Oh my God! Just look at her! Isn't she just about the scariest monster you've ever seen?!?!
No? Well shut up, it took 2 hours to make her and another 12 to animate life into the damn thing, and I don't see you creating any monsters on the computer!
Anyway, this is the latest creation of Lazy Eyes: the dog-eating chupacabra, recently featured in the BRAND NEW LAZY EYES SPECIAL: Tosh Bates & the Baffling Box Beast (catchy name eh?)
But alas, I can't take total credit for this creature. Well, I can for THIS version. But the chupacabras of Lazy Eyes have gone through some dramatic changes in the past few years.
First off, I wasn't even the one that did come up with the concept of the chupacabra. I know! Shocking! It's an actual legendary cryptid that's said to be seen by actual witnesses!
But seriously, you should know this already. That'd be like me showing you one of the dinosaurs on Lazy Eyes and then asking "Did you know these things actually existed?!"
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| Notice how the crappy 3D model in the picture is 100 times better than the ones in Lazy Eyes. (click for larger pic) |
Although, it is true that I wasn't the one who had the idea of a cat-eating chupacabra for Lazy Eyes. That credit has to go to Matt, Kevin, the other Kevin, and William. They just went out with a camera in the woods one time way back in 2007 and came back the next day with all this footage of them aimlessly walking about in the woods being followed by William following them around while holding a large stick, screaming things. I'm not sure which of the four actually came up with it, but I'm guessing it was Kevin. He made a lot of freaky weird things up back in those days, a few that have actually lived to this day in Lazy Eyes.
They laughed and told me that William was being a "cat-eating chupacabra! Ha ha! It's so stupid it's hilarious!" (Middle-school humor. None of us have it anymore.) The resulting footage got edited into a little-known skit called LOST. It's pretty lame, but it was hilarious at the time.
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| This was funny three years ago, I swear! |
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| Such talent, at such a young age too. |
I know, it's God-awful and hideous. But I loved him anyway. A few weeks later, I decided to bring the new cat-eating chupacabra to life. I still hadn't shown the others my original computer-doodle, so I had no idea if this would be a total hit or flop. Putting giving a crap about what the others thought aside, I boldly plunged into my 3D-modeling+animation program and preceded to throw and bash random shapes together until I got a 3D digital version of the doodle above. I was originally going to feature him in a 1-time skit known as Walking with Weird Things, which was going to be a sequel to the very early skit to Walking with Idiots (no youtube link I'm afraid, as I'm never going to upload it.) But after filming the one scene with the 3D chupa, I decided to stretch out Walking with Weird Things (abbreviated as WWWTs) into it's own series.
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| This clunky balloon animal is really a savage killer in disguise... I'm serious! Stop laughing! |
Speaking of which, this brings us to the (current) final stage of the chupacabra: the dog-eating chupacabra!
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| rawr |
So! I wanted to recreate the chupacabra, seeing as everybody laughed at my disgusting balloon animal. As I was writing the skit King Frogorah and the Second Clue, I originally had the idea to move Frogorah into the city and have him fight against a Godzilla-like monster. Seeing as I revamped one old Lazy Eyes creature, the F.R.O.G, I figured why not do another? The cat-eating chupacabra seemed to be the right choice. Buuuut then I thought about how much work I'd have to do to make it a realistic kaiju-battle (I am a total japanese monster-nerd by the way,) so I decided to scrap the idea. But the thought of revamping the chupacabra as well still stayed in my mind for a long time. I got my chance again while writing the finale The Artifact way later in November. I had no idea what it would look like, so I just wrote the following:
In Donkey Boy's lair, Agent LD reviews his messages
Message Machine: "Agent LD! Initiate Plan Alpha D! Code Magenta! I repeat! Code Magenta!"
Agent LD begins to plug in some numbers into his computer
the camera pans over to a secret chamber that's dark inside
going inside the chamber, the audience sees a mutated, evil, cat-eating chupacabra roaring
the end
Yep, quality stage-directions there. And while filming I just rushed over to the tiny storage-room in the garage and filmed total darkness for about 20 seconds. Being even lazier, while editing I just took snapshots of the cat-eating chupa's right arm and spines and added a new croc-skin texture and animated those to make the illusion that there was something lurking in the darkness. I just told myself I'd make the actual model of the new redone chupa later.
When February came, I knew it was time to stop procrastinating. So, doing what I did before with the right arm and spines, I took snapshots of every body-part of the cat-eating chupa model and added new textures. I drew in a new mouth, and gave the new chupa some new eyes (they're cat's eyes.) Being totally creative, I named the new chupa the only possible name left: dog-eating chupacabra. Totally different from cat-eating chupacabra!
So I guess that's the full history, so far, of the chupacabras in Lazy Eyes. An idea that wasn't originally mine to take that has now progressed into a sort-of-a icon to the show.
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| you should click for a larger image, it's prettier close up |
Skits that chupacabras are featured in:
-LOST
