Hey guys, this is YTPGod here, and today is my birthday! My 15th year standing on the grass and enjoying the living fack out of animation. Speaking of animation, today is time to recap my two nights at the Spark Animation Festival at the Vancity Theatre in Vancouver, B.C.

Now I had been thinking of going to the first four nights, cause the first two were screenings and talks of Kung Fu Panda and Horton Hears a Who and the rest were The Pixar Story and the Worst Cartoons Ever, but I managed to only go to two, which were The Pixar Story and the Worst Cartoons Ever.

First i'll talk about the new Pixar documentary directed by Ub Iwerk's child, Leslie Iwerks. The Pixar Story was a very good documentary, even though I learnt most of this stuff from previous documentaries from the Pixar DVDs, Wikipedia, from knowledge, and the earlier released documentary Fog City Mavericks which was about the filmmakers living in San Fran. But it showed me some new things about Pixar I haven't learnt before, including the fact that when they were said to develop a feature they were going nuts and when they were going nuts in their earlier animation studio, including setting fires! (Possibly for fun or if it was an actual problem) So overall, I thought the documentary was fantastic, and the film will later be released on DVD packed-in with the WALL-E 2-disc special edition (which includes a digital copy of the latest Pixar classic).

Then it's up to the Worst Cartoons Ever. This thing was edited and hosted by Jerry Beck (animation historian and author of The Animated Movie Guide and Outlaw Animation), and it started off as a question by a fan of one of his books The 50 Greatest Cartoons, he said "I know about the greatest cartoons, but what about the worst?" Then it built into a special compilation which premiered back in 2002 and is still screening at other festivals to this day and is also available on the internet on DVD.

The shorts were: "Mighty Mr. Titan", a physical fitness superhero which it's opening title sequence gives out false expectations; "Johnny Cyper in Dimension Zero", one of the first anime / american hybrids; "Super President", which was shockingly produced by DePatie - Freiling; "Spunky and Tadpole", an adventure series about a boy and his mentally challenged bear; "The Adventures of Sir Gee Whiz", created by Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising; "Moon Mullins", I assume it's about a robber stealing a diamond inside an opera house; some cartoon about a detective dog with a machine gun hat and his mexican assistant, I can't remember the title; "Paddy the Pelican", my personal favourite which was so stupidly funny weird; "Winky Dink and You", a draw-on-the-screen kids show; "Rocket Robin Hood", which, to my shame, I remember watching re-runs of it on Teletoon; and "The Big World of Little Adam", a stock footage slideshow mixed with educational "animation". Oh and two commercials were shown too, a goofy looking commercial for a Batman / Superman glitter color thing and the now-becoming-widely-known-to-animation-nerds cigarette advertisement with the Flintstones.

So overall I had a great time there, and I hope to see another one of these next year.