Thread 151091953

How would you pull off a Gorillaz animated tv series?

>>151091953 (OP)
Oh, that’s a killer concept — and honestly, long overdue. Pulling off a Gorillaz animated TV series right would mean walking a fine line between surreal multimedia art, biting satire, and genuine emotional storytelling. Here's how I’d do it:

1. Visual Style
Hybrid animation: Keep the signature Jamie Hewlett 2D art style for the core band, but blend it with stylized 3D environments and motion-captured performances for side characters and concert scenes.

Texture and imperfection: Don’t make it glossy — Gorillaz is grungy, VHS-glitch, graffiti-on-a-wall energy. Think Spider-Verse meets Tank Girl after a three-day bender.

2. Tone and Structure
Anthology narrative: Each episode focuses on a different “era” or event in the Gorillaz mythos (Plastic Beach, Demon Days, etc.), told through unreliable narrators, fake documentaries, or surreal dream sequences.

Black comedy + melancholy: It should swing between absurd humor and genuine existential angst. These are, after all, cartoon musicians dealing with fame, identity, and apocalypse-level weirdness.

Reality leaks in: Keep blurring the line between the “real” world and their virtual one — maybe have fan theories and online clips inside the show itself.

3. Music Integration
Each episode introduces a new Gorillaz track or remix, organically tied to the story — like a musical reveal instead of a tacked-on video.

Use music videos as “in-universe” broadcasts or hallucinations.

>>151091953 (OP)
Just 2 or 3 music videos per "episode" with in between skits as gags or to stitch things together, that's all you need really.

Why would I ever want that? It is good as short movies.

>>151091953 (OP)
twenty years too late for that one

>>151091953 (OP)
I think your two options would be random slice-of-life band antics, or an attempted adaption of one of the album's overarching stories (which would mean having to actually cement a canon interpretation of everything).

If had free reign with the idea I'd want them to actually do something with everything they tossed out with Plastic Beach's premature wrap-up. Go in on Murdoc's villain arc, bring back Cyborg Noodle, give the Boogie Man an actual send-off, etc.

If it hasn't happened by now I figure it never will and I assume it has to be because of something on Damon and Jamie's end.

>>151091953 (OP)
Go back in time 20 years when they were still relevant.

>>151091997
Thank you ChatGPT, very cool.

>>151092078
Should have happened in 2007 at the very latest.

If I had to give it an overarching story, then I'd simply adapt the story of phases 1-3. IIRC, that was ultimately all about Murdoc trying to weasel his way out of his Faustian pact he made with Satan for success.

Though how I would tell that story is beyond me.

>>151091953 (OP)
I wouldn't, that's a terrible idea, at best it would be another rick and morty.

>>151091953 (OP)
I mean... only way for a Gorillaz show to work is if it was envisioned as a tv show from the start, not some gimmicky virtual band. There isn't enough source material to go on either, you'd have to make up a whole lot of stuff for it to work.

>>151091953 (OP)
I wouldn't

First season is a Reality Show parody with the Gorillaz 's daily life with a subtle storyline going on.
Second Season has to line up with an album/concert tour drop. Have a fictional Festival that was hosted by Murdoc that is lauded as very exclusive for 1000 of specifically inviited guests, That ends in disaster and the season is following a mocumentary of what happened. Murdoc is speaking from a Prison Cell naturally.
Also do best to have celebrity guests as randoms that occasionally show up, like not just real celebrities but fictional ones too like how Rosemary from Hong Kong Phooey showed up as a receptionist.
The biggest issue is that Damon and Jamie don't actually care that deeply about Gorillaz' fictional half, it's just a fun outlet for dumb ideas 90% of the time, any longterm plans usually go out the window as soon as they're bored of the idea making something like a tv show difficult because Jamie isn't going to want to keep on theme the entire production which could lead to something fun and novel but it could also just lead to him shitting out something to say he's done.

the gorillaz need a rival band and/or a villain that threatens the world

create that and you have your show

I'd just make it a series of goofy antics in a similar vein to the MTV shorts that were done for phase 1. Just have the band dicking around loosely tied together by some plot that doesn't really matter. Think like Aqua Teen Hunger Force meets Ed Edd n Eddy.

Be sure to insert meta references like Flimsy Steve.

>>151091953 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8e5Ej4uyto
Musical number followed by full penetration, back and forth

>>151091953 (OP)
Noodle spreading her asshole for 30 mins uninterrupted