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I liked it. Very nice animation, story was alright (Don't know why the Beard guy wanted to do the job and seemed fine with not being paid, but whatever) and I would like to see more.
>(Don't know why the Beard guy wanted to do the job and seemed fine with not being paid)
Prolly just a simple good guy that prefers to be professional and sticking to what he signed on for rather then change course because it's technically "easier" to just brain someone then to see a troublesome contract to the end.
Plus it would be super shorter otherwise.
That's sounds like something they forgot to establish.
he says at the start that they need to do contracts and work up in the board so its not too far fetched to think exactly that
Could've been explained better, but I think it has to do with that galactic ranking or whatever that he pointed to in the beginning. He seems to care more about better standing = better jobs than quick money.
yeah he was thinking long term about getting good jobs consistently and ended up losing an immediate payout big enough to be worth the time of a top rank assassin.
no idea exactly how far ten million pixels goes in setting or how much selling out a client would have set them back in merc rankings but they definitely lost a fat check over maybe getting paid well after years if not decades of risking their lives and losing a lot of what they get on the way in building the business.
hell just selling him to the cat or lizard for a fraction of the bounty may have been enough obfuscation to escape any repercussions.
>(Don't know why the Beard guy wanted to do the job and seemed fine with not being paid, but whatever)
I think he's supposed to be the nice guy of the duo who likes helping people.
One of the best I've seen! 8.5/10. the animation is better than most network cartoons. but it still looks a bit amateurish, the guy loves space dandy. but that show is on another level
When did it come out? did I miss the premiere on Newgrounds?
Makes a better Earthworm Jim than Doug.
For 24 minutes it could have had more story beats/more content and hell they even used one of music sequences to speed up through content. The plot could had been told in 10 minutes. I was expecting faster and more action sequences
Audio quality was very imbalanced at times either the SFX wasn't loud enough, the music wasn't loud enough, the music choice was weird, the voice acting wasn't wasn't loud and clear enough(everyone was recording in different rooms through different mics), but despite all these complaints holy fricking shit that was great.
This is a better Guardians of the Galaxy and Earthworm Jim than them.
I thought the same thing. the story could have been told in less time and i think the animation would benefit from that
Yeah, you could easily make a 10 to 15 minutes episode with this same story without losing anything.
I'm woking on a pitch pilot aimed for 6 mins I'm at 8. Setting up the world, characters, tone, plot, pacing, and jumping off point, is a pain in ass but achievable under 10mins. For them they wanted to pack everything in the episode yeah it's too long and they should have written act breaks in mind for the pace and tense. It could have been condensed down easily and made like 3 shorts. So I'm unsure if they are looking for studios to be picked up because it looks like they just want crowd funding.
I love the hand drawn animation because brickleberry in space wants me to die.
I liked it a lot. Been waiting for it for 2 years, glad to see it come out and not disappoint. Hope he's able to get a greenlight. Zach Hadel's appearance was a nice surprise too
I saw a screaming large nosed goblin and knew at that instant it was an appearance by Zach, lo and behold his name's right there in the credits
>MFW seeing it with english subtitles enabled
Based Zeurel, by making reading these captions so fun.
Honestly this is one of the best web pilots i've seen. I remember thinking i'd find Shrike too annoying but he hit that perfect balance of whiny but cool.
Was the highlight of the whole pilot
>Blue Space Noise MonkaS
>*Ricket crying like A b***h*
>*ghost egg is real*
Those were pretty good
Zeruel is one of the only respectable animators on YouTube, along with Harry Partridge. I'm glad his cartoon turned out okay. Hoping for more.
Some of the sound effects are too low volume and the voice acting is too ad libbed, but otherwise it's good.
I haven't seen this yet, but the setting already reminds me of cowboy bebop a little, this could be fun to watch.
I wonder if the furries will go nuts over this character, like they did with Loona?
There's a lot for furries to go nuts over in this pilot
And how
Just watch the damn thing
I like the bunny that cried over her ice cream
She is also nice
that was apparently a cameo https://twitter.com/zeta_alpha10/status/1549169903646740481
For me are both
I'd prefer if they didn't.
Any more screenshots of her for science
>nearly 30 minutes long
based zeruel, I gotta watch this right now
Spotted some references to Vinesauce in it
God I remember watching Zeruel make short pilots or skits with these characters, glad to see him finally be able to produce a full fledged pilot for em
I thought Joel was gonna make a cameo on it,but maybe that's for the second episode
I mean Ricket had alot of energy of the Joel Shorts. You can tell Zeruel put all those angry skeleton practice to good use.
