Title:

Kobie & Ponda

Filmmaker:

Spring House Entertainment Inc.

Date:

March 31, 2009

Collection:

Mobifest Toronto 09

Genre:

animation

Synopsis: 【Kobie & Ponda】is an animated series designed exclusively for 3G mobile users, featuring a total of 20 episodes of approximately 2 to 3 minutes in length. Nevertheless, the artwork is simple yet powerful, using strong visual language and little dialogue to achieve the desired effect, while some dialogue is actually displayed on the image. This animation is primarily produced using comic-style art. The story centers on a clever mouse named Kobie and his rival Ponda, a stupid cat. Kobie dreams of one day becoming an action star, and on his way to the big city, meets the cat Ponda. Ponda’s owner kicks him out of the house due to a new found love of pandas, prompting Ponda to spend all night turning his eyes black to be accepted again. Kobie and Ponda have only one way of communicating－violence. In the process of following their dreams, what kinds of sparks can these “bad friends” produce? The conclusion of every episode uses violence as a finale, whether physical violence, verbal violence, or emotional violence, to satirize disturbing social phenomena of the modern world. But of course, we certainly do not promote violence!