Mister Smile is a 1999 American animated short film directed by Fran Krause while he was attending Rhode Island School of Design.

Two men and a bear cower in their tree house home, awaiting the arrival of their newly ordered robot.

In the apartment above the bird-human couple, lives Mister Smile, whose head is a yellow smiley face.

Although the doctor's procedure goes awry, leaving the now normal-sized chicken stuck inside of the monkey's head, all three are delighted to receive their invitation.

Reminiscing a decade later, he remarked, "I was on the 3rd floor of Market House about 20 hours a day painting cels for [the film]".

[5][6] Morgan Miller of Film Threat gave Mister Smile three stars and called it "a very silly cartoon".

[1] His review noted the minimalist style of the animation and compared the bird's soliloquy to Robert Mitchum's in The Night of the Hunter.

[1][7] Richard Roeper also saw similarities with Night of the Hunter, writing "Give this animated flick credit for reaching back a bit".