I've always loved that movie. I remember watching it on TV when it was first broadcast back around 1980.

I didn't know of it until the Disney Channel aired it in the 90s. I bought the VHS sometime after that.

And they run fooooreeever! Very old school, nice capturing of the scene sir!

Thanks. I just sorta drew a screen-capture.

I always wish they'd make another one.

I just want this on on DVD.

It's available on DVD, search for "Die Dschungel-Olympiade". Has original audio and German dub but disc is PAL and region 2 (Europe).

Yeah, but it's not in region 1 though.

Hey,man. They're going all the way!

Beat me to it

I wonder if they made the people happy... or if that's the right song?

Dude thats so cute lol came out awesome, I love that movie :)
You should draw Winston Schwartz from Fritz The Cat some time, she was such an under rated character, lol the second half of the movie she was pretty bad ass.

I've actually never seen the Fritz movies. I should do that some year.

the only good one i think is the first one, the rest of them are way too political and boring

Yeah come to think of it the first one is the only real good one lol

I think I've been told that before.

It wasn't dumb! I loved the movie! Anyways, I always liked Brenda Springer and the turtle that talked like Henry Kissinger/Henry Killinger.

It's dumb in the best way possible. I love the innocence of it.

He is such a dreamboat.

Heh heh. And an ego-maniac.

Ah Wee Moo Way.

Bah weep boop ninny-bob.

I believe its on DVD now
I has the movie on VHS

It's on a region 2 DVD ( which blows since I'm not from that region ). I did dig out & watch my VHS copy the other night. My VCR was more than happy to play it for me.

Man, I really loved that cartoon!

Me too.

Dumb? It's fascinating, especially the art style. The graphic design perfectly captures the transition from the psychedelic style of the 1970s to the high-tech look of the 1980s. Also impressive is how the writers were able to create literally dozens of memorable characters.

It's the good kind of dumb. It's wonderfully innocent and very well animated. And I love all of the music in it.... even the jingles for all of the segment graphics.

Yay! Very nice!

"They went from neck and neck to, hand in hand!"

True dat.

Fraggle + Animalympics =

Seconded!

Hee hee.

I saw it on TV when i am little

I first saw it on Disney in the 90s.

what the move about

It's just animals doing Olympic sporting events.

they have songs?

There are songs in the movie.

list of songs in this movie

Oh I don't kn ow their names.

goggle it

I love the whole movie, but sitll I love his song about not having love in his life.

YES! That's my favorite part. I love that he's smoking too.

Oh yeah. He is looking so nice enjoying a smoke and relaxing. Living a normal live till he got the running bug and life change for him over night.

Yeah, I love that part.

I tried putting this on at a furmeet a few months ago. About 20 minutes in, everybody was demanding we put something else on. Damned ingrate kids.

Man! Why were they even there?

Is this someone's twisted idea of strategy? Is it... international sabotage? Or... is it just fooling around?

All of that!

Excellent on-model work on capturing the somewhat funny running gait of our romantic heroes.
And yes, back in the 80s it was perfectly normal for straight men to wear half-shirts and tight-ass running shorts.

Yeah, I just worked off a few screen-captures. I love all the 80s innocence. Actually, didn't it come out in 1980? It's more of a late 70s movie if anything. I love that stuff though.

Part of the interesting backstory for this film is that NBC actually contracted Lisberger Studios to do a bunch of animated shorts to run during the 1980 Olympics, to help explain to the Leetle Wons what was going on. And then Peanut Farmer James went and boycotted the '80 Games (held in Moscow) to protest the Evil Empire's invasion of Afghanistan.
But all the Funny Animal shorts were done. NBC didn't have an Olympics to cover, so they just handed the shorts back to Lisberger and said thanks, but we're done here. So Lisberger cobbled together the shorts to make a film, with some new animation to fill in the gaps, and peddled it to these people and those. Finally Showtime picked it up and ran it in the kiddie movie blocks for years.
All the while this was going on, Lisberger and his buddies were trying to peddle a very ambitious feature film, about a guy who gets sucked into the uncharted digital world inside computers: TRON.
The original TRON himself appears briefly in Animalympics, and his overall design was what all the digital-world characters of TRON would've looked like had they gone with the full-animation approach. he even flings a couple of Identity Disks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9W6aCorCXw
The TRON clip, so full of period backlighting effects, also did extensive moonlighting during this same period, in promo spots for radio stations around the country:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrWhvGBrA-U

That sort of thing is so cool to me. I'd like to see things like that now done without someone winking at the camera.

If you have TRON on DVD (what do you mean, you DON'T????) there should be the whole "making of TRON" documentary thing on there as well. Most-all that info about Animalympics came from that.
Here's a gallery of original TRON concept art:
http://www.tron-sector.com/gallery/.....p;s=1&c=14

That is very Animalympic-ish. Heh... maybe I should get Tron on DVD. I haven't seen it in decades.

