Oregon is a land of contrasts.
The Columbia Gorge
A dog-poop bag weighted down and left out on a hiking trail by a scold outraged that one of the local coyotes didn’t clean up the pile of crap he left behind:
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Those coyotes, always leaving their shit and trash all over the landscape. Do you know the ecological impact from a single catapult?
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I originally read it was by a Portland firm, but apparently not.
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Hey, look at that, like the 3rd time in my life I found a use for twitter.
OK, not Studio Ghibli, but they certainly are no slouches in the animation department. I still don’t think I’d call this appropriation. I am betting the animators hold them in the highest regard, much like how many other animators hold Disney or Fleischman in similar regards.
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They got back to me:
Travel Oregon Credits:
Written and produced by Wieden+Kennedy
Animation by Psyop & Sun Creature Studio
Music by Oregon Symphony
See more: https://traveloregon.com/only-slightly-exaggerated/
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I’m glad you weren’t as lazy as I was.
So both accounts I read were correct. I had read that Wieden+Kennedy and the Oregon Symphony were involved but someone else had said that the involvement of Psyop & Sun Creature Studio contradicted that.
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Come for the giant bunnies, stay for the clearcuts. As much as Oregon tries to market itself as an eco-aware state, it lags far behind neighbors Washington and California in substantive environmental protection and conservation. Timber interests still hold a disproportionate sway.
Oregon Wild recently revived its ‘Home of the Clearcut’ ad wraps on the local light rail cars, which is a welcome antidote to the green propaganda.
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So… where was the exaggerated part?
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I assume they mean that if you visit Oregon, you won’t be high the whole time.
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Ah, o Oregon…
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It’s bizarre. We act like our forests are “responsibly managed,” and the universities have even published research suggesting that somehow clear cutting is more ecologically sensitive than selective logging.
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I still get flashbacks to that film every time I get a dirty look while driving through rural coastal Oregon.
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I knew Sun Creature sounded familiar. They were the Tales of Alethrion people. Anyone remember The Reward?
(Amusingly, I have mild contact with both studios. Interviewed for a job at Psyop once, and kickstarted Tales of Alethrion)
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Yes… full of artists who love Ghibli, and want to homage it, obvs. 
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