Short Circutz?

[afro_akuma]

Canadian network YTV ran a set of CGI animated shorts between evening shows in 1994-95. These shorts, titled "Short Circutz," were many and varied, including: a duck made from an inflatable ring that waddled through four different rooms; "Spyro the Dog;" a world with fish and birds separated, where a male bird falls in love with a female fish and breaks through the water to be with her.

Since that time, these shorts have vanished into oblivion. No company has any references to making them. However, the quality of the animation and the stirring music that went with it means that someone obviously put effort into it. Who created them, and what was their fate?

[shorty1k]

I recently wrote Ytv about this, they gave me this email back
"Hi there,

Thanks for writing in to YTV! We're pleased to know that you enjoyed our computer graphic animation shorts, Short Circutz. They are no longer part of our current schedule. There are, however, several available to the public in cassette form through the production company. All questions regarding these shorts and the purchase of copies can be sent to Miramar productions at the following address:

Miramar Productions Inc
2758 Somerset Road
Lake Worth, FL
USA 33462
[phone]

We always enjoy hearing from our viewers and hope this information has been helpful.

Regards,
YTV Viewer Relations Department"

I'm gonna call them tonight! I'm feeling so nostagic!

[afro_akuma]

Thanks for the reply, but I tracked it myself in the interim. I found out that Miramar Productions is fairly defunct; Unapix and Odyssey 3D own the rights to the shorts.

They came from a trio of videos:

Imaginaria, which was the childrens' shorts (such as the rubber ducks)

The Mind's Eye, which was the blockier, simpler stuff (dancing men in masks)

Beyond the Mind's Eye, which was the interesting one (the bird and fish)

Hope this helps anyone else out there who liked these.