Around this time last year, filmmaker Natasha Allergri launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $600,000 for her dubbed “surreal” animated web series, Bee and PuppyCat. Not only did the project reach the initial goal, it reached $872,133 from 18,209 backers. Now, Allergri is ready to sit down and share her exciting experience on the global platform.
According to the campaign, Bee and PuppyCat is a story about Bee, an out-of-work, twenty something that has a life-changing collision with a mysterious creature she names PuppyCat, which is maybe a cat or a dog. Then Bee and PuppyCat take on an intergalactic babysitting gig to pay rent.
During an interview with Vulture, Allergri noted how Bee’s dialogue is similar to her every day conversations with others. “She says ‘hello’ like a parrot. That’s basically me and my roommate. When I used to live with her, we would just walk into each other’s rooms and say that. I think what’s really important to me is people talking like how they talk, so when someone is stumbling through a word, that’s really, like, a special moment! A lot [of] stuff comes from how people talk in anime.”
Revealing what she meant by the dialogue being “like anime,” the filmmaker noted, “At least in the anime that I watch, people talk and their conversations goes in a natural flow. They can talk about one topic and then maybe steer it to a different direction. People get easily excited and then become very – I don’t know what the word is, but they’re like, ‘[dour voice] I’m going to do that, and [excited voice] I’m going to try to look good!’ They’re not preachy, but they will treat their emotion changes very naturally.”
Discussing when she first heard that the project reached its initial goal, Natasha answered, “S**t. I don’t know where I was! I used to live in this guest house and I think it was really cold around that time. I want to say it was still winterish, and I had just bought these boots that were really soft and warm, an that is the thing that I remember about that time most, these amazing boots.”
In regards toher reaction to the campaign raising nearly $900,000, Allergri said, “I’m not sure. I just remember someone saying, like, you beat Video Game High School, and I remember being really depressed because I really like Video Game High School!
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