Crash Zoom (found pilot for animated web series; 2011): Difference between revisions

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The series' logo.

Status: Found

Date found: 10 Nov 2014

Crash Zoom is an animated web series created by Thomas "Tom" Ridgewell, known for creating the popular asdfmovie shorts. Crash Zoom follows three friends who go on many crazy adventures. One is an adventurous teenage girl, the second is an idiotic blond filmmaker, and the third is a small girl with demonic powers. The first episode of the show was uploaded in 2014, but there was also an unreleased pilot created in 2011.

Development

In 2010, around the time Tom was doing voices for his friend's web series, Eddsworld, he decided to use the money he was making on YouTube to create a fully-funded animated web-series. Unlike Eddsworld, which used characters based on real people, he decided to settle on making a show with original characters, and so he came up with Crash Zoom. The strangeness of this title was made fun of in the show's first season finale.

Months later, Tom wrote the script for the pilot, and as described by him, "It just kind of started going wrong over and over again". Tom approached Edgar Neilson (also known as FunyMony on YouTube) and thus the pilot was started. The pilot was left unfinished due to the Sandy Hook school shooting, as there was one recurring gag in the pilot where someone would come in and shoot up a nursery/primary school. Tom thought it was way too offensive and soon, and so they abandoned it and started fresh a few years later.

Availability

On November 10th, 2014, Tom uploaded a video as part of his series called "Scrap'd Week" where he would share things he made that ended up being scrapped. This video was about the Crash Zoom pilot, and Tom described the story behind the pilot. He also showed a clip of it, which seems to be the full animated pilot, as Tom did not mention more of the pilot. He also linked the full script of the pilot in the description of the video.^[1]

Gallery

The "Scrap'd Week" video with the pilot in it.

Reference

↑ The script for the pilot in its entirety. Retrieved 11 Feb '19

[1] The script for the pilot in its entirety. Retrieved 11 Feb '19

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-In 2006, Thomas "TomSka" Ridgewell was very confident to make his own animated web series. But sadly, he couldn't animate that well. He had the energy to work with Edd Gould (now deceased) for his webtoon, Eddsworld. In 2010, he decided to use the money he was making on YouTube to a fully-funded animated web-series. He didn't know what the show focuses on or if he had to use his friends or original characters. He settled on original characters, and eventually created '''Crash Zoom'''.
+''Crash Zoom'' is an animated web series created by Thomas "Tom" Ridgewell, known for creating the popular ''asdfmovie'' shorts. ''Crash Zoom'' follows three friends who go on many crazy adventures. One is an adventurous teenage girl, the second is an idiotic blond filmmaker, and the third is a small girl with demonic powers. The first episode of the show was uploaded in 2014, but there was also an '''unreleased pilot''' created in 2011.
-Months later, he wrote the script for the pilot, and as described by Tom, "It just kind of started going wrong over and over again". He approached Edgar Neilson (also known as FunyMony on YouTube) and thus the pilot was created and then lost.
+==Development==
+In 2010, around the time Tom was doing voices for his friend's web series, ''Eddsworld'', he decided to use the money he was making on YouTube to create a fully-funded animated web-series. Unlike ''Eddsworld'', which used characters based on real people, he decided to settle on making a show with original characters, and  so he came up with ''Crash Zoom''. The strangeness of this title was made fun of in the show's first season finale.
-On January 30, 2017 the the script was found on an allreadable page. http://www.allreadable.com/2ffaMHzg
+Months later, Tom wrote the script for the pilot, and as described by him, ''"It just kind of started going wrong over and over again"''. Tom approached Edgar Neilson (also known as FunyMony on YouTube) and thus the pilot was started. The pilot was left unfinished due to the Sandy Hook school shooting, as there was one recurring gag in the pilot where someone would come in and shoot up a nursery/primary school. Tom thought it was way too offensive and soon, and so they abandoned it and started fresh a few years later.
-[[Category:Partially found media]]
+==Availability==
-[[Category:Lost animation]]
+On November 10th, 2014, Tom uploaded a video as part of his series called "Scrap'd Week" where he would share things he made that ended up being scrapped. This video was about the ''Crash Zoom'' pilot, and Tom described the story behind the pilot. He also showed a clip of it, which seems to be the full animated pilot, as Tom did not mention more of the pilot. He also linked the full script of the pilot in the description of the video.<ref>[https://www.dropbox.com/s/mm29osudt0w4j4y/CrashZoomEp1Draft5.pdf?dl=0 The script for the pilot in its entirety.] Retrieved 11 Feb '19</ref>
-[[Category:Lost internet media]]
+==Gallery==
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+}}
+==Reference==
+{{reflist}}
+[[Category:Found animation]]
+[[Category:Found internet media]]
+[[Category:Found media]]