Topic: Questionable Content: The Animated Series (Read 35179 times)

pendrake · « **on:** 19 Oct 2011, 21:30 »

I. Animation Style - Rather obviously, one of the most important points of an animated series is its animation.

A. Would QC:TAS be animated like how it has been drawn? I imagine Jeph would poop agitated hedgehogs over that, considering how many different art-styles there have been as QC has evolved across the years.

B. Or in a style similar to the popular DCAU? Dating back to Batman: TAS, the DCAU animation style with its more "simplistic" animation style allows for a surprising amount of flexibility and quality in its use. This is why it has been kept and used even outside of DC Comics' material.

C. Or would QC:TAS really benefit from CGI? A far cry from Tron (#1) or The Last Starfighter, where it took military-grade supercomputers to make us believe in Light Cycles and Death Blossom. Today we have weekly mass combat scenes in Star Wars: The (animated) Clone Wars done from laptops. Would QC fare better in the Computer Graphic Imaging field? And at what level of it?

D. QC: The "Anime" Series? Mentioned that here for completeness, but thinking about it too much gives me nosebleeds at the thought of a "tsundere" Faye, a "sempai" Dora, and "gravure" Marigold...

II. Voice Actors

Unlike Live Action, voice acting opens up a wider range of potential actors-to-role. While there are some roles that can "only" be voiced by a particular person (Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime being one of the most notable examples), QC:TAS would have a clean slate to work with. This could save a lot on production costs not having to use "big name" actors, as well as actors too old to play the role despite their being very appropriate to character.

III. What channel? What time slot? What rating?

Considering the adult-themed nature of QC, it likely would have to be on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, but that is not a hard requirement either. Would QC be better on a different channel at a different time-slot? Or perhaps a purely web-based series?

IV. Other factors?

Probably a lot of things, the internet is full of ideas (both good and bad).

bicostp · « **Reply #1 on:** 19 Oct 2011, 22:11 »

Just don't let Blind Ferret anywhere near it.

CompSarge · « **Reply #2 on:** 19 Oct 2011, 22:48 »

Quote from: bicostp on 19 Oct 2011, 22:11

Just don't let Blind Ferret anywhere near it.

A-freaking-MEN.

AngelofShadows · « **Reply #3 on:** 20 Oct 2011, 23:28 »

Quote from: BoDJangles on 20 Oct 2011, 16:48

Patrick Warburton as all the male characters, Tara Strong as all the female characters, and H. Jon Benjamin as all the robot characters. All dialogue is shouted.

It would be awfully silly and I'd probably be the only person on earth who'd watch it, but damn I'd enjoy it.

You are wrong about being the only person to watch it, and I've put the reason why in bold. And underline. That man's voice is a treasure.

Wagimawr · « **Reply #4 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 01:34 »

Quote from: BoDJangles on 20 Oct 2011, 16:48

Patrick Warburton as

Steve.

That or Tory from Mythbusters.

akronnick · « **Reply #5 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 01:50 »

Patrick Warburton will always be David Puddy in my mind.

"Yeah, that's right."

A. Smith · « **Reply #6 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 03:19 »

Quote from: Wagimawr on 21 Oct 2011, 01:34

Quote from: BoDJangles on 20 Oct 2011, 16:48
Patrick Warburton as
Steve.

That or Tory from Mythbusters.

I say cast all of the mythbusters as voice actors. Grant is Marten, Adam is Pintsize, Kari is Raven, Tory is Steve, and Jamie is EVERYONE ELSE ALL THE TIME.

Welu · « **Reply #7 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 06:40 »

I would watcha QC/Mythbusters crossover. Pretty much QC mixed with most of the Discovery Channel, I'd watch.

wrwight · « **Reply #8 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 07:47 »

yeah, QC/Mythbusters would totally be worth looking into.

