Blogs - Happy Tree Friends

20,000,000 Served!

From the bottom of all our hearts here at Mondo, THANK YOU to everyone for making Happy Tree Friends the number ONE web-series in October!!! Your continued support make it all possible. The crew and I will strive… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on November 12, 2009 at 10:55am — 31 Comments

Mole's Sneak Peek: Swelter Skelter

It feels like it's been a while since I blogged. Where does the time go? Anyway, I thought you guys might be excited to steal your first glimpse of the latest episode, "Swelter Skelter!" By the way, you can thank Creative Director, Dean MacDonald for the title. He came up with it and I thought it work… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on October 28, 2009 at 2:13pm — 36 Comments

Happy Tree Friends cameo in CSI!

Occasionally, people will ask us to use Happy Tree Friends in their TV shows or movies, which is always flattering. We're just happy that there are fans of the show in all walks of life, especially shows that we're also into! Check out the clip:

It's funny to… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on October 9, 2009 at 12:30pm — 21 Comments

Mole's Sneak Peek: Without A Hitch

Let's the the MOST frequent question from these sneak peeks out of the way first, "when is this episode coming out?" Obviously, it's a Halloween episode so we're shooting to get it done a few weeks before then so expect it sometime mid-October. Ok, back to our regularly scheduled blog... Hall… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on September 30, 2009 at 4:05pm — 79 Comments

Rules NOT Meant To Be Broken

Due to popular demand, we have in acted some rules. Please note the new tab we have created above called “Rules”. I suggest everybody read it. I guess having a truly free society will never work. There’s always some people that will mess it up for everybody. In the end, we think th… Continue

Added by Warren Graff on August 25, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Mole's Sneak Peek: Something Fishy episode - UPDATE!

We've gone through great peril to bring you these images from the current episode we're working on, "Something Fishy." I think we might have lost one animator and Creative Director, Dean MacDonald sustained some bodily injuries. He may never be able to play Rock Band agai… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on August 14, 2009 at 12:00pm — 135 Comments

DeCONpression

I have made my yearly pilgrimage to nerd-vana... and it is good! Comic Con is such an awesome event that I just HAVE to share it with all of you guys! Besides, I know a lot of you have asked me questions or commented that you couldn't make the trek so, allow me to bring a… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on August 7, 2009 at 3:02pm — 25 Comments

Hi ho, hi ho! It's off to Con we go!

Greetings, true believers! It's that time of year again when nerds from all corners of the world descend upon the burg of San Diego to be apart of the biggest and best convention in the world, The San Diego Comic Con… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on July 20, 2009 at 3:20pm — 22 Comments

Burn After Reading - Part 2

I know it's been a while since the original Burn After Reading post and even longer since the False Alarm… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on July 14, 2009 at 3:49pm — 28 Comments

Let your finger do the slapping!

One of the cool things I get to do here at Mondo is be involved with all sorts of different things related to Happy Tree Friends. I get to do side-projects like designs for t-shirts, or help in making toys or packaging for a key-chain, etc... It keeps it all interesting… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on July 6, 2009 at 4:53pm — 106 Comments

Are you fan enough?

These brave souls were fan enough to join and win in our YouTube channel contest. I just wanted to send them a hearty shout out! Congratulations!!! We thought it would be fun to post all the winner's pictures here so w… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on June 23, 2009 at 11:30am — 9 Comments

Part III - Son Of Con!

In this final installment of our behind-the-scenes look at the "Wrath Of Con" episode, we'll dive into the last two steps: animation and sound FX/music. If you haven't read th… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on June 5, 2009 at 5:47pm — 25 Comments

Mole's Sneak Peek: All Flocked Up episode

At the behest of our beloved Content Manager and #1 Lumpy fan, Zdravomir Staykov, who's name is unpronounceable in the human tongue (the last person that tried was sent to the hospital. So, for his safety and ours we simple call him "Z" or "Zed") I'm leaking these images of… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on May 21, 2009 at 12:00pm — 65 Comments

Part II - Revenge Of Con!

Continuing our behind-the-scenes look at the "Wrath Of Con" epsiode, when last we left our fearless adventurers we just finished talking about the merits of smoothies and thumbnails. Up next... Step 4 - Storyboards Now that we have the thumbnails all set we can flush… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on May 12, 2009 at 1:25pm — 24 Comments

You Beta Check it Out

The Happy Tree Friends have a new web site! Actually, it’s a beta version of the new web site which means it’s not too late to weigh in on this before we make it all official. For now, I’d like to present some of the elements seen on… Continue

Added by Cliff Malloy on May 8, 2009 at 4:30pm — 11 Comments

Part I: Un-CONventional

Now that the new episode is out in the wild I thought I'd talk about the step-by-step process of how we make Happy Tree Friends episodes. Hopefully, it'll give you a rough understanding and shed some light on how we do this crazy show. If you haven't had the chance to c… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on May 6, 2009 at 6:09pm — 25 Comments

Creating Music for the Happy Tree Friends

I've had the great pleasure of composing music for the Happy Tree Friends for awhile now - the first episode that I worked on was in 2005. If you're keeping score at home, it was #49, "Stealing the Spotlight". Since that first episode, I've gone on to compose the music for the TV sea… Continue

Added by Jerome on April 3, 2009 at 10:30pm — 18 Comments

Mole's Sneak Peek: Wrath Of Con episode

Hey, gang! Just a quick entry to give you guys a first look at the latest stuff we're working on! In previous entries, I've blogged retrospectives about past episodes that we've done but never about one that we're currently working on. So, I'm hoping to start a new feature c… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on April 3, 2009 at 1:49pm — 52 Comments

MadWorld Blog Part 1: The Beginning: It Begins!

For the past few weeks Kenn “I think I’m the boss over everybody” Navarro has been riding my ass to write a MadWorld blog. I don’t think we’ve had an IM conversation recently where it wasn’t mentioned. I guess now he’s finally broken me down. I have been meaning to write somethi… Continue

Added by Warren Graff on March 24, 2009 at 11:01am — 27 Comments

Burn After Reading - Part 1

Last year we worked together with video game publisher giant SEGA to produce a Happy Tree Friends download only game called False Alarm for XBox 360 Live and… Continue

Added by Kenn Navarro on March 18, 2009 at 12:50pm — 25 Comments

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