Candy Mountain

I’m sure most of you are familiar with my animated short “Charlie the Unicorn.”

Well apparently it has spawned a large amount of videos on YouTube. I’m not sure how or why this happened. Here’s all of the ones I could find - some of them funny, most of them insane.

Frankie the Unicorn, a remake based on beer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2FpC68wcjE

Little kid dancing to the Candy Cave song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2OQT3If_jY

Live action re-enactment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ9wFOLCot8

Uh, I don’t know:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gPcsDGT74M

Re-encactment using drawings on paper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrSRNyjtg74

Re-cut with anime from some show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUT1T6P9468

AHHHHHHH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJVMM_TBIcM

Re-encactment with stuffed animals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZIgahDNABU

Someone using some webcam software to say ‘Candy Mountain’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLaNCNZeons

Re-encactment with socks (has some ‘bad’ language):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBgVW5dhF4k

Re-encactment with unicorn dolls:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsxTUFxIEHc

Someone in a car saying ‘Candy Mountain’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOjrgSwY3zA

I have no idea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTeUN5GBAmU

Candy Mountain 2, or Music Land, or something:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YimR1sbDfRQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=344×6dwaWUY

Uh…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRBa8C5YpJc

Another video of someone saying a line from the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmhxkbFRMUY

Charlie the… giraffe?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TI7qaTL2-I

Annnyway, if you find any more that are not on this list let me know.

Some answers to questions from the blog comments:

- The DVD cover will be made when the movie is close to being finished.

- When I say “hand drawn” I mean I draw it using a Wacom tablet and Photoshop.

- Most backgrounds take me 4-16 hours depending.

- This has been answered before, but yes there will be audio commentary on the DVD.

55 Responses to “Candy Mountain”

  1. friedbread Says:

    See Jason, you do have fans! Strange fans….. The anime one is pretty funny, but the dancing kid is hilarious! Charlie the Unicorn is one of those “so dumb that it’s funny” kind of movies. It makes it hard to forget. :)

    I was trying to figure out how to spell leopluridon so I searched it on Google. Most of the things it came up with had something to do with the movie. So is it a real animal or not?

  2. chris Says:

    cool jaosn!!!! i hope

  3. chris Says:

    wow… my computer messed up…

    i hope the movie turns out ok….

  4. jason Says:

    Friedbread - it is, it’s just spelled “liopleurodon.”

    It was an aquatic dinosaur.

  5. Chiz Says:

    Jason Thank you so much thanks to you i am able to make cool looking characters and stuff but ive got one negative the backgrounds…I need to make a cubical like background can u go into detail how u make ur backgrounds if not thats cool. And thanks for all your help . Good luck animating ill make u a poster if u want lol for spatula madness like i did for knox on villain. ty

  6. Lee Says:

    woah that was interesting 0_0

  7. Nick Wood Says:

    I’ve been inspired! Jason. You have your own little obsessors. I think one day if i get bored enough, I’ll make one just to add to the many little… little… somethings that have done tributes to you.
    We love you Jason

    In a non-gay way.

  8. Dustin Says:

    Woa….. I felt a really akward feeling while watching them. They were just …. never mind. It’s gotta be nice to feel apreciated though.

    It’s crazy how popular it is though, didn’t you only spend 3 days on it? I feel like starting an “Anti Charlie the Unicorn” video campaign. Have you ever seen those klaymations that people esentially rip off knox’s humor, but fail horribly?

    Still though alot of those remind me of the videos I made when I was 7-9. They were hideously bad, yet amazingly fun to make. I think my Master peice was “The Lego movie”, ahh nothing quite scream acadamy award like 16 minutes of constant pain to the eyes. “Godzilla the Movie” was pretty top notch as well though.

  9. Funky Dragon Says:

    I love Charlie the Unicorn!
    It is hilarious :D

  10. Kore22 Says:

    Jesus, u watched all of them?! You must be desperate to find the most funniest remake of your short that took u like 2 days to make!

