2019
Murphy & Mitzi is an animated comedy web series of comic strips and micro-shorts created in 2019 by AJMarekArt for YouTube and Twitter, as well as other platforms like Instagram.
Currently the series just composes of the "micro-shorts" which are called that for being less than a minute long, ranging from 5 to 55 seconds of duration, the average duration being 10-25 seconds, posted in a gap ranging from 2 weeks or even 2 months depending on AJ's time for the series, as he works as a freelance animator. There are also occasional comic strips which are put out more often than the shorts, not counting the patreon images at the end of the month the creator does of the series.
Plans are taken in consideration by AJ to make it a full fledged series in the future.
Summary
The series features Murphy: a mischievous 12-year old skater cat with very bad luck who believes himself to be a junior Tony Hawk and a professional hacker, but actually is a dorky kid who is too afraid to perform his "X-Treme Stunts" when girls are around and plays videogames whenever he's not breaking half his bones trying to actually do one of these, and essentially, a good boy that wants to be a bad boy and Mitzi, a sweet although, extremely impulsive squirrel who has good intentions and a kind heart but somehow got kicked out of the Cookie Scout camp after "her hijinx became too much". As both engage in chaotic and reckless activities all around New Lennium City, often causing collateral damage, hurting others and themselves in the process. Or simply provoking an unfortunate event for both.
Along others like [bunny], the mysterious, well, bunny... kid who-the-heck-knows her-name who likes hanging around the sewer who no one knows where she came from or even belongs to and Zoe, a rollerskater, laid-back 16-year old dog who acts as a bigger sister figure to the duo, often having to keep up with their antics be it on a casual day or at whatever her current day job is.
The series is set in New Lennium City, a futuristic-ish, New York-like city in the early 2000s, being this era the main attraction of the whole series and a tribute thereof. With the art style irradiating and closely mimicking that of a Y2K cartoon. Full with simple, geometric designs and your good ol' thick outlines.
Sound Effects Used
- Censor Bleep
- Hollywoodedge, Big Metal Clangthud CRT031902
- Hollywoodedge, Cell Phone Dial Indiv PE597703
- Hollywoodedge, Quick High Razz CRT040701 (2nd half)
- Sound Ideas, BLINK, CARTOON - XYLO EYE BLINKS
- Sound Ideas, CAMERA - 35 MM SLR WITH AUTO WINDER: SINGLE SHOT
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, BOING - STRING PLUCK
- Sound Ideas, TEETH, CARTOON - SCOOBY'S TEETH CHATTER, LONG
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