Happy Tree Friends is an American-Canada animated flash series developed and developed by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. The show is cited as an example to achieve the cult following. This event was rated TV-14 V.
The series is famous for its mix of cartoon animal cartoon anthropomorphic funny and extreme violent graphics. Each episode revolves around characters experiencing bloodshed, pain, mutilation, cutting, annihilation, and/or accidental or intentional deaths. At one point, there was a warning given to the site "Cartoon Violence: Not recommended for small children or large babies".
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Character
Happy Tree Friends feature various characters, each with different looks and personality. However, almost all share the same Pac-Man eyes, shoe-shaped feet, buckteeth, and pink heart-shaped noses; characters including Cuddles, yellow rabbit, Petunia, blue skunks, Giggles, pink squirrel, Toothy, colored beavers, Disco Bear, gold-orange bears, Flaky, red hedgehogs, Flippy, green army veteran, Useful, orange with amputated hands, Lammy, purple sheep, etc.
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History
1999: Get started
While working at Mondo Media, Rhode Montijo drew a piece of scrapbook paper that would later become Shifty. He then drew on a yellow rabbit spreadsheet poster that had a resemblance to Cuddles and wrote "Resistance is in vain" underneath. Rhode hung a picture on his workstation so others could see his idea, and finally the idea was filed and accepted by Mondo Media executives. In 1999, Mondo gave Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, and Kenn Navarro a chance to do a short for them. They come up with the short name of Banjo Frenzy, which features dinosaurs (earlier versions of Lumpy) killing three forest animals, rabbits, squirrels and beavers (previous versions of Cuddles, Giggles and Toothy) with banjo. From there, Mondo gave them their own Internet series, which they named Happy Tree Friends .
2000-present: success
After its internet debut in 1999, Happy Tree Friends became an unexpected success, earning more than 15 million hits every month and featured in film festivals. In some countries, episodes can be seen on television. The series has been reformed into its own show, not as part of the compilation as before.
Encouraged by the success of the event, the creator has released four DVDs First Blood Second Serving , Third Strike and Winter Break i>) contains episodes displayed on websites and other unreleased sites. Collections consisting of the first three DVDs and five bonus episodes, Overkill , have also been released. Two episodes, "Steal the Spotlight" and "Ski Yes, No Yes!", Were initially only available on Happy Tree Friends: Winter Break DVD, but are now on YouTube and Friends Tree Website.
Mondo Media CEO John Evershed linked the success of this series with animator Kenn Navarro. "He has a clear vision for the show and he's just a brilliant animator, he has created something quite universal.I imagine the children watching Happy Tree Friends 20 or 30 years from now in a way that just like they saw Tom and Jerry now, so this is really Kenn Navarro. "
Television series
The Happy Tree Friends television series was first shown at Comic-Con 2006 and several episodes were shown on the website a few weeks before the show's premiere on September 25, 2006 at G4 network. (Web Episode Happy Tree Friends is also aired on the animated network anthology series Happy Tree Friends and Friends and G4's Late Night Peepshow ). Every half hour episode of the television series contains three seven minute segments. 13 half-hour episodes were made, making a total of 39 episodes seven minutes. Images of the first six episodes can be viewed on the G4 website. Canadian channel Razer aired the show in syndication like Citytv stations across Canada. The show is also broadcast on MTV in Europe and Latin America and at Animax in South Africa. It was also featured on Paramount Comedy 1 in the UK from May 11, 2007 for a short time, with occasional replays afterwards with the channel, now branded as Comedy Central UK. In Asia, this series airs on Comedy Central and FX. The second season began to be developed, but had to be canceled because the television series is currently out of the air and budget problems.
Feature movie project
Mondo Media announced plans to produce the film based on this series. The film is currently in pre-production. In 2016, Kenn Navarro tweeted that he was unaware of the work being done on film but that his team "talked to do more shorts".
New episode
In December 2016, Mondo Media released five all-new episodes for online purchases. The episodes are grouped as a set named "Happy Tree Friends: Still Alive" and come with some additional bonus material such as background design, animated storyboard, animation process and session authors videos. After purchase, buyers are allowed to download DRM free video files to their own computer. In January 2017, Kenn Navarro tweeted, "As I understand it, sales are fine but fall below what is expected."
Fall Out Boy music video
In 2007, the Fall Out Boy music video for their song "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" was directed by Kenn Navarro. All characters die with the same type of graphics, the bleeding death shown in the series. The Fall Out Boy band members also made a cameo as a special character of Happy Tree Friends .
Video game
A video game titled Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm was released on June 25, 2008. It was developed by Stainless Games and Sega for Xbox Live Arcade on Xbox 360 and PC.
Spin-off
A spin-off series called Ka-Pow! aired in September 2008. It is about a four character adventure (The Mole, Flippy, Splendid, and Buddhist Monkey). A total of six episodes have been produced.
In 2014, Kenn Navarro created D_Void , a show similar to Happy Tree Friends .
Cast
Awards
References
External links
- Happy Tree Friends at Mondo Media
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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