You may recall the Nite Fite segment of The Meth Minute 39, which features two animated talk show hosts Penalty and Lloyd. The concept, which was created by Dan Meth and Mark Vitelli, has been spun off to it’s own web series. Three episodes are available for your viewing pleasure, including this one titled Sell Out.
This week’s Meth Minute 39 short takes a look back at the cartoon series through a Nintendo NES lens. Dan Meth called upon Ben Ross to visualize the various shorts from his series in an 8-bit style, and they put it against Nik Anesti’s lo-fi sounds.
The Meth Minute 39 just released a new episode titled The Craigs Phone It In. You may recall the oversexed Craigs from an earlier episode.
The Meth Minute 39’s Internet People was one of the most watched shorts on the web in ‘07, and in this video below Dan Meth, the creator, explains his process, how the series came to be, and how he got his start in animation. Flash-specific details come in around 2:45 of this special Behind the Scenes short.
The Meth Minute’s weekly post is live. This week’s short is titled Ultra and the Lazer Hearts, which is a spoof of the rotoscoped 80’s series Jem - who rocked with her glam-band The Holograms. Dare to compare! (NSFW)
The latest Meth Minute features an animated version of Mike Tyson that will be familiar to Nintendo gamers from the 80s and 90s. Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out was a successful cartidge game for the the original Nintendo platform, but he sure didn’t talk like this (NSFW). Pull up ringside for Mike Tyson’s Brunch Out.
I actually sat down with Dan Meth (the creator of The Meth Minute 39), earlier this week during a brief visit to Next New Networks, and I got an eyeful of his process.Dan typically records 3 or 4 episodes of this weekly series at once. His voice direction is loose, and while he arrives at the studio with an outline of where the dialog should go, he relies on improv surprises to deliver the funny. Home Movies and Dr. Katz were both inspirations for the series and for his process. During a record, the actors typically riff for about 45 minutes, then Meth will edit it down to his minute-long episode.
His team is fairly small. Dan has some help with the music, but he writes the lyrics himself, and he has animation interns from Pratt and The School of Visual Arts who come in 2 days a week. By the time he’s done, each production takes about 10 working days to complete, so it shouldn’t surprise you that they banked 17 episodes of this weekly series before they launched the viral hit, first episodeInternet People.
It surprised me to hear that pop-culture junkie Meth is the equivalent of a Luddite in his apartment. While he’s equipped with the latest technology at work, once he gets home, he eschews cable TV and the internet for books.
Channel Frederator’s The Meth Minute 39 premiere almost couldn’t have gone better. Internet People!, the first, immensely popular Flash-animated episode, was seen over 1.5 million views on YouTube alone.
Dan Meth’s next one-minute episode is due out tomorrow, but you can watch it here…. right now!
Sex Machine features the late R&B singer James Brown as some sort of sex-obsessed cyborg. Creeeeeeepy.
