El Kabong

Cartoon character Quick Draw McGraw becomes El Kabong the Hero and fights El Bad Guy with his steel guitar. El Kabong and Babalooie ride into a small town in Mexico inhabited by Day of the Dead skeleton town folk who are threatened by El Bad Guy. Hand-painted characters and backgrounds were scanned and then animated with computer software. Music by Calexico.

source: SIGGRAPH and the Internet Archive.

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