  11. Kore22 Says:

    AND WHAT TEHE HELL WAS THAT FREAKIN FAST-SPEAKING-UNICORN?!

  12. Jared Johnson Says:

    That anime one was very creepy.

    I want a Charlie the Unicorn movie to be the follow-up full-length animated project from Mr. Steele.

  13. Dustin Says:

    What the hell Kore? WHy on Earth would you insult Jason for looking up Fan movies inspired by his own movie. Where did he say he was looking for “The most funniest” anyway. That was pretty uncalled for, it’s not like Jason made them.

  14. Dustin Says:

    I don’t know Jared, topping “Candy Mountain 2″ looks like a nigh impossible feat.

  15. jason Says:

    I don’t think he was insulting me :P

    I knew Charlie was on YouTube, so I did a search and all those came up, ha ha.

  16. PatMan Says:

    why would you EVER want a full-length Charlie the Unicorn? I liked the 1st one, but an hour and a half?! Jesus… and its originality that maakes these so great. You don’t want the same stuff over and over again do you? originality is what separates most of hollywood from the indies (…the GOOD indies anyway…)

  17. Demannu Says:

    …..Thats creeeeeeeeepy……

    Can’t wait for Spatula madness.

    Anyone who reads this is obligated to shout “YIP!” at some point in the day, if you don’t ten… I can’t do anything about it….

  18. sims2_gurl Says:

    Woah…I think I need to go take a chemical shower after watching some of those.:P

  19. frostbitestudios Says:

    I just watched a few of those videos. Now I’m going to go take a shower.

  20. Tripod Says:

    i looked you up on youtube…….cowboy seahorses jason?

  21. jason Says:

    Yeah someone e-mailed me asking if I could record myself saying “Oh no, cowboy seahorses!”

    And then he put it into a rather insane cartoon :)

  22. Smartoonkid Says:

    I think My Fave was the Frankie one I’m actually doing one that I’m gonna email you and hopefully get posted on the blog. Mine is based on coffee mugs and pepsi! But anyway I loved Frankie But where did that beer song come from I don’t care it was hillarious!

  23. Dustin Says:

    Oops, I read Kores post wrong. Sorry about that Kore.

  24. Funky Dragon Says:

    I just watched ‘Battle for the Portal’ for the first time ever. I loved it!
    What program did you use to make it?

  25. sims2_gurl Says:

    I just listened to knoxkast 12, its really funny!
    I love the Latvia jokes and Texas stuff…it was halarious. :D

  26. Jared Johnson Says:

    Patman, we got over an hour and a half of the retarded people of Klay World as one full feature. I think a pissed off Unicorn can last as long without wearing his welcome.

  27. Kore22 Says:

    No Jason, I wasn’t trying to insult you, it just was that there was so many of them, and what I meant by funniest was to see if anybody on Youtube is up to standered on Youtube

  28. Pierre Says:

    I dunno, the other two unicorns with high-pitched voices would get on my nerve after a while.

    If Jason should make anothjer full-feature from one of his Film Cow movies, it should definately be Attack of the Man-Eating Giraffes. That was awesome!

  29. jordan Says:

    How long does it usually take you to type these updates?

  30. PatMan Says:

    jared:
    klayworld wasnt a REALLY long clayman short, it had a plot and unique characters with depth and personality… Charlie the Unicorn was just silly. thats all it ever tried to be and it did a fantastic job at it. but a FULL version? no, Jason is very creative (in the Gary Larson sense of the word :) ) and I’m looking forward to the banana people. he’s not making a feature based off the spatula madness short because he was too lazy to think of something new: he’s doing it because there’s a lot of… oppurtunity i guess, a lot of different things he could do with the entirely unique spatula-themed world he’s created. hope dissing a full feature Charlie offended anyone (though i dont see how it could)

  31. PatMan Says:

    dont mean 2 double post but i mean DIDNT offend anyone. id let a grammar error slide, but theres quite a difference. im done now, no more posting till next time, i promise

  32. jordan Says:

    I’d prefer a charlie the unicorn full-feature. They could even take his other frikkin’ kidney! Jason, why don’t you have forums on this site? that would be great.