>I thought Joel was gonna make a cameo on it,but maybe that's for the second episode
he does, but not in the same thumb-looking style as the other vargskeletoons
You can see a Friend in the can floating on the ship at 3:34 too
>pilot is named Monkey Wrench
>mc is mexican
kek
I don't get it
Zeurel's comedy still as weak as ever. Nothing really happens, either. Also typical Zeurel. Can't wait for more
Well, that was a great cartoon.
My only complaint was Sanchez was a bit annoying, especially when he uses Spanish words instead of English words. Literally the only reason Zeurel wasn't cancelled for a stereotypical mexican is because he's an alien.
>the only reason Zeurel wasn't cancelled for a stereotypical mexican-
Is the fact that literally nobody cares about the mexican stereotype. You're sounding like some Latinx spouting menstruating women anon.
A Mexican alien?
He illegally entered Terran space
KEK
Someone send this to Doug Tennapel if Zeurel didn't already
Pretty great actually. I think some of the voice acting could use work but the character interactions and final fight were great. Nice humor too
Well worth the wait. Great animation and voice acting, plot paid off nicely. Tyreen is waif
I won't be able to watch this for another couple hours. Post a pic of Tyreen.
Pretty cute.
Imagine the sex.
Gladly.
I fricking hate these designs so much. If an actual leotard offends people so much why don't they just drop the leotard design as a whole instead? Give them actuar shorts pants instead of this weird leotard+shorts design which looks like granny's long underwear
I know what you're getting at considering the characters previous outfits but as far as leotards go, it's nothing out of the ordinary.
look at how fricking ripped the girl on the bottom right is, goddamn.
Women's wrestling.
okay irl design seems a lot better. hope they can replicate that in 2d design
Instant kino I can only hope that zerual pushes it as hard as vivzie did and we get an actual show.
That being said most of the criticisms in this thread are true
what is the main character supposed to be and why does he look like an earthworm jim NFT?
I thought that was just another of his characters, since he kept copying Kleymen over and over
he's a cheese man
I like the hammerspace around the MC's neck.
Animation = Great
Writing = Okay
Humor = Bad
Character Designs = Mixed bag, for instance I like the bird guy at the start but then the actual main characters are hideous and I hate looking at them
>Character Designs
its like a awful cross between Cowboy Bebop and Toejam and Earl.
They're not that bad. Shrike & Beebs were based off old characters that he made. Shrike looks alot better than his older design but I feel Beebs looks like a weird Minecraft render.
He should sell concept art and any behind the scenes and previews of the next episode if he wants to make money with this to fund his next animation.
I want lizard queen pussy
It was good, but the audio mixing felt off at times.
i swear all the audio in this just sounds like people trying not to wake up their parents
no it doesnt
EARTHWORM JIM
FROM THE SOIL HE DID CRAWL
OZZY AND DRIX
Now I keep hearing the songs mixed together
Welp, that was fine... I guess
Most of the voices were very well mostly Tyneen. But Sanchez's voice, although there were parts where he was funny and acted well, there were others where he was shit, mainly when he combined Spanish with English... it felt a bit forced As a Ñ person, the fact that almost in every sentence ended with a "amigo" gave more cringe than laughter. There should be an average point between saying Spanish words and speaking English.
Guy's clearly still taking points from Zeur's Cheech and Chong days. I think it's a matter of just not being part of that generation.
I mean I grew up with Cheech voicing all those Disney characters, so his slipping between English and Spanish seems natural to me.
I think Sanchez's voice is exaggerated for the sake of character, since he seems like a pretty neurotic guy it makes sense that his speech patterns would align with that
It’s based on someone but I can’t remember who.
Also this was great frick man. Tyreen was my favorite voice. I also like how the Queen’s picture was just her breasts.
And Zach’s funni screm.
Cheech Marin. Used to be big in the 70's. My grandparents watched it. I know him from Banzai in Lion King and Tito from Oliver.
Apparently he was also in Coco but damned if I can hear it.
Great animation but the sound design is fricked
Also this
Episode was extremely fun and dynamic, loved the fight scenes and the voice actors were phenomenal. Definitely worth the wait.
Although does anyone know the frames per second the animation is? It doesn't look choppy but it looks like it's less than the usual 24 frames.
Also Tyneen best girl
>no eyebrows
Damn, Woopie Goldberg strikes again.
cartoons by default are 12fps (animated on 2s)
this is on 3s like anime aka 8fps
playing at 1.5x helps
thanks anon, it was really on my mind
>make a movie special quality animation
>call it episode 1
I keep seeing these pilots that go so fricking far out with the animation, and it looks great, but that's actively a mark against it if its meant to be picked up for a series because its so hard to reproduce. on a season by season basis. Why not just call them what they are: OVA specials?
>Why not just call them what they are: OVA specials?
Because they're actively looking to get picked up for a series, not be a one-and-done special, why else? Animation for shows are usually downgraded when they get picked up for a series anyway, just look at any of the pilots available online for shows that came out during the 2010s and you'll see that. The animation used here is just to catch people's attention. Hell, in today's day and age, it's probably even more likely that people aren't even looking to get picked up by a network, instead throwing out pilots to see what people like and attracts them to donate to their patreons for more. With the shitloads of money crowdfunding like this tends to bring in, people have more than enough to hire more animators to ease the workload.
The humor was really bland. Like just boring and you could see it coming a mile away.
The animation was great. I liked the designs and fluidity.
I didnt like the VAs. Lots of them were in that ugly zone between amateur and professional. There was something inhibiting the sound, likely they had a good mic but weren't recording in a good space.
it's sad to see such beautiful animation spent on the ugliest characters ever seen. I don't understand why people like Zeurel and vivziepop can't let go of characters they made when they were like 12
I actually like the designs. The lizard and the black guy had the best voice actors.
I feel like the black guy could've been a bit more natural sounding, he honestly ruined the immersion for me
I have characters I made when I was 6 and 10, just you wait.
omoshiroi
Will this get the furries' attention?
Very good but
>60k
It flopped hard, shame how no one is helping Zeurel, no artist is shilling him on twitter.
I hate that this one got ignores while Pipi Sweep got the most attention and fanart
The frick is a Pipi Sweep?
I think he meant The Legend Of Pipi but yeah all my feed on Twitter is filled with that short than Monkey Wrench
No one else noticed how this is really similar to Double King by both story and art style?
the story has nothing in common with double king other than it's medieval animals
Oof didn't even notice he's only gotten 60k views so far.... guess i'll throw him some patreon money
Youtube Algorythm fricked up everything
Sr.Pelo did on his twitter, he's a bro to other newgrounders
hella relatable
Pelo is a cool guy
Newgrounds as well.
I respect the hell out of Pelo. His stuff is really entertaining too.
100k now, that's a respectable number, I wonder if it can reach one million soon
Has Nico at least shown support for Monkey Wrench? He should be grateful for the work Zeurel provided on Ollie & Scoops, and I'm pretty sure there are a few other animators who also helped out on MW.
Zach Hadel retweeted the Youtube vid.
Nice animation but I had to turn it off at the seventh minute, I fricking hate spanglish so much
It was pretty decent, I liked the designs and the animation.
The fat cat's voice reminded me of Stamper/Oney in their old VA days
I thought the fat bird that gets killed at the beginning was him. my man needs some gigs again..
Hate to tell you but the original Stamper died the moment he started using meth, all there is is an unstable emaciated ghoul with the same name
That's not him, you're fricking with me. I knew he already had the ghoul hands from his cooking videos on Youtube but I didn't realize he was that deep into his addiction. I'm sad now.
pretty sure he's clean now (allegedly), but like all meth addicts his mind is shattered and he's a zombie of his formal self who was already pretty degenerate. sorry to break it to you like this anon
There's a reason they say "Meth, not even once"
Indie animation isn't a contest, don't be a crab in a bucket anon.
frick you hellauvab***h is shit
Jesus he doesn't even look like the same guy anymore
It no joke added 30+ years to his face. A shining example to keep away from that shit.
Yep, that's a meth head. His teeth are probably black stumps by now.
I can SMELL the meth sweats from here
>i wonder what stamper's up to right now let me check his community pa-
the scary part is he definitely looks like he has hard drives full of it
das rayciss
yeah I remember listening to sleepy cabin and stamper talking about wanting one of the group destroying all his hard drives if he died unexpectedly.
This reminds me, we ever find out what happened to Shadman?
that can't be him right?
holy shit
please dont do meth anons
i miss uncle stamper
Neat!
As someone who watched Down to earth on Albinoblacksheep probably 100 times as a kid, I prefer the voice acting in it to this by far
I kinda prefer the old designs too, not them being white, but just the more simple early 2010s internet aesthetic
animation is fantastic though
Man I gotta rewatch that now for comparison, but yeah I agree that Shrikes new voice isn't that great. Nothing against the whole spanish shtick, but the fact that he often drops volume and mumbles to himself makes him really hard to listen to as a non-native speaker.
They're both just less cartoony, and the cartoonyness is what I liked about the characters.
It's weird seeing characters become like..reverse-flanderized.
Just in case anyone else is interested, here's the last attempt at a pilot/ova thing with these characters from over a decade ago:
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I see what you mean, I guess the characters grew up along with Zeurel. Just rewatched it and it really has that old newgrounds edge that you grow out of, but look back at fondly. Also ancient meme jokes like fffffffffu and problem officer
how have i never seen this? ive only seen the cheech and chong skit: https://youtu.be/67_S2YaoYC8
I saw it on newgrounds. I guess Zeurel never uploaded it to his youtube channel.
>Down to earth
oh man, now that's nostalgic.
Please tell me Black Ace is the main villain.
I think Zeurel made a similar mistake to a lot of the amateur pilots, spending so much time practicing a skill "going big" is just more better animation.
The montage bit in the center is really strong, he's really good at that. But lots of little things like the sign in the background at the start having super high contract pulling attention away from the characters for no reason.
I really want someone who's not vivipop to succeed in this sphere but they all keep spending too much money and putting it in the wrong spots.
They should watch PS&G to see how you do cheap but fun animation in places that make it clear and then spend the budget on the action stuff in specific places.
dude really went from "amateur meme-filled Dead Leaves" to "motion comic adaptation of some hipster zine collab" in a decade
just watched it and im just gonna keep it short and sweet
>frick helluva boss
>frick hazbin hotel
>and frick vivziepop
This image implies helluva hack is any good in the first place.
Why did I think this guy was Evil Earth Worm Jim?
EWJ was a huge mascot of the 90's, I don't doubt he was a huge fan of it.
the sound design still seems off
I like it, the voice acting sounded amateurish with a few characters (the dino girls and beard guy mainly). Some of the scenes and dialogue were cheesy, like this was intended for kids instead of young adults.
The animation, character designs, colors and visuals were great.
7.9/10
The client was super annoying as a focal point but the general animation and character design was all a lot of fun.
So why did the fat cat want that contract pad? Was he trying to get the contract cancelled so the two wouldn't protect that annoying bird?
>still not even 100k views
Youtube really sucks for animators, that's why people still need newgrounds
does it? how do things like ena and vivzie stuff get thousands of views within seconds of being uploaded?
maybe it's a matter of low publicity
it does suck though since from what i understand it's the passion project of this dude.
They make things people actually want
Mostly getting lucky with the algorithm it seems
It was years worth of animated music videos and Vivzie+her voice actors interacting with the community and feeding them behind the scenes and lore before Hazbin Hotel's trailer even came out.
the cartoon is just very unappealing. Boring looking characters and uninspired plot. Even drue langlois's has a stronger fanbase despite his work being much more cheaply made, his characters and stories are just good
I mean, I really don't wanna shit on zeurel, but that's what I felt too having watched it. It just kinda didn't do anything for me, and the color of bg/characters was so saturated that they kept competing with each other.
>maybe it's a matter of low publicity
pretty sure its that. JoelG got very lucky when it comes to publicity (getting through both the ENA shorts and the margo/ula ones) and vivzie also had the benefit of the whole kickstarter shebang bringing in attention.
i sure as fricking hell hope zeurel's project gets more attention, its fantastic
Ironically both ENA, Vivzie and other artists had previous projects that failed due to being in generic settings with not memorable protagonist designs just like is happening to Zeurel, maybe the solution is trying a more specific and developed setting like they did.
Unfortunately marketable and high quality are not the same thing, a project can be both but one is not tied to the other.
No artist ever suceed on their first project, you need to try a few times until you find a franchise that works.
Well if he's going to try new cartoon projects he will need to make it a little shorter than 30 fricking minutes.
Joel gained a following doing cringe kid show parodies, which later transitioned into coombait animated shorts, and then culminated in creating ENA, which stands out from other animation on Youtube by being a surreal abstract fantasy. I don't know the guy who made this but I assume he didn't go the same trajectory.
Also, The Legend of Pipi came out around the same time and that got 600K views, so maybe it's just bad algorithm
People love a cute puddy tat. Monkey Wrench never stood a chance.
Pipi also had a half dozen cute princesses, and ran with the dragonfricker memes of olde. Feels like the wind was probably at their backs.
Joel constantly post new content being it drawn or animated about his series as well to bring new fans and keep the old ones, they know how to build and sustain a fandom.
Yeah, he's is kinda the opposite of Zeurel who was mostly inactive or making a couple of videos about some youtuber per year
I feel like some of the characters were fan art bait but I really dont think it will stick.
Yeah I noticed even a lot of the background characters that had less than 5 seconds of screentime have very distinct designs that would appeal alot to the internet. Not complaining though
Well I AM complaining. Zeurel did his part by ensuring there'd be fappable designs, yet Monkey Wrench is STILL underperforming. And with Primal coming back with two episodes tomorrow that'll surely be all anyone talks about for the rest of the week, it's now or never for MW to get on people's radars.
Sometimes even if something is good it won't land with its intended audience if it comes out at the wrong time with the wrong competition. It sucks, but that's just showbusiness.
I think the problem is how none of those "waifus" is a protagonist so people are not interested. Also they are all furries what is less popular than the mainstream "regular human girl but unnatural skin or hair color"
You're right and probably even more than you can imagine.
It finally happened. It took years to catch up to western animation. But it finally happened.
We have a moegay problem.
The problem is the MC worm is unlikable. There's nothing to get hooked on. Even his partner bara bear is more interesting. When your MC is mogged by literally everyone else, you have a core problem.
I wonder what made Rick and Morty so likable and popular as characters while those 2 are ignored by casuals.
It's a simple clean art style, and the first few seasons were flat out well written and interesting (rick wasnt a god yet like in s3 onward).
Also he made a few youtube mistakes. The opening first 5 seconds being a warning screen will turn people off from watching, and the whole opening scene being so dark and saturated makes it hard on the eyes.
Rick and Morty are a duo with much more contrast. A genius, hedonistic superscientist who's seen it all paired with an awkward, horny teenage boy amazed (or traumatized) by the crazy new adventures he's roped into makes for plenty of comedic potential.
Beebs & Shrike are just two best buds on similar standing. One is chill and plays it by the rules, while the other is more brash and impulsive. But they're ultimately just two dudes.
I think the fact that he doesn't really go through a character arc at all in this episode is what kills it. Okay, sleazy selfish earthworm jim is a decent starting point, but they don't go anywhere with it. You don't really see it build up to anything other than him getting frustrated, he doesn't learn anything about himself or the people around him, the obvious conflict between what him and the beard guy want isn't explored so their dynamic isn't tested at all and you don't see why they actually stick with eachother. The writing is only serviceable enough to make sense but it's not actually thought out enough to be good.
I disagree that he needs a character arc in what is essentially a pilot. You can't have him turn over a new leaf if you intend to have a series about a dickwad. Unless you have a show like American Dad where it just resets at the end and he learned no permanent lessons by just letting the morals roll off them like water for the next episode.
It seems more like the kind of show where an butthole just suffers for his butthole-ishness, and you can revel in that karma. Seems like it's just an introduction to these characters and I'm fine with that.
Neat.
I thought the animation and designs were fun and well done but the voice acting (and the sound design in general) was a bit poorly done in some places and the jokes were hit or miss, plus I feel like they could have cut it down by like 5-10 minutes and it would have really helped the pacing. I didn't like it that much overall but I can't deny that it has a ton of potential if they were to tighten some stuff up in the future
I like comfy space adventures.
I haven't been following Monkey Wrench's pilot development too closely, so this was a pleasant surprise. While there might've been a few pacing issues, the episode overall was impressive. Plenty of funny jokes, fricking amazing visuals, and Shrike managed to not be as annoying as I'd originally feared.
Zeurel clearly wants to do more with this, so here's hoping he can build an audience even half as big as Vivzie's.
Ula, is that you?
Forgot pic.
>the 'I' in J.F.E.I.'s isn't also punctuated
That's not how acronyms WORK
>bg characters look cuter than main characters
why would you do this
I'm a sucker for world building and sci-fi. Props to them not calling their currency "credits" or their FTL "hyperspace." I feel like I've seen those semi-circle ship controls before. So either that's a cool reference to something or I'm wrong and it's just a good design they came up with.
Oh yeah, art was on-point too. They emote beautifully.
Shrike and Beebs make for one fun duo.
Bart the Stampede
Lmao
I don't get it
Trigun reference. You had to be alive in the 90's.
Ah, gotcha.
One of the reasons I'm interested in Monkey Wrench is seeing how many of these old elements listed here survived. The whole pulling-stuff-out-of-head thing is obviously still there, but I wonder if the white ghost Shrike still lives in the newer incarnation.
Funny, I really like this design more than the final one in Monkey Wrench. His fingers look less disgusting without those dark brown triangle fingernails and his face looks a lot more sleek and charming with a that chin and no dark brown areas around his eyes. I guess this headshape was too close to Earthworm Jim though.
It feels like what you'd get if you mixed Earthworm Jim with Guardians of the Galaxy.
I NEED Kara to sit on my face!
i need her to step on mine
That works, too.
If the animation was about her as the MC i honestly think it would do a lot better view wise.
They knew what they were doing
This probably could've and should've been 7 minutes long. Would've forced some script refinement, too. Zeurel is undeniably a gifted animator, he just can't direct for shit.
Yeah, and there's no shame in that. Same thing with Monty Oum. RWBY was made cause he just wanted to animate cool fight scenes, the world/setting/etc was secondary and he left it to others. Unfortunately those others were complete hacks, but the fights were still cool.
Not even Cinemaphile is giving it a chance. What the frick?
It came out at the worst possible time and was completely overshadowed by one of the biggest animation announcements this year. No one wants to give 30 minutes of their time to check out an original indie project, but people won't hesitate to go on and on about some vague new reboot we won't get any clear updates on for at least another year.
Not having a cute girl as one of the main leads also hurts it.
Really hope those 2 make a lot of money so Disney will give him Wander over Yander season 3
One can only hope. There isn't a worse feeling than seeing a popular, long-running classic from yesteryear get brought back when a totally separate project that was cut short still shows no sign of getting revived. I'm not against more Powerpuff Girls if McCracken really wants to make it, but I definitely don't need as much as I do a final season of Wander.
posting superior & much more reasonably lengthed/paced (if far lower-budget) buddy-buddy indie space adventure cartoon
Whoa, this was cool as shit. How'd you even discover it?
Saw it shilled here once. Still feel chagrinned by its utter obscurity
I really enjoyed these a couple years back. Really sad to see it still barely has 1k views. Definitely deserves way more recognition.
It's ridiculous that the guy hasn't even broke 1K subscribers on his YouTube channel.
thankfully the Newgrounds turn-out is slightly better... slightly. Deserves more, still.
Teraurge spin off series kinda lit
Don't do shit like this, it makes the actual artist look like they're seething with envy. As an animator, last thing I'd want is some anon posting my cartoon here to try and start some moronic feud.
Good take, anon should've at least worded it differently.
It's a pretty good way to get people to click tbh
Not really, it will only make Cinemaphile hate it.
It felt like a vanity project, but a nicely made one. Sucks that pipi mogged it's viewcount.
While this pilot was cool and all, I worry that it doesn't exactly stand out enough. I could make the longest fricking list of indie pilots and webcomics revolving around outer space adventures; almost as long as ones revolving around a typical D&D-inspired fantasy setting. The bounty hunter premise also feels like a concept that's been done many many times in recent years.
Literally the best Zeurel can hope for is for Beebs & Shrike to be main characters who are entertaining enough to keep people excited for more of their adventures, but so far they feel like a duo we've seen countless times before. Without fresh or engaging characters, your cliffhangers and hints at future LORE can only do so much.
HNNNNNGGGGG
the lack of views this high quality animation made by a big old school web animator is getting is really bothering me, I wonder what the guy could do to get more views in the future
>I wonder what the guy could do to get more views in the future
R34 artists could singlehandedly turn things around, but the question we must ask ourselves is what other new cartoon/game are they currently fixated on that's pulling their attention away from Monkey Wrench? I don't recall anything big coming out lately with any obvious coombait.
>R34 artists could singlehandedly turn things around
I don't think furries ever made something obscure popular nor sustained a fandom by themselves, furries are invasive not productive.
Nah. Only tiktok zoomers spreading viral bite sized memes will get this off the ground.
>I don't recall anything big coming out lately with any obvious coombait.
Multiversus and SDCC are going on this week
Is any porn to be expected?
>Is any porn to be expected?
Velma and Harley Quinn are in the game so....
Velma's art style looks cool. I love that Warner Bros. has been investing in more adult cartoons that take pride in actually looking APPEALING. Now if only they could start doing that with original series and not just reimaginings of decades-old properties.
Wasnt his big thing back in the day doing OC tournament fight animations? Then his latest works were for Swoozie on his channel. Its not like hes someone whos making animations about the latest game as it comes out. I hope he gets more recognition for it though.
I don't know much about Zeurel aside from the fact he was one of the better animators on Ollie & Scoops. I mean, his shots ALWAYS stood out above the rest 'cause he was just that good.
Okeroid did an amazing job with the music. He's been killing it with the projects he's been working on.
Seriously. The soundtrack was def a highlight. I loved that road trip montage. What else has Ockeroid done lately?
I don't see much in regards as frequency but he did work for Sr. Pelo and Henry Stickman, and he uploads tracks to his soundcloud and bandcamp.
https://soundcloud.com/ockeroid/pac-man-ockeroid-remix?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
https://soundcloud.com/ockeroid/getting-sht-done?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing (funky ass track)
Pretty good...however...
