Hullabaloo - 2D Animated Steampunk Project by Ex-Disney guys

The latest updoot.

And you know what the best part is? When the shorts are released, and the writing doesn't suck!

That will happen................ right?

Freshly arrived animation slides. The video exposure is too bright at first, but it gets better around 4 minutes.

Naice.

Checked their blog, they are done with most of the music, and are starting to record the voices.

Really? To be honest, I was giving up hope that we would get to see anything....it has been so long. I mean, I know that animated movies take time, but we are talking about one episode, not a whole movie.

4 episodes. FOUR episodes.

And the reason it is taking so long, according to my (un)limited knowledge of the industry, is because they are a small group of independent people, without a well-oiled pipeline, trying to figure out how to direct and produce by themselves, while outsourcing nothing.

Yes, four overall, but I kind of thought that they would start with releasing one...but now thinking about it, I guess that was kind of naïve. It would be easier to voice all episodes at once, wouldn't it?

Aren't they outsourcing some of the stuff? I mean in the vid above they just got back animation they outsourced, right?

That's not outsourcing, but international collaboration.

I've been getting email updates from them. Yep, they've been working the whole time, and nearly all of it up until now was just the animation.

edited 22nd Jan '18 7:00:44 PM by Tuckerscreator

Anyway, I am excited about this. I really hope that it is good.

And I really hope people don't set up impossibly high expectations. I don't think they are capable of delivering the best written story ever.

I am actually more interested in getting some great female characters.....

Well, you cannot build a great plot just because you have a great character.

What I mean is that I am ready to forgive some weaknesses in the plot as long as I like the characters and the animation. And I am pretty sure that I will like the animation based on what I have seen so far.

You will like it, I will like it. But thousands, if not millions of others, must like it too. And people can be quite tough to please.

PUH LEEZ! If people were "Hard to Please" there wouldnt be a market for the Ice Age, Minions and most of the Blue Sky output.

They're not exactly aimed at the same audience. This is for older, hardcore animation fans in touch enough to fund a Kickstarter, the others are for little kids and apathetic parents.

edited 23rd Jan '18 5:00:03 PM by IniuriaTalis

Oh OK.

Checked the production blog again. They made 5 updates this year, last one on 31st of March. They are animating and inking new scenes all the time. No, I have NO IDEA why they are working this slow. Either bit off too much to chew for a small team, or some annoying problems only higher tier backers are told about.

Either way, it's being made.

edited 5th May '18 11:30:09 PM by KlarkKentThe3rd

I hope they are aware the level of responsibility they have. If they don't deliver other creators will have a truly hard time to get their projects funded.

Right. You don't want to be the next Mighty No. 9.

Actually, it gets me thinking. How long does it take a studio the size of Disney's to do a 2D animated movie? I know they haven't done a 2D movie since 2011, but how long did it take them to develop that?

Because maybe we can use that to guesstimate how long it'd take this smaller team to finish this project.

Making an animated series on your own takes years. I knew going in when contributing to the fund I would be waiting for the long haul.

The longest production time for Disney is Sleeping Beauty with, if I remember correctly, nine years. But that movie was still hand-inked and very, very difficult to make due to the detailed background (it is one of its kind for this reason). Usually it was between three and four years.

I guess Don Bluth would be a better parallel, though. But even that wouldn't work, because if I understand them correctly, they aren't making a movie but episodes.

Most people knew that, I guess. But they can't drag it out for a decade or so either.

edited 6th May '18 11:26:29 AM by Swanpride

Remember the tragedy of The Thief and the Cobbler?