#boys of boxtown

[deviiancetv]

Upcoming Indie Projects To Look Out For 🎥

2023 has been the year of indie animation going FULL SPEED. I’ve been hearing about some very intriguing and honestly amazing concepts for shows.

Here’s a list of some that I really like and I hope you all check them out and support them:

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Boxtown (Series)

Synopsis: Boxtown is an indie animated noir buddy comedy about a con man detective (played by Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls) who teams up with an innocent, true-crime-obsessed orphan with a hidden murderous side (played by Tara Strong, known as the voice of Twilight Sparkle & Timmy Turner).

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Defenders of Alodia (Series)

Synopsis: Defenders of Alodia is an upcoming indie animated web-series that follows the adventures of 15-year-old Rebecca Winstead, who one day gets transported to the magic world of Alodia, where she must journey to return back to the real world.

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Lumi & The Great Big Galaxy (Series)

Synopsis: Lumi and the Great Big Galaxy is an indie animated series about six aliens traveling the galaxy to help a young lost star return home.

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Pritty (Film)

Synopsis: Pritty is an indie animated short film that takes place in Savannah, GA. Jay sticks out for all the wrong reasons. He's dark-skinned, quiet and skinny; and likes to wear flowers in his hair. The opposite of his masculine and charismatic older brother, Jacob. Their differences peak at the community pool until Jay befriends a charming boy named Justin.

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The Lovers (Film)

Synopsis: The Lovers is an animated indie thriller that follows Sara Lim Baylon, a reluctant seafood chef from Binondo, Manila. Sara faces the daunting pressure to live up to her late father's reputation and keep the business afloat. When the governor's inauguration dinner is planned at the restaurant, featuring a Siren as the centerpiece, Sara finds herself drawn into a dangerous affair with the mythical creature.

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Far-Fetched (Series)

Synopsis: Far-Fetched is an indie animated series following a rock band of misfits called Sesamoid, an overly-anxious girl named Rue and her chaotic canine creature, try to survive the town of Veilport. Becoming tangled up in a world where science is at odds with monsters & the supernatural.

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Among The Others (Series)

Synopsis: Among The Others is an epic science fantasy adventure, about a group of misfits that discover the reemergence of an ancient reality bending energy. This thrusts them into a bunch of larger than life threats, one of which is a ‘cool, suave undead hippie’ and his cult.

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Please Stay Tuned (N/A)

Synopsis: Please Stay Tuned is an upcoming psychological horror about a sentient TV man from the toon town of [REDACTED] that wants to be watched.

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The Not-So-Secret Academy (Series)

Synopsis: The Not-So-Secret Academy is an action comedy series in 8-bit/visual novel format. The series follows Bryan, a secret agent sent to an academy to learn how to be a proper secret agent.

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Camp Cryptid (Series)

Synopsis: Camp Cryptid is an upcoming indie animated series created by Celeste McGee about a young Thunderbird attending an all cryptid summer camp run by Cthulhu.

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Playground (N/A)

Synopsis: Playground is a horror project created by Rodrigo Sousa. Its a stunningly well animated trailer that captures the feeling of being lost in a bizarre playground, and your imagination takes over to make things even more scarier. I REALLY recommend supporting this if you like horror and abstract animation.

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Belphegor’s Traveling Circus (Series)

Synopsis: Belphegor’s Traveling Circus is an adult comedy series featuring a demon who must travel out of Hell to the mortal realm to organize a space traversing circus to pay off a monumental debt to his devilish boss.

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ScreenTime (Series)

Synopsis: Screentime is an indie animated show about three artists balancing life with trying to succeed in a social media focused world.

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The Will of Monsters (Film)

Synopsis: The Will of Monsters is a a YA action fantasy film about two scarecrows, Scarecrow Pumpk and Cham, team up with a young witch named Pai, to survive the terrors of their world.

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Everlend (Series)

Synopsis: Everlend is an indie animated series that takes place in the land of Everlend, following Lydia, an optimistic teenage girl, who meets a llamagon named Vel, and a bird-like creature named Ollie. Though Everlend isn't without its dangers, Lydia must face not only the unknown truths of within this world, but herself as well.

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Hey. (Series)

Synopsis: Hey. is an upcoming adult animated sitcom created by YouTuber, ToonrificTariq. It’s a story of two people, Marcus and Shania, that really love each other while trying to learn how to love each other.

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The Carsons! (Series)

Synopsis: The Carsons! is an upcoming animated mockumentary sitcom, about a young black cartoonist named Steve Carson, trying to make it in LA with his new family. Which includes his wife, Katie, their baby, Nicole, and Buddy, a washed-up R&B singer now demoted to family dog

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Bit Wars (Series)

Synopsis: Bit Wars is an animated series inspired by video games about how experience is our greatest weapon!

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Quartz Quest (Series)

Synopsis: Quartz Quest is an independent animated series following two best friends, Lyra and Snobelly, as they travel across the world in search of exciting adventures.

