So! Where’s the damn show? We said Dec 2015 and it’s now Jan 2016 and…nothing. Well, here’s the scoop.
None of us are doing Gen Zed as our first (or indeed only) job. This is a passion project and we are fitting it as best we can into our already very busy schedules (sadly, rents don’t pay themselves). Alex, our key designer/animator, has been utterly buried with his paid work and couldn’t deliver what he’d initially thought he could in the time he’d promised.
So to help us move forward at a much faster rate we’ve brought the “BIG little FX” animation studio on board. And no, that doesn’t mean Alex is no longer a part of the process - he very much is! He’ll be designing all the characters and general look of the show as well as doing all backgrounds and storyboards. But in even BETTER news, BIG little FX going to be doing the entire process in 3D! This doesn’t mean you’ll need special glasses to watch us; it’s a method of doing animation in a much more advanced manner. The Simpsons, for example, is done in 3D but they apply a special filter to it that makes it look 2D. Gen Zed will be made in the same way.
The contracts with BIG little FX were signed today and production will begin shortly. We hope to have the first episode finished by Spring and the full series will follow by Summer. We say “hope” because, again, this is a passion project and who knows what other obstacles will be thrown in the way.
But we will be delivering the series. The script was written and recorded in early 2015 - pretty much a year ago. And since launching our 2 minute trailer in May, we’ve nailed over 300,000 combined views on YouTube/Facebook; generated over 20 parody videos (some are 25 minutes long!!!), 2 parody Twitter accounts, rave reviews in the Huffington Post and the Advocate (to name just two) and we’re now officially listed on KnowYourMeme. We’re a meme! Off of just a trailer!!!
So hang in there - animation is notoriously long to produce and even longer when you’re doing it as a passion project. The show will be arriving later this year! And haters? SorryNotSorry.
Pew pew!!
