Little Red - The Prequel

Wandering through the woods alone? Never mind worrying about wolves, just make sure you don't go and pick the wrong kind of mushroom. This sound enough advice is dramatised in this animation by WelshGed.

Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault - France

I can't seem to track down much information on this one, but I just wanted to present this short animated version of Little Red Riding Hood, apparently originating from Japan. In this adaptation, the wolf is a distinctly comedic figure and comes to a rather unusual ending.

Ray Harryhausen's "The Story of Little Red Riding Hood"

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Although much more famous for his work on monster and fantasy movies, Ray Harryhausen also produced a series of shorts based upon fairytales during the 1940s and '50s. These films included stop-motion animation versions of Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel and of course, the above Little Red Riding Hood.

I have to admit to finding Harryhausen's version of LRRH a little odd, though. The narration seems to add little that isn't communicated by the animation itself and the whole story is strangely bowdlerised, with no-one getting harmed, eaten or killed (which raises the question of why the wolf doesn't just come back and get Red Riding Hood the next day, I think).

This video comes courtesy of Cometin-Jetson who has also posted the other Harryhausen works mentioned above.

Akazukin Chacha

Akazukin Chacha - Creditless Opening 1 (Episodes 1 - 30)
by Yukito06

One of my favourite LRRH-themed TV shows is the Japanese children's animated series Akazukin Chacha (Red hood chacha) which tells the story of a young trainee witch and her misadventures.

This particular iteration of the opening credits sequence (of which there are several) makes a great deal out of the potential for romance between Chacha and her friend Liiya (alternately spelled as Riiya), a werewolf character no doubt inspired by the Big Bad Wolf (despite his cute and cuddly appearance here). The third side of this love triangle comes in the form of Shiine, a boy also training to become a witch.

Somewhat weirdly, Akazukin Chacha is a magical girl anime and features Chacha transforming, Sailor Moon-style, into an adult superhero who fights monsters. This seems to jar somewhat with the big-eyed cuteness of the rest of the show and is a feature that was ultimately cut from the series.

The Little Red Riding Hood

World War imagery goes hand in hand with Looney Tunes logic in this short cartoon from Belarus.

The Little Red Riding-hood - The best bloopers are a click away

The Snow White Project

This mash-up/parody by BlackoutDOTcom nicely plays upon some of the common imagery between many fairytales and modern horror films, in particular the common trope of being lost in the woods.

[Warning: strong language]

Tomas Nilsson's "Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny"

Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

Tomas Nilsson's version of Little Red Riding Hood is distinctly reminiscent of H5's music video for Röyksopp's "Remind Me", with a neat infographics aesthetic. (Video discovered via Suvudu)

Areejak's Little Red Riding Hood

Areejak has a neat little abstract/minimalist animation about Red Riding Hood over at her deviantart page.

Three Little Pigs

Sometimes, it seems I just need to post a silly metal video.

As far as I'm aware I don't tend to get any children visiting this blog, but just in case, I'd better warn that the following video for "Three Little Pigs" by metal band Green Jello (a.k.a. Green Jelly)* does include some mild drug use and sex references. Still, in the spirit of Celebrity Deathmatch, "it's only clay!"**

The below video is actually slightly redacted. The full (embedding disabled) video is here.



*One day I'll learn how to put heavy metal umlauts in a blog post
**Or, in keeping with the appendix to the ful-length video, only a "stupid puppet show".

The Girl & The Wolf

A fairly straightforward modern, animated take on LRRH from Button Films via James Thurber's amusing interpretation.

The Red Hat and the Wolf

I'll be honest, I'm not entirely certain what this is. It appears to be some sort of public service announcement to do with (online) sexual predators. This is actually a fairly common reading of some of the themes at work in the LRRH story. Still, I'll be honest, this isn't exactly the greatest vid I've ever posted on here.

Big Wolf and Little Girl

The animation may be crude (to be fair, it's all done in MSpaint!) but there's a few neat touches in this little animation from 'fherueda'.

Red Riding Hood and the Wolf

LRRH and the Wolf may compete, but they seem a lot happier when getting along in George Gendi's neat little animation.

I like that the traditional story is eschewed in favour of a simple noughts & crosses (tic tac toe) game. The roles of LRRH and the wolf are reduced to their basic functions of antagonists of one another, so the overall story of the piece still very much comes across (plus, I bet that tic tac toe game was much easier to animate than the alternative).

Jerry's Red Riding Hood

Red Riding Hood by "Jerry (Grandfaloon)" is a rather interesting animated take on the tale. Jerry's version simultaneously re-introduces elements from classical versions of the story ("the way of the needles/pins," the warning animals, the cannibalism, etc.) whilst at the same time being mired in the very modern, both stylistically with the anime-inspired character designs and fight sequences, and also in the very technology behind the animation itself.

Warning: some violent scenes and themes.

Chaperon Rouge

Tristan Michel et al have produced this wonderfully polished-looking 3D-animated take on Little Red Riding Hood. For more information on this film, please check out the film's website.