Talk:Priit Pärn

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[edit] Influences

Is the claim that Pärn's style has influenced Rugrats and Real Monsters' style sourced or just conjecture on the part of whoever added that (Hoiame Eesti lippu kõrgel, aga pliiatsist asju välja imeda ju ka ei tohiks)? Sure, there's superficial similarities, but since there's only so many ways to caricature something, this is most likely coincidence. I doubt the series' creators have ever seen Pärn's work, and if American animation is stylistically influenced by anything, it's American comic strips. Unigolyn 05:12, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi. The claim about Pärn's influence on the aforementioned Hollywood cartoon series was made by Igor Kovalyov of Klasky Csupo studio, the creator of Rugrats and Ahhh! Real Monsters, and it was cited in Chris Robinson's book about Estonian animation.Dunkelheit 11:31, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi, is there any way to access the work of Priit Pärn? I saw 'Night of the Carrots' on an alternative short movie tv program in Australia (where I am) a couple of years ago. I was absolutely fascinated by the work but haven't been able to find anything of his since. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.189.103.225 (talk • contribs) 15:41, 25 October 2006

Is it possible that he influenced the creators of Worker and Parasite from The Simpsons? That film was supposedly made in the Brezhnev era (1959), but the films being made in the Soviet Union at the time were on the other side of the pole from the style of "Worker and Parasite"... the only thing I can think of that's close it Pärn's work. It seems possible that the Simpsons creators saw some film by Priit Pärn from the Soviet era and assumed that it was Russian in origin and from the 1950s. Now, there's no source that I can cite for this, but the visual style similarities speak for themselves. I can't actually think of something else that bears so much obvious similarity to "Worker and Parasite". Esn 09:34, 11 April 2007 (UTC)