GoAnimate Complaints Easter Special

After doing a GoAnimate Complaints Department Christmas Special many people suggested I should do an Easter Special.

Initially I felt, with Easter being in early April it was too soon to bring Happy Bunny back to the Complaints desk. After all it takes time to build up ideas as well as collect them from the GoAnimate community.

However it was the Easter holiday, which is a popular time for bunnies, so how could I not do an Easter Special?

Despite my initial reservations about having enough ideas the finished special is over four minutes long - making it one of the longest episodes in the series.

If you're not familiar with the Complaints Department series it does contain a lot of GoAnimate Community references as a basis for it's humor. Which is one of the reasons why the series is one of the most popular on the site. This episode alone has been viewed more than 6000 times.

GoAnimate Complaints Easter Special by etourist

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Some things of note from this episode include:

The Easter basket is, I think, my first custom flash prop created with my new Flash Animation software, Koolmoves.
The first public appearance of my new Superhero, GoAnimate Custom Character, Bat Storm (who cost me a coupon and 90 GoBucks to make).
At around the time of the release of this video I surpassed 1000 fans on GoAnimate - making me the fourth person on the entire site to do so.

I must admit I don't always look forward to starting GoAnimate Complaints Department episodes but once I get started, with my first few jokes done, it becomes a lot of fun.

They look easy to make, as evidenced by the number of people who've tried to do their own versions, but it actually takes a bit more effort to make it work without Happy Bunny coming off as sounding just plain mean.

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