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  • Excellent! More cartoons need likable protagonists like this one.

  • @KingBurgermon Thanks! I agree...

  • @MilowerxMedia Of course if I wanted it to be put on the air as a series I should have made him obnoxious and it would have been greenlit immediately.

  • Man. This was fantastic.

  • @RustyKnightX Thanks!

  • Well that was great!

  • @remanuelmr Thanks!

  • I don't mean to tell you what to do with your creation or anything, but have you considered alternate venues for showing off Flavio? Perhaps making it a web series, a comic, or even just a short story? I'd be quite interested to see more of his adventures, animated or no!

  • @AngryTinyMan I'd love to but Nickelodeon owns the rights to it so I can't do anything with it unless they approve.

  • ITS MARIO!!!!!

  • This is whacky enough and there aren't many cartoons in Nick that are this decent and sensible (kinda). I feel tired of the widget-y nonsense feeling of most cartoons where there are always have to be stereotypical and exaggerated stupid characters. If this WILL become a series, I hope it stays as great as this pilot.

  • @Adeldee It won't be a series unfortunately.

  • FUND THIS!

  • @Xats Thanks, I sure wish they would!

  • Awesome :) me enjoyed very much

  • for a piolt that was really good

  • @MasterXcon Thanks!

  • @milowerx Thanks!

  • @milowerx you made this?YOU ARE PURE GENIUS!

  • @Lazaros20ify heh heh, Thank you very much!

  • Aw man this is an awesome cartoon, how I wish this was turned into a series, I actually loved it's simplicity.@milowerx aww too bad :( well you have to consider reality that once a cartoon show is sold to a network, they become the owners now, so that's quite unfair. I'm also an aspiring animator like you and I hope to be one someday too, good luck with your career :)

  • And after viewing your site and seeing some of the Flavio extras, I'm finding it an even greater shame this didn't turn into a series. I would've loved to see where these adventures were going to go. Especially with an invention like "chainsaw shoes."

  • @AngryTinyMan Yes I had many many ideas worked out. Sigh... Ah well, it's nice to know someone else saw Flavio's potential!

  • It's a shame this didn't turn out for a series when it aired; I think the children (and the rest of us, for that matter) have been in need of a round-headed kid for a protagonist again.

  • @AngryTinyMan Thanks! Yeah there are not near enough round headed characters these days!

  • @AngryTinyMan I felt the same way as well I mean why cant they make a show where after the short ends the network wants the viewers calls to know if they can turn this short into a series i mean why cant they make a series like that so that we can have a show based on this short for example.

  • And the final serie where he won. But the planet had millions of deaths. So in the end he promises to protect his homeland forever. The end.

  • @vef444 Completely different and not at all like Flavio. Kinda cool idea though.

  • Then the series about him struggling to become a warrior and a leader. He travels do distant lands and to others planes of dimention. And probably meets his parents but as spirits. He gets some ancient artifacts. That will make his machines magic and "alive". So then there a serie where he comes to the start a comeback serie. And then the battles. He uses the citizens of a town planet to build superiour machines. He uses local authorities to command them. And he leads the army.

  • So the goat race uses black and red colours, white eyes. Robot ones brown and grey, green shiny eyes. Happy living planet have a greek influenfe on their style. So around the cartoon, first series are about him living knowing nothing, living as normal kid, but being a bit different from others. Then thre will be series about the cosmic truth, series where the watcher and the goat character becomes aware of the robot race and his parents. He probably will be involved in some ancient sect.

  • mighty parents. He didn't show any iniciative as a warrior but was a highly creative. He builded machines, just like in your cartoon. And lived a completly normal life. One day the robot race found the planet and is ready to attack it. And the little goat prince finds out that he is the chosen one and is the saviour of the cosmos. So he has a long road of strugling becoming a true leader and warrior to protect his homeland and revenge his parents.

  • You need to make it wackier. It feels like I'm not missing anything. So when I don't do it, it seems to me I know already what the ending could be. It's too normal. I like the goat idea character. Make it something like this... in a magic world, there were two mighty races like those goat ones and other robot ones. They were fighting each other and the robot ones conquered the goat race. And as a child a kings son was expelled to a small happy planet where he was safe. And he not aware of his..

  • Could use some spice. But awesome.

  • @vef444 Completely agree... it DOES need spice. I think honestly THAT'S why it didn't get a series pickup. It was too sweet.

  • Great stuff! Definitely should be a series. :D

  • @LH7068 Thank you!

  • He sounds like Antoine from Sonic Satam! :O

  • Both Flavio and Swaroop have similar personalities.

  • @Johnny2071 You think? Hmmm... Swaroop isnt bi-polar tho. Maybe a little in that they're both go-getters yes. Not surprising I guess as I've been accused of being one too. "Write what you know" they say. I guess I did!

