GO AWAY, ARMCHAIR DIRECTORS!

January 14, 2020

From the, “Never Say Never” files. Go Away, Armchair Directors! was a mini-toon series idea I had in 2013 featuring Michael Mercy and Matt Crandall of YouTube’s Armchair Directors show, as well as a couple more Facebook friends, independent actor Steve Kasan and Scott McCulloch.

The very original story for GAAD was the Armchair Directors ask their friend, ME, to produce a promotional video for them, paid for in advance. But after the Armchair Directors give a poor review to a movie I liked, I declared war. Original promo shot below:

But after a quick thinking session, I decided to have Nairby & Chubb be the offended parties as I felt using myself could end up in my ego going nuts:

And thus came the very first teaser…

The new angle for GAAD then became two young movie fans, Nairby & Chubb, who are big fans of the Armchair Directors, become upset when Crandall and Mercy give a bad review to Feel It Part 2, starring Nairby & Chubb’s favorite actor, Biff DaBone as seen in the above teaser. But that angle would be changed.

The angle for the GAAD series would change again. Scripts for 5 episodes were written and environments were created, as seen in the video below:

More promo shots were made…

Until the series angle was changed yet again. Rather than basing the conflict around a poorly received movie review, Nairby & Chubb would have a run-in with Crandall & Mercy in a movie theater. A script was written and a “Prologue” episode was made…

Unfortunately, due to my hectic work schedule at the time and still very amateur-ish animating skills, I made the decision to put the series aside but still dabble here and there with the characters. Enter a short lived comic strip called, Go Away, Armchair Directors! The Strip…