Pen and Paper



Pen and Paper is a 2003 hand drawn animated film, loosely based upon the old drawings of director James Rodriguez (of whom the artist character is named after), who asipired to make a career for himself in animation.

Plot
A picture's worth a thousand words, and the same can be said of art. Inside of the Notebook of young artist James, lives an everexpanding world of creativity, and at the center of it all, Pencil Town. Led by the first of James' Creations, President Stickly, who led this wondrous world via their creator's Creative Flow...until one day...the creative flow stops. Nothing new happens for months, leaving the citizens of each part of the Notebook panicked, and Stickly a nervous paranoid wreck.

One Creation, Ted the Cartoon Test Dummy, steps up to investigate by LEAVING the pages of the Notebook and heading out to find and bring back James. Alongside him are Pretty Princess Sally, your average child's idea of what a girl is like, and Superhot, a bumbling, foolish Superman parody, who somehow always gets the girl. After traveling for many miles in the Real World, they find a much older James in Richard Williams High School (a fictional high school named after famous animator Richard Williams as an easter egg).

Inside of the school, they find a new Notebook, containing different drawings, much better drawings, replacing them. There, they meet a few new friends, but soon find foes.

Dr. Atticus Evil, the main villain of James' Double-O-Zer0 spy comics, learns the background of Ted and Sally, and Uggo, the monstrous adversary of a CONTINUATION of one of the old Creations, "The New Misadventures of Superhot", teams up with Dr. Evil to show James that his drawings are ALIVE (which he assumes will drive him insane), and then erase Ted, Sally, and Old Superhot from existence.