  • Dang, saw this one on TV and I thought it was a regular show :/ Too bad, cause I rly adore it :DD

  • @Jamlaks Thanks, I would love to have made more.

  • this stuff was genius, why dont we have more?

  • @uchihasi Haha! I have no idea... I think animators much like musicians have to deal with the politics of the business much more than the actual content. Thank you for your kind comment though! I wish there were more too!

  • This show is awsome

  • @flavjr2011 Thanks! 

  • great cartoon Mike Milo

  • @TheSalFenix Thank you VERY much!

  • Amazing, i wish Flavio could have been a show, its original and funny

  • @PhoenixDjinni96 Me too! :-)

  • @milowerx ya know, i think it may be possible to do that :)

  • @PhoenixDjinni96 Well I suppose anything is possible but unless you're a genie with a ton of money... it's not very likely! :-)

  • That voice sounds so familiar. Can't place it...

  • @snoojie It's Rob Paulson who voiced many other cartoons.

  • Why did this never become a show?!

  • @TheFlamingDoh2 I think mostly politics.

  • Is this done in Flash?

  • LOL at the big kiss XD. I made fan art of him because of that. Haha!

  • @MusicDruggist really? I'd LOVE to see it! You can find me at my website milowerxDOTcom

  • @milowerx I sent you an email. Tell me what you think if you received it ;) (Sorry for the late reply XD )

  • Are you Mike Milo? Nice to meet you!

  • @mymanmyman666isdbest Yup! That's me... nice to meet you too.

  • I like his attitude lol XD

  • @Adeldee Thanks! Yeah, he's feisty when he needs to be!

  • Really love the work you did here. We need more cartoonists like you working for Nick!

  • @PokeFire50 You really have no idea how much that means to me! Thank you for your kind comment... I'll tell Flavio to put you on the Good Guy list! :-)

  • I saw this cartoon while I was at the hospital, it reminded me so much of the earlier times where cartoons weren't just random things put together.

    It didn't take more than a few seconds that I got attached to the set of characters and their short backgrounds.

    I wish it were a series!

  • @kerespup Thank you very much for your kind comments! Trust me when I tell you I wish it was a series too! :-)

  • That's Yako's voice lol And is that John Dimaggio as the lion and the pig?!?!?

  • @SmoothCollision No it's Stephen Stanton as Mr Frank the lion and Bobby Constanza (from Friends) as Bossman the pig.

  • That's Yako's voice lol

  • Love from above!!!

  • @SmoothCollision :-) Don't look up!

  • This is amazing! I'd rather kids watch this than most of the crap on tv!

  • @taraleanne1987 Thanks! Me too! :-)

  • the animation is gorgeous D: I would totally watch this show XD 

  • @Mitarashiboi Haha! Well thanks very much! I wish you worked at a network!

  • I love it! It's better than a lot of the series that are nickelodeon. This needs to be a full series!!

  • @Kalirus1234567 Thanks! I wish it were a series too. I put my heart and soul into it.

  • this is really great art and i would love to see this on tv. and may i ask what program you are using and is it as complicated as it seem cause i tried to do some like this with movie maker and paint just to see how complicated it could be. soo yeah please give me some advice

  • @jaymaster1994 Thank you very much! It was hand animated and colored on the computer. If I were you I would try using Flash. it is a very easy to use animation program.

  • This is fantastic! I really wish this were a show! I really don't see what Nickelodeon didn't like about this! This is awesome! Nice job, Mike! Hope someone from a network notices it and asks you for episodes! This shouldn't just be a short!

  • @roberts424 Thanks man! I hope so too... I think the network thought it too young for what they were looking for. They've also become an almost all 3d channel at this point so 2d doesn't really fit in well with that either.

  • @milowerx By young, do you mean by audience or? Sorry, I really don't know what you mean by that. Well Nick has a new show called "T.U.F.F. Puppy" which is 2D animation. So I bet if you re-pitched it, they'd accept it! And if money's an issue then you should make a donation thing like someone said.

  • @roberts424 Well Flavio is not an action show, so you cant really compare it to Tuff Puppy... Yes it's 2d but then it's Butch's show and he's been there forever so they're willing to do what he wants. I believe that was a throwaway show they 'gave' him to keep him there. By young I mean, it's not irreverant enough or whacked out... When I pitched it to them, they said it was too much like Sponge Bob.

