Ctrl-Alt-Delete Animated Series Announced

Happ-why writes "Tim Buckley, the creator of the Ctrl-Alt-Delete webcomic, has today announced a new animated series." From the site: "The Animated Series will debut in February of 2006, consisting of a brand new 4-5 minute animated short every month. All new material, fully animated, featuring professional voice actors hand chosen from over 1400 auditions. The episodes are written by me, directed/produced by Ryan Sohmer and Randy Waxman, the great guys over at Blind Ferret Entertainment, and brought to life by a professional animation studio."

Comments

To infinity and beyond

[Rs_Conqueror]

The thing that makes this so noteworthy is that this is quite possably the FIRST webcomic to ever become a full featured animated series. I'm quite excited to see who else will follow in Tim Buckly's footsteps. Tyco and Gabe perhaps? You never know...

Re:To infinity and beyond

[Mirkon]

At the first PAX last August the PA duo said they were working with someone on animated projects, and showed a animated/voiced version of the Cardboard Tube Samurai series of strips they had done that summer. I'm not sure what's taking them so long, but know that when PA debuts animated content it won't be because CAD did it first.

Re:To infinity and beyond

[Golias]

Besides, CAD has such a vastly different style

Really???

Because the first thing to enter my head when I first saw it was, "this looks almost exactly like Penny Arcade, except it's slightly less funny."

(and by that, I meant that Penny Arcade is not particularly funny, and this strip is not funny at all.)

IMHO, YMMV, TEHO, yadda yadda yadda...

Promising

[Khyl'Dran]

Though I personally am much more a fan of Penny-Arcade, CAD probably lends itself better for an animation because Tim usually presents story and continuity, and this is a brave and pioneering move for a webcomic...And judging from the trailer the animation follows the overall feel of the comic quite nicely, which is good. I remember reading in an interview with Tycho, though, that they had been approached about an animated series once and even had actual scripts safely stored in a drawer...who knows, maybe after this move by CAD we'll see a P-A cartoon...that would truly be amazing...

The news post forgot to mention that the episodes will be charged though. $2.99 a peice or free if you become a Premium member of CAD...Bummer...I'm pretty sure with the huge readership numbers that website gets he could easily have procured some kind of sponsorship...(Maybe he'd even make MORE money that way because more people would watch the episodes!)...

This is awesome except...

[Prince Lorak]

...we finally get to hear what the characters sound like. I think that that's the worst part of things like this, especially in books converted to movies. We've all been mentally holding the voices of the characters, and now that image (sound, I guess) is shattered because we now know that the new voices are what the author intends them to sound like.

Re:Yay.

[ElVaquero]

What if it's a justified slashvertisement? Geeks like games, what about comics about games? Seems like more than a few people will see this article and get into the comic/show. Not that I'm promoting the idea of slashvertisements in general, but this seems very different than an established product or company.

Temped, but I'd like to buy the DVD instead.

[vertinox]

Although I'm a big fan of CAD, but $2.99 per episode for something watched online seems a bit steep unless these are downloadable in iPod video format.

I've actually bought DVD of Homestar Runner - Strongbad Emails and enjoyed them very much and would like to see the same eventually happen with CAD.