Douglas Aberle

A comic parody of our modern search for our creator. Two characters, made completely out of pipe cleaners and totally unaware that they are being controlled by outside forces, gradually begin to realise that there might be more to their existence than the cardboard world they inhabit. Should they cross the edge of the set and risk losing very thing they have known and loved, simply to find out "who did all this?".

Pipecleaner Dad finds that Mom has dug up the backyard and converted it into an archeological site. Her latest find: a giant plastic-handled screw driver from an age long gone by. Mom's success as an Archeologist seems to fluster Dad, almost as though his job wasn't as important.

Our favorite football head Arnold goes to church and daydreams about the 23rd psalm.

Animated short about a cubist dog.

A young donkey goes to the rescue of his master Elizabeth and Jehu when they are captured by a roving band of Samaritans.

What do you say when you are picked up by a giant bird, dropped in it's nest, fall from a very high height, smash into buildings and crash face-first into the sun? It wouldn't be "Happy Valentine's Day"! The Pipe Cleaner Family is at it again as Dad tries to cross the street with the very best Valentine present for the very best Valentine.

A comic parody of our modern search for our creator. Two characters, made completely out of pipe cleaners and totally unaware that they are being controlled by outside forces, gradually begin to realise that there might be more to their existence than the cardboard world they inhabit. Should they cross the edge of the set and risk losing very thing they have known and loved, simply to find out "who did all this?".

A comic parody of our modern search for our creator. Two characters, made completely out of pipe cleaners and totally unaware that they are being controlled by outside forces, gradually begin to realise that there might be more to their existence than the cardboard world they inhabit. Should they cross the edge of the set and risk losing very thing they have known and loved, simply to find out "who did all this?".

Fluffy has an idea

Fluffy has an idea

Fluffy has an idea

Pipecleaner Dad finds that Mom has dug up the backyard and converted it into an archeological site. Her latest find: a giant plastic-handled screw driver from an age long gone by. Mom's success as an Archeologist seems to fluster Dad, almost as though his job wasn't as important.

Pipecleaner Dad finds that Mom has dug up the backyard and converted it into an archeological site. Her latest find: a giant plastic-handled screw driver from an age long gone by. Mom's success as an Archeologist seems to fluster Dad, almost as though his job wasn't as important.

What makes the holiday season truly special? Lights? Cards? A crushed tree? The house on fire? A crash into the neighbor's door with head? While the Pipe Cleaner Family tries to enjoy the Christmas season, Dad insists on re-creating the holiday exactly as he remembered it as a boy, forcing his traditions on everyone else with disasterously comic results.

A sampler of the work of Will Vinton's animation using clay figures, including the shorts "Dinosaur," "The Great Cognito," "A Christmas Gift," and "Vanz Kant Danz."