{"id":16338,"date":"2011-10-12T17:44:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T07:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=16338"},"modified":"2011-10-12T17:49:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T07:49:24","slug":"movie-extra-webfests-first-animated-webseries-shaaark-launches-on-youtube-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=16338","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE EXTRA WEBFEST&#8217;S FIRST ANIMATED WEBSERIES SHAAARK! LAUNCHES ON YOUTUBE TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOVIE EXTRA WEBFEST&#8217;S FIRST ANIMATED WEBSERIES SHAAARK! LAUNCHES ON YOUTUBE TODAY<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMOVIE EXTRA WEBFEST&#8217;s first animated webseries, Shaaark!, premieres on YouTube today at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/mnctv\">www.youtube.com\/mnctv<\/a>. Written and animated by Phil Watson, Shaaark! tells the story of &#8216;Jacques&#8217;, a shark determined to inspire his fellow apex predators to rise up above their instincts and be more than mindless killing machines. Shaaark! features the voices of\u00a0Tex Perkins as &#8216;Wink&#8217; &#8211; the most feared of all the sharks and Merrick Watts as &#8216;Robert&#8217; the shark whose only exotic characteristic is to fart and burp at the same time.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollowing the success of MOVIE EXTRA WEBFEST in 2010, MOVIE EXTRA commissioned three finalist entries to produce a seven part webseries, each brought to life with a $25,000 production budget. Shaaark! the first of the three animations to debut, was recognised by MOVIE EXTRA for its ingenuity and humorous appeal. Creator, Phil Watson has previously worked on animation for Australian television and has a worldwide audience thanks to his animations for the SeaLife Aquarium in Minneapolis.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMollusks the second webseries commissioned by MOVIE EXTRA features the voices of comedians Shaun Micallef and Bob Franklin and will premiere on the Movie Network Channels YouTube Channel in November. For an exclusive look at the first episode Cold Turkey? Aisle 7, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XmtlezmRWAY\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XmtlezmRWAY<\/a>. The third webseries Livin&#8217; with Steve will premiere in December.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nVisit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/mnctv\">www.youtube.com\/mnctv<\/a> to watch Shaaark!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOVIE EXTRA WEBFEST&#8217;S FIRST ANIMATED WEBSERIES SHAAARK! LAUNCHES ON YOUTUBE TODAY \u00a0 MOVIE EXTRA WEBFEST&#8217;s first animated webseries, Shaaark!, premieres on YouTube today at www.youtube.com\/mnctv. Written and animated by Phil Watson, Shaaark! tells the story of &#8216;Jacques&#8217;, a shark determined to inspire his fellow apex predators to rise up above their instincts and be more<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=16338\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16341,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338\/revisions\/16341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}