In March of 2024, Kevin Smith's Smodcastle hosted a 37-hour film challenge, provided a few required details, and allowing film makers 37 hours to complete an original short film production. This is our entry, "Chicken Business". It started as a group chat during an NBA 2K Rec Session, and was riffing about the potential idea of a chicken cartoon. Without an animator, and within a tight window of production, I picked up some puppets and started creating some dialogue for my family to record voice over's, and we really enjoyed the developments.
It was a lot of fun to produce, and I hope you might share, like, and subscribe if you'd like to see this idea develop further into a feature, animation, or short video series. Let us know what you think in the comments! Thanks for watching.
CREDITS
Danny Hauger - Director, Writer, Producer, Original Music, Ollie
Jessica Hauger - KENNY
Danny, Jessica, Dana Hauger - Puppetry
Brian Banifatemi - Brian the Lion
Jessica Hauger
Cameron Wheeles - Rascal Raccoon
Dana Hauger - Bill the Bear, Millie the Monkey
Jon Smith - Rick Derris