>There is too many furry species to the point it looks like Zootopia in space
>the living skeletons make no sense
>L.A.W looks identical to The Galactic Federation from Rick & Morty
Kinda weird how they didn't explored or developed the mercenary organization that made the score system at all when they are the de facto main premise of the series.
Love the animation, the writing feels a bit... tame? I think I remember watching this dude's work since like 15 years ago.
It was alright, but it suffered a lot from being way too fricking bloated. Everything in this episode could've been told in 15 minutes max, guy needs to learn to trim the fat. Also good god was it me or was the foley constantly delayed? It was extremely noticeable in some scenes.
Long Gone Gulch became irrelevant after a few months, and that had TONS of buzz around it. If an indie pilot from two universally revered industry artists that featured BW—a character that SCREAMS waifubait—as well as fricking Jack Spicer in the main voice cast managed to become old news, then things aren't looking too good for Monkey Wrench…
At least we got tons of BW art. She's the only good thing that got out of this pilot, waifubait or not.
Whoa there. LGG was still a fun pilot overall. The gags were funny, and Snag and Rawhide made for pretty compelling protagonists. I sensed plenty of storytelling and comedic potential should it continue somehow. BW's fine self was only the cherry on top.
I knew the ship's pilot seat looked familiar
I was struggling to think of where I had seen those controls before. I knew it had to be something on Adult Swim/Toonami.
the OG designs were better
post em
haha cool
Monkey Wrench looks like a mix of Zeurel and Rise of TMNT from it's animation style.
>"Who is this is?"
I see they carried that one over.
looks like the FMA jacket
Honesty the two guys remind me of Ed and Alphonse
I legitimately don't understand half of the words some of the characters are saying because of the accents
Same, didn't even realize shrike was speaking so much spanglish because he was so unintelligible. I wish I had turned on captions.
>I wish I had turned on captions.
You totally should. Zeurel put a lot of extra care into the captions.
Reply if you're a real homie that remember
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I hope Zeurel starts the dark turns his stories always take in this show
what is this?
Hope they show up
Can this Motherfricker DIE? Last i saw of him all he got was a blasted off arm afterwards fricking GUTTED a man and then Taunted his host for having mercy and then... that's it. Did it continue?
He lost the OCT, you're going to have to find the other artist's entries to get the cannon... If they didnsperg out and delete everything like every OCT competator ever seems to do.
What he Did?
also >If they didnsperg out and delete everything like every OCT competator ever seems to do
OH COME THE FRICK ON...
well frick, i like the english talking sword and the chap underneath oc venom.
okay second question, what happened to the monkey wrench crew after they got to earth and it being basically a dead planet?
Gotta admit, I got a little chuckle out of that. I don't really think either of these characters should come back, but nice to them as a little Easter egg for those that watched his really early stuff.
So the one guy is basically Ren?
Ren, if he didn't have a personal punching bag partner, maybe. Wailing on beardo definitely seems to be outside his options.
Timon and Pumbaa
>Monkey Wrench has a pilot now
Holy shit, I still remember this from the OC tourneys he use to do on deviantart
He unlisted all sponsored chink tablet reviews kek. Guess he was scared that if Monkey wrench blows up and people find out that he shilled chink tablets to kids
What exactly is the point of unlisting videos? can they just not outright delete them?
Unlisting is almost the same as deleting because people can't access it if they don't know the exact url. I just happened to have watched it before and looked through my browsing history to find it.
That's a weird assumption to make considering that all those tablet reviews are still available via a playlist on his channel.
Maybe he just wants his channel to be exclusively animation stuff?
it's a /misc/turd trying to stir up drama out of nothing
ignore it.
and you know what frick it
>Question 3
WHO WON THE OCT?
Don't know, it is literally lost media now, just like how Ian Jay Wiped all the Chimbley Sweep comics off the planet after her became furry and then trans.
>It is literally lost media now
FRICK... glad i fell out of it otherwise this would be soul crushing.
The Law Of Talos OCT? That was Annie and the Professor, who beat Karl in the finals.
The tournament of two souls?
Is it me or the theme song is kinda lame?
It’s just you.
Kind of hate the beard guy's design, but other than that I enjoyed this a lot.
Let me guess, it's the cube-shaped cranium?
Yeah, gotta admit that can be distracting. It's like depending on what angle the camera is at he either looks he's got just a unique skull shape or ohgodwhathappenedtoyourhead?
