What would you do for an Iceberg Bar?
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Brilliant!! I love it! I had to watch it twice. I’m guessing here, but you were the alien weren’t you SafeT.
Well done fellas. That was terrific.
MORE! MOREMOREMORE!
But what would you do for other widely available frozen treats?
You sick puppies!!
I love it!!!!!
Can he maybe kill and urinate on one of those bling dolls next time?
Haha! That was funny as hell, Arth. I especially enjoyed the psycho.
Sam, PCB:Yeah, the alien skatting was me, and the little girl was Samantha. She took direction remarkably well. The “Umm” at the end was scripted, as was the out-of-order letters.
Hey, I noticed there was a “competition cut” on YouTube of this which was shorter. Whats that all about?
Sam: I would make a funny web-cartoon. Now, where’s my ice cream, dammit?
Zuba: Oh, you don’t have to offer me ice cream to urinate on one of those. I’ll piss on them just for the hell of it.
SafeT: Well, I came up with the idea around the time an animation competition was being set up on the Anime Studio forums, and it fit the theme of the contest, so there ya’ go. Entries are supposed to be 30-60 seconds, though, so I had to edit it down significantly. Sadly, the alien got cut and Sam’s little girl reading was replaced with my own on the grounds that it was slightly faster (not much, but I was really trying to trim seconds wherever I could). I also considered replacing my version of the creep with yours since I think it was a bit faster, but it would have required more additional animation work, which I didn’t have the time for.
So, that’s the story. The version posted here is still my preferred cut, though.
Oh you guys! That was excellent! Excellent I say!
I must ask though, what did it say under the ‘Don’t feed the Arthbards’ sign?
Thanks, Rich. The small print on that sign says, “You’ll just encourage them.” I went overboard with the background gags in this one. Some of them are even readable.
Ha! Have you read the comments from Youtube on your Cindy and Stickman ani. You’ve certainly elicited quite a response there! Unfortunately their brain stems don’t seem to be attached.
Actually, after re-watching that I think you could probably remove the Python ending and enter it to local festivals and it would do very well… just my 2 cents.
Sheeeet, I forgot, I wasn’t meant to encourage the Arthbard’s… uh oh! This is going to be like a gory zombie-fest with a beard isn’t it!
Ha, yeah. There are actually a good many positive comments in there, but over the last month or so there seems to have been a sudden influx of people who take it very personally that I made stupid cartoon just for the sole purpose of pissing them, specifically, off.
Also, no one on YouTube knows how to use the shift key. I don’t know why this is.
Actually, there are some pretty choice comments in there, though. For example:
“suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck thanks for wai\sting my 2 minutes of my life by tipping this shit!”
The cartoon’s actually a bit over four minutes, but whatever. I’ll let the guy have his two minutes back as soon as Michael Bay gives me back my three hours for Pearl Harbor.
And, then there’s:
“you fucking gay ass son of a bitch this sucked so bad”
And don’t forget this bizarre exchange that happened a little while back:
RandomPancreas: “that is the second most retardedest thing i have ever seen! >P”
tomatiggy: “ye cos yr mum is the 1st”
RandomPancreas: “Well YO momma’s so dumb she starts BEEPIN’!”
I don’t even know what that means …
But my favorite is:
“Why does everything have to turn perverted? It was already great with it’s simplicity and originality. Like watching a Mr.Bean show. But then you had to turn perverted… <_ <"
I appreciate the Mr. Bean comparison, as I’m a fan, but for the life of me I can’t imagine at which point Stickman and Cindy can be said to have turned perverted since the whole thing’s about sex anyway.
So, shortly after the opening titles, I presume.
Still, with a total 58 ratings at the present moment, YouTube tells me it has 4 and a half out of 5 stars, which leads me to assume that the people who comment on YouTube and the people who rate videos on YouTube are mutually exclusive groups.
Heh, heh. Sorry, this comment’s getting long, but thanks for bringing up the YouTube comments, ’cause there’s some funny stuff in there, though not necessarily in the way the commenters might have intended.
But anyway … Are you thinking maybe the foot would be a little too referential for a festival crowd … Or, well, anyone who doesn’t know why it’s funny to sing about spam?
“Sheeeet, I forgot, I wasn’t meant to encourage the Arthbard’s… uh oh! This is going to be like a gory zombie-fest with a beard isn’t it!”
Actually, it’s more like Gremlins. I multiply with encouragement. Just don’t feed me after midnight. Food gets stuck in the beard … And it attracts ants.
Ha! Those were exactly the comments I was referring too
I put it down young’ns thinking it’s funny to give film-makers
a hard time, that or petty jealousy. Either way it’s damn funny stuff.
As for the python reference, it’s probably OK to leave it there but I’ve also become aware as I’ve done the festival circuits of the seemingly grandiose belief of festival committees that good films should be their own entities, not containing anything unnecessary to the delivery of the idea within the film. Unfortunately a lot of good films don’t make the festival cut due to what they call ‘editing’.
As Stickman and Cindy stands it’s a great film and the python-esque finish could be dropped without the film losing any of its charm. You may also have trouble with getting a release for the music… which sux cause it suits the film perfectly. Although there’s plenty of ready to buy music from web based music composition companies. I would think it’d be easy enough to find a similar low-cost piece as it’s an iconic theme.
I personally think you should give the festivals a whirl… It’s a good film.
But the foot makes it a tragedy. Very artistic, y’know.
Seriously, though, the Python bit was a bit of afterthought, in the first place. And, initially, I was planning on using the good ol’ circus music, which it turns out is actually a piece called Entrance of the Gladiators.
It still blows my mind that the famous do-do-do-do clown music is supposed to bring to mind images of Roman warriors fighting to their deaths, but there ya’ go.
As for the Python theme, it’s a John Phillip Sousa piece titled Liberty Bell March. It’s in the public domain, which is part of the reason the Python boys used it in the first place, but finding an actual recording that’s in the public domain is a little harder. I think there were a couple of recordings on the Internet Archive that fit that particular bill, but they were pulled from scratchy, old wax cylinders or somesuch, so the sound quality wasn’t really what I was hoping for, at the time. Though, more recently, I’ve been considering the idea of using scratchy, old public domain music as a sort of stylistic thing, so … I don’t know … I could conceivably reconsider one of those recordings if I decided to submit somewhere.
A related issue would be that I borrowed a couple of images from the web for my shots of the table at the beginning. Though, I did at least make the effort to find creative commons images, so if I could actually manage to track them down to wherever I originally found them (they were on Flickr, I know that much) and credit the creators (like I failed to remember to do when I made the thing), I might be okay, there.
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