#5 Blotto
Season 1, Episode 5c
Blotto is created by Bryon Vaughns, and this one goes for a fun idea. It starts showing an artist's room and it shows ink blots and the ink blots on the paper start moving and this begins the story.
This one has a fun art style using retro styled character designs for Blotto and Dotto. The ink world is pretty fun, still giving the space of being mostly white and empty to show that it's still paper. There's also a comic book world that gives it's own retro pop art vibe. The entire 7 minutes are also sung. That's right this whole thing is music which makes it stand out and feels like an old cartoon where everything is music.
Wayne Brady sings Blotto's lines while Kenna J Ramsey sings Dotto's lines. The story is simple Blotto loves the ink world while Dotto, doesn't she wants something more. A comic book villain notices that Dotto doesn't like the ink world and thinks he has a chance for her to be with him. Thankfully, for him, his song works.
Blotto gets jealous and tries to see if he can get Dotto back but the villain able to do things in the comic book world to stop him. The cartoon here gets really cartoonish, and embraces the comic book world very well.
Then a director stops things and starts saying that Blotto is a star. Also doesn't doesn't end well for Blotto.
This one was very fun and energetic. I like the concept a lot. I don't think this one feels intended to be a series, and it probably wouldn't have worked as one, but it was really fun too see it. It makes sue of the fun of the animation medium quite well and harkens back to classic cartoons as well. The music aspect of it makes it really pop.
Say the line , alright, do go check this one out !
That's it for now, tune in next time when we enter a world inside of notebooks!
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