2010s cartoon pilot? Kid and deer play ball
Sept 11, 2020 3:52:52 GMT
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Post by seaweedsandwich on Sept 11, 2020 3:52:52 GMT
Hi there. I've been trying to find this for maybe two years now and /r/tipofmytongue hasn't been able to find it so I figured I might post here.
Years ago, maybe a little after Over the Garden Wall came out in 2014, I was browsing animated shorts on YouTube and came across this video. Remembered it a while later and tried to find it again but absolutely no luck. Here's what I remember:
The main characters of the short were:
I don't remember their real names so I'm just going to call them Deer, Kid and Boss for convenience.
Plot:
Deer is in the forest, wearing some purple robe and guarding this magical orb on a pedestal. Kid comes over and asks if they can play together. Deer says no, he has to guard this orb so the shadow spirit can't escape. Kid eventually persuades Deer to play, and Deer changes into sports clothes. They play some sort of ball game (maybe soccer or basketball?) for a few minutes. Suddenly a portal activates, and Deer scrambles to hide all evidence of the game. Boss steps out of the portal. Deer has changed back into his robe or whatever he was wearing before, but you can tell he just put it on over his sports clothes. The ball bounces onto one of Boss's horns and deflates but he doesn't notice. Deer is very nervous, but Boss seems satisfied with Deer's work and steps back into the portal. When Boss turns around you can see several more balls stuck on his horns, showing this has happened a lot in the past. After Boss leaves, Kid and Deer try to play ball again but accidentally knock over the orb. The shadow spirit is released and covers the forest in darkness so you can only see the characters' eyes, and then the video ends.
Hopefully someone else remembers this!
Edit: Here are pics of how I remember the characters looking. I might not be right about the kid at all, but I remember the others pretty vividly.
The kid and deer: imgur.com/dTPx02g
The "boss": imgur.com/lvQYNWR
Years ago, maybe a little after Over the Garden Wall came out in 2014, I was browsing animated shorts on YouTube and came across this video. Remembered it a while later and tried to find it again but absolutely no luck. Here's what I remember:
- 2d animation, seemed fairly modern based on the animation and writing. Had a similar look to Regular Show, Gravity Falls, etc.
- It was a single, self-contained short, probably 8-10 minutes long. Might have been a failed pilot
- I feel like it was either on the Cartoon Network YouTube channel or an animator's personal channel. Could have been somewhere different though
- Pretty lighthearted, aimed towards a younger audience.
The main characters of the short were:
- A tall, green anthropomorphic deer, similar body shape to Mordecai from Regular Show. Had short, simple looking antlers.
- A human child. I remember pretty much nothing about this character besides being best friends with the deer, being very short, and possibly dressed up as a wolf? Might have also had spiky black hair but I'm not confident about this.
- The deer's boss, some sort of forest spirit. Another tall green deer person, but much older and had a big cluster of horns sort of like the forest spirit from Princess Mononoke.
I don't remember their real names so I'm just going to call them Deer, Kid and Boss for convenience.
Plot:
Deer is in the forest, wearing some purple robe and guarding this magical orb on a pedestal. Kid comes over and asks if they can play together. Deer says no, he has to guard this orb so the shadow spirit can't escape. Kid eventually persuades Deer to play, and Deer changes into sports clothes. They play some sort of ball game (maybe soccer or basketball?) for a few minutes. Suddenly a portal activates, and Deer scrambles to hide all evidence of the game. Boss steps out of the portal. Deer has changed back into his robe or whatever he was wearing before, but you can tell he just put it on over his sports clothes. The ball bounces onto one of Boss's horns and deflates but he doesn't notice. Deer is very nervous, but Boss seems satisfied with Deer's work and steps back into the portal. When Boss turns around you can see several more balls stuck on his horns, showing this has happened a lot in the past. After Boss leaves, Kid and Deer try to play ball again but accidentally knock over the orb. The shadow spirit is released and covers the forest in darkness so you can only see the characters' eyes, and then the video ends.
Hopefully someone else remembers this!
Edit: Here are pics of how I remember the characters looking. I might not be right about the kid at all, but I remember the others pretty vividly.
The kid and deer: imgur.com/dTPx02g
The "boss": imgur.com/lvQYNWR