Here’s the trailer for Sprite Animation’s short film “Journey to the West.”

The film premiered at SIGGRAPH in 2005.

It’s too bad there isn’t a cleaner version available anywhere: I assume this is due to aspirational concerns. I noted that their Monster Samurai short is apparently “in production” as a series, which I believe means they hope someone will buy it. It seems to the be the old and hopefully-dying model of animation development: show only tiny slices of something you’ve already made, in hopes that someone will want to buy the rights.

There are a few clearer stills available on their site, as well as a slightly-higher-quality version of this trailer.

I am unable to detect any relationship to the classic Chinese novel of the same name.

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