I’ve been spending a bit of time researching dung beetles for another project I’m working on. I ended up on YouTube (I’m sure all roads lead to YouTube eventually) and found this really cute dung beetle animation called Dung Beetle Battle. Much to my delight, I then discovered that the makers, Minuscule, have a whole series of similar insect animations. They are short (which is good for my concentration) and play on average for 4 min 30 sec.
Introducing Doug Dung Beetle’s other cousin – Tom Tunneler. You may recall from previous posts there are three types of dung beetles: Rollers (Doug), Dwellers and Tunnellers. Well, this is the full set of Doug’s extended family. Tunnellers like to dive deep into dung, then start tunnelling their way through the dung and deep into the earth below. not only does this provide a nice safe home for the beetle, it also acts as a breeding spot for the little baby dung beetle eggs. Unfortunately for Tom, methane gas is explosive.
Perhaps I should re-title this post as
‘How to not win the 39th annual Piracicaba International Humour cartoon competition’
Ahh, not that I’m upset. My ego is stronger than that! (just)
Boldly I decided to enter the competition (heck, it’s free and open up to the world. I had nothing to lose). There are 5 categories, of which I entered the first category
Not only that, I could enter 3 cartoons, so I did (stay tuned, they’ll be coming out shortly). I even got a friend of mine to translate (below) the caption into Portuguese (that cost me a chocolate frog too). Don’t the Brazilians love their beef? Surely, I was on a winner?
But alas no, it was not to be. But if you are interested in seeing what the winners came up with, here are the winning cartoons from the Piracicaba International humour exhibition.
