I don't know if everyone had already seen this wonderful short called The Pumping of Nyefar.

The story was created by Tod Polson and by the great master Maurice Noble, and this was probably his last contribution to animation in life. The narration was done by June Forray.

Beautifully animated and with astonishing backgrounds, it is easily one of the best shorts I've seen in a while. You can watch it on Cartoon Brew TV or download the mp4 file directly.

Make sure you visit the official site, which has a lot of cool info on it.

Just as a teaser, if you're still not sure if you want to watch it:

In 1994, Maurice Noble began training a group of young designers at Chuck Jones Film Productions. A lot of us were working on our own personal short projects, several of them based on ethnic folktales. Maurice thought it would be a great idea if the group of us could develop a series of shorts inspired by stories from around the world. We called this series “Noble Tales,” and we, his trainees, became known as the “Noble Boys” (which also included a few girls). Many of us traveled around the world and developed and together designed several dozen idea.

Jealous? Me??? Nooooooo!!!! C'mon... ;)