Dr. Catastrophe shows hapless journalist Cliff Nightly what he's been up to lately...

This entire movie was cobbled together in 6 days.

Everything you see was drawn the day of or night leading up to when filming happened.

Filming happened Monday, March 13, 2023 starting at 9PM (raw footage is available to see on our Youtube) and then edited over the next 4 days. I even whipped up a batch of 4 songs to play in the background for when we're interviewing the creatures (my 2 favorite feature in the credits).

It's a miracle this all came together because we were using a new program for our puppets we had never tested out, and the logistics were very much up in the air because we hadn't drawn all of the creatures we were hoping to (we planned to end on one final chimera with the heads of all 3 guests talking at once).

Another year, and it appears that there will be another Joel Haver's Oscars Challenge. Since the first project we made for this challenge kick-started this whole new direction I've been trying to take the DrawBomb cconcept, I figure it only makes sense to throw our hat into the ring once again.

Just for reference, you can find our entry for 2022 here.

Dr. Catastrophe's Fantastic Menagerie is an idea we started cooking up on low heat almost immediately after we finished work on 2 Dicks On the Beats, and decided that the movie was something we thoroughly enjoyed.

However, we had a couple of other projects we tackled first, mostly because they were easier to put together and less time-consuming.

Or, at least, we thought it would be less time-consuming. Turns out when there's a fire under your butt, you can cook up a whole movie in 2 days(ish).