Hello there, and welcome to Scribble Kibble, a show about animation and how it’s made.
This episode is going to be a bit different because I’ve never seen Eddsworld.
I’ve known about it for years and years and years, but all this time and I simply
never crossed paths with any of the videos.
Now seems as good a time as any to fix that.
So I guess we’ll go over to the channel, sort by oldest, and hit play.
I’ll admit to having a huge idiot grin watching how pixellated this is on today’s computer
screens.
Sounds from Flash Kit.
Yeah, this takes me back.
I’m going to switch over to Newgrounds for the main Eddsworld animations, because the
early YouTube uploads are low quality.
Everything is crisp and much more pleasant to watch and listen to on Newgrounds.
Isn’t it always?
Hurr hurr.
Well, so far Eddsworld is exactly what I expected.
Rookie Flash animation that’s great to watch if you grew up with it because you’re nostalgic,
but for new people the early Eddsworld stuff is probably only going to be a little amusing.
I’ll let you know when it gets good.
Wait, who cooks bacon in an oven?
The first bunch of videos are hit or miss as to whether they’ll entertain you or not.
The Hello Hellhole episode is the first one where the humor and pacing are about right.
A lot of these episodes are five or six minutes long.
The animation is very basic Flash, but that’s still a ton of work.
Maybe 100 hours of work per long episode?
Certainly more hours than that as the quality improves.
Eddsworld becomes “good” in 2008, specifically beginning with Spares.
The premise is completely asinine, which makes it nice for a laugh, and the animation is
all right.
It’s alright.
The toons from this point feel a lot more like classic webtoons from ten years ago.
They’re fun.
Wow the voice actor for Zanta sounds like Mr. Krabs.
Josh Tomar.
Geeze.
Is this Harry Partridge?
Oh my gosh, it is.
Parry Gripp - I just mentioned him in the last Scribble Kibble.
And I only now realized that Tom is TomSka.
There are a lot of big names in here.
Remember when YouTube looked like this?
Remember this?
Alright, I’ve been watching Eddsworld animations for over an hour now, and I’ve come to understand
just how prolific Edd Gould was as an animator.
In addition to the main cartoons, some of which are longer than ten minutes, there are
lots of little jokes and short animations you won’t see on Newgrounds that are on
the YouTube channel.
Plus weekly comics.
There’s just so much.
Of course around 2012 the animation style completely changes, and that’s because different
people have been animating the cartoons and drawing the comics since Edd Gould passed
away.
Now that I’m digging into it, I could talk endlessly about Eddsworld.
It’s raised tons of money for charity, it has its own documentary, its own wiki, its
share of religiously rabid fans.
And I mean rabid, the kind of fans that caused two of the original four main cast to drop
out of the show.
Normally at this point I’d talk about how to animate Eddsworld, but I’ve already discussed
Flash animation in past episodes and I’m not in the mood to repeat myself.
So instead I want to give you the most important lesson Eddsworld has, and it’s this:
If you want to animate a show, do it.
Don’t put it off.
Don’t wait until you’re “good enough.”
Start making it now and you’ll get better as you go.
Eddsworld began as a group of internet friends making stuff for fun.
That’s all it was.
It would never have become a full quality animation production if Edd sat around thinking
about making cartoons, if he thought to himself, “Oh, my animation doesn’t look like so-and-so’s
animation, my art sucks, I can’t post it anywhere.”
No.
That’s the funny thing.
Edd died very young, and yet I can’t be sad about it, because in the short time he
had, he created more than most people will in their entire lives.
How many times have you heard someone who hasn’t published anything say, “I want
to write a book.
I want to make an animated series.
I want to draw a comic.”
Yet all they ever do is talk about it.
Lots of people have something they want to create that they never get around to.
I’m not going to be one of those people.
Are you?
Alright Edd, this one’s for you.
Bacon in the oven.
Mmm!
That's pretty good!