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Stay Tuned & be sure to follow ALL of these amazing upcoming creators for their amazing projects on the way. ⭐️

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OKay everyone, do you like Indie Animation, do you want more Alex Hirsch!! BOI do I have the show for you, no pilot is out yet! But it is in production, and Alex Hirsch is voicing one of the two main characters!!

The show is called BoxTown, and it'll be on youtube for free.

[historyhermann]

An Alternative to the Studio System?: Indie Animation Forges Ahead [Part 4]

continued from part 3. Split because Tumblr claimed there was an error in the post.

A few other indie animations are worth noting. Take for example, a comedy sci-fi music series named Starstruck, surrealist cyberpunk anime named Dreamcatchers, and an animated young adult horror mystery named Black Pines. There's artist and animator Tamara's Starmakers series (with a bisexual girl named Astra), and storyboarder Kaitrin Snodgrass's seeming space opera, Buckwild.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Maniacs, my History Hermann blog, and Wayback Machine. This was the eleventh article I wrote for Pop Culture Maniacs. This post was originally published on July 15, 2022.

There's also a young adult action-adventure fantasy film named The Will of Monsters, by filmmaker and animator Christopher Wade, an animated project named Big Cat Bandits, and about globe-traveling cat thieves "resisting an evil world-conquering empire with crime". It was exciting to learn about 2D freelance animator Nadia Dar's series based on growing up mixed race entitled Brighter, and an animated series named Ironface "steeped in 80s pop culture...part Terminator, and all NIGHTMARE" according to the show's teaser. Others are just as intriguing, such as an action-comedy named Defender Squad about an alien woman who crash lands on Earth and "joins a low ranking two-person hero team" according to series creator Royal Wildfire.

These series, and many others, [11] are examples of creating animation without connections to big companies. These creators aren't on "puppet strings". Unlike series produced made by big companies, indie animations obviously depend on people's support, due to lack of support from the industry unsurprisingly. The indie animations are often shared by their creators, following the basic marketing advice some shared about small indie creative projects. Still, it is worth remembering, as The Owl House creator and bisexual animator Dana Terrace once pointed out, "nothing is precious in animation."

This makes me think about a Russian indie series about a family of Metalheads entitled Metal Family. It seems to have stopped for the time being. Western sanctions on Russia limited financial options available to Russians. They resulted in challenges for the show's staff in getting money necessary for the show's continuation. From comments on the Metal Family subreddit, I get the impression that the series is a rut now and won't be coming out anytime soon. Presumably work on episodes is going forward, but slowly. My enthusiasm for the series dissipated after a character used an anti-gay slur unnecessarily and no one attempted to improve the dialogue.

On a more positive note, there are are creators such as a 2D Thai animator named KAGO, and an indie feature animation director, Fnook. Indie animation studios Cloudrise Pictures, Paper Panther, Tapocketa, Krispy Animation, and Bandit Mill are producing animations. The latter is working to create "unique, different adult animation" such as The Boys of Boxtown. Bitter Animation is making a pilot named Stranger and many other animations. The indie animated studio, Sunflower Club, is going forward with Little Wolf and Life in Hell.

There are many other series in the works. This includes DynamoToon's sci-fi fantasy comedy named Horizonauts. There's also a queer Colombian-American 2D artist and animator named TipsyJHearts creating a series entitled The Evil Little Thing, and an animated series named The Porcelain Prince by Gabrielle Teaford. Also of note is an unnamed sci-fi crime drama "heavily inspired by Avatar and RWBY" by Keelan270, and Animation Emfatuation's Crime!, a short film in the process about knightlights and teddy bears which fight monsters at night entitled Knightlights & Teddy Bears. 

It is worth pointing to a 2D-animated cartoon with slapstick and adventure entitled The Incredible Adventures of Detective Cat, an independent drama named GrindCove, Angye Burman's Real Fantasy: Fight for the Past which focuses on four teens who try to figure out their future while "fighting off evil...and struggling with school". Then there's a series by an animator, Shorter, named Gangs for Rent. It is an animated sitcom about gangsters, with LGBTQ people, those on the spectrum, and with mental disorders.

There are many other indie animated series out there, [12] some of which aren't in this article despite my best efforts to find as many series as I could. Cartoon Crave promotes some of these series on Twitter. Supporting indie animation is important to provide a viable alternative to often stifling studio system which ingests shows and spits them out. Likely the indie animation boom will continue as companies continue to cut animators and cancel shows.

© 2022-2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

[celestialscribbler]

Did some fanart for Boxtown, this cool indie animation project ^-^ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/boxtown-an-adult-animated-film-noir-comedy#/

[deemee-ed]

The Boys of Boxtown is an indie animation project that is currently trying to reach enough donations over on Indiegogo to start its production!

Seeing how badly animation is being treaten by big studios lately, I feel like supporting indie animation is a pretty important thing to do right now, so here I am trying to spread word with my very poor internet presence

Link to the Indiegogo to support the creators