  • @milowerx In the series pitch, Flavio had a neighbor he tested inventions on. He also had his stupid friend Mr Frank, and the pissed off boss Bossman, so he basically had a Mr. Crab, Squidward, and Patrick. It was too similar and they passed on it. I don't think it was anything like Sponge Bob, and even if it was would it be so bad to be like their number one hit show? Of course I don't have my own network so what do I know? :-)

  • @milowerx Yeah, guess your right. That's true, but they never asked Stephen to make more shows besides Spongebob, and he's been there longer. Not to argue with you, but that's just the truth. WHAT? It didn't remind me of Spongebob at all! I bet they're to afraid to admit Flavio's better than all there current programming combined. If anything it reminded me of Ren and Stimpy, IDK why. There's always other networks. I would say Cartoon Network, but this doesn't fit CN's style very well.

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  • @milowerx Maybe it would work on The Hub or Disney Channel. BTW, it did kinda reminded me of Jimmy Neutron. But mostly just the inventions.

  • Hey Mike, This is the first time I'm seeing this short in all the years I've started blogging on Frederator. This is absolutely wonderful Mike, I really like it! :) I think future episodes could feature adventures outside of the restaurant!

  • @stephenstudios Thanks for the kind comments Stephen! I'm glad you like it! It's my favorite cartoon I've done so far. I'd love to do more episodes, but unless I can get funding to do it, I don't think it will ever happen as I just don't have the time. I have tons of stories written revolving around flavio's home life as well as at the restaurant, but I doubt Iwill get the time to animate them.

  • @milowerx Who knows Mike, maybe one day someone will come along and pay you for new episodes! :)

  • @stephenstudios Perhaps, Stephen... perhaps!

  • I LOVE FLAVIO!

  • @Wraithpaw Thanks! He loves you too! :-)

  • is this how he monologues?

  • @SSdetectiveagency I guess so yeah.

  • Make episodes of this for youtube please!

  • @KanesTheName95 too expensive, but if I could I would!

  • @milowerx Awwwwwww, but I love these characters! Make a source for people to donate!

  • @KanesTheName95 Perhaps I will! :-)

  • @milowerx YEEEEEEES!! I will DEFINITELY donate!! :D

  • this is so cute

  • @Marz2111 Thanks!

  • Do I hear Dimaggio? I cant quite get whom Flavio is- it's in the back of my mind though. I personally loved that- Flavio is such an adorable and likable character

  • @NashiNashii

    Thanks for your kind comments! Flavio was voiced by Rob Paulsen... and Bossman was voiced by Bobby Costanzo who played Joey's dad on Friends.

  • @milowerx ROB PAULSEN! I thought I heard a bit of Yakko in there!

  • bird spam lol

  • I laughed so hard at 'Awkward Moment!' XD

  • You did awesome work on this. Thanks for making it.

  • cool cartoon its worth watchin 2 me pasta n a stick hmm i guess is good but ironic at the same time

  • o gawd im show giuseppe this

  • @sxewolf

    I hope he likes it! :-)

  • Thanks for sharing this video! :D

  • @AwesomeGirl86

    Thanks for watching it!

  • @milowerx

    You're welcome!

  • i like it i would enjoy a cartoon like this.....

  • @Skowsker

    Thanks for the support!

  • the sauce in the sink looks like blood also this seems like it would only make a season or 2 nothing personal just seems like it would lose interest

  • @Luigi01080

    Everyone is entitled to their opinion Luigi... But honestly most shows only go a season or two. it's very rare to go more than two. So if that was the case (although I disagree with you) tI would have been fine with even that.

  • Aww! Flavio is such a lovable character! And a goat as the protagonist is so original! Ohh, stupid Nickelodeon and their criticism. You obviously must be doing something right if you've gotten twelve thousand views with little to no hate comments. Don't lose hope!

  • @UltraFlashlight

    Thank you very much for your kind words! I wish I could do more with Flavio but for now this will have to do...

  • The pig would be better as danny devito

  • @BillyLoco12345

    Yeah that was my first choice actually but he would've been too expensive and most likely wouldn't have lowered himself to do a kid's cartoon.

  • @milowerx Thats cool, what do you use to make cartoons

  • @BillyLoco12345 Thanks Crazy Billy! It was done using a program called

    Toon Boom Animate.

  • Yeah he invented his way in again! U 4ced the issue!!

  • What an extremely lovable cast of characters! Honestly, that's what I noticed most about this; you become attached to the protagonist IMMEDIATELY. O-or at least I did...

    I wish this had been made into a full cartoon series... It's so cute and clever!

  • @BURniNG6t54 Wow! Thank you! I am humbled by your comments. For me Flavio is the best personal film I've done. I had a lot of fun making it and I had a lot of other stories to tell, most of which I thought were better and showed more character than this one did. I really thought it might go somewhere but unfortunately the Nick network didn't think so. I think at the end of the day it was too innocent for the network's tastes. Anyway thank you again for your kind comments!

  • @milowerx Damands r in 4 U 2 make a tv show out of it. Make it a youtube series.

