- Stainboy
"The World of Stainboy" is a series of
flash animation shorts created in 2000 by directorTim Burton and animated by Flinch Studios. The character Stainboy first appeared in two short poems in the book "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy ", also created and illustrated by Tim Burton.In the shorts, Stainboy works for the
Burbank police, and at the start of each episode he is ordered to investigate and bring in social outcasts. Many of the outcasts are characters from the "Oyster Boy" book. These characters include: Stare Girl, Roy the Toxic Boy, Robot Boy, Match Girl, Jimmy the Hideous Penguin Boy, The Girl with Many Eyes, The Boy with Nails in his Eyes, and Brie Boy. Each of the six episodes is under five minutes in length.List of Episodes
# "The Girl Who Stares"
# "The Toxic Boy"
# "The Bowling Ball"
# "The Robot Boy"
# "The Match Girl"
# "Stainboy's Day Off"External links
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* [http://www.atomfilms.com/films/tim_burtons_stainboy.jsp Stainboy on Atom Films]
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