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What happened to "Just Give Him 10 Mins"?
13 years ago
Or as many fans like to call, "That episode where sheen dumps a bucket of sploodge on a nurses table."
Ok, I have been asked this question a ton of times, and honestly I'm surprised people missed it so much. Before I started making the 1 gag quickies that I make now, I made a short film about 5 minutes long named "Just give him 10 minutes" In which sheen and fatigue are at a sperm bank so sheen can make some money. It was story boarded, animated, voiced, edited, and mixed by
and I.
It was not pulled down by you tube, It was pulled by myself. Why?
It was more of an experiment. The original idea was actually to make a short film and approach several studios to reproduce the idea into a series. After a few meetings and some research, I found that this might not be the best idea for this pitch.
For one, the topic is not ready for syndication, the style is a bit more cliché and underground, and I don’t think the masses are ready to laugh at this type of humor quite yet (Though I think we will get there someday.)
Secondly, the problem with being syndicated by a network is, networks expect instant success. If you are not a hit in the first few months, you get canned. Hell, I have seen shows get canned before even the second episode. Getting a hit with a network is more like winning the lottery then it is having real talent. A lot of it is having a very experienced team of writers, animators, and a fearless leader who knows the current trends and usually already has a big audience following in the 100,000s, and having a lot of luck and good timing. I feel that going the YouTube route, gives me a chance to earn my wings, instead of having the high risk instant success of being on a network. My philosophy is, you create a good show, and success will follow.
And most importantly, I would have to hand over all rights of my characters to someone else. This is pretty scary to me. Who knows the characters better than me? (and maybe) How a character acts and is perceived is extremely important to how they are accepted to an audience. The idea of giving someone else who doesn’t know my characters the opportunity to do whatever they want makes me pretty uncomfortable.
Looking back at "Just give him 10 Minutes" I realize how much I have learned in the last couple of months, and it’s really exciting to see so much improvement in such a short period. I was planning to do a remake of JGHTM but after watching it a few times I don’t know if its necessary. The gag is great, but the characters are boring, the animation is lacking, and the setup is pretty bland.
I think somewhere down the line we might make a different short with a similar gag, but for now, I say we just look forward instead of looking back.
Ok, I have been asked this question a ton of times, and honestly I'm surprised people missed it so much. Before I started making the 1 gag quickies that I make now, I made a short film about 5 minutes long named "Just give him 10 minutes" In which sheen and fatigue are at a sperm bank so sheen can make some money. It was story boarded, animated, voiced, edited, and mixed by
and I.It was not pulled down by you tube, It was pulled by myself. Why?
It was more of an experiment. The original idea was actually to make a short film and approach several studios to reproduce the idea into a series. After a few meetings and some research, I found that this might not be the best idea for this pitch.
For one, the topic is not ready for syndication, the style is a bit more cliché and underground, and I don’t think the masses are ready to laugh at this type of humor quite yet (Though I think we will get there someday.)
Secondly, the problem with being syndicated by a network is, networks expect instant success. If you are not a hit in the first few months, you get canned. Hell, I have seen shows get canned before even the second episode. Getting a hit with a network is more like winning the lottery then it is having real talent. A lot of it is having a very experienced team of writers, animators, and a fearless leader who knows the current trends and usually already has a big audience following in the 100,000s, and having a lot of luck and good timing. I feel that going the YouTube route, gives me a chance to earn my wings, instead of having the high risk instant success of being on a network. My philosophy is, you create a good show, and success will follow.
And most importantly, I would have to hand over all rights of my characters to someone else. This is pretty scary to me. Who knows the characters better than me? (and maybe
) How a character acts and is perceived is extremely important to how they are accepted to an audience. The idea of giving someone else who doesn’t know my characters the opportunity to do whatever they want makes me pretty uncomfortable.Looking back at "Just give him 10 Minutes" I realize how much I have learned in the last couple of months, and it’s really exciting to see so much improvement in such a short period. I was planning to do a remake of JGHTM but after watching it a few times I don’t know if its necessary. The gag is great, but the characters are boring, the animation is lacking, and the setup is pretty bland.
I think somewhere down the line we might make a different short with a similar gag, but for now, I say we just look forward instead of looking back.
And probably the reason why networks look for instant success is mainly because they tend to invest so much money into the show with advertisements and whatnots. They tend to do it too much too; they should just let the regular watchers of their network see the show, and then let it get big through word of mouth. But alas, they're impatient for greed :\.
But in the end, do what you feel is comfortable and what will make you the happiest. There's no need to rush either; you've got plenty of life to attempt to achieve recognition ;).
maybe mondomedia?
it was the first short, ofc you find it lacking and wanting to scrap it, it's natural you improve, but for now, i wouldn't care about networks and such, you should just be happy making these shorts and find enjoyment in it
people tend to get their shows on networks by just using different titles/characters and such as a new idea, while it's not and networks still dig it, so i wouldn't really worry about that either
that said, i just hope you have fun making these shorts, hat's the most important =03
...just a suggestion. Whatever you want to do is up to you.
I like your animated shorts by the way.
Uber sadness. :(
At any rate, I think your animations are one of the most funny things I have seen in awhile on the internet. Original Ideas, and great style/voice, etc. I think you will be able to fulfill your goal, but I do think it will be awhile before your able to get to that point.
But yes you guys have definitely improved over the past few months! :D
(Song reference for those that don't get it xp )
Improper form.
It's the age of user-created content. Screw the networks.
frankly in a way its good you took it down from youtube since some jackasses were constantly complaining about the same things. But hell it was your first big go. I think you guys should be proud of progress ya are making.
As for syndication you could pitch similar characters to your own and then see where that would go, but i can see the drawbacks to that as well. One of the top things is you guys just keep on doing what you are doing, growing in it, and of course enjoying yourselves.
i thought it was removed to keep consistancy or something.
tl;dr - If you want to be internet famous, you have to be able to make shorts that people could share and not be considered a furry; and that can be done by approaching comedy from a non-furry thinking man's point of view.
By the way, I loved the "My Little Donkey" portion of your last cartoon. The masturbation however was just forced and creepy. It could've been less realistic and more cartoony. Mostly because of the pacing and the sound effects.
Oh, and if you think my advice is shitty, then just don't take it, lol. I really don't care either way. I just get aggressive with criticism when I see someone who could really make it big. It's a good thing!
Bestie boys
Red hot chillie peppers
South park
T.K.O.
Round 2!
Opponent asleep!
That was the main problem with the first video you made for me: it felt like it should have been 3 minutes instead of 5 minutes, but since you had those 5 minutes to fill the other two minutes amounted to (basically) filler.
I'm glad to see improvement though, definitely!