Oswald the Lucky Rabbit announcer on NBC Sunday Night Football). Oswald returned to prominence in Disney's 2010 video game, "Epic Mickey". The game's metafiction plot parallels Oswald's real-world history, dealing with the character's feelings of abandonment by Disney, and envy towards Mickey Mouse. He has since appeared in Disney theme parks and comic books, as well as two follow-up games, "" and "". Oswald made his first appearance in a Disney animated production in 85 years through his cameo appearance in the 2013 animated short "Get a Horse!". He was the subject of the 2015 feature film "Walt Before Mickey". Oswald also appears as
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit audience, Disney studied and scrutinized the shadow effects, cross-cutting and staging of action in films featuring Douglas Fairbanks and Lon Chaney. Walt Disney did not want for Oswald to simply be "a rabbit character animated and shown in the same light as the commonly known cat characters", as well as merely just a peg for gags. Instead, his stated intention was "to make Oswald peculiarly and typically OSWALD." In 1927, because of cost and technical restrictions, Disney and his chief animator Ub Iwerks decided to end their work on the Alice Comedies series in search of new creative opportunities. Coincidentally,