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Monstrous mayhem abounds for the rock band Sesamoid in the horror comedy pilot Far-Fetched. An eye-catching collaboration from writer Dave Capdevielle and animator Ashley Nichols, Far-Fetched is now on Kickstarter, and we caught up with Dave and Ashley to discuss their exciting new project in our latest Q&a feature!

You can read our full Q&a below, and to learn more about Far-Fetched, visit:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/burrowedalive/far-fetched-the-animated-pilot-that-wouldnt-die?ref=bm05pgKickstarter!

Thank you for taking the time to answer questions for us, Dave and Ashley, and congratulations on your Kickstarter campaign for the Far-Fetched animated pilot, which will follow the adventures of the misfit musicians in the band Sesamoid! How did you initially come up with the idea for this show?

Ashley: I created the characters when I was 12 years old actually! They started out as Danny Phantom OCs, haha, but over the last 20 years they’ve evolved A Lot,...

Less than a year ago, Glitch Productions uploaded the pilot episode of “The Amazing Digital Circus” to YouTube with a plea to help them fund a full season. Now, 346 million views later, “The Amazing Digital Circus” is coming to Netflix while continuing to premiere new episodes on YouTube.

A deceptively cheery-looking animated series about life under the big top, the Australian animated series is a delightfully dark comedy about, as Glitch Productions wrote on its website, “A woman gets trapped in a crazy virtual world along with five other humans and are now subject to the whims of wacky AI and their own personal traumas.” Or, put another way, “What if it was ‘Toy Story,’ but everyone was a jerk?”

Created and directed by Gooseworx (also a composer on “Hazbin Hotel”) and produced by Glitch Productions, “The Amazing Digital Circus” will premiere Episodes 1–3 on Netflix October 4, the same day the third episode premieres on YouTube.

May 9 marks the annual celebration of Goku Day for Dragon Ball fans worldwide. Although this years celebration was without Akira Toriyama, fans of Dragon Ball Z found a way to honor the late manga artist through the series most iconic theme song in America.

Released through the SmallButera YouTube channel, "Rock The Dragon Animation Jam" is a fan-animated tribute to the Americanized theme song of Dragon Ball Z. During the early English dubbing years of the anime, "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" and the series whimsical Japanese musical score was replaced with a hard-rock soundtrack to better suit the taste of American viewers. Even when the English dubbing of Dbz became more faithful in its Toonami run by allowing more violence and references to death, the use of American rock persisted due to the series overwhelming popularity in the West. Famously, the original English release of Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge featured...