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"TADC" redirects here. For the name, see Tadhg.
The Amazing Digital Circus
Official series logo
Genre
Created byGooseworx
Inspired byI Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Written byGooseworx
Directed byGooseworx
Starring
Theme music composerGooseworx
Opening theme"The Amazing Digital Circus Main Theme" (vocals by Lizz Robinett)
Ending theme"Digital Days"
Composers
  • Evan Alderete
  • Gooseworx
Country of origin
  • Australia
  • United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes1 (pilot)
Production
Executive producers
  • Kevin Lerdwichagul
  • Luke Lerdwichagul
ProducerKevin Lerdwichagul
EditorGooseworx
Running time26 minutes
Production companyGlitch Productions
Original release
NetworkYouTube
ReleaseOctober 13, 2023 (2023-10-13)

The Amazing Digital Circus (also known as Digital Circus or TADC) is an Australian-American independent computer-animated web series created by Gooseworx and produced by Glitch Productions.[1] The series premiered on the GLITCH YouTube channel on October 13, 2023.[2] It received critical acclaim, amassing over 33 million views in less than two weeks.[3]

Synopsis

After putting on a virtual reality headset, a human becomes trapped in a circus-themed digital universe, where she assumes the avatar of a jester and meets five others who share her situation, unable to recall their names and details of their pasts. The woman is assigned the new name "Pomni" by the circus's ringleader, an artificial intelligence named Caine, who controls the digital world and gives them adventures to keep them from going insane. The six now struggle to keep their sanity in the unnatural and claustrophobic digital world, all while Pomni searches for an elusive exit.

Production

The Amazing Digital Circus first originated from one of three pitches presented to Glitch Productions by YouTube animator Gooseworx, who the company reached out to create a pilot.[3]

The show's original pitch proposed an animation style similar to computer games of the 1990s. Gooseworx has a background in 2D hand-drawn animation, and animators at Glitch Productions adapted her artwork into 3D.[3] The general manager of Glitch Productions, Jasmine Yang, has stated there are no plans for the show to be put on streaming platforms besides YouTube.[3]

The show takes inspiration from the short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.[4]

Voice cast

  • Lizzie Freeman as Pomni, the main character and confused newcomer to the circus, where she is stuck in the body of a jester.
  • Alex Rochon as Caine, the circus's AI ringmaster with teeth for a head, who tends to the inhabitants of the circus.
  • Michael Kovach as Jax, a purple rabbit and nonchalant trickster who torments the other cast members.
  • Amanda Hufford as Ragatha, a rag doll who attempts to maintain an optimistic attitude towards her situation.
  • Marissa Lenti as Gangle, a shy humanoid ribbon who wears fragile comedy and tragedy masks that demonstrate her current mood.
  • Sean Chiplock as Kinger, a king chess piece who has been trapped in the circus longer than the others, leaving him close to insanity.
  • Ashley Nichols as Zooble, an irritable mix-and-match toy in a vaguely humanoid form.
  • Gooseworx as Bubble, Caine's AI assistant.
  • Elsie Lovelock as the Gloink Queen, ruler of the pest-like Gloinks.

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byStoryboarded byOriginal release date
1"Pilot"GooseworxGooseworxNeda LayOctober 13, 2023 (2023-10-13)
A young woman becomes trapped in a circus-themed computer game after donning a VR headset. She meets a group of other trapped humans – Jax, Ragatha, Gangle, Kinger, and Zooble – and, unable to recall her original name, is renamed "Pomni" by the AI ringmaster, Caine. Pomni notices an exit door while touring the circus, but the others dismiss her as delusional. While the others participate in a quest to gather geometrical critters called "Gloinks", Pomni accompanies Ragatha and Jax to visit Kaufmo, another human searching for an exit, but find he has succumbed to isolation and "abstracted", becoming a mindless beast. Attempting to help Ragatha after Kaufmo causes them both to glitch out, Pomni stumbles upon the exit door and goes through it instead, finding a labyrinth of office spaces that lead her to an out-of-bounds area called "the Void". Caine returns Pomni to the circus, where he imprisons Kaufmo in a cellar with other abstracted humans, and repairs Pomni and Ragatha's glitching, before revealing the "exit" to be an unfinished extension he made for the circus. He then treats everyone to a feast of unsustaining digital food, which the others enjoy while Pomni is left traumatized by her situation.

Reception

The pilot for The Amazing Digital Circus became a viral video on YouTube,[4] amassing over 33 million views in less than two weeks.[3] On TikTok, the hashtag #theamazingdigitalcircus has gained over 1.7 billion views.[citation needed] The Amazing Digital Circus's jokes were praised as "timed with frame-to-frame perfection", with a sense of humor that is "mature" but "not overly vulgar".[3] The animation was also praised as "wonderful and expressive".[5]

References

  1. ^ Weston, Christopher (2023-10-16). "The Amazing Digital Circus: Everything you need to know from pilot to characters and merch". HITC. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  2. ^ Valens, Ana (2023-10-25). "Where and How To Watch 'The Amazing Digital Circus'". The Mary Sue. Retrieved 2023-10-27.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Lang, Jamie (2023-10-26). "'The Amazing Digital Circus' Creator Gooseworx On Developing The Internet's Hottest Animated Pilot". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 2023-10-27.
  4. ^ a b Stanford, Kaitlin (2023-11-02). "What is the web series 'The Amazing Digital Circus'? Why are people obsessed with it?". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  5. ^ Guerrero, Justin (2023-10-25). "REVIEW: THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS is a jaw-dropping dark comedy". The Beat. Retrieved 2023-10-27.

External links

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