More, More, Beasts of Lore

First off, I'd like to sincerely apologize for the shittyness of the title of this post. Ok, with that off my chest, we can get down to business.

Secondly first off, I want to kind of think about an episode of Rockos Modern Life for a minute. Remember that 2-parter where Rocko and the game make a cartoon? If you recall, Ralph Bighead (famous cartoonist) wanted to get away from cartoons and do someting a little more arty. Well, he finally does and nobody gives a shit. He is followed around by his past as a cartoonist and its impossible to move on.

I kind of feel like Ralph Bigehad a little bit.

Not so much in the "leaving animation" area, but in the way that i want to do something more than comedy, I'm just afraid people won't give two fucks of shit. Beasts of Lore is still a comedy, at it's heart, but it also revolves around some dark themes, a deep story, and some heavy issues. It touches on terrorism, racism, oppression, and mass murder to name a few things, and I'm not even done writing it yet.

This isn't the first time I've delved into that area, though. One of my Original movie scripts, "In the Rain" which I finished back in '05 or '06 was about a guy who's suppressed child within begins to emerge and fuck his shit up. There were some really terrible things expressed in that screenplay, like heavy drug use, promiscuous sex, and murderous betrayal. It too, also had quite a deep and complicated story; filled with flashbacks and clues, even a few missing parts that were left out on purpose for reasons I won't give here. The ending was also a surprise ending that I was mad proud of.

I guess what I'm trying to say is...

I just want people to embrace it. Look at it, be attracted by it's visual style, listen to it, and be captivated by the soundtrack (which is %100 not done by me, so you know it's good) and superior voice acting (you bet). I'm trying to create a certain feeling with this; one of excitement, angst, and depression- set to the theme of a comedy.

I'm treating this one with kid gloves. One wrong move and I could have a huge fucking waste of time and an even bigger de-motivation for future projects.
-k