DSL · « **Reply #9 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 09:57 »

"Well, Jamie, today's viewer request is from Faye in Northampton, Mass, and for you, Faye, we're going to see how hard you can toss a mobile sentient AI against a wall without corrupting its porn stash. We've rigged up this compressed-air cannon ... "

jwhouk · « **Reply #10 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 13:18 »

Quote from: DSL on 21 Oct 2011, 09:57

"Well, Jamie, today's viewer request is from Faye in Northampton, Mass, and for you, Faye, we're going to see how hard you can toss a mobile sentient AI against a wall without corrupting its porn stash. We've rigged up this compressed-air cannon ... "

(hands you One Interwebs)

Kugai · « **Reply #11 on:** 21 Oct 2011, 16:52 »

Hmmmmm

A DariaVerse Crossover?

Carl-E · « **Reply #12 on:** 22 Oct 2011, 06:22 »

You'd be creating a snark-and-angst vortex that would implode.

DSL · « **Reply #13 on:** 22 Oct 2011, 11:01 »

I remember liking the Daria show, but I can see the QC ladies gathering round to tell her to pull the stick out of her ass, and would she like to trade her problems for theirs?

pendrake · « **Reply #14 on:** 03 Nov 2011, 16:43 »

Some thoughts on voice-casting while Jeph remains without electricity...

I tried to avoid any particularly "big" (or "expensive") names for voice casting, since this would be for a regular animated series, or an extended number of series-episodes.

1. Marten Reed = ???

2. Faye Whitaker = ???

3. Dora Biachi = Nikki Cox (Mary Connell from Las Vegas TV series), Morena Baccarin (Inara Serra from Firefly); both ladies can do that "hard-experienced, beyond her years" kind of tone that I think Dora would have.

4. Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham = Jewel Staite (Kaylee from Firefly); someone who could have the right balance of "crazy" and "cute" for voicing.

5. Pintsize = Brent Spiner (Data from Star Trek: TNG, but has done a lot of antagonist character voice-actings), Bob Saget (suggested by others in other threads, for which I agreed it is actually a good suggestion for voice-casting)

6. Raven Pritchard = ???

7. Steve = Khary Payton (Cyborg from Teen Titans..."boo-yah!", Aqualad-Kaldur from Young Justice)

8. Sven Biachi = Val Kilmer; if anyone could voice the charming smarmosaur...

9. Penelope Gaines = ???

10. Tai = ???

11. Winslow = ???

12. Angus McPhee = Alan Tudyk (Walsh from Firefly, and many others); who better for snarky & witty remarks with great delivery?

13. Marigold Louse Farmer = Tara Strong (Raven from Teen Titans); those who suggest her for Dora, it was not a bad idea. But I think the downcast tone would suit Marigold better.

14. Amir Afridi = Oded Fehr(?)

15. Elliot = Patrick Warburton (Joe Swanson from Family Guy, The Tick, and lots others)

16. Cosette Hurlbut = ???

17. Dale = ???

18. Henry Reed = William H. Macy; the "indie" market's foremost paragon, for an "indie" themed series

19. Jimbo = John DeMaggio (Bender from Futurama, and lots others), or Adam Baldwin (Jayne Cobb from Firefly), or Ed Asner

20. Momo(-tan) = Hynden Walsh (Starfire from Teen Titans); suggested from another thread, and now I cannot hear anyone else as such...

21. Padma = ???

22. Wil = ???

23. Yelling Bird = Gilbert Gottfried (who has past experience in foul-mouthed avians...)

GeoCorn · « **Reply #15 on:** 03 Nov 2011, 17:17 »

I imagine Amir with Kal Penn's voice...

Kugai · « **Reply #16 on:** 03 Nov 2011, 22:11 »

Kevin Conroy for Wil

Deadlywonky · « **Reply #17 on:** 04 Nov 2011, 00:32 »

Tara Reid for Raven

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #18 on:** 04 Nov 2011, 05:53 »

Quote from: Deadlywonky on 04 Nov 2011, 00:32

Tara Reid for Raven

Not Pauley Perette?

