Fantastic Narratives

Dragon Nuts
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Well here is a series I just found a few weeks back, Love at first fright!

I would like to use this as an example of some of the ultimate narrative ideas to be created using such an easy and reusable technique.
For a start all the props can be found at your local toystore or those dusty boxes that you have packed away from your childhood - oh yes and some plastercine.

I was really surprised at the quality of the stories that one could get accross from such simple props, it's a definate inspiration to us all.
The thing that worked really well about these stores was the way they played on the fact that the character where from our childhood, Transformers and even the Thundercats. They take this odd combination of characters and completely change thier personalities (a little bit like what they did with the 'Scary movie' films) , reducing our once most treasured heroes to Zero's in some cases. I however found that it breathed new life into all the character - like if they grew up and changed whilst we have been away these past years, some even working dead end jobs just to support thier drug habit after thier stardome died.
The other thing I really liked where how small and well planned the short clips where that made up a series, none really followed the other in a logical fashion but still managed to work anyways.
The voices and lines are well thought out and hilarious.

I have no negative critisism at all for this series... so what, the characters look crap (no fancy, high end animation to be found here), the storylines are random but so what.

It just works so damn well.

I chose this specific one because of the parody about 'The never ending story'