Saturday, March 8, 2008

Come One, Come All!

All right. Either you know what Fred and Luigi is and have seen it OR you don't know what the heck I'm talking about.

If you already know, go ahead and see what's new in the cartoon world of Fred Fredderson and Luigi Luigston.

If you don't, lemme explain. Have a seat. You must read this.


So, in Health class 6th grade (I know, lolololololol) in 2004 our teacher showed us how to make the "autoshapes" in Microsoft PowerPoint into beings and objects and people and whatnot. And you had to make a little cartoon involving autoshape people in safety situations. She gave people topics. I got the topic "poison safety". So, soon enough, I created a couple of characters and thus creating episode 1, "Fred Chugs Lysol". The cartoon was about a hyper-type of kid named "Fred" and how he asked his best friend, Luigi, if he wanted to watch him "chug" Lysol spray. Luigi, however, is a rather wise dude and he encouraged Fred NOT to drink it. Fred drinks it and he dies, and Luigi tells the viewer not to poison theirselves.
Cheesy? Maybe.
So... after a while I wanted to make more episodes about Fred acting like a retard and Luigi trying to stop him. As the episodes progressed, more characters were introduced, personalities were getting stronger, and the episodes lengthened. Soon enough, it was like watching a movie rather than a slideshow. And Fred was not dying in every episode. There was actually more stuff going on.
By summer 2006 my F & L episodes were becoming a "neighborhood favorite" and now in 2008 I want to share them with YOU! YAY!
Yeah, it is pretty weird that I STILL use PowerPoint for these animations. Believe me, I tried doing them in Macromedia Flash, but it is not the same. Like, it seems more hilarious with choppy-esque animation.

Here, email me at austin.tyd@hotmail.com and I will send the the Tutorial Fred and Luigi episode. It guides you through the basic setting of the first two seasons of Fred and Luigi.

There you have it, now if you want to see any F & L episodes, you'll have to email me, okay?!
Enjoy.


And a note: all the episodes run in order in the form of like a running gag so to "get" all the jokes you might have to watch all of them...

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