Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-10479874-20170808183645/@comment-28396600-20171205002212

This isn't about one of my OCs but rather a different work of mine. My little animated YouTube videos are basically me telling my life story in animated form. The Animutations (as i like to call them) go through different eras that are inspired by whatever time in my life is currently going on. Here's some examples

My first year of videos - I was a huge fan of Family Guy and the movie Rio at the time so there's about a billion references to both of those things. My new puppy got displayed in these videos quite a bit because I was still introducing her to my friends and family at the time. The humor was very silly and borderline childish at times because I was in my mid-teen years.

My second year of videos (first half) - I had recently met a new best friend that I had a serious crush on so a lot of the references in the videos were to things she liked. Due to the happiness in my life thanks to my newfound crush a lot of the content was upbeat and happy with no serious moments whatsoever.

My second year of videos (second half) - I was battling depression at this point in my life so the videos of this time were a lot sadder with little to no comedy whatsoever. Plenty of tear jerking scenes began showing up more frequently than before and the music was made up of mostly slow songs. There were quite a bit of religious references in my videos at the time as well because of how I was going to church very often during that period of my life (I've recently stopped doing those however in fear of seeming preachy). Whenever there was humor, most of the jokes revolved around Weird Al because I had recently been to my first Weird Al concert over the Summer and loved it.

My third year of videos - As my depression ended, the comedy of the first two years started coming back but in a much more sophisticated way. Instead of the reliance on fart and penis jokes, much of it involved things like clever plays on words because of how my sense of humor began to mature with age. A lot of 80s and 90s references started popping up because of my newfound interest in Robot Chicken (which is also the reason why Skeletor and Lindsay Lohan, despite being outdated references, appeared a lot during that era).

So basically, here is what I often compare each era video to:

Era One:Family Guy because it was mostly just a bunch of random immature jokes (most of which related to pop culture) and had nothing to do with one another. Rather than attempting to have anything make sense, I stuck to simply using non-sequitirs at the time. I would also "write to the joke" which means that pretty much every scene led up to a joke in one way or another. Additionally, a lot of these jokes were sexual, gross, violent, or crude in one way or another.

Era Two (part one):MAD on Cartoon Network. The silliness and random humor was just as excessive as the first era but it was a lot less raunchy which made it seem more like MAD than Family Guy. The videos made during this time period were pretty much always TV-PG and at the very worst a mild PG-13.

Era Two (part two):The Muppet Show. There was humor in plenty of occasions but there was a lot of serious/sad moments in there as well. The Muppets would go from a silly slapstick skit to a scene of Kenny Rogers singing a hauntingly beautiful rendition of his famous song, The Gambler. The fact that comedy wasn't really on my mind very often at the time is quite noticeable here.

Era Three:A less vulgar version of Robot Chicken. The only reason I compare it to Robot Chicken and not MAD this time is because the majority of jokes were parental bonuses that kids wouldn't understand. I would often references shows from parent's generation so my work could be aimed towards adults without being vulgar.