The “Robot Chicken” Team Create “Micro Mayhem!”
Stop-Motion, one of the finest animation forms there is. Beautiful, elegant and visually stunning, stop-motion has captured the hearts and minds of people across the globe. Seth Green, producer, writer and genius behind Robot Chicken, has taken stop-motion and completely turned it on it’s head. Robot Chicken remains a comedy gem, using stop-motion to convey ridiculous, yet hilarious scenarios. Seth, combined with a team at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, known for their work in Cartoon Network’s animated take-on MAD magazine, Robot Chicken and various advertisements, have created a new short film, Micro Mayhem.
Micro Mayhem is utter hilarity, combined with an over-the-top story, all created in Stop-motion. The short, simple narrative, combined with toy cars, explosions, plasticine gore and a quaint hand-made touch revives how simple, appealing and effective stop-motion can be. What I enjoyed most about Micro Mayhem was the use of what looks like a custom rig to shoot the film on. Getting up-close to the wheels of the toy car, not only adds to the certain comedy of the film but really bought the film to life. It completely spoofs ridiculous action film car chases however with the use of toy cars adds a certain naïvety to it all. In all, Micro Mayhem is a fantastic, hilarious and imaginative short film.
As well as Micro Mayhem, Stoopid Buddy Stoodios have been working hard and secretly to create a Stop-Motion Simpson’s couch gag which will be aired on May 12 on Fox. More information can be found on their blog