Monday, July 24, 2023

Behind the Scenes: The Making of Smurfs for Our YouTube Channel


The Smurfs 
is a made-for-TV cartoon that William Hanna and Joseph Barbera produced for their company, Hanna-Barbera. It ran from 1981 to 1989, with a total of 259 episodes airing on NBC. Based upon comics from Belgian comics artist, Peyo, small blue creatures called the Smurfs, consisting almost entirely of males, with Smurfette being the exception, although more female Smurfs would appear later on during the series' run, live in a small mushroom-like village, hidden out of sight of human beings. Village leader, Papa Smurf, leads his Smurfs in the path of good, and out of harm's way, as well as the Smurfs avoiding the clutches of evil wizard, Gargamel, and his pet cat Azrael.

When we started creating characters for our YouTube channel, Papa, Smurfette and Brainy were in the first lineup we did for modeling, we made them as they were part of HB's history, I did no modeling work for the characters.

The first Smurfs story we produced for the channel, titled "Happy To Be a Smurf," which wasn't written by me. The plot followed the Smurfs trying to figure out what to do today. The second story, titled "Hanging With Smurfette," which again, wasn't written by me, involved Brainy and Papa Smurf hanging out with Smurfette. In the final story, "Brainy, Your So Smart," which I also didn't write, had Brainy planning out an update for the buildings in the village.

We are still in the process of writing more Smurfs stories, as well as other Hanna-Barbera stories that you may see in the future. However, we haven't written a Smurfs story in a while as of 2023, but I hope we can create more in the near future.

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