbh, he probably *is,* it would be cheaper than writing him dialogue
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"He's gone. Burton's gone, Poor Burton."
Could we redo that take, and maybe just try to sound like you just saw your co-worker DIE right infront of you?
Also the award for "Most spontaneous super villain transformation," goes to The Snowman!! Wtf?
ringoringo You came from Phelous's review too, I see.
This, Motion Picture Cured My Crippling Diabetes.
"He calls it SLED 2"
Absolutely astonishing.
And he is apparently the most inventive of the elves... I'd hate to see the others' creativity.
@@FrenchPaul1988 sled 3
@@pepper-deer i have a banger for you sled 4
@@FrenchPaul1988 Why do you think all of Santa's toys are just mainstream mass-produced popular kids items by big corporations?
@@chese5414 here's an idea! what about sled 5?
I'll make a list of my favorite highlights:
- Santa's complex includes a full scale Washington monument replica and stadium lights.
- Santa's office is a very normal room at the top of said replica.
- Isaac's hairdo
- Santa's barely taller than his elves
- Burton's mental crysis and subsequent death
- Burton's rebirth as an evil snowman, cleverly named Snowman.
- Every character's fixed pupils
- SLED 2
- 11:48
- 13:14 Sled-2's computer already had a Snowman alert programmed into it. How did Isaac know about Snowman when he created Sled-2? This reeks of conspiracy.
- Snowman's most powerful weapon is turning into a fist.
- Rap battle
And santa being no taller than a child
@@lindinle Don't forget there's only two elves in this prison as we never saw anyone else.
Isaac doesn’t seem all that phased that he watched his coworker die in front of him.
Nobody Likes b urton
@@80yearoldman98 Probably because Isaac used them as target practice and Burton feeding them to his machines.
the life of elves is often tragic. Im sure Isaac has seen some things
Brilliant. A complete eclipse over the inferior sun that is Toy Story. Gorgeously scripted, charmingly performed, lovingly orchestrated. Solid 1 out of 10.
She did not stop until the Christmas light was inside me, your honor.
It’s become a classic in my family.
same
You must really hate your family
This is the most 90s CGI thing I've seen
12:40 "Santa clicks his heels like Dorothy"
Despite never having seen this until I was 23, it feels very nostalgic for me. Reminds me an awful lot of very early VeggieTales with these ultra-simple backgrounds and strange music.
*shivers* That very first VeggieTales episode freaked the crap out of me as a child 😳
@@hopemueller2658 yeah, the first veggietales episode definitely has a bit more of a liminal, sparse feeling to it. it's infinitely more engaging to watch, though, imo
Yeah but early Veggietales had way more effort put into it. The animation had awkward fast movements, but it wasn’t slow and clunky like this one. The facial expressions too also gave it more charm, in this though they have the same dim expression nearly the entire time. Veggie tales also had some very catchy music, and a lot of good humor at times. Veggietales gets a bad rap a lot, but keeping in mind Toy Story came a few years after and was animated by veterans in the animation industry. Veggietales was made by rookies who cleverly experimented with a unique software.
5:22-6:15 While the weather outside is frightful his diss track is only room temperature
Rebeltaxi stole your joke
I might need to recreate this soundtrack and put it on the internet, geez is it good. What a hidden gem of complete and utter chaos this is. Love hilarious low budget films like this.
Glad I'm not the only one that finds the MIDI soundtrack so relaxing and comforting hahaha
I love the uncanny feel this has
feels liminal.
17:40 Epic Rap Battles Of History
I appreciate the effort that must have went into this, doing CG animation in the 90s on what must have been an abysmally low budget. But the story, the story is what killed the entire film.
How come this has much better animation than rapsittie street kids
If I'm correct, this was made using an actual SGI software.
Rapsittie was made using a less weaker program from 1992 named 3D Choreographer.
Some people think "The Exorcist" is the scariest movie ever.
I firmly disagree.
*THIS* is the scariest movie ever.
This is one of the worst movies ever made and I thank you for uploading it. I've been searching for this for days
No this is a masterpiece compared to the cartoon titanic movies
The David Lynch Holiday Special
AIN'T NO WAY
THERE AIN'T NO WAY
If you like Toy Story then you'll LOVE The Christmas Light :/
Pan pizza brought me here
deadpool me 2
5:22-6:15 While the weather outside is frightful his diss track is only room temperature Pan Pizza
YOU'LL RUE THE DAY THAT YOU'VE HAD YOUR WAY WITH ME!!!!
18:34 "Who'd have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?!"
I don't know... I find something appealing about these visuals. So simple and primitive. I know it's bad, but something about it draws me in. Like with demoscene, or psx pre rendered cutscenes.
I can see this being something a parent might put on for their kid to occupy them so they can go to the bathroom in peace. lol. There IS something oddly charming about it.
Me too. It’s bad and I know it but I like it . Well except for the singing
"So bad it's awesome."