Deadlywonky · « **Reply #19 on:** 05 Nov 2011, 00:51 »

No idea who she was, had to look her up, also i'm not going to watch NCIS. How does she compare?

jwhouk · « **Reply #20 on:** 05 Nov 2011, 00:58 »

Pauley Perette... BRILLIANT!

Kugai · « **Reply #21 on:** 05 Nov 2011, 12:30 »

Quote from: Deadlywonky on 05 Nov 2011, 00:51

No idea who she was, had to look her up, also i'm not going to watch NCIS. How does she compare?

*GibbsSmack to the back of the head*

DSL · « **Reply #22 on:** 05 Nov 2011, 13:02 »

Pauley Perette's got the cute-smart-goth going on, partly in real life ... you could draw people with her cred on that alone. You'd have some who'd argue that Abby (her character) would never, ever play dumb, as Blodwyn does.

Carl-E · « **Reply #23 on:** 05 Nov 2011, 16:34 »

I don't really think Raven is "playing dumb". I don't think she really is dumb, either. She just has a different outlook on the world, and it doesn't always line up with common sense.

Or, as has been said on other threads and is now akronnick's sig line. she's "not clueless, just differently clued".

jwhouk · « **Reply #24 on:** 05 Nov 2011, 17:00 »

She could only voice her in an animated series, though. She's a bit too old to be a live-action Raven.

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #25 on:** 05 Nov 2011, 17:04 »

I don't really see Jewel Staite as Hanners either; she'd make a much better Faye if anything. But back to Hannelore; what about Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood from the HP films)?

On Ms. Perette's age; if thirty year olds can play teenagers, forty-two year olds can play twenty-somethings.

DSL · « **Reply #26 on:** 05 Nov 2011, 19:20 »

Remember, we're talking animation here; the voice actor doesn't have to look like the character or evem be the approx. age -- just capable of producing a voice that fits the character.

Wonder if Mark Hamill would voice Pintsize? He could do a riff on his Joker voice.
Or maybe George Takei ... He did a few other character voices on Trek animated. Not as many as Doohan, who is sadly no longer with us ...

gprimr1 · « **Reply #27 on:** 08 Nov 2011, 20:03 »

I like the animation style used by the Simpsons.

Yarin · « **Reply #28 on:** 09 Nov 2011, 10:32 »

it would be amazing

Carl-E · « **Reply #29 on:** 09 Nov 2011, 11:47 »

Quote from: gprimr1 on 08 Nov 2011, 20:03

I like the animation style used by the Simpsons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1iplQQJTo&feature=player_embedded

Starting at 0:35

pendrake · « **Reply #30 on:** 09 Nov 2011, 13:06 »

1. @Kugai... Kevin Conroy can never be anyone but DCAU Batman for me. On the positive, though, he probably is the best Batman (voice-)actor of them all.

2. Likewise, Mark Hamill is the best Joker voice of them all, no one expresses the crazy/insanity of the Clown Prince of Crime like Hamill does. But I agree he could probably do some variance for a QC character as DSL has suggested.

3. Pauley Perrette probably would be in the "too expensive" category at the moment with NCIS' current popularity [and /GibbsSmack Deadlywonky

]. But yes, she could voice Raven Pritchard. Another strong choice for roles would be Dora.

4. A point I had not considered when I started this thread was how we each "hear" the QC cast in our minds. I suppose someone would have to ask Jeph for his QC Dump about how it hears his creations' voices in his mind. Personally, I think Hannelore has a higher-pitch voice in keeping with her psychoses, but also still being the cute person everyone enjoys, thus why I considered Jewel Staite.

5. A variant of The Simpsons' or Futurama's animation style could work, but not the exact style itself (I just cannot see the QC animated cast that yellow-skinned...). Personally I think using the DCAU animation style would work better for QC:TAS, if going for a longer-term series.

DSL · « **Reply #31 on:** 09 Nov 2011, 13:46 »

Jeph has, in his Tumblr, expressed his thoughts on voices for some of his characters. Faye and Dora were characters from a game, Pintsize sounded like Orson Welles in his head (!?), and "Hannelore is squeaky."

