Robot Monkey Safari

rlgood · Post by **rlgood** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:22 pm

Here is the new Tommy Robot cartoon! It took 6 weeks to complete and is done entirely in Anime Studio Pro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0tIpXpJ1vc

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:47 pm

Not bad, not bad at all (end statement).

chucky · Post by **chucky** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:46 am

Robot's greatest fear......EWOKS!
Good storytelling, well done.
Oh yeah, how the hell did you get Steven Hawkin as voice talent?

rlgood · Post by **rlgood** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:56 am

chucky wrote:Robot's greatest fear......EWOKS!
Good storytelling, well done.
Oh yeah, how the hell did you get Steven Hawkin as voice talent?

Oh you wouldn't BELIEVE the dirt I have on Prof. Hawking!!! But I promise not to post the photos... as long as he keeps on doing quality voice work for me!!!

gyula · Post by **gyula** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 4:05 pm

reminds me of the hungarian toon "Mikrobi" from the 70s :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0eO7UJ1_-0

rlgood · Post by **rlgood** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:53 am

gyula wrote:reminds me of the hungarian toon "Mikrobi" from the 70s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0eO7UJ1_-0

That's much better animating than I can do! I never saw that before... very cool!

gyula · Post by **gyula** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:33 pm

well its old school stuff, frame-by-frame but color is fading away, good story though /too bad its not translated/
and if you compare that it was done by dozens of people and you did your version alone, i think you did a better job

i especially like that with a difference of an eyelash and colors you just made the robot a girl.
actually i just noticed that you made it to the frontpage on toontube (http://toontube.toonlifeonline.com)

rlgood · Post by **rlgood** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:40 am

gyula wrote:well its old school stuff, frame-by-frame but color is fading away, good story though /too bad its not translated/
and if you compare that it was done by dozens of people and you did your version alone, i think you did a better job
i especially like that with a difference of an eyelash and colors you just made the robot a girl.
actually i just noticed that you made it to the frontpage on toontube (http://toontube.toonlifeonline.com)

I saw that, Gyula. I was very happy about that! Toon Tube has a lot of great animations (I like everything!), so I was thrilled!
The Hungarian was neat! Even though it wasn't in english, I could follow the story, and THAT is good animation!!!
I also liked how the little kid was watching cartoons on the computer back in the 70's! haha! The Hungarians were way ahead of us!

rlgood · Post by **rlgood** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:50 am

One more thing, if the creators of Mikrobi had today's technology, it would totally ROCK! It still does with "old school" animation, which I have respect for. I couldn't make a cartoon like "Safari" without my computer and AS Pro! Well, I would still be working on it for six more months at least...

gyula · Post by **gyula** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:21 am

you defenetely created some cute characters there, now the next step could be to place them in a good story (which is not easy) and giving them 'personality' (also not easy) different moods, expressions (very difficult with robots) so people can recognize human characteristics in them (and starting to feel for them), also good background music and voiceover needed.

i would create a long, full story that can be split into 20 short series, thus in each serie you have some small story going on ending with a small punch line, but you are developing toward the end of the story, this way keeping a tension and get people to watch all 20 series to know what happens at the end....and... BANNNGG :)