JANUARY 16, 2006

Wow. It's been over a year since I've updated this site.

Well, I've got good news. The fourth episode of Monito, "How Grout Stole Christmas Cheer" has been finished and is now available for download! Yes, that's right, at long last we actually have a downloadable Monito episode! I may upload episodes 1-3 at a later time if I get around to it.

Click here to watch the new episode!

Pay no attention to the FAQ page, as it's now totally out of date and has nothing to do with the new episode. In fact, I never really check the message board either; if you want to comment on the show, either e-mail me or leave a comment on my LiveJournal (valid as of 1-16-2006)

THE MONITO WEBSITE

What is Monito, you ask?

Monito is an animated series produced by Virus Entertainment. Since its original inception in spring 2003 as a high school art project, Monito has grown into a three episode miniseries totalling over an hour of computer animation. The series is produced by Virus Entertainment, which consists of Buddy Fischer (myself, the webmaster) and John Kieres.

I put this website up in Summer 2004 as a way to inform people about Monito with some other method than simply word-of-mouth. My original intention (back when we were working on episode 1) was to allow Internet users to download the whole show off the server. But there were technical difficulties (i.e. me being too cheap to pay for actual webspace or a domain name, and the fact that each episode is contained in a 60 megabyte file) so you won't find the full episodes available for download.

I did put some cool behind-the-scenes shit in the FAQ page, however, and anyone interested in the show can see a little bit about what goes into making the cartoon.

In addition to the FAQ, I have some random stuff in the downloads section, and a video clips section that shows some previews of Monito for those who haven't seen it and want a glimpse of what the full episodes look like.

There will also be a message board or something, but I haven't set that up yet. Yeah, the website isn't totally operational, so sue me, I'm a college student.

THE EPISODES

Each episode of Monito takes about three months to produce. The episode list right now is as follows:

Episode 1 - Pile It (13:29), debuted 5-25-2003
Episode 2 - Gireaglionus Maximus (12:35), debuted 8-21-2003
Episode 3 - Fungus Amongus (31:22), debuted 8-21-2004
Episode "4" - How Grout Stole Christmas Cheer (12:36), debuted 1-6-2006