We spoke to Pegbarians and Amazing Animation Analysis' Florian Walraven about Mashed's trio of Donkey Kong cartoons, Donkey Kong's Bizarre Banana Adventure, Donkey Kong's Even More Bizarre Banana Adventure and Donkey's Blind Date.

What's more fun to write: drama or comedy? Is making shorter cartoons viable on YouTube anymore? And who had the idea to make this Donkey Kong speak Japanese instead of English? All is revealed in this episode of Rogue Pixels!

Rogue Pixels is the podcast that shares your love of the biggest and best online animations. Each week Colm Ahern chats with the creators of the internet’s most successful cartoons in order to learn more about how those toons came into existence.

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The people who made the cartoon!

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Donkey Kong's Bizarre Banana Adventure Credits

Produced by Tom Jenkins

Written and Animated by Pegbarians

Voice of Donkey and Diddy Kong, Pacman, Sonic, Snake, Link and Falcon by Pegbarians

English to Japanese Translation by Jip Minderman

Music curation by Pegbarians

Sound Design and additional voices by Jason Dewey

Donkey Kong's Even More Bizarre Banana Adventure Credits

Produced by Tom Jenkins

Written and Animated by Pegbarians

All voices by Florian Walraven

English to Japanese Translation by Jip Minderman

Music curation by Pegbarians

SFX by Pegbarians and Jason Dewey

Rogue Pixels is a Spud Gun Studios production.

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We spoke to ArtSpear Entertainment's Joe Bauer and Rita Artmann about their narrative-driven whodunnit follow-up to Super-Bowl, Fanfictasia!

How did they decide to focus on new characters like Thor and Hela? How much more of an undertaking, animation-wise, was Fanfictasia over the Super-Bowl trilogy? And who brings all those cinematic references to the table? All is revealed in this episode of Rogue Pixels!

Rogue Pixels is the podcast that shares your love of the biggest and best online animations. Each week Colm Ahern chats with the creators of the internet’s most successful cartoons in order to learn more about how those toons came into existence.

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The people who made the cartoon!

Watch the original cartoons here:

FANFICTASIA - The Phantom-like Menace: https://youtu.be/DI7FN5AM_7A

FANFICTASIA - The Vault of Un-Kept Secrets: https://youtu.be/PrM11kelhHU

FANFICTASIA - Guiltfinger: https://youtu.be/hs91rjuudDQ

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Fanfictasia Credits:

Written and voiced by Joe Bauer and Rita Artmann

Animation, music and sound by Joe Bauer

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We spoke to The Chalkeaters about their epic Animal Crossing and Doom video game parody song - Doom Crossing!

Did the band have to work fast to jump on the Doom Guy and Isabelle trend? How difficult was it to mash-up so many musical genres? How does an artist balance creative freedom vs creating art of already-established characters? All is revealed in this episode of Rogue Pixels!

Rogue Pixels is the podcast that shares your love of the biggest and best online animations. Each week Colm Ahern chats with the creators of the internet’s most successful cartoons in order to learn more about how those toons came into existence.

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Doom Crossing Credits:

Executive producer / songwriter: Alios

Composer / arranger: Ergy

Sound producer, arranger and engineer: Masel

"Animal Crossing" artist / cover artist: Pondis

"DOOM" artist: Hunternif

Character animator: Kiryumia

Motion designer, supporting animator and supporting sound engineer: Lenich

Isabelle vocals: Natalia Natchan aka PiNKII

"DOOM" supporting artist: Fedor Titov

Brutal "DOOM" voice: Jonathan Luhmann

Piano: Dmitry Kovzel

Flugelhorn: Kelly O'Donohue

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We spoke to Mashed's Ben Michael and Liam McKeown about their JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and Friday Night Funkin’ mash-up, FNF's Bizarre Anime Adventure!

Who decided that Dio vs Boyfriend was an animated battle that must take place? How difficult was it to marry anime and FNF-style gameplay? And who's idea was it to have BF talk in beeps and boops? All is revealed in this episode of Rogue Pixels!

Rogue Pixels is the podcast that shares your love of the biggest and best online animations. Each week Colm Ahern chats with the creators of the internet’s most successful cartoons in order to learn more about how those toons came into existence.

