Hi, there, and welcome to Silly Side Productions!

“Spring Break: Earth” is my longest animation so far. It’s a 24-minute long “video comic book” that I wrote, animated, and produced for…. my YouTube Channel.

It’s about three alien college students (Jaltoo, Teek, and Farfle) from Intergalactic University come to Earth to study human mating rituals during Spring Break.

My screenplay version of the same name made it into the top 5 of the 2013 LA Comedy Shorts Screenwriting Contest. I had always wanted to animate or produce it myself, but I couldn’t afford to until 2023, when AI photo generators came onto the scene! Then, I was finally able to make it (on a super-super-micro budget) by using a human-AI hybrid animation method that I developed, which merged stop-motion animation with AI photo generation. (I didn’t know what to call it back then, but now I call it the stop-bot method. Lol.)

Anyway, I had originally produced it as 1 minute shorts, and released 1 minute a day on YouTube. Then, the next year, in 2024 I decided to turn it into a 24 minute-long talking, animated comic book.

I think I’ll call the video comic book series “Spacebook.”- and Spring Break: Earth will be the pilot episode. 🙂

Stay tuned for episode 2!

CAST and CREDITS FOR “SPRING BREAK: EARTH”

Human Voice Actors (in order of appearance):

Professor Ixosos (alien in robes) – Lou Galiano

Jaltoo (reptilian alien) – Michael Brooks

Teek (blue alien) – Gary Mason

Farfle (furry alien) – Sonam Dhalawat

A.I. voices

Captain Prok (voice over) – Steele from Replica Studios

Frisbee player – Brandon from Replica Studios

Female who gets hit by frisbee– Lily from Replica Studios

Surfer Dude – Chuck from Replica Studios

Angus – (Scottish Rugby player) – Gray from Replica Sudios

Bartender – Vinnie from Replica Studios

Andre – (Jamaican rugby player) – Davu from Replica Studios

Other credits:

Written, Animated, Edited, and Produced by Niki Galiano

Character art, Background Art, Furniture and Special Props created with Imagine AI Art Generator

Theme song– “Get on the Floor” by Joe Sacco – downloaded from Premium Beat

Other music – by Canva

Sound effects – Pixabay and Freesound

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If you enjoyed this, and you’d like to watch some more silly videos, check out my Silly Side Productions YouTube channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/@sillysideproductions.

Stay silly,

Niki