Upon purchase, the buyer was allowed to download the DRM free video files to their own computer. Bundled as a set named 'Happy Tree Friends: Still Alive', the episodes came with some additional bonus material such as background designs, animated storyboards, the animation process, and a writer's session video. Throughout December 2016, Mondo Media released five all-new episodes for purchase online. Later, when a fan asked Kenn Navarro about the film, he replied: ''a treatment that and the writers did was all the work (that know of) for the movie.' In 2014, after the episode 'Dream Job' was released, Mondo Media announced plans to produce a feature film based on the series, but in 2016, Kenn Navarro tweeted that he was unaware of work being done on a film, but that his team were 'in talk to do more shorts'. I envision kids watching Happy Tree Friends 20 or 30 years from now the same way that they watch Tom and Jerry now. He has created something that is pretty universal. 'He had a clear vision for that show and he's just a brilliant animator.

Mondo Media CEO John Evershed attributes the success of the series to animator Kenn Navarro. From there, Mondo gave them their own Internet series, which they named Happy Tree Friends.Īfter its internet debut in 1999, Happy Tree Friends became an unexpected success, getting over 15 million hits each month along with screenings at film festivals. They came up with a short named 'Banjo Frenzy', which featured a dinosaur (an earlier version of Lumpy) killing three woodland animals, a squirrel, a rabbit, and a beaver (earlier versions of Giggles, Cuddles, and Toothy) with a banjo. In 1999, Mondo gave Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, and Kenn Navarro a chance to do a short for them. Rhode hung the drawing up in his workstation so other people could see his idea, and eventually the idea was pitched to and accepted by the Mondo Media executives. He then drew a yellow rabbit that bore some resemblance to Cuddles, writing 'Resistance is futile' underneath it on a spreadsheet poster. While working on Mondo Media, Rhode Montijo drew a character on a piece of scrap paper who would later become Shifty.

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