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The people who made the cartoon!

Watch the original cartoons here:

FNF's Bizarre Anime Adventure: https://youtu.be/19Y-BDr29tA

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FNF's Bizarre Anime Adventure Credits:

Produced by Tom Jenkins and Ben Michael

Written by Ben Michael

Rough Animation by Liam McKeown

Clean up by Tim Bender, Kai Newton and Liam McKeown

Color by Rizatch and Liam McKeown

Rap Battle Art by Tim Bender

Rap Battle Animation by Moro and Tim Bender

Backgrounds by Eric Oleander

Voice of Jotaro by Alex Walker Smith

Voice of Dio by Kevin Andrew Rivera

Voice of Boyfriend by Kevin Afghani

Rap Battle Music Composed by Joe Simmons AKA Gizmode

Edit, compositing, Sound Design, VFX and Music Curation by Jason Alan Dewey

Rogue Pixels is a Spud Gun Studios production.

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We spoke to FusionAnimations Anthony Acedo about their long-running, super-ambitious object animation series, The Daily Object Show!

How important is audience participation on YouTube? How did this series go from Survivor-like to something that has a sprawling narrative? And why inanimate objects? All is revealed in this episode of Rogue Pixels!

Rogue Pixels is the podcast that shares your love of the biggest and best online animations. Each week Colm Ahern chats with the creators of the internet’s most successful cartoons in order to learn more about how those toons came into existence.

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The people who made the cartoon!

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The Daily Object Show: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-VCQWkCeDlEUh2tsEzeg91aPQKH1pK0y

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We spoke to ArtSpear Entertainment's Joe Bauer and Rita Artmann about their juggernaut pop culture mash-up battle trilogy, Super-Hero-Bowl, Super-Villain-Bowl and Super-Showdown-Bowl!

How did a duo that was predominantly involved in live-action productions get involved in animation? Was the Super-Bowl trilogy planned out from the beginning? And how do you a tackle a project this big when you're just two people? All is revealed in this episode of Rogue Pixels!

Rogue Pixels is the podcast that shares your love of the biggest and best online animations. Each week Colm Ahern chats with the creators of the internet’s most successful cartoons in order to learn more about how those toons came into existence.

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The people who made the cartoon!

Watch the original cartoons here:

Super-Hero Bowl: https://youtu.be/K9G9lfA8fa8

Super-Villain-Bowl: https://youtu.be/YMnAGN2gRsw

Super-Showdown-Bowl: https://youtu.be/S6yLGIqyBM8

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Super-Hero-Bowl, Super-Villian-Bowl, Super-Showdown-Bowl Credits:

Written and voiced by Joe Bauer and Rita Artmann

Animation, music and sound by Joe Bauer

Rogue Pixels is a Spud Gun Studios production.

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We spoke to The Chalkeaters about their viral swing ear worm about Valve and Gabe Newell always getting stuck at the number two - Count To Three!

How did The Chalkeaters get both Gabe Newell and Ellen McLain from Portal involved in the project? What was the inspiration for the cardboard bodies on lollipop sticks art style? And why is My Little Pony important to the early stages of the band? All is revealed in this episode of Rogue Pixels!

Rogue Pixels is the podcast that shares your love of the biggest and best online animations. Each week Colm Ahern chats with the creators of the internet’s most successful cartoons in order to learn more about how those toons came into existence.

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The people who made the cartoon!

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Count To Three Credits:

Executive producer / songwriter: Alios

Music producer / engineer: Tim Maslov

Arranger / guitars / choir Ergy

Lead artist / art director: Pondis

Lead animator / video composer: Lenich

Character animator: Kiryumia

Gabe Newell vocals: The Stupendium

GLaDOS vocals: Ellen McLain

Alyx vocals: Holly Turton

Supporting arranger / piano: Dmitry Kovzel

Drums: Matias Menarguez

Trumpet: Bruno Brito

Saxophones: Weber Marely

Trombone: Felipe Coelho

Choir: Hineko, Vasya, Martie, Chaos Angel, tooi_cat, Venix, Walter, Dmitry Litvinov, Tsumikashi, Lenich, Ergy, Dmitry Kovzel, Nikdoge, Felya, Jerico, Choki, Finch under cover, BertyDahlia, Victor Bird

Supporting artists: Hunternif, Koldan Grey, Freskovich, QuietVictories

Mastered by Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis Studios

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We spoke to Dangoheart Animation about their incredibly popular, multi-part anime series featuring Steve, the Enderman, Creepers and more – Minecraft Anime!

