But while this adults-only point-and-click adventure initially resembles South Park: The Stick of Truth minus the turn-based fighting system, the combat isn’t the only thing that it’s lacking.For starters, its story is somewhat poorly structured, with the ‘Freakpocalypse’ event in question relegated to a cutscene in the cliffhanger ending.
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Denise and I are big fans of Powerpuff Girls, which was directly reminiscent of that 50s aesthetic.Ĭhance Kubesh painted ten beautiful title cards, which I really feel brought all the episodes together and made them feel really professional.With a likeable loser anti-hero, colourful high school hallways full of misfit teens and teachers to meet, and a snide remark at the ready for almost every interaction, Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse has all the ingredients to bring the caustic comedy of its comic strip origins to life in videogame form. UPA is exactly right! Those backgrounds were done by the ridiculously talented Denise Magdale, who managed to achieve that look in Adobe Animate. What would you say were the chief influences on the show- either in the animation or humour? I thought the backgrounds had a definite UPA vibe to them, and the title cards are wonderful! Does the negotiator bring them groceries? It didn’t really have a “last panel punchline”, so I just held onto it until we ended up needing a show pitch idea. I really liked thinking that scenario out. I had an idea for a comic about a hostage situation that just never ends. Thanks! All the ideas I have that are too weird to be Cyanide & Happiness shorts get funnelled into my webcomic, Bigfoot Justice. The Stockholms is a really original concept! How did this project come to be? Because Octopie comes from an animation background as well, they were very knowledgeable about the process and were great partners. I believe we were just approached for a collaboration. Nothing else was even an option (it also helps that it was the only thing I happened to be good at).Īnd how did the collaboration with Octopie happen?
There was never a doubt in my mind that becoming an animator was the absolute end goal. I’d watch Aladdin over and over again and (my mom tells me) I would lay out props to reenact animated movies as they played out on the screen. I always loved cartoons, which I guess all kids do. What was your relationship with animation like before you started creating it yourself? Were you a lifelong fan or did you come to it another way? From then on, I was onto 2D animation for good.
I made a bunch of knock-off Knox claymations for a while, and when I was 17, I got my first Wacom Bamboo drawing tablet. It seemed so accessible, I decided I wanted to do exactly that. The first time I attempted animation, I was 14 and saw this Newgrounds animator, Knox ( Robert Benfer) making these really funny but simple claymations, featuring blue blobby characters. Mike Salcedo: I always drew and made comics growing up.
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As the new series hit YouTube, AFA spoke to Mike about The Stockholms, his career so far, his influences and the future of the series!ĪFA: How did you get involved in animation? The Stockholms comes from Mike Salcedo, a writer and director on The Cyanide and Happiness Show, and creator of the webcomic Bigfoot Justice. It's very funny indeed, and you may enjoy it even if their previous work has gone a bit too far for you. It lacks the more nihilistic or extreme humour from other Explosm productions (at least in the two episodes currently available) having a lighter, more absurd and playful approach instead. Ingeniously, it plays out like a classic sitcom, drawing on that formula to create something unexpected. But despite the darkness behind the basic set-up, it's actually a lot less bleak than its older sibling. The series also uses C&H's character design style, with the same simple stick-man look to the characters. It doesn't sound like a very funny situation (the title is an allusion to Stockholm syndrome)- which is typical of the kind of dark humour that Cyanide and Happiness trades in. The series follows a bank robber caught up in a hostage situation that goes on for month, and has come to form a kind of 'family' with his hostages. Explosm Entertainment, the people behind the popular webcomic turned animated series Cyanide and Happiness have teamed up with Octopie Animation to produce the new webseries The Stockholms.
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