Sonny Mails a Letter

A tale about pen pals, old companions, new friends, and apocalyptic innocence...

- Written, produced, designed, animated, and edited entirely by Miles Kalbach and Anthony Serge.
- Featuring the voice of Gracy Klineburger.
- Musical score by Michael Stever.

After many many months of hard work, Tony and I are thrilled to finally share with you the product of our creative efforts: an eight-and-a-half minute, fully animated journey born from our collaborative imagination. Primarily Flash-animated, with a dash of stop-motion, and a full-on original musical number (which we wrote!) - "Sonny Mails A Letter" is what can happen when two similarly humored artists whimsically decide to create an animation and then gradually allow the project to consume their lives.

We hope you have as much fun watching it as we had making it! Thanks as always for all of your comments and messages—they mean the world!

©2010 Miles Kalbach and Anthony Serge

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• miles
• kalbach
• anthony
• serge
• michael
• stever
• gracy
• klineburger
• gonna be a sonny day
• mittens
• mangled man
• apocalypse
• animation
• stop motion
• animation art
• sunny
• boy
• happy
• dark
• weird
• odd
• strange

[Elflovag]

OK one last thing and I think I will be able to stop my comment-flood :)

If I understand it correctly, "U did it for lulz", for fun, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't make a bit of money out of this, I think you really deserve it guys. You may create a donation option somewhere.Or it would be even better if you made this a for-pay podcast in iTunes for 1-5 bucks. I don't know if it's just me or there would be others who are willing to appreciate your work that way but you could give it a try.

[thebloodyhatchet]

@Elflovag Thanks for watching and for all the thoughtful and flattering comments! Your enthusiasm is hugely appreciated and makes all our work worth while! We're really psyched to have you as a fan!!

[faceofdoomness]

That was the shiniest kid I ever saw. :B

That was disturbingly cheerful and atmospherically unsettling.

All those months of work really paid of! Great job with this amazing piece of animation. I can see this winning competitions and getting you some well deserved attention from the animation community!

Who knew sending a letter to your penpal would be so trippy? haha

Great work. :)

[thebloodyhatchet]

@faceofdoomness Thanks a ton!

[Carrotkid]

Hey Miles, that was fantastic!

Don't tell me you did all that animation... if so, you're amazing. Are you planning to move away from stop-motion or do both? Either way, this video is very impressive - great work!

[thebloodyhatchet]

@Carrotkid Hey Paul, thanks a lot! My friend Tony and I created the whole thing ourselves, with the majority of the actual animation work done by yours truly. I'm not really planning to move in any one specific direction, just spreading my wings and trying everything out!

[SuperLeonidas14]

Hey Tony, it's Caleb! Great video :D this was my first time watching it haha very cool!

[flamencactus]

I am severly disapointed at how few views this video has in comparison to how many it deserves. I hope more people get ahold of it because it is a wonderful piece of animation

[Elflovag]

Also, I would really appreciate some background info, 'making of', concept art etc (or You could simply put it together on a dvd with extras :) ).

Also, if You'd put advertisement on the video, I'd gladly click it a few times to support You and to appreciate your work!

[Elflovag]

The fact that this whole piece of art is born from the cooperation of only 2, I mean TWO people, makes this animation even more unbelievable (if that's even possible). You are really talented, this is a rare result of the combination of creativity, ideas, humor, thoughtfullness, expertise and hard work, and I really wish we can see more of that from You soon.

[Elflovag]

And then I looked it for about 6-8 times again and my mind has blown off. I can't remember when I last became so enthusiastic about something, but from the feelings I feel, I think I must identify myself as a "fan" of this animation. A "huge fan", to be precise.

This work is a flash of genius. It is very well balanced, the story, the timing, the music, the sound effects is well built up. From 4:15 to 5:30 it's a visual and mental orgy, I can't stop watching it over and over.

[Elflovag]

OK, when I saw this at Aniboom, I posted this comment:

"At first, I thought "wtf?!", and wanted to close this crap. Then the boy stepped out of the house, and I thought "now it's getting interesting", so I didn't closed.

Then I thought "WTF??!!" again, but this time in a good meaning :) Then for a couple of minutes, I think I looked somewhat like the OMG cat and the dramatic lemur combined.

And then at the end, I closed my mouth and thought "Geez, that was GREAT!""

[TheSchweetGal]

This is the creepiest animation I've ever seen. Brilliant!

[AlexBaby1234Sims]

At first i was like "Well how is this creepy?"

And then you know, it got to the Bird.. and him going outside..

....and..yea.