What inspired Dangoheart to begin creating animations for YouTube? How did their Minecraft collaboration with Merryweather Comics come about? And how difficult is it to balance wholesome and horny? All is revealed in this episode of Rogue Pixels!

Rogue Pixels is the podcast that shares your love of the biggest and best online animations. Each week Colm Ahern chats with the creators of the internet’s most successful cartoons in order to learn more about how those toons came into existence.

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The people who made the cartoon!

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We spoke to Pegbarians and Amazing Animation Analysis' Florian Walraven about Mashed's Super Mario Bros anime trilogy – some would call it the true Super Mario Bros movie – Super Anime Brothers!

Why does the Mario vs Luigi story work so well in this when the brothers are just hats and moustaches? How difficult is it to give up control when you've been the head of this Mario party? And... the all-important question... why Mario but anime? All is revealed in this episode of Rogue Pixels!

Rogue Pixels is the podcast that shares your love of the biggest and best online animations. Each week Colm Ahern chats with the creators of the internet’s most successful cartoons in order to learn more about how those toons came into existence.

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The people who made the cartoon!

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Super Anime Brothers Credits:

Produced by Tom Jenkins & Ben Michael

Written by Florian Walraven

Animated by Pegbarians (Part 1 & 2)

Rough animation by Smash Toons

Colour Design, Lead Colour by Jan F. Sorrentino

Additional Colour by Billy B Crinion, Claire Mackenzie, Kai Newton, Smash Toons 

Backgrounds by Josh Floyd, Eric Oleander, Liam McKeown & Ethan Menegakis

16 Bit Intro & Outro Animation by Tim Bender

Additional VFX by Jan F. Sorrentino & Jason Alan Dewey

Compositing by Jason Alan Dewey

Additional compositing by Dalton Brown

Sound design and music by Tom Polkamp & Jason Alan Dewey

Additional music composed by Alex Walker Smith

Voice of non-anime Mario, non-anime Luigi, Head Koopa and Bear by Florian Walraven

Voice of Mario and Wario by Alex Walker Smith

Voice of Luigi by Blake Swift

Voice of Gooigi and Narrator by Mick Lauer

Voice of Toad, Kid Toads & Kid Goomba by Eileen 'EileMonty' Montgomery

Voice of Waluigi, Koopaling & Shyguy by RicanFly

Voice of Chomp, Hench Koopa & Toad Father by Steven "Sarifus" Kelly

Rogue Pixels is a Spud Gun Studios production.

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On this episode of Rogue Pixels, we're chatting to Tom Jenkins and Liam McKeown of Mashed about one of the biggest YouTube animated music videos of 2017... or ever, frankly. It's time to chat about No Mercy.

How did Mashed get involved with The Living Tombstone for this collab? Were there a few redesigns of these Overwatch characters before the toon released? How did Mashed feel about the I'm Already Tracer TikTok Overwatch meme? All is revealed on this episode of your favourite podcast about online animation!

Rogue Pixels is the podcast that shares your love of the biggest and best online animations. Each week Colm Ahern chats with the creators of the internet’s most successful cartoons in order to learn more about how those toons came into existence. 

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No Mercy Credits:

Animated by Liam McKeown

Produced by Tom Jenkins

Music Production by Yoav Landau  

Songwriting, Lyrics by Yoav Landau, Cien Miller (Crusher-P)

Guitar Recordings by Or “Orko” Cohen

Vocals by Gabriel C. Brown and LittleJayneyCakes

Mastering by Recursion Mastering

Vocal Editing and Tuning by Freddy van Hoof

Subtitles by Laura Rankin

Rogue Pixels is a Spud Gun Studios production.

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