The Adventures of André and Wally B.

The Adventures of André and Wally B. (1984) is a two-minute computer-animated short from Lucasfilm you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Alvy Ray Smith, it was produced to showcase what early CGI could do — years before any feature-length computer-animated film existed.

A little forest-dweller named André wakes from a nap to find a striped, stinger-equipped bee hovering in his face. What follows is brief and painful. Historically, the short matters more than its runtime suggests: it was the first piece of computer animation to use motion blur, a technique every CGI film since has relied on. Stream The Adventures of André and Wally B. online on iFILM.