  33. sims2_gurl Says:

    Yeah forums would be pretty cool. But people scam a lot and stuff on them. :(

  34. thnbgr Says:

    well i asked him before, he didn’t respond… dunno

  35. jason Says:

    Eh, I’d say 60% or more of the people who post here regularly also post at Knox’s forums, and he set up a Spatula Madness section there. Seems like it would just be repetitive here, but if this site gets any more popular I may set something up.

  36. Funky Dragon Says:

    I like this smaller community of posters, a forum would make it a bit too big.

    What software did you use to make ‘Battle for the Portal’?

  37. jason Says:

    Bryce for backgrounds, Carrara for modeling, Photoshop for other art, Poser for some character animation (lego guys etc), Final Cut Pro for editing.

  38. HTML_Earth Says:

    hey Jason, i know where you got all the information about latvia and pizza hut slogans from, in knoxkast. Wikipedia!

  39. jordan Says:

    I tried to register for kk forums 3 times but it wouldn’t send me an email. Does anyone know why?

  40. thnbgr Says:

    how about just one forum thing? like “General Discussion” and that’s it? like a small scaled one. It won’t go wrong! i mean, how could it? a mini community. this is different from the spatula madness forum in knoxskorner cause not that many people post there but seeing how many people post here it should turn out good (well).

  41. jason Says:

    HTML_Earth - Wiki is the best.

  42. friedbread Says:

    I agree with Funky Dragon. The comments have enough people as it is. The idea of having forums here doesn’t really appeal to me. I’m not in the KKF, but from what other people say about it, it seems a bit chaotic. This forum thing is making me nervous. :|

  43. jason Says:

    Don’t be. As of now, there is not going to be a forum.

  44. Dustin Says:

    Well off topic but I figured I’d post it anyway. I took my mac into the Mac Depot to get it fixed finnaly… too bad it looks like it’s going ot be expensive. 99$ an hour for Data recovery is rediculous, theres no way it can be that much work! Oh well at least I’ll be able to get back to my movies.

  45. thnbgr Says:

    omg no!! the’ve been known for ripping people off!! :o nah i really don’t know but there really is a mac depot? didn’t know that

  46. Kore22 Says:

    Yeah, my dad actually is Latvian, so it was a houner that a Knoxkast episode is dedicated to my Dad’s home country!

    w00t, w00t!

  47. jordan Says:

    i just got the chocolate phone from verizon and i’m downloading all the knoxkast episodes to it right now!

  48. thnbgr Says:

    the commercial for it was pretty random and your post is too

  49. Matthewness Says:

    “Nick Wood Says:
    August 20th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
    I’ve been inspired! Jason. You have your own little obsessors. I think one day if i get bored enough, I’ll make one just to add to the many little… little… somethings that have done tributes to you.
    We love you Jason

    In a non-gay way.”

    On the contrary, I love you in a gay way ;)

    Yeah, all my good friends love Spatula Madness. I had found a way to get the .Mov of Spatula Madness on my iPod (before the podcast) and showed it to a bunch of people who love it. My friend spencer almost died watching Spatula Madness on my bed, and then laughed himself to sleep during Charlie the Unicorn.
    I think you are funnier than Knox in that you use more intelligent humor. But most of the time, it’s just stupid and makes me laugh because if I hear the word “Cabbage” I crack up.
    Jason: You are of the elite.

  50. jordan Says:

    thank you

  51. Pierre Says:

    Mathewmess scares me. And what the heck is a chocolate phone? Maybe I haven’t heard of it cos i’m in England. Then again, it doesn’t sound like something that i’d want.

    Peacey outey! :P

  52. jordan Says:

    just google it. have any of you heard of microsofts ipod killer. called zune. looks weird.

  53. sims2_gurl Says:

    Interesting Matthewness….scary yet interesting.

  54. chris Says:

    im still here…

    but nothin to comment about (again)

  55. Dustin Says:

    Haha, is that like the 10th suposed iPod killer now?