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #32 on:** 09 Nov 2011, 14:30 »

ISTR him saying that Dora sounded like Jane Lane from Daria.

DSL · « **Reply #33 on:** 09 Nov 2011, 16:41 »

You're right. The game character, he said, had a sort of deadly monotone he imagined for Faye.

Kugai · « **Reply #34 on:** 09 Nov 2011, 18:04 »

I suddenly have this urge to hear Sven voiced by Patrick Stewart.

Yarin · « **Reply #35 on:** 10 Nov 2011, 23:11 »

I always thought wil had a Boston brahmin accent and that hanners sounded like kristen schaal although now that i think about it Evanna Lynch would be great

Yarin · « **Reply #36 on:** 14 Nov 2011, 16:36 »

also it could so go on adultswim I'd so watch it even if I'd never heard of qc

Wreck Smurfy · « **Reply #37 on:** 20 Nov 2011, 16:21 »

I rarely watch TV, so I don't even recognize most of these actors' names. However, since no-one has made any suggestions for Penelope, I could hear her being voiced by Emily Deschanel. OTOH, I could also hear Ms. Deschanel as the voice of Marten's mom.

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #38 on:** 21 Nov 2011, 02:40 »

Actually, if we're talking about cartoon voices, we can't leave out Grey DeLisle, if only because she has the best voices. She can be both Dora and Veronica and we can throw in some cracks about how they love each other's voices too.

ZBixby · « **Reply #39 on:** 21 Nov 2011, 22:58 »

Honestly I would cast Donald Glover (Troy from Community) as Marten. He has a pretty wide range with his voice that I think would work well as Marten. On that same note I would give Alison Brie the role of Hanners because she easily pulls off that normal/crazy jump in her vocal tones.

Yarin · « **Reply #40 on:** 22 Nov 2011, 16:43 »

Donald glover is a great choice community is hilarious

twitch532 · « **Reply #41 on:** 03 Dec 2011, 18:39 »

I could make a small pilot, see how J.Jaques likes it.

Yarin · « **Reply #42 on:** 03 Dec 2011, 20:04 »

I would pay to see that not with money cause I don't have any of that but i can pay in giggles

Carl-E · « **Reply #43 on:** 04 Dec 2011, 00:11 »

Sorry, son, your giggles are no good here!

Yarin · « **Reply #44 on:** 04 Dec 2011, 02:11 »

Lol thumb wars

DSL · « **Reply #45 on:** 04 Dec 2011, 04:35 »

Questionable Thumbs? ... Well, that still leaves the voice-actor question.

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #46 on:** 04 Dec 2011, 04:53 »

Ooh, that's it; forget animation, try supermarionation!
And leave Faye's joke about all of Hanners' friends being elaborate puppets in entirely intact.

Yarin · « **Reply #47 on:** 04 Dec 2011, 10:33 »

Amir could be played by danny pudi they're around the same age hell just get the whole cast of community to voice

Carl-E · « **Reply #48 on:** 04 Dec 2011, 11:25 »

Quote from: twitch532 on 03 Dec 2011, 18:39

I could make a small pilot, see how J.Jaques likes it.

You can really do that? You have the equipment and skills?

Have you been to the "Make" forum?

ByronOrpheus · « **Reply #49 on:** 05 Dec 2011, 12:30 »

Marten: Michael Cera
Faye: Alia Shawkat or Zooey Deschanel
Dora: Ellen Page or Morena Baccarin
Hannelore: Maria Bamford. She's far more than just the crazy shopping lady from the Target ads. She's had a long career in voiceover and her stand-up is really bent.
Raven: Pauley Perrette (NCIS)
Pintsize (voice): Jack Black. Don't hate me. His weird energy matches Pintsize's complete lack of discipline and he loves Crazy Train.
Momo is a problem. Does her voice change once she gets her new chassis? She's Sony KawaiiPC and has overtly anime styling, so would a Japanese accent be out of order? I kind of hear her with too-perfect grammar and diction, much like Kam Fong from Jpod.

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