The Walt Disney Animation Studio has released three new images from The Ballad of Nessie, the hand-drawn animated short that will run along with the release of Winnie the Pooh, the latest film featuring the lovable honey-addicted bear.

The short follows the legend of cryptozoology herself, the Loch Ness monster, as she tries to stop someone from building a mini-golf course where she lives.

You can read a synopsis for the movie and check out the three new images for The Ballad of Nessie by clicking on below now. You can see the short when Winnie the Pooh hits theaters on July 15, 2011.

SYNOPSIS

Set in the “bonny blue highlands” of Scotland, “The Ballad of Nessie” is a whimsical and colorful tall tale about the friendly Loch Ness monster, Nessie, and how she and her best friend MacQuack the rubber duck came to live in the moor they now call home. Setting the adventure into motion is a greedy land developer named MacFroogle, who decides to build a mini-golf empire on top of Nessie’s home.

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