History WesternAnimation / StanleyAndStellaInBreakingTheIce

* SecondarySexualCharacteristics: All the fish have lips, eyelashes, a golden pearl necklace, and pink and purple bodies. All the birds are red, have more angular features, and more masculine eyebrows. MasculineLinesFeminineCurves is also in effect here.

This was also included in many different compilations of 3D animation from TheEighties and [[TheNineties 90s]], including the 1990 compilation ''Animation/TheMindsEye'' as "Love Found" with different music.

* WaterIsAir: For most of the short, it is easy to assume that the fish are in water and the birds are in air. But when Stanley [[TheNamesake breaks the ice]], he slowly descends as if he was in water. There is no surface between the two halves of the sphere, suggesting it's all one substance.

* StationaryWings: Mostly [[AvertedTrope averted]], as the birds and fish move realistically. The one time it's played straight is after [[TheNamesake Stanley breaks the ice]]. Stanley appears to be able to maintain his position with minimal wing movement.

* ArtificialGravity: Zig-zagged. The sphere is in space, and the orientation of the animals suggests that an objective "up" direction exists. However, they all appear to float, and can even fly/swim in water/air, respectively. The fact that Stanley can land and rest on the ice proves there is some kind of gravity there. However, when Stanley [[TheNamesake breaks the ice]], he doesn't fall straight to the bottom, he slowly descends as if he was in water, and [[StationaryWings can float where he is without hitting the bottom]]. No water surface is visible, either, showing that birds fly and fish swim in the same substance.

* StationaryWings: Mostly averted, as the birds and fish move realistically. The one time it's played straight is after [[TheNamesake Stanley breaks the ice]]. Stanley appears to be able to maintain his position with minimal wing movement.

* InterspeciesRomance: The whole plot.

* SecondarySexualCharacteristics: All the fish have lips, eyelashes, a golden pearl necklace, and pink and purple bodies. All the birds are red, have more angular features, and more masculine eyebrows.

* AmbiguousRobot: Or rather, the fish are ambiguous MechanicalLifeforms. They have metallic textures on the gold parts, which could easily just be jewelry. Their textures aren't as shiny as the birds, and their bodies can bend [[ShapedLikeItself just like a fish]]. They have lips, but they never open, unlike the birds' beaks.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Some birds are able to dive into water, such as Anhingas (which reassemble geese more than whatever Stanley and his kind are). Although Anhingas ''eat'' fish, not fall in love with them.

This was also included in many different compilations of 3D animation from the 80s and 90s, including the 1990 compilation ''Animation/TheMindsEye'' as "Love Found" with different music.

* ArtificialGravity: Zig-zagged. The sphere is in space, and the orientation of the animals suggests that an objective "up" direction exists. However, they all appear to float, and can even fly/swim in water/air, respectively. The fact that Stanley can land and rest on the ice proves there is some kind of gravity there. However, when Stanley [[TheNamesake breaks the ice]], he doesn't fall straight to the bottom, he slowly descends as if he was in water, and [[StationaryWings can float where he is without hitting the bottom]]. No water surface is visible, either.

* AmbiguousRobot: The fish. They have metallic textures on the gold parts, which could easily just be jewelry. Their textures aren't as shiny as the birds, and their bodies can bend [[ShapedLikeItself just like a fish]]. They have lips, but they never open, unlike the birds' beaks.

* AmbiguousRobot: The fish. They have metallic textures on the gold parts, which could easily just be jewelry. Their textures aren't as shiny as the birds, and their bodies can bend just like a fish. They have lips, but they never open, unlike the birds' beaks.

* MechanicalLifeforms: Birds appear to be these, having visible joints on their wings and angular features. Fish are more ambiguous.

''Stanley and Stella in: Breaking the Ice'' is a 3 minute 1987 short film from Symbolics Graphics Division.

* ArtificialGravity: Zig-zagged. The sphere is in space, and the orientation of the animals suggests that an objective "up" direction exists. However, they all appear to float, and can even fly/swim in water/air, respectively. The fact that Stanley can land and rest on the ice proves there is some kind of gravity there. However, when Stanley [[TheNamesake breaks the ice]], he doesn't fall straight to the bottom, he slowly descends as if he was in water. No water surface is visible, either.

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: All the fish have lips, eyelashes, a golden pearl necklace, and pink and purple bodies. All the birds are red, have more angular features, and more masculine eyebrows.

* ArtificialGravity: Zig-zagged. The sphere is in space, and the orientation of the animals suggests that an objective "up" direction exists. However, they all appear to float, and can even fly/swim in water/air, respectively. The fact that Stanley can land and rest on the ice proves there is some kind of gravity there. However, when Stanley

* ArtificialGravity: Zig-zagged. The sphere is in space, and the orientation of the animals suggests that an objective "up" direction exists. However, they all appear to float, and can even fly/swim in water/air, respectively. The fact that Stanley can land and rest on the ice proves there is some kind of gravity there.

* AllCGICartoon
* ArtificialGravity: Zig-zagged. The sphere is in space, and the orientation of the animals suggests that an objective "up" direction exists. However, they all appear to float, and can even fly/swim in water/air, respectively.
* FloatingLimbs: Both birds and fish appear to have detached parts that move with them

* MasculineLinesFeminineCurves

* SeparatedByTheWall: Or in this case, the ice.

* YouALLLookFamiliar: Only two character models exist in this film.

* SeparatedByTheWall: Or in this case, the ice.

This was also included in the 1990 compilation ''Animation/TheMindsEye'' as "Love Found" with different music.

* AllCGICartoon: Duh.