Arms Longstrom

Last week I was writing down my thoughts and ideas for the week, and I decided that since making movies can't continue at the moment, that why not rush a not-so-refined, storybook-esque film onto the SUYM scene.

What I came up with was "The Story of Arms Longstrom", a series about a super hero stick figure with excessively long arms who uses this unique trait to help solve problems.

The story is not well drawn. It doesn't have any background (fictional or literal). It does, however, have imagination and a decent storyline. It's also narrated by Monte Lowe - the resident financial analyst for Crock & Murph in the Morning... (It's good to see him getting his life back together.)

I imagine that I'll produce three or four of these episodes. That'll give me enough time to guage the interest in the series and determine if its worth refining and keeping current.

This reminds me, if you're reading this - please download the first episode and leave me some feedback. You can email me at shutupyourmouth@gmail.com, or the email address in my profile here. I check both of them several times daily.

Otherwise, this first little cartoon was extremely fun to write and produce. I'm currently trying to think of creative ways to update Arms' appearance while keeping it simple enough to reproduce consistently. I've also got a primer ready for the next episode which I'll probably release sometime next week.

What I haven't decided on is how I'm going to continue the series each week. I'll obviously pick up from where I left off going from the first to second episode. I don't think they'll all be a two-part series, though, especially during the evaluation stage.

This series is vastly different from anything we've ever done on SUYM so far, and hopefully we'll get to keep Arms Longstrom in the fold for a long while.

Let me know if you like it.