May
27
2009
Toonbox Adds New Verses to Pushkin’s Life
Paul Mountian and the gang at Toonbox have embarked on a series of 5 Flash-animated shorts for Kaspersky Anti-Virus software. This first one below is a reimagining of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s duel with his brother-in-law Georges d’Anthès. The real life duel resulted in Puskin’s death, but Paul and his friends have another result in mind that may involve Kaspersky’s services.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I love it – but you guys called him “Puskin” and not “Pushkin”. Also, I didn’t think d’Anthes was his brother-in-law. Weird. But awesome animation.
May 27th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
thanks for the typo catch. the brother-in-law mention was based on a number of sources that confirmed it, like …. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~pleckesg/Pushkin/Bio.html
but i can’t confirm if he married pushkin’s sister-in-law before puskin’s death or after.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
beautiful! great look to it!
May 29th, 2009 at 6:52 am
This is great! Quick paced, well designed.. keeps me entertainted! Good job Toonbox!
June 9th, 2009 at 8:00 am
[...] Last month we featured ToonBox’s animated short for Kaspersky Anti-Virus software. It was a reimagining of Alexander Pushkin’s life, and today another literary legend is center stage. Raskolnikov, the central figure in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s intense masterpiece Crime and Punishment, goes up against a granny who boasts some secret protection. [...]