Inventoon 1 - The Telephone

In 2003, I was fresh out of audio engineering school and running my own multimedia business after working for several years at a studio as both a recording engineer and graphic designer.

Aside from a few 'just for fun' stop motion videos and flip books as a kid, I had never done any animation, although I was a huge fan of it. In my town of Bloomington, Indiana, there was a TV show for kids on the local PBS station called The Friday Zone. On a whim one day, I contacted the station and asked if I could do cartoons for them. They were hesitant, but interested. This first inventoon is the result. It was the pilot. I used a combination of Flash and Sony Vegas. At the time, Flash video was not the nice, easily streamable thing it is today. I still prefer to do audio mixing in Vegas.

When the folks at WTIU saw this video, they told me that they were expecting something like a cheap slideshow but they didn't expect something so Monty Python-like. They immediately commissioned 9 more episodes.

As far as I know, they were all broadcast on The Friday Zone although I admit I have never seen an episode. They have not been seen since and the show is under totally different management if it even exists at all anymore.

The story continues at Inventoon 2.

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• Invention
• Cartoon
• Children
• Educational

[thebluestickman]

in morse code the guy said what hath god wrought?

[draziom902]

@aurora3435 THIS IS CORRECT!

[SUTOruin]

The art direction is wonderful.

[blushie23]

Meucci invented the telephone

[MrHellscape]

nice 1

[deshawnpenrose]

nice

[moviemaker167]

hilarious

[mangocomputer]

Thanks

that was great

[AppA]

Nice, but too fast for kids! :D