3:18 I laughed so much at that part cause of how bad it is XD
why does the snowman speak like a JRPG villain
He sounds like a 3rd-rate Andross.
he sounds like Garfield on autotune
My life is now complete. The art I've witnessed today shall stay with me for all time. Thank you The Christmas Light.
This whole movie feels like waking up at 2 AM when everyone else is still asleep
"It's a film about family." - Mike Stoklasa (RLM)
6:22 “He’s gone, Burton’s gone. Poor Burton.”
Just how, JUST HOW did no one in the recording studio ever say: “How about we do another take and this time, let’s make it sound like you literally just saw your coworker DIE right in front of you.”
Best watched at 2x speed. Reasonable animation for 1995. Beast Wars was made one year later on a budget of $300,000 per 20 minute episode. I doubt this had that budget.
Insektors and ReBoot both debuted the year before. Does anyone know what their production budgets were?
MawBTS sorry got my maths wrong, it was $18mil for 26 EPs, or about $700,000 per episode
It’s animated WORSE than Andre and Wally B, and that came out in the early 80s!
@@Poever 1984, right? Yes. '84. That's the same year that saw the television debut of Thomas the Tank Engine!
5:37 i have no words
6:14
Just start the movie here. Just start it here and ask no questions.
Phelous brought me here.
Me too
They really thought this was on Toy Story’s level huh
And after watching the second "movie", this one looks MILES better with "more" efforts put into that short 20 minutes.
Rapsittie Street Kids: Papier MAche robots
The Christmas Light: Womble Dolls
9:46 goes hard
I've never heard of cursed animation, but yeah this pretty much fits.
Also "you'll rue the day you had your way with me" totally means something else to everyone sane watching this
Lessons I've learnt are
Santa runs a prison complex with a Washington Monument replica
Santa's barely taller then the elves
Fight evil snowmen by literally melting them with the power of song
That little girl murdered the snowman ⛄ he's full of hot air when he says wants to destroy her than Santa basically admitting he wanted to murder Burton.
Why does Santa live in the Washington Monument
Thank you for this!!! I've been looking for so long! I had weird memories of the scene where Burton falls and turns into the snowman and then when he melts. I kept trying to google descriptions of this movie but was unsure if I had just dreamed of it.
Last comment of the decade on this masterpiece.
EDIT: had this playing while the decade ended .
Ger ready for a rash of hackfrauds commenting on this video...
I’m showing this masterpiece to my family tomorrow so much better then it’s a wonderful life
Burton's voice sounds like some generic anime character.
im gonna kick myself for saying this but his laugh sounds like Vash the Stampede
@@Alliekatmeowmeow Honestly all I keep hearing is Hikoro Oikawa from DearS.
@@Takimeko in the sub or dub? it's been a while since i saw that show
@@Alliekatmeowmeow Dub.
Takimeko and his Random Channal
The Christmas Light is my favorite anime
i found a vhs of the sequel "the christmas brigade" on amazon which costs $3. if you ever buy it, will you ever upload it please? i want to see the continuation of the story of the christmas light and its brigade!
will you ever do a video on the sequel if you ever buy the vhs? do you still have your vhs player?
Hi Penny, sorry for the late reply, but I did end up buying the VHS. I had no idea there was a sequel. I've digitized it and the video will be published on this channel December 25th. Thanks for the heads up!
You're welcome!
Here's the Christmas Brigade btw: ruclips.net/video/CXG5tB9OTKE/видео.html
I kinda want to do a voice Like the Snowman's Voice in Audacity,
I watched the whole thing last night. It was such a mind bender, I dreamed it was snowing!
It's horrible. i love it
As soon as the snowman started melting, my mom thought he was turning into a woman
I'm watching this high... Wish me luck
I actually remember watching this in elementary school
You know, we're never gonna beat Johnson Family Christmas Dinner, nobody can
Burton is the key to all this....if we can get Burton working. He's a stupider character than we've ever had.
Burton, you were better off as an evil snowman! ⛄🔪
Today, on this Christmas Eve, I am going to watch this, and make it a Christmas tradition for myself.
Why does he grow ears right before he melts away _I'm going to _*_scream_*
@@BudDinktrap SAME FDKLNS
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The snowman looks like he's made of solid ice.
WTF did we do to get on the naughty list?
People will say that this isnt a very good film it doesnt have a good story, acting and has flat visuals...but this was from 1995, and cgi was still pretty early, sure not that early but still early in a sense. Like an old 3d pc game. In fact as Im watching this I sorta enjoy this
Then it got worse when the "sequel" had even LESS animation, non-coherent plot and silly retcons. Consistency? WHAT IS CONSISTENCY?
Imo the character designs would look fine if literally everything else wasn't so dingy and if the animation was more expressive.
6:18 dark enchantress cookie's backstory in a nutshell
I think if someone were able to assemble a team of animators, better voice actors, change the script a little bit, and add in some better instrumental, maybe they could make this a bit better. Not Disney good, but better than it was.