It is a really sweet story.

I agree.

WoW, Phraggle!!!,,, you did it great!!!... the TV Characters now have a real body!!!...

Heh heh. Thanks.

you're welcome!!...

Wow! You really captured the characters and style so well! Those two, and Dean Wilson, are probably this wuff's 3 favorite critters from that movie.

Wuff loved Rene's "belly shirt". He just needs more 'belly' to go with it! *giggles*

I really wanna do some more of these 2. Heh heh. I like that Rene was smoking before he got bit by the gold-medal bug. I like the alligator too.

Heh, ahhh, I remember this scene well, for all that I only ever saw animalympics the once.

I've maybe seen it about... 4 or 5 times now. I got hooked by it in the 90s.

Cute drawing, they make a nice couple, nice poses too ^__^

Thankies!

You welcome

OMG! i remmember that movie!!
right on my nostalgia point!

Woo hoo! Direct hit!

Love this film/not film one of my all time fav animations for some reason. Got some of the original cel's in my collection.

Love your pic too its really captured it perfectly.

I remember a few cels being at a comic store from the 90s... I think it was before I saw the movie. Thanks.

fantastic! A real trip down memory lane, I loved the musical sequences as they ran!! I appreciate you reminding me.

*GASP* You're still alive !

My pleasure.

Wonderful movie, glad I have it. And this is a great tribute to it.

Thanks. Me too. I'm gonna hafta draw at least one more tribute.

I've watched Animalympics every time I've had to be on heavy painkillers. Great film and great piece.

Watching that movie while " feeling good " is nice.

HEY I saw this at CaliFur ! What a great movie !!!

Sweet!

Very awesome!

Thanks!

Wow, lovely rendering and excellent job capturing their expressions and mood! The attention to these two is awesome!

Thanks so much.

Can't blame Rene Fromage. Kit Mambo had such a great ass that I, too, would gladly have taken a silver medal just to run right behind her for 26 miles! (The first woman to beat a man in a marathon is going to have the greatest ass in the world.)

Heh heh. Rene didn't have time for love.... until that ass.

loved this movie, and a very cute couple. very well done with this pic!

Thanks so much.

It's always nice to see you draw new characters.

Thanks.

WOW FLASHBACKS thank you for drawing this! Your art is so good and reminds me of so many things I've forgotten. Keep it up.

Thanks so much.

I so wish that someone would make a sequel to this film - be it cel-animated or CGI, with an all-new voice cast or some of the surviving members (e.g. Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer, G-rated or PG-rated. "Animalympics" deserves to live on!

First the hafta get the original on a region 1 DVD.

Frankly, I'd love to have a new "Animalympics" movie done if possible, But I perfer it be done in cel-animated techniques and style similar to the original one, I can't picture it well in CGI.

HNNNNG, so... much... happiness. >w<

Hooray!

I have only recently discovered Animalympics, and frankly, I probably enjoy it more as an adult than I would have done as a child! I loved Kit and Rene as characters and it was wonderful how they put their rivalry aside after days of running to fall so beautifully in love.
With Rio 2016 just about to start, I urge any furry who's not seen Animalympics to find it on YouTube (about the only place I can seem to find it) and watch it through. You won't regret it, especially when you see how Kit proposes to "break Rene's concentration"!

Oh yeah. I discovered it " later in life " too. It's just a pleasant throw-back to my younger years. I soooooooo hope they put it onto normal DVD soon. I only have a VHS copy.

This is very beautiful and on model. it all appears to be colored and drawn with professional use of colored pencils. it just shows the spirit of the slow, unexpected and funny romance between the two characters.

Thanks so much.

You're welcome. like some others in in American in current years, I did see the movie a few times on Videocassette. It was very enjoyable. I do hope that whoever has the rights to the movie nowadays would re-release it on Region 1 DVD. I don't understand why they are holding it back.

I totally agree. I only have it on VHS myself.

It's out on DVD, ebay has quite a few for sale. I got mine in Hungary like, 8 years ago...

Yeah, but those ones aren't made for region 1 DVD players.

You can still play them on PC, VCL ignores region settings. I watch everything on my PC anyway... hardly watch TV anymore.

Heh, I'm kinda old school. I still have a tube TV.

Me too, though I barely use it since I watch everything on my PC.

Great work, nice to see more people draw this sadly obscure movie and its awesome furry characters. More furries should know about this!

I read recently that this film was used at like THE first furry convention of some form.

I heard about it too, it's mentioned on Wikifur.
https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Animalympics

A classic film with a unique style of animation to it, in my opinion. The same can be said about your work, amazing job! (Except I haven't seen an animation made by you, but I think that would be cool as well ^^)

Thanks. Heh, I'd love to see an animation by me too. Perhaps someday.

They look so cute together !