By Meghan Warner
Digging for Diamonds
This animation is done in a simplified pen style, resembling quick doodles that an artist might make but with a fully colored and shaded finishing. This was created by Joost Lieuwma and produced by Frame Order. The animation depicts a man desperate to find riches and mining for diamonds.
The Miner’s Daughter
This animation is done in the cartoon modern style and produced by UPA.
The directors of this film were Robert Cannon and John Hubley, created by the artists at UPA. The animation is about a miner and his daughter, the father wanting riches and the daughter wanting to marry the snobby miner next door.
These two cartoons share the similarity of a theme of greed. Both depict men trying to attain wealth through various methods. The difference is the ending where in the UPA cartoon the wealth is obtained, in the other it is not. The cartoons also have a similarity of simplified character designs, though contrast in line work and background styles. I feel as though both have a very effective style. Ironically, I think that the non cartoon modern cartoon could’ve benefitted by being cartoon modern instead.
https://youtu.be/V-87kXkATaA?si=tGpigOHQ_z7rZSCq