Sex with Kara.
Shrike’s hair is cool
I think the worst part about this short is how it's basically just his earlier works but longer. I don't fricking get it, how can this dude have a decade more of experience but still not understand how to write a basic interesting plot that isn't bloated? His animation nor the coomerbait can save this boring, meandering pilot. What is it with animators thinking they can write, what is it with people thinking they don't need lead writers?
What do you think the cost to animate this was?
At least $24.86. Possibly more.
A very large amount . Animation is moronic expensive
On his Patreon he said he had been saving up for five years.
It's pretty good
I like it, I don't really dig the slim guy voice
but it's overall really good animation
>goblin yell out of nowhere
you're always welcome zach
>no porn of tyreen
wtf
Monkey Wrench doesn't have any porn, period. What the frick went wrong for this to happen??
there's like one bit and it's a background character flashing their tit.
yes tit, the singular, it's the cat background character
but other than that, there's nothing
Ah cool, he's got himself some kinda pocket dimension planted in his head. Didn't even notice it on the first watch. What's the story behind that?
The old lore was that he is an experimental weapons factory, but the pocket dimension entrance was a third eye on his forehead that also contained a white ghost version of himself that caused mischief. He would also get headaches from pulling weapons out.
No clue how it works now, but I'd imagine he at least kept the experimental weapons factory part to bring it up as a backstory plot in a later episode.
As in he himself was a weapons factory?
I really liked this, tho I know it's updates are gonna be deathly slow consideringit'scurrent traction, also I really like those 2 ever since I first saw the stuff he made of the all those decades ago
>almost no one here doesn't know about zeruels old animations or comics and shit
>almost no one here probably knows about any of that Era of animating OCs for oc tourneys
>THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THIS THREAD WHO DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT LAW OF TALOS OR UNKOWNPERSON
I think I'm gonna have a newbie induced stroke, but it's been over 10 fricking years with 90% of the stuff from that Era getting lost to time so I should have expected this really
>Uknown-Person
I still can't believe they just retired after the tournaments, Karl and Climber were fantastic characters, they had a lot of talent on design and character personalities.
I mean I saw him post a thing like a year ago?
He's alive but is apparently working at a actual animation studioprobably at a position where he probably doesn't do anything important sadly
GOD I wish he'd comeback and make more of his own stuff or some how get put in charge of making something one day, cause his talent is wasted laying around in obscurity
I only go as far back as Ashley snaps and poontah. Going back to his older works, he really has improved a lot.
You can see her nipples on Newgrounds
Man is funny seeing old artist and animators going either full SFW or full NSFW,they never stay on a middle ground
I knew Zeurel since Poontah, which in hindsight it's not his best work.
The color palette and humor are stuck in 2016/17
it already feels dated
It's a shame given how good the animation quality is
after so many many years, am still waiting for him to make more adventure babies episodes
I'm not.
I guess if people are posting other original short films in recent times:
27 minutes is nice, but perhaps it'd have been better off split into 2 episodes?
Its Cowboy Bebop but Spike is a mexican alien, whats the appeal?
What was the opening meant to establish?
>oh theres thing tiger chick assassin who can’t be swayed with mom
>except lol she’s not an assassin tricked you PRANK’D get fricked anyway protags
I presume the LAW guys doing something big that cat babe's employers are against. They talk about multiple LAW officials got taken out and something about a special package they failed to intercept which is shown in the epilogue.
watching this feels very offy
I dont know whats up with it, maybe the pacing ? its sooo fricking weird to watch
the jokes are dumb, overexaggerated gestures like in a 2008 egoraptor cartoon but with none of the soul
I hate it tbh
Didn't Zeurel use to share art of a female young mechanic-style character with a literal monkey wrench as a weapon and a robot by her side? I assumed she was going to be the MC of this series.
That was a different character for an OCT, you can probably find the comics on his deviantArt or something.
I enjoyed! Great animation and gags. Then again, I'm a sucker for Sci-Fi space fantasy adventures. I do have to agree with the comments on the voice acting sounding a bit wonky at times (Can't expect them all to have professional sound recording setups at home though.), but it does the job.
I'll have to throw some dough to their patreon and hope another episode comes from it.
This shit is hella fire, hope this goes somewhere
My only grievance is that Sanchez doesn't pronounce some of the insults in spanish that well, unless that's part of the joke idk. Other than that, pretty good.
>unless that's part of the joke
Doubtful.
>voiced by white guy
There will be a fuss
for the most part it was fine, he should just work a little on the pronunciation and it should be fine
thanksgiving turkey body
I wanna stuff it