How would one go about mixing Spongebob's comedy gold with Moral Orel's soul-crushing darkness?
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Hiya Facepunch, it's been about a month and I've given myself a goal to create a webcomic. I won't say much, but it will have the "art style" of Z0NE and be formatted like a storyboard (except instead of draft pictures it looks more like a finished product minus animation). Anyways, I'd like to ask how one would go about mixing the moods of two starkly different yet immensely praised cartoons (Spongebonge and Morel Oral)?
This can be broken into four questions.
1. What made Spongebob work?
2. What made Moral Orel work?
3. What mechanics of Spongebob and Moral Orel can work together?
4. What mechanics of Spongebob and Moral Orel can work against eachother?
Thanks!
PS: What effects were used in [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqrN7-Ri82I"]this[/URL] video for both the audio and video? I've asked the creator and all I've gotten from him is that the music and visuals were processed with audacity and avidemux respectively.
As a person who binge watched Moral Orel, I kinda of think it's the hypocrisy that made it work. The humor was based around the fact that pretty much nothing ever worked out the way people said it would. People say one thing, do another. People feel one thing, and are blind to the truth. Weird sex jokes in otherwise mundane situations to awkward it up by accident.
Orel as a character works for me when you look at him through the glass of, "he's a product of his environment." Every adult around him is an awful human being, except for the only people in the town with no true faith(Daniel/Stephanie). Almost all of the adults around Orel give him terrible, hypocritical advice, and this actually is brought up in an episode where the majority of the adults in the town realize this, and attempt to not give Orel any sort of advice he could "misinterpret". Orel is a character that believes anything that he is told literally and in black and white terms. This is where the humor or horror of his character spawns from, any time he questions anything he is told to choose a side, often times fueling a worse outcome. He almost always does what he's told and often times he gets punished for it because the adults around him "didn't mean that".
Spongebob on the other hand is just a naive character who means well and oftentimes innocently misinterprets things only to fix them later on. Grand events can happen only to lead back into Spongebob waking up to feed Gary. Meanwhile in Moral Orel's world, the world is affected permanently. Things don't just fix themselves, they are broken, ruined. Relationships are destroyed, put back together, only to get shattered once again. However there is the few light spots of the series that really compound that life can get better if you let it. Those parts are what made watching the entire series back to back feel rewarding, knowing despite everything that happened to Orel; he still ended being a good man.
Orel's story works for me because it's a serial that feels like a sitcom. Everything reminds you of something that happened prior, new characters are introduced rapidly, every story wraps up as you wouldn't think. It was a dynamic show that I feel was under appreciated(Even by me when it first came out.) like most Adult Swim shows.
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PS: What effects were used in [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqrN7-Ri82I"]this[/URL] video for both the audio and video? I've asked the creator and all I've gotten from him is that the music and visuals were processed with audacity and avidemux respectively.[/QUOTE]
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