Adult Swim's The Elephant

How it feels

An animated special where three different animators each made a part of the story. Their segments have different art styles and tones. It is about a single story told in three separate ways.

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What happens

Adult Swim's The Elephant (also known more simply as The Elephant) is an American experimental animated television special created by Jack Pendarvis and Kent Osborne for Adult Swim. Animators Ian Jones-Quartey, Patrick McHale, Rebecca Sugar, and Pendleton Ward employed an exquisite corpse technique in a style of triptych works, each designing and animating segments of the special independent from one another, to tell a single story with three disparate styles and tones. Ward animated the beginning, Jones-Quartey and Sugar animated the middle, and McHale animated the ending. Voice performances are provided by Maria Bamford, SungWon Cho, and Jordan Jensen. It premiered on Adult Swim on December 19, 2025 and became available to stream on HBO Max the following day. It was accompanied by a behind the scenes special called Behind the Elephant. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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