Making a series of animated shorts.

Covenant · Post by **Covenant** » 2007-09-10 02:14am

I'm looking to make some short animated sequences to put up on YouTube and other places (if applicable) to try and get some notice on my talents. I think it probably makes the most sense to go for funny, and to go short, and to make a series of them if there is any public enjoyment of them at all. However, I'm not quite decided on the format yet, and want some feedback.

I'm going to use some professionally-rigged models that I've downloaded instead of my own, just to make it easier to crank out high-quality stuff. Of the models, the biggest winners seem to be a semi-vulgar looking cartoon Monkey, a semi-relistic looking Penguin, and a big muscley lizard-ogre thing. I've also got a human model, and he's your joe-average businessdork type of guy. I can provide pics later, but the general idea should be clear enough.

My original idea was to do a spoof of "Great Moments in History" type shows, a variety of "Real Men of Genius/Real American Heroes" ads but involving the Monkeys, detailing the greatest moments in monkey history--generally with violent results. It's a cheap gag, but it's fast and high-energy, and it's the sort of stupid-funny gag that I wager people would be eager to pass on to their friend along with a "lol, watch this" message.

Being a novice when it comes to the youtubes on the interwebs, I'm not sure this'd be a big winner, even if anything involving pain and monkeys seems to be a sure thing.

So I was really hoping that if someone either fully endorses the "Great Moments in Monkey History" or thinks they've got a better idea, to bring it up. The goal is just to get some laughs and hopefully spread them around. The more buzz, the more chance I have if it finding it's way into the IM window of someone who might want to hire me fulltime.

And if you do think that the current idea is the winner, then can you think up a good subject? Gravity is obviously an easy one. Electricity is also a good one to make a gag out of. I'm good at figuring ways to make a gag out of a situation, but I'm just not sure my sense of humor fits with the demographics I'm trying to be popular with!

Covenant · Post by **Covenant** » 2007-09-11 05:45pm

Anyone?

I'm thinking of going with it then, with rudimentary discoveries such as fire, the wheel, and so on comprising most of the gags. But I'm a bit disheartened that nobody even made a post at all.

Schuyler Colfax · Post by **Schuyler Colfax** » 2007-09-11 06:11pm

Sounds good, tell me when you finish and I'll check it out.