Since Far-Fetched is hand drawn, we are trying to keep the frame rate reasonable. Part of the reason might just be that I’m a huge fan of hand drawn animation. I know many productions these days rely on rigs to speed up the animation process, but to be honest, I haven’t learned how to do rigged animation. The Far-Fetched team loves to suffer apparently, because we’re hand drawing the series, frame by frame, rather than using rigs. I think you can see the influence of my love of all those in my work today, including in Far-Fetched. Other inspirations of mine have been Deviant Art and anime. What inspires the style and design of Far-Fetched, and what kinds of animation techniques are you using in your production pipeline?Īshley: I was a huge Danny Phantom fan when I was a little kid. The project originally started out as Hell Puppy and over time evolved into Far-Fetched. Since they are such staples in my mind, it made sense to develop them into a project. These characters have stuck with me over the years, and to be honest, I don’t know why. Working on it gave me a lot of comfort, and it was fun and nostalgic! From 2015 onward, their story was a side project I had, which was constantly evolving. I began playing around and thinking about what their story was. In 2015, I started thinking about them again, and decided to bring them back for fun. I drew these characters a lot as a kid, but then lost interest for a few years. But Kira has stayed basically exactly the same since I was 12 years old! In fact, I still have drawings of Kira from when I was 12 or 13, and you can see in them how little Kira has changed. Her name was originally Vicki, and then it was Lucia, and eventually she became Rue. Rue started out as a pretty different character. How long have you been developing Far-Fetched, and how have the concepts, designs and characters evolved throughout the development process?Īshley: I have been thinking about Far-Fetched since I was a kid. Ashley Nichols provided a walkthrough of the ink & paint process, demoing a scene featuring the character Quinn Huckley. Horror and comedy go together really well, for some reason. The series includes monsters and horror, but we’ve also weaved in comedic aspects. But we also explore the idea of being a late bloomer adult who’s trying to figure themselves out, while life just won’t stop. The series is a bit of a nostalgic take on surviving the late 2000s. Of course, it doesn’t help that the leader of the band Rue’s joined wants to film in abandoned campsites that are infected with monsters. Kira, this weird purple dog, thrusts Rue into the world of the supernatural. It’s a horror comedy show about a young woman named Rue, who accidentally releases her own chaotic canine creation named Kira into the world while also joining a band of late-2000’s musical misfits to fight for survival in a town where science is at odds with the supernatural. I have no formal animation schooling! How would you describe Far-Fetched, for our viewers who may not have seen the teaser trailer for your pilot?Īshley: We sometimes joke that Far-Fetched is just Scooby Doo meets Resident Evil. In sharing this path into the industry I’ve just revealed my greatest, darkest secret. Those two projects were incredibly cool, but my heart does truly lie with online, indie animated content. Since then, I have mainly worked on online projects, mixed in with some industry work for a DreamWorksTV show called Too Loud, and some work on Animaniacs as a cleanup artist. I wasn’t looking for anything fancy, just people who were like, “Hey, I need an animator!” I scurried and cobbled together a little reel and responded to those people, saying, “please hire me!” To be honest, I had no idea what I was doing, but a couple people were foolish enough to hire me, which got me through the initial gate! So I transitioned to sharing fan animations for Steven Universe on YouTube.Įventually I started looking around on Twitter for animation jobs. But I wanted to get into animation, and I figured that working on fanart that I was passionate about was the best way to learn how to animate. I started on DeviantArt drawing Danny Phantom fan art. What was your career path into animation?Īshley: I am a huge internet child. Trailer the upcoming pilot episode of Far-Fetched.
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