Skyriss Mirror Heroysha So if they changed everything about it, basically.
“if you made the movie better it would be a better movie”
Why does the dialogue load slower than Silent Hill 1?
Phelous brought us here
1:04 what is that instrument? It's the most beautiful sound I've ever heard. It kisses me with nostalgia.
Chimes?
@@mackenzieperrault7382 do you know what type of chimes? I keep hearing they're keyboard chimes, but I can't find any information on which type of keyboard chimes they are.
@@aeroblu2002 wind chimes probably
@@mackenzieperrault7382 doesn't seem to sound like them.
i'd guess it's some old digital soundeffect.
I think they used them or something similar in some tracks of the Home Alone soundtrack, and maybe a handful of other christmas specials from the '90s
is it me or does this give off vaporware vibes
Y E S
Burton is the best character
Still looks leagues better than rapsittie kids 😂😂😂
Love how they never refer to him as Burton anymore, just Snowman.
This looks like it was rendered in Super Mario 64
Bowling allies at Christmas time
Am I the only one who likes the snowman's theme song?
This ROM hack of Star Fox 64 is weird...
It may not be that great but for early CG its cute
The cg reminds me of something out of a budget game or tycoon game from the 90s, like the civilian models in Pizza Syndicate or the prerendered characters from Theme Hospital.
I don’t care how shit it is, there’s something so magical about 90’s/2000’s Christmas specials no matter the quality
That's like saying eating a poisoned burger is fine because the specific time it came from brings nostalgia.
@@thientuongnguyen2564 - that is no where near what I said
@@Stuart_Dooley Have you seen that horrid "Rudy Red Nose" dubbed by the Dutch?
Have you seen Rapsittie street kids believe in santa?
@@superhunksickle best special ever
What was Isaac's toy train made of if it exploded?
Exploding powder and orphan's tears.
@@thientuongnguyen2564 or hes plotting to turn the workshop into a terror cell
@@lindinle Given that Isaac is "inventive" enuff to make a fighter jet, a robot capable of mass destruction called "Twitter", and not to mention Burton's machine works fine if fed with organic matters. I'd say Santa hired war criminals and weapon designers for his little sweat shop and all other elves have been used for target practice or died from Burton's machines.
6:19
F
This is a good CGI demo
I been watching this and the sequel every Christmas ever since certain youtubers talked about them lol
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Saberspari
This looks like a fun old charmingly crappy antique pc game......wait a minute...... it’s not....?? Oh boy
don't wory about that I have a new seld that line killed me
No Burton its to dangerous
But WHYYYYYYYY
3:32 did he said Burton Lemon?
yeah i think his name is supposed to be a pun? like BURNT lemon
The full length sequel has been uploaded online. Enjoy :) ruclips.net/video/6xhUWu7A7Ro/видео.html
Goryparodies Productions HOW DO PEOPLE FIND THIS?!
Huh. This is a rather interesting short film, even with how primitive it is.
I've been playing around with the idea of writing a remake of this movie. Do you guys wanna hear my ideas?
Yeah. You cant really blame it for it's animation, 1995 was a relatively new computer animation era, Pixar's toy story came after this!
Sure, it would be interesting to see the snowman with updated animation.
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Not just updated animation, but an updated story, writing, and characters!
First of all, I would change the dynamic between Burton and Santa. Instead of just saying that the other elves don't like him and him just being kind of a jerk, I would have it so that he just _thinks_ Santa and the other elves don't like him, and, as a result, he's an antisocial shut-in. In reality, Santa does like him, but he is rather off-put by his strange ideas.
Second, the toy machine and why Santa doesn't want to use it. Instead of it just being a toy-making device with a bug that causes the toys it creates to explode for no discernible reason, I would have it so that it's actually a very dangerous toy-making device that runs on dark magic, and that unstable dark magic is what causes the toys to explode (much more violently, I might add).
Third, the Snowman. Instead of him being an actually snowman with a jagged mouth, an echoing voice, and unexplained powers that kinda come out of nowhere, I would make him a malevolent, ghastly phantom made of snow and freezing arctic wind with a jagged mouth that would look much better on him like this, a deep, booming voice, and powers that make much more sense coming from a vengeful ghost than from a snowman.
And those are just three of my ideas. I have quite a few more.
Ugh... For a Christmas special, this was way too boring... I came here because of Saberspark, btw. Homer3 and Toy Story came out the same exact year, and the animation in both of those looks so much better than this.
Santa could have just said "we'll use your invention next year. It just needs a little more development"
17:52 who wins? Who's the next? You decide!!
Get ready for Phelous fans to show up. 😋
Including me.
Hey hey hey
I come here from saber
I love that snowman
I watched this for the first time last night. 11:52 made me loose it 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I was NOOOTTTT ready for stalker santa
....points for trying.
FRom this dAy on I am no lONger Burton lemon I am forever more SNOWman. you Will rule the day. You had your way with me