PILOT EPISODE

  CONCEPT CHARACTER DESIGNS

This was an extremely intuitive experience for me because it was my first opportunity to create something substantial involving both design and animation.

I thoroughly enjoyed overcoming both the creative and technical challenges of creating, directing and producing this animated sitcom.

This final project serves as an outstanding example of my dedication to creating something engaging and unique.

I conceptualized the character designs in Adobe Flash as rough sketches intially.

Simply using a regular optical mouse for this task proved to be much less of a hinderance than I had initally thought.

Then I continued developing the designs and imported the characters into Adobe Photoshop for further editing and processing.

Afterwards I began the arduous animation process by utilizing the robust features of Adobe After Effects.

At its core my sitcom is much like Seinfeld, it is a show about nothing. The absence of a predictable plot creates a conduit for spontaneous humor and engaging narrative.

The sitcom includes facets of retro humor in addition to benignly crude comedy commonly found in shows such as Robot Chicken, Metalocalypse, South Park and Family Guy.

The characters live on an island that is used by the military to test new products and contraptions that are dropped on their location.

In possible future episodes the products produce unforeseen and hilarious side effects that the characters are exposed to and survive through.

Highlights of the pilot episode include a comedic roasting of Will Smith, reminiscing about Boner City, Valentino suits and not having anything to put in your mouth.

A squadron of Aurora hypersonic aircraft presumably piloted by the original cast of Star Fox for SNES drops a payload of experimental sunscreen on the island in the end.

-Carl Razazi