An alpaca. An alien. Three minutes of unhinged Toonami chaos.
A series of original Pacalien shorts which aired during commercial breaks on Toonami.
Direction
Hata crams more visual ideas in 3 min than most features.
Practical Effects
Hand-crafted alpaca puppet meets gooey alien transformation.
Director
Toshiko Hata
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Toonami's 'Infomercials' and micro-shorts (like 'Too Many Cooks') created a whole genre of anti-commercials designed to break viewers' brains during ad breaks.
Director Toshiko Hata reportedly animated PACALIEN almost entirely solo over six months, funded by a Japanese arts grant originally intended for 'family-friendly content.'
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