More pretty coins

A fun little article by the Royal Mint on their Queen's Beasts series, The Lion of England. Nice sketch there-



And here are two the Royal Canadian Mint Polar Bears-


Fairly standard, and it has little paw prints around the outside rim!


Duuuude!

Ah, zoomorphs! :o)

Cats Don't Dance

Thanks and a tip of the bunny ears to porsupah for a mention and discussion of Cats Don't Dance in a post. It had been ages since I watched this flick, and as I only had the VHS I bought it on DVD for 'five and change' from Amazon. Saw it tonight and realized how much of it I'd forgotten and just how wonderful it was. Danny is a sweetheart, and Sawyer just knocks me off my feet! Heh, I only cried a couple of times...

The DVD format was excellent- clear and bright, and outstandingly colorful! I let it run through the credits and sighed at the list of voices used. And the animators and support staff looked to be all on-shore and not farmed out to Asian studios (the names were pronounceable).

One surprise among the animators-

(Picture taken from the 'net)

It was great to see this again!