Checking In with Adult Time Animation Artist Balak

"Effin good, if you'll excuse my French. Audiences are currently embracing adult animation in every sense of the word, from porn to comedy to action and more mainstream approaches, so these times are exciting for a dude who grew up with 'animation is only for children' as a professional horizon."

"I'm damn glad to be featured on such a quality platform. To be honest when I got the news, I asked my comrade Natalie Mars--god bless her--and she had nothing but good things to say about Adult Time. And she was right."

"We just were commissioned to create three shows in a year, and Peepoodo had to be super cheap! So this gave the very basic preschool setting. And then I just mixed the two things I love the most: comedy and porn. The educational aspect came from the preschool idea, but afterwards. It really made the show, at least the first season. There is a horrible first pilot where it was just random crude jokes and it sucked ass, because it lacked the genuineness of learning and was too edgy for its own good. It was really shit. I'm currently in a crusade to erase it from every hard drive with the same conviction George Lucas wanted to erase the Star Wars Christmas Special from collective memories."

"I love how people go into the show with a 'it looks fucking stupid' approach, or even 'dang, that cat has huge tits', but a few episodes in, the show won them over in a deeper way. They're learning some stuff, they're having some genuine laughs (and disgust), and they are loving the characters. That's a huge gift to resonate with people, especially with a stupid looking show."

"The larger than life aspect of it is fun. Comedy becomes bigger, the horny hornier, the sky's the limit and imagination can run amuck. Also, from the creative point of view, you are in absolute control of what, how and when you're showing. So that mix of ultra controlled craziness is very appealing. You can show something you can't show in real life too. The animation or the drawings are at the core of what fiction and imagination is. Everybody is very focused these days on representation, and being faithful to what is true in reality--rightly so may I add, but there is a huge part of fantasy and unrealistic, impossible, escaping to a classical discourse, that is very important to preserve and acknowledge in every work of fiction. It's more blatant in animation than in live action, in a way."

"I must say that I watched A LOT the Angela White ASMR video. That's a damn masterpiece. She's amazing. The Transfixed series too, love it."

"It's a big mix of French, American and Japanese. I especially love how Japanese can jump from comedy to strong emotions to fan service and hit a bullseye on each term. I love FLCL by the Gainax studios, for example. That's the kind of thing I look back at regularly to remind me how cool that medium is."

"Hitomi Tanaka for sure. Because she's a friend, she's super fun and one of the coolest people I know, and would be a great match for Dr. Pussycat in every way."

"You should definitely check out Bambi Fontaine's Midnight Stories; Bambi is so damn talented, I hope we will do more of this for you guys."

All of the images and video here appear courtesy of Adult Time.