Since launching on YouTube about a year ago, Future Thought’s animated Crime Time series has tallied a few million views. They’ve reportedly embarked on 92 new episodes, half of which will be penned by Nassos Vakalis. He is the director of the series, but his day job finds him storyboarding on Monsters vs. Aliens – the upcoming DreamWorks animated feature. Here’s a new episode of Crime Time titled Midnight Lover.

Nassos Vakalis’ online series Crime Time has hit the big time. The Flash-animated episode titled Electro-Phobia, which was animated by Mumbai-based Future Thought Productions, has tallied up nearly a quarter of a million views on YouTube.

Nassos Vakalis, an Emmy Award winning artist in Los Angeles, has teamed up with Future Thought Productions to create Crime Time. The series, produced out of Mumbai, India, follows the adventures of Shifty, “a pint-sized pilferer with lofty ambitions and limited brainpower.” Vakalis directs and designed the characters, which draw inspiration from the classic UPA shorts. Future Thought utilized Flash and SoftImage in producing the series. Below is an episode titled Paint Job: