INKTOBER 2019 | DAY 05
🇺🇸 BUILD - The Birth Of A Craftsman.
🇧🇷 CONSTRUIR - O Nascimento

You really should. Mung lays down some awkwardly awesome rhymes about nutritional information and Gazpacho…well… Let’s just say he gives Lady Gaga a run for her money.

What is up with those Spot the Block commercials with Chowder? I’m having trouble sleeping after watching them…

I haven’t seen those.

Thanks for responding!

OK, I get the explicit label—I know other podcasts that swear, but now I remembered that they bleep it out…for the most part… It’s actually kinda weird, it’s not that clear what you can get away with on iTunes, at least here in Brazil.

Do you guys determine your rating on iTunes? Because, me being just a wee 16 year old toddler, it doesn’t let me access “explicit content”, so I can only hear you on SoundCloud, which doesn’t allow me to download episodes, so I can’t enjoy your soothing voices while offline… Also, talk about Harvey Beaks!

Sorry friend but we swear much to much to get away with a non-explicit label.

All of our episodes are available to download on Soundcloud, we always make extra special sure of it, so I’m not sure why you’re not able to. Maybe try again? Sorry you’re having trouble but we’d probably get in trouble if we removed it.

Also we are so gonna do an episode on Harvey Beaks! We love that show! We’d just figure we’d wait until the first season ends so we can cover it properly. Also we’ve scheduled all our upcoming episodes for the rest of the year so we won’t be able to work through any new suggests until 2016.

Hope that helps!

- Nina

🇺🇸 The very first doodles in my very first proper sketchbook. I just touched the paper with the pencil and this odd Dexter-meets-Crocker-meets-Carl-from-Johnny-Bravo design came out. Still one of my all-time favorites, though. 🇧🇷 Os primeiros rabiscos do meu primeiro sketchbook propriamente dito. Só toquei a lapiseira no papel e saiu esse estranho design de Dexter-com-Crocker-com-Cacá-de-Johnny-Bravo. Mesmo assim, ainda é um dos meus favoritos desde então. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7GgSx2JwH8/?igshid=1ubm9vwm7yk4a

Wander Over Yonder is one of the best cartoons I’ve ever had the bone-tickling joy of coming across. There was no episode that was bad for me—just ones more awesome than others!

You guys are the greatest in the galaxy.

Some thoughts on heavy serialization and continuity in kids cartoons.

Historically, Networks do not like serialization in comedy cartoons because serialized cartoons do not rate as high in the repeats as the stand alone cartoons do. They have found that once a viewer has watched an episode and got the next part of the story, they tend to not watch that same episode when it repeats. But if the show was just a simple funny cartoon they will watch it again, because they want to laugh at the jokes again. 

So for this reason, we as the show creators are oftentimes discouraged from producing serialized shows with heavy continuity. The Networks feel they need the episodes to be stand alone for the sake of repeats, ratings and for programming a 24 hour animation channel. This has been the case since I started making cartoons in the early 90′s.

A few years ago some comedy cartoons started integrating complex and serious plots into their shows, and it was a refreshing change from the status quo. Finally we thought this was our chance to tell deeper stories and when I first started Wander back in 2011, I asked if I could make it a serialized 22-minute show.  I was simply told no. 

The Network really wanted Wander to be produced in the classic, stand alone 11 minute format, because they felt that’s where they would get the most bang for their buck. And from a programming standpoint I could understand that.

So after producing a season of silly one off cartoons we got the pick up for season 2 and we asked if we could finally try and tell a bigger story with complex continuity.  The network was open to exploring that idea, but they didn’t want to lose the looseness of season 1. 

So a COMPROMISE was reached. We would create a continuity that thread through four 22-minute episodes that were to be scattered throughout the season. The 11-minute episodes in between would be loosely related to that arc, but would still stand alone so they could be repeated in any order.

I’m writing this because I’m seeing a lot of desire for the next piece of the puzzle, the next turn of the plot, the next big change and I will honestly tell you that will not really happen until the next 22-minute episode. The following 11-minute episodes will continue to be loosely related to the arc. For instance, Hater is no longer crushing on Dominator, Wander isn’t trying to get them together, and there will be some character insights that inform the 4 part arc, but there will also be some random one-offs that really have nothing to do with the arc at all.

Wander is still the silly and funny KIDS show that we started with season 1. It is not highly serialized, it is not extremely complex and serious as some of you wish it were.  I’m posting this because I really want people to enjoy the show for what it IS and not get mad at it for what it ISN’T.

A little late for when I actually made it, but this sketch represents my love for this heart-tinglin’ laughter fest of a show.

@crackmccraigen! @suspendersofdisbelief! I uncovered a vestige of the Watchdogs’ enigmatic origins!

Here’s my piece for the “Yokai: Gegege No Kitaro”Art Show being displayed at Qpop2! The opening reception was pretty sweet. The gallery will be up until the end of March and my piece is available if anyone is interested. It’s called “Daddy Eyeball Dance.” It’s done in ink brush pen, markers and gel pen. It’s framed and ready to go to a new home!

🇧🇷 Projeto de ilustração de Natal feito com a minha cara colega de estágio da Assessoria de Comunicação do @iffcamposcentro, @rapha.ellac — que fez o padrão maneiríssimo de flocos de neve do fundo. Deu trabalho, mas compensou. Esperamos ter passado a alegria da temporada ao pessoal da escola nesse fim de 2019! Muitas coisas por vir no futuro próximo. Será que você percebeu algo especial? #natal #natalatrasado #projeto #ilustração #iff #iffcampuscentro #árvoredeNatal #presentesdenatal #preenchaobranco #dinâmica #MuitolegalocaraqueescreveuJesusnaestrela https://www.instagram.com/p/B7UY7MwDYr0/?igshid=96m8tkoqyya1

This is the single greatest thing I’ve ever seen.

Almost forgot to post this.

Here’s my Mung Daal cosplay from ACen last weekend.

Bald caps are a pain in the arse.

🇺🇸 — Holy smokes, Mugman! Is that a giant, hairy, eight-legged spider on your shoulder?! 😱

— (Sigh…) Cuphead, firstly: all spiders have eight legs; And secondly: April Fools’ was two days ago. 🙄😒

— I know. 😏

🇧🇷 — Carambola, Caneco! Isso aí é uma aranha de oito pernas enorme e peluda no seu ombro?! 😱

— (Suspiro…) Xicrinho, primeiro: toda aranha tem oito pernas; E segundo: 1º de Abril foi dois dias atrás. 🙄😒

— Eu sei. 😏

@netflix

Sign the petition and competition!

https://www.change.org/p/walt-disney-encourage-disney-to-make-wander-over-yonder-season-3

Please sign the petition to #saveWOY and get it renewed for a third season!

So in order to increase awareness for this petition and to get more signatures I’m going to start a competition. One reblog will count as an entry. You can like the post if you want but only the reblogs will count. I will use a random number generator to determine the winner depending on whether you were the 11th to reblog or the 23rd, etc. I will do the draw, announce and contact the winner on the 3rd April 2016.

The prize is a free Wander Over T-shirt in your size of your choice out of these three and I’ll also pay for postage.

Please please please don’t forget to sign the petition! That’s why I’m doing this competition in the first place! Now get out there and reblog and sign! and best of luck to all who enter!