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Ctrl-Alt-Delete Animated Series Announced 54

Posted by Zonk from the kickass dept.
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."
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  • To infinity and beyond (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Rs_Conqueror ( 838344 ) on Thursday December 01, 2005 @08:06PM (#14162538)
    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 (Score:5, Informative)

      by Mirkon ( 618432 ) <mirkon@noSPam.gmail.com> on Thursday December 01, 2005 @08:12PM (#14162563) Homepage
      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.
      • If anything, CAD comics exists, because PA did it first. CAD, at least for a couple of years, was a blatant ripoff of Penny Arcade.
        • Tim Buckley has stated over and over again that he did not even read Penny-Arcade before working on CAD, so it can't possibly be a ripoff. I have also heard him say this in person. I, for one, believe him.

          Besides, CAD has such a vastly different style (Artistically, plot-wise (it has one), and character wise) that I don't understand how anybody could even confuse it with being a BLATANT ripoff. CAD is only 3 years old, so if CAD was a ripoff for "at least a couple of years", that would seem to indicate that
          • 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...
            • Yeah, Really.

              PA strips are usually shorter (much like PVP), and there is no plot. PA is just a way for its authors to express how they feel about the gaming industry events. CAD is more like a story following a few gamers.

          • The very first CAD comic acknowledged its setup was cliche. I always assumed they were referring to strips like penny-arcade.
          • Has he? I never heard that... see the fourth comic [ctrlaltdel-online.com] for proof against.
            • CAD was in development for quite a while before Tim published the first comic online. Plenty of time to become more aware of the scene he was entering.

              I can see how you wouldn't have heard it before. I've read it online in a few articles/interviews, and heard him say it when he came to Montreal.
          • I readed CAD until april or so, then it just bored me.

            Lets give him the benefit of doubt about Tim not reading PA before working on CAD. But, he already mentions PA on the fourth comic he did [ctrlaltdel-online.com], and some of the even earlier comics have some PA flair to them [ctrlaltdel-online.com].

            I am too lazy to search through their archives (the archives of both sites are too clumsy). But CAD has made a strip spoofing Macintosh ads [ctrlaltdel-online.com], after PA did the same. Also, CAD has a couple of guys who are supposed to represent the first and second player on
            • I'm also getting bored by CAD. It was fun when it dealt with gaming, but it seems to linger now in the boring so-called 'storyline'.

              The story involving the xbox robot becoming mad seemed to last for months, and now we have this lame killer-girlfriend thing. Seems Tim's badly in need of inspiration...
            • IIRC, CAD was in development for quite some time before the first comic was ever written. Tim did a whole bunch of work (which he didn't publish) before he did the first comic.

              Once he got further into it, I'd imagine it was kind of hard to avoid Penny-Arcade.

              I mean, they are both videogame comics, there are bound to be SOME similarities. I mean, when I was watching through Babylon 5 again a few months back, I read the entry on The Lurker's Guide to each episode. An ongoing theme was people claiming JMS was
    • UserFriendly tried an animated series [userfriendly.org] a while ago. It looks like it only lasted one episode though.
    • Ryan Sohmer, the director of this project, was trying to get an animated series going for his own webcomic, Least I could Do [leasticoulddo.com] about a year ago. Funny that he ended up directing this thing.
    • Ahahaha, I can see it now... some kid will be watching saturday morning cartoons, and then Gabe and Tycho will be on, and be like, "This channel lacks wang. Let's go to Cartoon Network."

      "Mommy, what's 'wang'?"

      And soon thereafter, he develops an unnatural aversion to fruit juices...
  • ...I now wonder, will the animated version be, you know, funny?

  • Promising (Score:5, Informative)

    by Khyl'Dran ( 673292 ) on Thursday December 01, 2005 @08:21PM (#14162593)

    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!)...
    • I don't know about their particular situation, but it's a real stinker to get anyone in a normal company to sponsor ANYTHING related to video on the web. At least in a meaningful way. They don't seem to value it the same way they would a show on TV, for some reason. And when you're talking about making 4-5 minute episodes with that quality of animation, you don't have much room to play around. At the start, caution is key. $2.99/episode may seem like a lot, but if they can get enough people to buy it l
      • A user-sponsored scheme seems to work fine for Rooster Teeth Productions (Red vs Blue, The Strangerhood, P.A.N.I.C.S.), $10 makes you a sponsor for the season and some nice consideration when the DVD is made available. But with "professional" voice actors and the like, I'm sure their production costs would be a bit more than recording a Halo match.
    • "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..."

      Barring, of course, Megatokyo. In any case, the reason I stopped reading CAD was because it stopped being funny and it seemed as though Tim was trying desperately to make me care about the cast. After he had been selling Ethan as a digital punching bag for all stupidity and mishap (while being

  • This is awesome except... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Prince Lorak ( 935528 ) on Thursday December 01, 2005 @08:30PM (#14162640)
    ...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.

  • Temped, but I'd like to buy the DVD instead. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by vertinox ( 846076 ) on Friday December 02, 2005 @10:25AM (#14165860)
    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.
  • Kris Straub, creator of Checkerboard Nightmare [checkerboa...htmare.com] and Starslip Crisis [starslipcrisis.com], gives an interesting commentary on this news.
    • Derp, perhaps a link would be nice, huh? Linky [checkerboa...htmare.com]
    • I'm posting this here in case Kris doesn't like it on his blogger page:

      Yeah, his comic is really ... totally unoriginal and horribly unfunny. I really don't like how he's become so popular.

      "PA nor PVP owns the copyright on any of these concepts -- but we've seen them all before! Each of them! A long time ago! And to my mind anyway, done better!" -Kristofer Straub

      I don't think CAD is a bad comic, per se, but I too was astounded by the readership numbers. It's no Penny Arcade by ANY measure, it's no
  • Who says that webcomics have to be "funny"? It's nice to see some serious, dramatic entires pulling ahead of the pack and innovat...
    Wait, Ctrl-Alt-Delete is...

    It's supposed to be funny???

    I'm not paying $3 for 5 minutes of powerfully unfunny garbage. There are some real [whiteninjacomics.com] gems [achewood.com] out there, but CAD is... well, it's the "Joey" of the webcomics world. It's very important that this animated series venture lose buckets of money. Otherwise, webcomics might turn into American TV.
  • Tim Buckey did it the right way. He didn't start out with a pricey product that was entirely crap.

    He built a fanbase that is very incredibly huge. Two compilation books and a forum later and it seemed to be the best time to create something more. Tim's timing couldn't be more right!

    I predict that he is going to make tons of money on this project.

    Ten books at $10 gets you $100. With his fanbase he can do the same thing with 800 fans with a price of 2.99 but better!

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