  • I wish we had this.

  • @LoudWhispa

    Thanks! I wish it was a show too! Tell all your friends... If there were enough hits on Youtube Nick might be interested but at 9600 they don't care.

  • @doipark

    Thanks! Yes it was on Nickelodeon as part of a show called Random Cartoons!

  • Oh my god. This is a really cool cartoon! Was this on TV?

  • @TheCuruleanEmerald:

    You rock dude! Thanks for the kind words and comments!

  • That was really good! I think my favorite part was where Flavio freaked out and curled up in a fetal position. I also enjoy the way he announces his inventions.

  • They don't make cartoons like this anymore... This is so cute. :'D

  • @YourLegalDrugs: Thank you very much! I hope to make more someday...

  • @milowerx  You have my support! This is really great!

  • @YourLegalDrugs ... You're too kind...Flavio just told me he's put you on his "Good Guy List"!

  • this is a fun cartoon..im 20 and still think its coo

  • Thanks!

  • wow if old school toons were some sort of refreshment this would really hit the spot!

  • Very kind of you to say!

  • seriously if i was a director of a broadcasting cartoon themed channel station i would pay you LARGE sums of money for a piece of this genius, but thats my opinion

  • Well, I think you have a fantastic opinion... :-) and Flavio? He puts you at the tippy top of The Good Guy List!

  • As Flavio starts switching on stuff, I saw his tail but at the next scene, I didn't see it but a big patch at the back but as when he show his invention in the fridge, I notice that his tail is back on.

    Mike, tell me what's wrong about this?

  • Well it was meant to compliment the joke that he had just said about creating a new type of toilet paper and that he still had a lot of work to do on that one because he had rubbed his tail off and now had a bandage on his butt.

  • I'm 10 years old and if this were on tv this would be my favorite show!! Good job!

  • Thanks man! Glad to hear it!

  • Now that's a cartoon. I love the proportions chosen for the characters. :D Kinda old school, but at the same time modern for le kids.

  • Thanks! Yeah it's a bit old school but then I learned how to animate when 'old school' was 'new school' so it makes sense! :-)

  • That's badass. Are you going to make more like this? :D

  • Yeah but probably not of Flavio. They're just so expensive to make.

  • very good work man

  • Thanks!

  • that was great! I'd totally watch this if it was a show.

  • I wish it was! :-)

  • Wow, awesome. I would love to watch this if it were a show. Just a question though. I'm in 7th grade and I want to be an animator when I grow up. Do you have any tips to start off? I use Anime Studio right now, I made a few things and posted them on my channel if you want to look at them.

  • Thanks ColossalM! Hmm, tips to be an animator? Well it depends on what type you want to be but the most important is to learn the rules of animation and the properties of movement. The first is squash and stretch, the second is overlapping action and the third is anticipation. All of these are essential in learning how to animate realistically. The final thing is to draw well but you're on a good path for that already after checking out your channel. Nice work! I like the Twitter one the best.

  • One way to learn the principals of animation is to do a search for the Preston Blair animation book on Google. The first entry, ASIFA will show you the entire book.Learn the principals, as they will help you greatly in becoming an animator. Of course the best way to be an animator is to animate a lot!

  • Well, looks like I got some research to do. Thanks! I'm gonna put you on the good guy list. :)

  • ...Isn't Leonardo De Vinchi an artist and not an inventor? >_>

  • Maybe you should find out some more about Da Vinchi before you start posting about him on Youtube?

  • @RahNinjaBlade: Actually he was both. Google Leonardo DaVinci Inventor and you'll see.

  • i want some pasta on a stick......sounds really yummy xD

  • In the words of Mr. Frank, "Genius."

  • @trika91 Thanks Trika!91... You on my "Good Guy List!"

  • i want to eat pasta on a stick...

  • Haha! Actually I tried to make it... it's not easy! I put a meatball on a stick and wrapped it with spaghetti but the spaghetti kept falling off. But I could totally see it being marketed of it were done right!

  • The only way I could see it staying in place is if you made it cold. kind of like when you have rice or something in a bowl that has been in the fridge and has taken the shape of the bowl. I dunno. xD;; Who wants to eat cold pasta anyway??

  • i love this i cant wait to see this show on Nicktoons. im glad its A 2D Cartoon not 3D But i have to admit that Fanboy and chum chum is a great and funny 3D Cartoon

  • @growingup15: Thanks! Yup FB and CC is a great show...

  • Best thing ever.

  • @DoctorPencilK: Thank you sir!

  • Not bad, If this was a show I'd totally watch it :D

  • Thank you very much! :-)

  • This is quite intersting... Cute <3

  • Thanks!

  • OOMG did you make that thats amazing I would soo watch that on t.v