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Penny Arcade: The Animated Series
NoelVeiga
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So, after seeing the in-game intros and the way in which the game manages to use Flash-driven 2D customizable characters on CUTSCENES (best feature in the game by far, IMO. It's genius. I can only imagin how hard that is to pull off) I was wondering how viable a Penny Arcade series is.
Flash-made feature films are starting to appear in the market, and the audience for adult-oriented animated comedy has only grown in the past years, so there is a market.
In fact, after playing some of the game, I could very well give up all that interaction nonsense and just watch a Startling Developments series for half an hour. Make it six hours of that and I'll happily pay twice the cost of the game for a DVD season box set. Can you picture that? Ron Gilbert, Gabe and Tycho teaming up for a weelky show of animated comedy?
Scott Kurtz ("The horror, the horror!" Bet he never gets THAT), over at PVP is trying to lift a similar effort off the ground by muscling through it himself with one or two animators (which I think is crazy and suicidal), but it'd be a nice spinoff bonus if the eps of the game do fine, even if it was solely distributed through the same online channels the game is.
Opinions? Votes for or against? Reasons why this is crazy and it'd never happen?
Flash-made feature films are starting to appear in the market, and the audience for adult-oriented animated comedy has only grown in the past years, so there is a market.
In fact, after playing some of the game, I could very well give up all that interaction nonsense and just watch a Startling Developments series for half an hour. Make it six hours of that and I'll happily pay twice the cost of the game for a DVD season box set. Can you picture that? Ron Gilbert, Gabe and Tycho teaming up for a weelky show of animated comedy?
Scott Kurtz ("The horror, the horror!" Bet he never gets THAT), over at PVP is trying to lift a similar effort off the ground by muscling through it himself with one or two animators (which I think is crazy and suicidal), but it'd be a nice spinoff bonus if the eps of the game do fine, even if it was solely distributed through the same online channels the game is.
Opinions? Votes for or against? Reasons why this is crazy and it'd never happen?
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I agree. Voice acting for Gabe and Tycho would be... I can't find the word.
Let's say they find a voice actor for say, Gabe, right. Some people would love it, others would hate it, because it's not how they imagined their voices would sound, in their heads.
I just think it wouldn't be fair to the fans, in a sense.
EDIT:
It's not like this thought hasn't struck me before though, I would love watching Startling Developments for 30 minutes a week or whatever, since Gabe and Tycho are probably my all time favorite fictional animated/drawn characters.
I think it's not a straight up impossible idea, there are just so many details and they'd have to get it just right.
So yes, even though it would be AMAZING to have an animated PA, voices would probably end up ruining it.
That's what ruined CAD for you?
Not the poorly executed jokes?
Or the copy and paste art?
Oh.
The show wasn't really an unexpected leap. There are enough frames in each CAD comic for about 9 minutes of animation.
A safe bet would be to do one episode, see how fans like it, then figure if it's worth the time and effort to make more animated episodes.
Although here's a WACKY idea.....what about a Penny Arcade animated feature film? A full two hours? I'd like that more than an episodic series.
Wasn't one with Gabe and Tycho, though. I think it was the one about Apple fans and elitism.
Neither do I. That's precisely why the thought came to me after watching the game. I think we all agree that the animation and cutscenes on the game are brilliant... which is why people are cautious about voice acting and not animation, I guess (that and the fact that you're regurgitating the *ahem* lousy excuse the guys gave for having a text based RPG).
Delivering comedy isn't easy, but I'm gonna go crazy and state that if you can pull off an episodic RPG with that level of writing and customizable cutscenes you should be able to cast actors that can actually perform.
I agree that other webcomics-turned-animated-series have been disappointing, but they've also been poorly funded and staffed. As I said, it's the quality of the work Telltale achieved in the game that made me wish there was a PA:TAS.
I dunno how an animated series would suit the PA format. But, as Rainslick evidenced, the characters are flexible enough that you can weave practically any world around them and they'd find a way to entertain.
My main kudos to the ingame cutscenes were the custom characters. Seeing my guy, that I created, put almost seemlessly into an beautiful animated drawn sequence made me feel all glowy inside. And the preveiw for episode 2 looks like they've kicked it up a notch in the cutscene department. Oorah!
A crude broom stand.
EDIT: Of course, I had to go and make a typo on something that'd get quoted (and limed) afterwards...
I lol'd.
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What?
Too bad Christopher Collins (Cobra Commander/Starscream) is dead...for some reason I really do imagine him as the inner monologue of Tycho
It is, in fact, the voice I always picture when reading the strips.
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I'd be happy to voice Twisp the Cat, being British and all, if we want to do this ourselves.