[Animation] Gas planet (1992) - Eric Darnell

'Gas Planet' is a pretty funny animated short film. Three strange creatures are on the Gas Planet. Something appears from the ground. It is a stick with four balloons on it. The creatures eat the balloons and apparently what is inside causes gas problems. For 1992 it looks quite good as well.
Tres habitantes de un planeta gaseoso se dedican a engullir una comida de efectos imprevistos.



Eric Darnell is an American director, writer, voice actor, songwriter and animator. He co-directed Antz with Tim Johnson and Madagascar, he also directed it's sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa with Tom McGrath.
He attended Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas, where he was a writer for the school newspaper the Harbinger. He studied broadcast journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. After graduating in '83, he spent four years working on experimental films, which helped him get accepted into the Experimental Animation program study at the California Institute of the Arts.
When he graduated he joined Pacific Data Images and worked on the Hanna-Barbera's Halloween special The Last Holloween as Character Animator. He also directed the short film Gas Planet. He also worked as director on R.E.M music video. He also made his directorial tribute for the movie Antz for PDI/DreamWorks. He also worked on Research & Development for PDI in The Prince of Egypt. He then worked as the writer for the Welcome to Duloc song on Shrek in which he also worked as story artist.
In 2005 he and Tom McGrath directed Madagascar and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa in 2006. He was co-writer for the Christmas TV Special, A Merry Madagascar.
He is currently working on The Penguins of Madagascar and Madagascar 3 which will premiere the summer of 2012.